Newsbusters has the transcript and video from Dan Rather’s televised interview with Martin Kalb:

RATHER:I believed in the story. The facts of the story were correct. One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question. To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not. In terms of [unintelligible “myself”?] it was he stuck by the story, I stuck by the story because I believed in it. He stuck with my people. Listen, I’ve made nearly every mistake in the book. But my attitude when we go into stories–we go into them together, we ride through whatever happens and we come out the other end together. And I, you know, I didn’t give up on my people, uh, our people, I didn’t and I won’t. [Applause]
KALB: Dan, thank you. You said, I believe you just said that you think the story is accurate.
RATHER: The story is accurate. […]
KALB: You have an opportunity now, you’re a reporter for “60 Minutes,” that’s a very important program. Would you go now and go back to that story and do it again? And find the documentation that would, in fact, prove what you believe to be the accuracy of the story?
RATHER: Straight-up, no chaser, no. One, CBS News doesn’t want me to do that story. They wouldn’t let me do that story.

C’mon Dan. O.J. didn’t ask the NFL’s permission to go after the real killer. You should follow his example and become a lone journalistic soldier, seeking truth and saying “FEA” if anyone gets in your way. Courage.