The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.

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

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 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 just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

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.