In the real world, when you get to where I am, there are other considerations. Like what?...

Mike Wallace: In the real world, when you get to where I am, there are other considerations. Lowell Bergman: Like what? Corporate responsibility? What, are we talking celebrity here? Mike Wallace: I'm not talking celebrity, vanity, CBS. I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now, what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is "How will I be regarded in the end?" After I'm gone. Now, along the way I suppose I made some minor impact. I did Iran-Gate and the Ayatollah, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Saddam, Sadat, etcetera, etcetera. I showed them thieves in suits. I've spent a lifetime building all that. But history only remembers most what you did last. And should that be fronting a segment that allowed a tobacco giant to crash this network? Does it give someone at my time of life pause? Yeah.

Do me a favor, will you? Spare me. For God's sake, get in the real world. What do you think? I'm going to resign in protest to force it on the air? The answer's no. I don't plan to spend the end of my days... wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio. That decision I've already made. This Sunday, Wallace will broadcast a report... on the tobacco industry, including the tough tactics tobacco companies employ... to keep a lid on information that might be damaging. Is there information that people should have... that they're not going to have because you're not going to broadcast this interview? - Yes. - Today, CBS News president Eric Kluster... defended the network's decision not to broadcast... key portions of the controversial interview. Mr. Kluster said, quote, "The atmosphere is tougher than ever. " - Where's the rest? - Dan. Where the hell's the rest? - Nebraska football fans voiced their criticism... - You cut it! Coming up in Bernard Goldberg's America. - You cut the guts out of what I said! - It was a time consideration... Time? Bullshit! You corporate lackey. Who told you your incompetent little fingers have the requisite skills to edit me? I'm trying to Band-Aid a situation here, and you're too dim... Mike. Mike. Mike. " Mike"? Mike! Try " Mr. Wallace." We work in the same corporation. Doesn't mean we work in the same profession. Now, now what are you going to do now? You going to finesse me? Lawyer me some more? I've been in this profession 50 fucking years! You and the people you work for are destroying the most respected, the highest rated, the most profitable show on this network. Here. These are their leads, their sources. - I want you to have your reporters... - Sue in Hwang and Milo Geyelin. Have them make their own calls. They'll find that these sources have a different story than the one that's in the dossier. Push the deadline, Charlie. I'll push it for a week. I want Milo and Suein to go through it. What do you want to buy him for a gift?