2:15:01
Oh, how fortunate I am to have
Lowell Bergman's moral tutelage...
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- to point me down the shining
path, to show me the way.
- Oh, please, Mike.
2:15:08
- Give me a break.
- You give me a break.
2:15:10
I never left a source
hung out to dry ewer.
2:15:13
Abandoned.
Not till right fucking now.
2:15:16
When I came on this job,
I came with my word intact.
2:15:20
I'm gonna leave with my word intact.
Fuck the rules of the game!
2:15:23
Hell, you're supposed
to know me, Mike.
2:15:25
What the hell
did you expect?
2:15:27
You expect me to lie down?
2:15:30
Back off?
Or get over it?
2:15:33
In the real world, when you get to where
I am, there are other considerations.
2:15:37
Like what?
Corporate responsibility?
2:15:40
- What, are we talking celebrity here?
- I'm not--
2:15:42
I'm not talking about
celebrity, vanity, CBS. I'm--
2:15:46
I'm--
I'm talking about...
2:15:48
when you're nearer the end
of your life than the beginning.
2:15:52
And what do you think
you think about then? The future?
2:15:56
"ln the future, I'm gonna
do this, become that"?
2:15:58
What future? No.
2:16:01
What you think is...
2:16:04
" How will I be regarded
in the end...
2:16:06
after I'm gone?"
2:16:10
Oh, along the way, I suppose
I made some minor impact.
2:16:13
I did lrangate,
the Ayatollah, Malcolm X,
2:16:17
Martin Luther King,
Saddam, Sadat, etc., etc.
2:16:20
I showed them thieves in suits.
I spent a lifetime building...
2:16:25
all that.
2:16:28
But history only remembers most
what you did last.
2:16:33
And should that be
fronting a segment...
2:16:36
that allowed a tobacco giant
to crash this network--
2:16:46
Does it give someone...
2:16:48
at my time of life pause?
2:16:54
Yeah.