I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and other newspapers from publishing papers that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.