Rather wins, I’m afraid.

Rather does not have to prove the documents are real. All he has to do is make a halfway decent case that, hey, they are GOOD ENOUGH FAKES that we at CBS can be excused for being fooled. Heck, even our hired expert was fooled!

Then he can leave the documents behind as relatively unimportant, and move on to the he-said/he-said aspects of the story. That shift was already apparent in his defense tonight.

This will probably work, sad to say, and Ol’ Dan will keep his job.