English transcript

First of all, I'd like to say I'm proud to be here

to represent Team USA

and to represent, uh, our country.

But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention

what's going on in Minnesota

and what a tough time it's been for everybody.

Um, this stuff is happening right,

right around where we live.

And, uh...

I am a lawyer, as you know, and we do the Consti—

we, we have a Constitution.

And it, it allows us to freedom of the press

and freedom of speech.

Uh, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures.

And makes it that we have to, you know,

have probable cause to be pulled over.

And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong.

There's no shades of gray.

It's clear.

And, uh, I really love what's been happening there now

with people coming out,

showing the love, the compassion,

integrity, and respect

for others that they don't know and helping them out.

And we love Minnesota for that.

I want to make it clear that

we are out here,

we love our country.

We're playing for the US.

We're playing for Team USA.

And we're playing for each other,

and we're playing for our family and our friends

that sacrificed so much to get here today.

And that doesn't change anything because what the Olympics,

what the Olympics means is

excellence, respect, friendship.

And we all, I think, exemplify that.

And we are playing for the people of Minnesota

and the people around the country who show those, share those same values.

That compassion, that love, and that respect.