{"id":595,"date":"2014-12-01T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2014-12-01T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:02:05","slug":"janay-rice-on-goodelltoday-exclusive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2014\/12\/01\/janay-rice-on-goodelltoday-exclusive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JANAY RICE ON GOODELL\/&#8217;TODAY&#8217; EXCLUSIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u2018TODAY\u2019 EXCLUSIVE: RAY AND JANAY RICE SPEAK OUT TO NBC\u2019S MATT LAUER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Janay Rice on Roger Goodell:\u00a0&#8220;I can&#8217;t say he&#8217;s telling the truth.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Interview to Air in Two Parts Monday and\u00a0Tuesday, December 1\u00a0and 2 on NBC\u2019s TODAY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">NOTE: Excerpts and video clips must be used with proper credit, listed below.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1025\" style=\"font-size: 10pt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/efjxgtdp\/mb.cision.com\/Public\/5954\/9688744\/88f2cf18222c7eb0_800x800ar.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"_x0000_i1026\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/efjxgtdp\/mb.cision.com\/Public\/5954\/9688744\/94967cc4fb55c77c_800x800ar.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">NEW YORK &#8211; November 29, 2014 &#8211; &#8211; In an exclusive interview, former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and his wife Janay tell their story for the first time to NBC\u2019s Matt Lauer. \u00a0The interview will air in two parts on NBC\u2019s TODAY, Monday and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/x-apple-data-detectors:\/11\">Tuesday, December 1<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0and 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Janay Rice, who was in the June meeting with Ray Rice and\u00a0NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,\u00a0told Lauer,\u00a0&#8220;I know for a fact that&#8230; Ray told the honest truth.&#8221; \u00a0About\u00a0Goodell she said,\u00a0&#8220;I can&#8217;t say he&#8217;s telling the truth.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Joe and Candy Palmer, Janay\u2019s parents, join for portions of the interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Brief excerpts from the interview follow. \u00a0The excerpts and video clips may be used subject to the following restrictions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">a. Mandatory credit to NBC&#8217;s TODAY on first reference with air dates of\u00a0Monday and\u00a0Tuesday, December 1\u00a0and 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">b. The onscreen \u201cTODAY Exclusive\u201d credit must be clearly visible and unobstructed at all times in any image, video clip, or other form of media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">c. Embedded web video must stream from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/TODAY.com\">TODAY.com<\/a>\u00a0media player with the unobstructed credit as described above.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Video excerpts from the interview will appear tonight on Nightly News and tomorrow\u00a0on TODAY, Meet the Press and\u00a0Sunday Night\u00a0Football.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Photos from the interview are attached. The interview will be available on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/efjxgtdp\/today.com\/\">TODAY.com<\/a>\u00a0after it airs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">###<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE ON THE\u00a0MEETING WITH ROGER\u00a0GOODELL<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">LAUER:\u00a0 Was Ray ambiguous?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE:\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Not in any way.\u00a0 And, you know, I feel like if they wanted to know more details then they would have asked.\u00a0 But there were no further questions. \u00a0It&#8211; it&#8217;s been consistent with everything that he&#8217;s been saying since February.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">MATT LAUER:\u00a0 So when the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, says Ray was ambiguous and the NFL says that it was a starkly different sequence of events, is the commissioner lying?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE:\u00a0 I can&#8217;t say he&#8217;s telling\u00a0the truth.\u00a0 You know? \u00a0I know for a fact that he told&#8211; that Ray told the honest truth that he&#8217;s been telling from February.\u00a0 So&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">MATT LAUER:\u00a0 And you think the league and the commissioner covered their butts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE:\u00a0 I think they did what they had to do for themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Link to embeddable video:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/ray-rices-wife-roger-goodell-i-cant-say-hes-telling-1D80325413\">http:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/ray-rices-wife-roger-goodell-i-cant-say-hes-telling-1D80325413<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE ON THE AFTERMATH OF THE INCIDENT\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">MATT LAUER: \u00a0We&#8217;ve only seen you months after the incident. And I can&#8217;t imagine that you were that calm when you started to realize exactly what happened in that elevator. \u00a0Can you describe those emotions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE: I was furious. We came home and we didn&#8217;t talk the entire ride. \u00a0Well, I didn\u2019t speak to him the entire ride home.\u00a0He tried to talk to me. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t want to hear any of it. \u00a0I just knew he hit me, and\u00a0I was completely over it. \u00a0I was done\u2026 I just didn&#8217;t even want to entertain it &#8211; any explanation. \u00a0Of course in the back of my mind and in my heart I knew that our relationship wouldn&#8217;t be over because I know that this isn&#8217;t us, and it&#8217;s not him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">Link to embeddable video:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/today\/56516041\">http:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/today\/56516041<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE ON ANOTHER TEAM TAKING A CHANCE ON RAY RICE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">MATT LAUER:\u00a0 What&#8217;s it going to take in your mind, Janay, for another team to take a chance on Ray Rice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE:\u00a0 For them to look past this situation, which I know is going to be hard.\u00a0 But at the end of the day he&#8217;s a football player and that&#8217;s what they should be&#8211; really be focused on, because he&#8217;s proven himself as a football player for seven years.\u00a0 There&#8217;s never been a question on what he can do on the field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">MATT LAUER:\u00a0 And you think an owner and fans of the team can get those images from that elevator tape out of their minds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">JANAY RICE:\u00a0\u00a0 With time.\u00a0 We know it&#8217;s going to take some work.\u00a0 So I think once he, you know, shows them who he is and, they reach out to people here and they find out the things that he&#8217;s done, then I think it&#8217;s definitely good&#8211; you know, it could help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\">NBC\u2019s TODAY is the news program that informs, entertains, inspires and sets the agenda each morning for Americans. 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