Hardin played the 17-minute conversation -- which opens with a brief discussion about McNamee's son and then shifts to the steroid allegations -- in the news conference.
"It shows how cynical and disgusting Roger Clemens and Rusty Hardin are," Emery said, "that they'd exploit a sick child of Brian's."
Once Clemens and McNamee start discussing the allegations, Clemens repeatedly asks for someone to tell the truth and McNamee repeatedly asks what Clemens would like him to do.
At one point, McNamee said, "I'll go to jail. I'll do whatever you want." McNamee testified before Mitchell under a federal plea agreement in which he would not be prosecuted unless he made a false statement.
McNamee was "plainly" telling Clemens he would be willing to lie, Emery said.
"It was incredibly stupid for Brian to make that phone call," Emery said.
At no point in the conversation does McNamee retract his allegations or does Clemens specifically ask him to do so.
"I'm trying to find out why you would tell guys that I used steroids," Clemens said.
"I understand that," McNamee said.
Said Hardin: "All during this tape, when Roger says he didn't do it, McNamee never says, 'Yes, you did.' "
Emery noted that, whenever McNamee asked Clemens what he could do, Clemens never said, 'Don't lie.' "
At one point, McNamee asks whether Clemens would like him to attend the news conference, but Clemens does not accept or reject the offer. In the news conference, Clemens suggested that idea might not have been wise.
"I would love for him to come down here," Clemens said. "I would be afraid for him, because my family is very upset."
At another point in the conversation, Clemens said, "I just need you to come out and tell the truth."
"I don't have any money," McNamee responded. "I have nothing. I'm not doing a book deal. I got offered seven figures to go on TV. I didn't do it. I didn't take it. I didn't do anything.
"All I did was what I thought was right. And I never thought it was right, but I thought that I had no other choice."
In a conversation with Hardin's associates cited in the lawsuit, McNamee said federal investigators contacted him last summer and told him they had evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and he could face prison time. McNamee told those associates that he had "repeatedly denied" during an initial interrogation that Clemens "had used steroids or HGH."
