here's hugh grant on why he did it. >> it began with just a personal grievance because i was a victim of phone hacking. and then i had this extraordinary piece of luck where i ran into an ex-features editor for the news of the world himself, it was an unlikely scenario where my car broke down, but anyway, he started boasting about hacking me, ha hacking everyone, all the dirty tricks of the news of the world, the sinister relationship with the police and with the prime minister. >> paul, was this type of hacking business as usual, even expected at your paper and even at others? >> reporter: sorry, i'm unclear, was that question to me? >> yes, was this condoned? was hacking condoned or even encouraged to you and at other papers? >> yes, i mean -- i mean, the public has long since been hacking people like hugh grant up until a few weeks ago, they think that him earning $3 billion a picture and ten turning around to complain about rupert murdock's employees and talking about his private life, there seems to be some hypocrisy there. in fact murdock's empire is so big, i, myself, i remembe

and they will let actor hugh grant whether he was one of the phone hacking victims. they ordered him to hand over information and his grm girlfriend where a private investigator intercepted phone messages. >>> mike nicco has the forecast. >> let's take a look outside. beautiful day if you like the sunshine as we look toward the east bay, a lack of clouds but not much in the way of pollution. we're going to have a hot day with clean air and we got a game at 12:45 today. >> if you are not going to the game, maybe a walk today. two bay area cities ranked as most walkable in the can country. >> the n.f.l. walkout puts a player's dream on hold. >>> two bay area cities are ranked as the most walkable in the u.s.. >> boston chicago and philadelphia round out the top five. the cities are ranked on how easily they can walk to amenities. survey was down by a seattle company. >> and it will be hikeable in san francisco with all the hills. >> i'm sure we would win that one. we probably would win the one with the best weather in the country. it's not too who had here but a friend

and they will let actor hugh grant whether he was one of the phone hacking victims.hey ordered him to hand over information and his grm girlfriend where a private investigator intercepted phone messages. >>> mike nicco has the forecast. >> let's take a look outside. beautiful day if you like the sunshine as we look toward the east bay, a lack of clouds but not much in the way of pollution. we're going to have a hot day with clean air and we got a game at 12:45 today. >> if you are not going to the game, maybe a walk today. two bay area cities ranked as most walkable in the can country. >> the n.f.l. walkout puts a player's dream on hold. >>> two bay area cities are ranked as the most walkable in the u.s.. >> boston chicago and philadelphia round out the top five. the cities are ranked on how easily they can walk to amenities. survey was down by a seattle company. >> and it will be hikeable in san francisco with all the hills. >> i'm sure we would win that one. we probably would win the one with the best weather in the country. it's not too who had here but a

>> victims included actress sienna miller and star hugh grant. >> stephen: oh, hugh grant. he hasn't had a movie in like two years. but just how big of a scandal is this? >> after 168 years now, the "news of the world" has put its last issue to bed. the tabloid was shut down this past week by its owner, rupert murdoch. >> stephen: so big that a paper going out of business is news. [laughter] well, the media sharks are licking their chops, and not just because riewp ertd looks like a dead squid. [laughter] look at how gleefully the competition is reporting this story. >> the scandal deepens for rupert murdoch and his media empire rocked by shame. >> i'm not really hearing a response from news corp, and they're usually the most aggressive. you look at their p.r. staff, and they're remarkable. >> there is no containing the scandal. >> the scandal. >> rocked by scandal. >> anarchy in the u.k., as the sex pistols might have said. >> stephen: as cee lo green might say, "[bleeped] you." now, i warned rupert, these are the type of attacks that happen when there are media companies

sienna miller and hugh grant. what brought it home to the public, was something charles was mentioning there. the latest allegations. the paper hacked into the voicemail accounts of the victims of july 7th, 2005, also in the murdered schoolgirl that disappeared in 2002. that seemed to really spark, really hit a raw nerve, hacking into that schoolgirl who was murdered. >> absolutely. i think it was a tragic case. a lot of us remember it very, very well. you mentioned, andrew, that hugh grant was a celebrity victim of phone hacking. he's since become a high-profile critic of the practice. he does love cricket, as well. and he even wears a wire to secretly tape a conversation with a -- did wear a wire to secretly record a conversation with a "news of the world" journalist, who admitted to hacking phones. he spoke with richard quest about his revoltion of some of the media. >> we need to look at the culture. people don't have to buy the papers. and advertisers have to look themselves hard in the mirror and said, do we

as the scandal around the head of fox news grows, actor hugh grant reveals how he got revenge on the tabloids. and, a u.s. congressman demands an investigation into possible phone hacking of 9/11 victims. we'll have the latest on the embattled rupert murdoch. >>> virgins for life. it is a wedding with no visible groom, because she is a bride of jesus christ. >> i have people ask me that, how is the marriage going? >> tonight, we meet women known as consecrated virgins. >>> and, the emcee. he's gone from the not ready to primetime players, to playing the white house, and now the espys. seth myers is tonight's "seriously funny." >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," july 13th, 2011. there is suspicion tonight in . the wake of the september 11th attacks, british journalists used bribery and wiretapping to access the voice mail of victims and their families. a new york congressman has asked the fbi to investigate news corporation, which owns fox news and the now shamed "news of the worl

