What Now?

" You won't recognize and -- you may not remember his name the back in 2003 he was at the center of a national scandal. Here's our power player of the."

" telling the truth to the best of my. Ability and my knowledge. But it's really up for people to take that information and I'll offer compare answers for themselves."

" Jayson Blair talking about the truth the central issue in his life. Six years ago he resigned as a reporter for the New York Times after it was revealed he had plagiarized or simply made up facts in dozens of stories the scandal brought down the paper's top two editors and -- the nation's media."

" I think that most people initially when they hear the idea of me being -- the kind of laugh. At that notion but when they think about it and they think and they if they combines an idea that I did actually learn and grow from my experience it makes for excellence."

" We caught up with later this week at a small psychological counseling business in Virginia where he now works. Having spent years in treatment for bipolar disorder manic depression as well as alcohol and drug abuse. He now teams up -- health professionals to counsel people in crisis."

" Water and -- prospective rules mom's perspective rules. And what -- the things that the girl wants."

" says that age 33 he's turned his life around. I was hesitant about reopening old -- of mine and -- give people the benefit of his terrible experience."

" If I wasn't the youngest reporter -- was the second -- from courtroom. -- I think I was fair to say that you run the fast track yes yes I think it certainly is fair to say."

" Blair joined the times in 1999. He says he started out wanting to help people but eventually convinced himself that meant he had to be a star. When did you start line that's really good question. Because -- says he got a quote from someone he knew was giving -- a fake name he put it in the story anyway."

" Once I cross that apple one like so many ethical lines so much easier to --"

" By the end Blair was supposedly writing stories from around the country. Without ever actually leaving his New York apartment at its core to me you know it's theft and -- line. And it's. -- conniving behavior while Blair now says he was suffering from undiagnosed mental illness he refuses to use that as an excuse."

" Ultimately all that stuff aside the one thing that I can say for sure played a role -- It happening with my character and that there was a problem with who I was how do you feel about where you want it. I feel good that the medications don't work all the time. I'm so there are periods where you know I am -- briefly for a while war I am. Feeling down so it is hard it's hard to do it's difficult to do but I feel much better about. And tonight. Felt about my -- to three. Or even ten years."

" Friday night Jayson Blair spoke to journalism students at Washington & Lee University. And he told them the big ethical decisions in -- don't come with trumpets blaring but in small daily choices about what compromises you're willing to night. You can see more of the interview -- Fox News."