[Brooke Baldwin, Cnn Anchor:] Top of the hour. I'm Brooke Baldwin. It is the confession that the world stopped to watch, Lance Armstrong calling himself arrogant, calling himself a bully and a jerk, as he finally admitted he had taken these banned substances before all seven of his Tour de France wins. So for 13 years, Armstrong has been looking right into the camera, right into the eyes of prosecutors, critics, teammates, fans, cancer survivors, and lying.
[Lance Armstrong, Former Professional Cyclist:] Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike. Regardless of whether or not people accuse Lance Armstrong of doing something, regardless of whether or not they are questioning a relationship with a doctor, we have to look at the facts. We have to. The questions have continued and the suspicion has continued, but the only other thing that has really continued and I think is the most alarming thing is the performance. I have not gone away. The cynics, the skeptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. I have said it for longer than seven years. I have never doped.
[Armstrong:] How could that have happened?
[Question:] That was my point. It's not just simply that you don't recall?
[Armstrong:] How many times do I have to say it?
[Question:] I'm just trying to make sure your testimony is clear.
[Armstrong:] It can't be any clearer than I have never taken drugs.
[Baldwin:] Now we know the facts, we know the truth in this confessional interview here, sat down with the Oprah Winfrey here. Straight out of the gates, she asked him and he admitted to everything you just heard him brazenly deny.
[Oprah Winfrey, Host, "oprah's Next Chapter":] Let's start with the questions that people around the world have been waiting for you to answer. And for now I would like a yes or a no.
[Armstrong:] OK.
[Winfrey:] OK. This whole conversation, we have a lot of time, will be about the details. Yes or no, did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance?
[Armstrong:] Yes.
[Winfrey:] Yes or no, was one of those banned substances EPO?
[Armstrong:] Yes.
[Winfrey:] Did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance?
[Armstrong:] Yes.
[Winfrey:] Did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone or human growth hormone?
[Armstrong:] Yes.
[Winfrey:] Yes or no, in all seven of your Tour de France victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope?
[Armstrong:] Yes.
[Winfrey:] In your opinion, was it humanly possible to win the Tour de France without doping seven times in a row?
[Armstrong:] Not in my opinion.
[Baldwin:] One big lie that lasted 13 years, telling Oprah he would do anything and take out anyone who dared to stand in his way.
[Armstrong:] I think this just ruthless desire to win, win at all costs, truly, that serves me well on the bike, served me well during the disease, but the level that it went to for whatever reason is a flaw. And then that defiance, that attitude that arrogance, you cannot deny it. You watch that clip, that's an arrogant person. I look at that and I go, this guy, look at this arrogant prick. I say that today. It's not good.
[Baldwin:] The world was watching there. But there was one person in particular here who was watching as well and she was seething. Her name is Betsy Andreu. She is among the people Armstrong admitted he trampled on to defend his own lie. She is the wife of Frankie Andreu. This is Armstrong's ex-friend, former teammate on the Postal Service team. She testified in this lawsuit deposition about this 1996 hospital room visit in which she says she heard Armstrong admit to this doctor to taking five performance-enhancing drugs. Oprah Winfrey asked him about this and here is what he told her.
[Winfrey:] Was Betsy telling the truth about the Indiana hospital, overhearing you in 1996?
[Armstrong:] I'm not going to take that on and I'm laying down on that one.
[Winfrey:] Was Betsy lying?
[Armstrong:] I'm just not I'm going to put that one down. She asked me and I asked her not to talk about the details of the call. It was a confidential, personal conversation.
[Baldwin:] Well, you know did talk to Betsy Andreu? Anderson Cooper, minutes after she watched that exchange with Oprah.
[Cooper:] Betsy, just first of all, your impressions on what you heard tonight.
[Betsy Andreu, Wife Of Armstrong's Former Teammate:] I'm really disappointed. He owed it to me. You owed it to me, Lance, and you dropped the ball. After what you've done to me, what you've done to my family and you couldn't own up to it. And now we're supposed to believe you? You have one chance at the truth. This is it. If he's not going to tell the truth, if he can't say, yes, the hospital room happened, then how are we to believe everything else he's saying? We're already questioning him.
[Cooper:] You were in a hospital room, and you heard Lance Armstrong tell doctors about all the drugs that he took?
[Andreu:] Yes, yes. It happened.
[Cooper:] And he denied it happened up and down, and this was a key part of a lawsuit that he ended up winning.
[Andreu:] Yes, that he settled with.
[Cooper:] Right.
[Andreu:] But if the hospital room didn't happen, just say it didn't happen, but he won't do it because it did happen. And if this is his way of saying "I just don't want to go there, OK. We'll give it to her." That's not good enough. That is not being transparent. That is not being completely honest. That's skirting the issue. I want to believe that Lance wants to come clean, but this is giving me an indication that I can't. This is a guy who used to be my friend who decimated me. He could have come clean. He owed it to me. He owes it to the sport that he destroyed. And don't when he says he doesn't like the UCI, that's a bunch of crap. He had the UCI in his back pocket. Lance wasn't a leader? That's a bunch of crap, because he owned the team.
[Baldwin:] Let me explain what the UCI is. UCI stands for the International Cycling Union. This is the same organization that recently stripped Lance Armstrong of all seven of his Tour de France titles for doping. And Betsy Andreu, sitting with Anderson, is reacting to this part of Armstrong's confession.
[Armstrong:] Look, I was the leader of the team. And the leader of any team leads by example, and there was never a direct order or a directive to say you have to do this if you want to do the Tour, if you want to be on the team. That never happened. It was a competitive time. We were all grown men. We all made our choices.
[Baldwin:] Want to turn now to psychologist Paula Bloom. What an interview, right? I know. Deep breath. We watched. You watched. To Betsy Andreu's point and all these people who are talking today, was this a full confession?
[Paula Bloom, Psychologist:] The word full, I wouldn't apply that to this at all. Full of some things, we would apply to him, right? It was so painful to watch her, somebody who she looks like somebody who has been traumatized. I have worked with people who have been abused as children and it is the same kind of trauma of here is somebody who doesn't fully it was funny that it was on OWN, right? How much did he really own of this? I wouldn't call it a full confession at all.
[Baldwin:] Let's get to the question that, you know, he really didn't seem to answer here, and that being, why now? Why is he confessing now? Take a listen.
[Armstrong:] That's the best question. That's the most logical question. I don't know that I have a great answer. I will start my answer by saying that this is too late. It's too late for probably most people. And that's my fault.
[Baldwin:] It is a confession. He's lied for years and years. You don't know Lance personally. We can't talk about his personal case, but in dealing with, let's say, a pathological liar, what makes a liar come clean?
[Bloom:] Well, as somebody who he said he said in the interview that he's somebody who tried to control all aspects of things. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. I imagine that's how he's going to be approaching this interview. He wants to control how people perceive him, right?
[Baldwin:] He thinks a confession is his way of controlling his life?
[Bloom:] I would imagine, or maybe it's some way to do some control, alt, delete, reboot, restart on some things.
[Baldwin:] Interesting. Paula Bloom, stay right here with me as we're going through this entire hour, because coming up here, Armstrong lied under oath about doping, even sued people who accused him of it. One of the questions we have is, what kind of legal trouble will he face now that he has confessed? We have much more on Lance Armstrong's confession in this special hour next.