Conrad Murray - NBC Today Show Interview - Part 2 - Aired 11-11-2011
(voice over) June 25th, 2009 Michael Jackson returns home after a long night of rehearsals to what had become a nightly ritual.Dr. Murray waiting to give the exhausted entertainer what he wants more than anything, sleep.
Savannah : Do you feel guilty that he died?
Murray: I don't feel guilty because I did not do anything wrong. I am very very sorry for the loss of Michael. Michael is a personal friend. It's heartfelt. It has been painful.
(voice over) Murray admits for 2 months he gave Jackson the powerful propofol nicknamed milk of amnesia. He said he started to try to wean Jackson off the drug in the final days but on June 25th when nothing else was working Murray says Jackson demanded his milk and the doctor gave in.
Savannah: You said you gave him 25 mg. You watched him and then you left for 2 minutes.
Murray : Okay. How long as far as all of that you have heard would the effect of 25 mg's of Propofol would last?
Savannah: But how could you be sure? I mean wasn't it reckless to leave?
Murray : No
(voice over) Murray contends he gave the singer so little propofol the effects of it were long gone by the time he stepped away but Jackson's autopsy shows he died with much more Propofol in his system then Murray admits giving.
(video of Walgren going over Murray's phone calls)
(voice over) Murray originally told the police he left Jackson's room for only 2 and half minutes to use the restroom but cell phone records show Murray was also on his iPhone that morning talking and emailing for more than 40 minutes. In our interview Murray made a key admission. He stepped away during that time and was gone from the room far longer than the 2 minutes he has acknowledged.
Savannah: How could you really be monitoring Michael Jackson at the same time you are making calls, you're texting, you are emailing? Were you distracted?
Murray : No no I was not. I looked at a man all night was deprived of sleep, who was so desperate for sleep and finally is getting some sleep. Am I going to sit over him, sit around him, tug on his feet, do anything unusual to wake him up? No.
Savannah: You walked out of the room to talk on the phone?
Murray: Absolutely. I wanted him to rest.
Savannah: you said that you were talking on the phone but could see him.
Murray: I could not see him from where I was talking.
Savannah: but you could hear him?
Murray: I would think if he got up and he called for me I would hear him.
Savannah: If he stopped breathing could you hear that?
Murray: No I could not but he was not on an infusion that would cause him stop breathing. And that's the reason they talk about I was not supposed to be monitoring him at that time because there was no need for monitoring.
Savannah: So you don't regret leaving the room?
Murray : I regret that Michael has passed.
(voice over) so how does Dr. Murray explain what happened? At trial his defense argued Jackson secretly swallowed several anti-anxiety pills while Murray was out of the room and then injected himself with one final dose of Propofol, a lethal combination.
Savannah: Is it your theory that he woke up and somehow in the 2 minutes that you were gone injected himself, gave himself lidocaine so he wouldn't feel the burn ? Is that your theory?
Murray : Well, something has happened when I was not in that room. As to how it happened and the mechanisms I don't know that.
Savannah: Let's say he did take this Propofol himself. Don't you bear some responsibility? The Propofol is in that room because you prescribed it to him.
Murray : This is the situation. It's difficult to think that I met Michael with a situation where he was absolutely having use of that substance long before I got there.
Savannah: but own your portion of it. Were you right to leave him in a situation where he had the opportunity to inject himself?
Murray : Well I'm going to say that was not a foreseeable situation. If Mr. Jackson ...
Savannah: It wasn't?
Murray: No no. Had I known what I knew today in retrospect , If Mr. Jackson was an addict and he shared that information with me , addicts may behave in a way that is unreasonable and you may consider it.
Savannah: You just yourself said that he was a desperate man.
Murray : Desperate for sleep.
Savannah: and you left him alone with Propofol
Murray: he was asleep.
(voice over) Murray came back to the bedroom to find Jackson wasn't breathing.
Savannah: Why didn't you call 911 right away?
Murray : No one is allowed to come upstairs except for Mr. Jackson. His securities aren't allowed to enter the house.
Savannah: You called his bodyguard. Couldn't you have said call 911 and meet him at the gate?
Murray: Call 911 would still require him to call me back. I don't think he would do that and I was not about to leave a full explanation on the phone.
(voice over) Murray did eventually tell a Jackson security guard to call 911 and the paramedics were there in less than 5 minutes.
Savannah: Why didn't you tell the paramedics when they arrived that he had taken Propofol?
Murray: That's a very sad reason because it was inconsequential. 25 mg and the effects gone mean nothing.
Savannah: Wait a minute. Why not let them be the judge of that? why not supply the best information you have?
Murray: Paramedics depend on me.
Savannah : Well you told them about the other drugs but you did not tell them about Propofol.
Murray: Because it had no effect. It was not an issue.
(video of Alberto Alvarez on stand)
(voice over) Just before paramedics arrived security guard testified that Dr. Murray asked him to put empty vials and bottles into a bag.
Savannah: When you add all of this up , you don't call 911 for 20 minutes, you don't tell paramedics and ER doctors about Propofol but you mention other drugs, the bodyguard says you are in the room telling people to clean up the vials, it seems like you knew you had done something wrong and trying to cover your tracks
Murray: Well if that's the way that it appears to you, I think you have the wrong perception.
Savannah: Experts have said if you hadn't delayed, if you actually called 911 right away there's a chance that Michael Jackson would still be alive.
Murray : Experts can say whatever they want without a full deck but who knows by the time I had discovered him had he not died.
Quelle: Ivy, MJJC
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