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you mentioned hugh grant. his phone was hacked by "news of the world." he is suinging.e encounter, and he actually taped your conversation. let me play a little of that for our viewers. >> do you think it's right the only person with a decent digital scanner these days is the government. 20 years ago we all had a gone. are you comfortable that the only people who can listen to them now are -- >> celebrities themself, you justify because they're reach? >> yeah, i mean -- >> if you don't like it, just get off the stage. you don't believe celebrities have any right to privacy at all it sounds like? >> well, fundamentally. if you hire a publicist and ask him can he get me in the movies in any way possible, in the magazines in any way possible and can you get me in the newspapers in the most favorable, possible way, i think you certainly lose the public backing for when you start winging, somebody only got paid 5,000 pounds for the last movie. i think nine out of ten people who only take home 250 pounds a week in britain would happily have their messages hacked into to two t

it looks like people like hugh grant will receive payments. it so keeps -- what happens is, the newspaper keeps saying, enough, we've got to the bottom of it, we now know what happened, and then, whoosh! like a fountain, it erupts all over again with more allegations. but this time, we're in a different league. this is like something -- i mean, when the prime minister says he's disgusted, it's deplorable, then you know that we're in deep trouble indeed. >> all right. we'll continue following this. richard quest. always good to talk to you, thanks. >>> turning now to the white house, where president obama had a first this afternoon. a tweet-up. if you're like me, a tweet-up, what is that? apparently that's what they call it in twitter land. the president is hosting a twitter town hall. everyone can meet up there, twitter a question. they keep it to the 140-character max, but no limit on the size of the presidential response, and the president answered with a microphone. let's bring in our white house correspondent, dan lothian. the president ce

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actor hugh grant says he is the latest victim of that saying he has been hacked by british journaliste guy who did it. cnn's richard quest just finished interviewing grant. richard, what is the deal? >> reporter: well, hugh grant has been one of those hollywood celebrities who has come out and been forceful in the criticism and allegations concerning the news of the world, the british paper at the center of discussing phone hacking scandal in britain. grant says some years ago he was hacked as a hollywood celebrity. he then went out and hacked the hacker and learned all sorts of investigations about just how bad things are. british tabloid newspapers. when i meant grant this afternoon, hugh grant was very clear that he said he had no confidence in the newspaper a's investigation and little confidence in police and what is a full inquire in britain. >> what we need is a big public inquiry into all of the methods and the culture of tabloid press in this country. that's one thing. and people can vote very much with their wallets. they don't have to buy these praps, especially the news of

. >> actor hugh grant is among those supporting a boycott of news of the world. they are accused of hacking into the voicemail of a teenage murder victim. grant says he is one of many celebrities that has had their phones hacked. the scandal is expected to go to news core. >>> facebook is launching a video chat feature. mark zuckerberg announced the new feature powered by skype. >> i can go and click 'call him' and in real time you can go and click. it takes 10-20 seconds. >>> president obama use twitter today. in 11 minutes we will look at how his tweets could factor in to his reelection campaign. >>> the ninth court of appeals says that speech must be voided. congress repealed the policy -- "don't ask, don't tell" must be voided in congress repealed the policy in september. >>> leland yee says he won't meet with mexican authorities to make sure they keep up the search for seven men missing at sea. >> evidence that individuals can, in fact, survive past this 96 hours. >> he wrapped up a news conference with the families of four of the men from the bay area. a to

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. >>> actor hugh grant says he's been hacked by a british sunday tabloid. he's not the only one caught up in a huge scandal. >>> a phone hacking scandal surrounding the british tabloid news of the world is widening. the father of a victim of a 2005 london terror attack says his son's phone may have been hacked by a private investigator working for the sunday tabloid. they are calling on news international to come clean about what happened. police are looking at claims that news of the world target politicians and victims and celebrities. many call the allegations deplorable and unacceptable. british actor, hugh grant, says he was hacked by the news of the world and he says police interviewed him about the case. our richard quest interviewed him as well. richard, good to see you as always. we know these individual cases, it sounds like it was widespread and systematic over there. >> oh, that's putting it mildly. this was hacking on an industrial scale. look, to viewers that may not be familiar. this is the publication i am talking about. it's the news of the

here's hugh grant in an awkward picture with the reporter paul mcmullen.h mcmullen about who knew what. >> were people as high as rupert murdoch complicit in this? would murdoch know about these practices? people under him? >> well, people under him certainly should have done. when rebecca brooks, his right-hand woman in britain was doing my job i was looking at the same books. we were sending 4,000 pounds a week on private investigators doing these kind of practices. just extraordinary if she was the department boss who then moved up to be editor. how could you not notice expending over 100 grand a year on this kind of thing and not ask what it's for. her position is ludicrous. >> rupert murdoch and his son james will testify tuesday at a parliamentary committee meeting on the scandal. rebecca brooks is supposed to testify as well. her arrest may limit what she says. still ahead on cnn tonight. >> miss -- you will be held in contempt of this court. >> i don't care. i haven't done anything to this court. i haven't done anything to him. >> she'll be arreste

. >> the unfolding firestorm was brought to life by hollywood actor hugh grant, a brit himself who secretly taped a former news of the world reporter talking about the unsavory practices that he says everyone in his organization condone and encourage. here's grant taking a very uneasy looking picture with that reporter paul mcmullen. i spoke with mcmullen who said that hacking phones to get information illegally happened all the time at the paper. >> everybody knew, i mean, it started from the time way back in the 90s when you could actually buy a scanner in a shop outside a star's house and actually tape record their entire conversation. when that became illegal to buy a scanner, all you were left with was getting into the voice mail box of the celebrity or the politician or whoever was being targeted. i mean, everybody knew. it was commonplace. it wasn't just -- it was a very common trick. all you had to do was hit nine and put in the pin code. people didn't even change their pin codes from 4-0. so the problem is, people got such good results early on, i mean, for one example, a very famo

. >>> and hugh grant's latest passion. it's not his next acting role. stay tuned for "the skinny." starting off "the skinny" this morning we're talking about hugh grant who's sort of been out of the news a little bit lately. he sort of lays low for the most part unless he's promoting -- >> not so much in movies. >> unless he's promoting a movie where he plays a cute britisis guy who falls in love with an american woman. it's like really every single movie he does. >> very predictable. >> but he's got a cause and he wants everything to know about this cause. he's talking about paul mcmullin, who's a man who hacked into a lot of different famous people -- for instance, kate middleton, also others, their accounts. some other phone hacking they've been doing. then report it in the news and media -- >> "news of the world." rupert murdoch's paper, yes. >> very much a tabloid newspaper. so anyway. he's going head to head with this guy who actually hacked in. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> no, no, clearly -- >> you have no morals, no scruples at all. you didn't care who got

you have hugh grant who is tied up in all of this. >> this is hacking into voice mail on an industrial known people like sjude lw had their voice mail hacked into to make news stories of the world, and hugh grant believes he was hacked into, and he is the celebrity standing up and now saying that it's time for things for change. he is calling for a full judicial inquiry. >> what we need is a big public inquiry into all the methods and the whole culture of tab laid press in this country. that's one thing. people can vote very much with their wallets. they don't have to buy wallets, and advertisers have to look at themselves in the mirror and say do we want to be advertising in papers like "news of the world "? >> it's not only "news of the world" that he has in his sights, he quite rightly points out the systemic nature of what has been taking place. when he talks about the news of the world, he's really talking a great deal more. >> it's one thing for there to be a very bad newspaper in the country, but when you start to realize it's not one, it's all of our tabloids who have been shoc

we'll hear from an angry actor, hugh grant. airlines are warned of the next big threat. terrorists with bombs surgically implanted in their bodies. >>> actor hugh grant was among those targeted by. >> ers and he's calling for a full public inquiry into the tabloid phone hacking scandal. he spoke with cnn's richard quest. >> it began with just personal grievance. then i ran into an ex featured editor from "news of the world". my car broke down. a long story. anyway he started boasting by hacking me, hacking everyone, all the dirty tricks of the "news of the world", their sinister relationship with the metropolitan police and the prime minister and i thought it was all both fascinating and utterly repulsive. so subsequently i went back to see him, he runs a pub in dover and i dropped in for a pint and a chat and budge him. i budge him back. i was wearing a wire. i got him talking all this stuff again. i published it all. that was my obsession with this. and my outrage. because, you know, it's one thing for there to be a very bad newspaper in the country. but when you start

the scandal came to light whether actor hugh grant secretly taped a conversation with a former "newsist, paul mcmullen. i spoke with mcmullen who said that hacking phones to get information illegally happened all the time at the paper. >> everybody knew. it started from the time way back in the '90s when you could buy a scanner in a shop and sit outside a from's house and actually taperecord their entire conversation. when that became illegal to buy a scanner, all you were left with was getting into the voicemail of the celebrity or politician, whoever was being targeted. i mean, everybody knew -- it was commonplace. it wasn't just journalists. it was kids in the schoolyard who were doing it to their mate. it was just a very common trick. all you had to do was hit 9 and put in the pin code and people didn't even change their pin codes from 40. so the problem is people got such good results early on. i mean, for one example, a very famous british blonde, someone on a fishing expedition hacked her phone, listened to three messages, and the last one was the -- saying, darling, we had su

i want you to hear from hugh grant, the actor who helped to bust this scandal wide open. >> i don't really believe that tony blair dared sneeze without consulting rupert murdoch first. and i'm not alone in that thought. and frankly, it all began with margaret thatcher. she was the first pragmatist to think i'm not going to get elected unless i get the press on my side. and that's been the case ever since. >> so, listen, he is saying that it was all the way up to the prime minister. and the prime minister, the current one, david cameron, certainly got it on the floor of parliament this week. so what sort of legal ramifications are there for these british leaders as the dominos fall in this case, lisa? >> well, the first issue is the hacking. what did they know, and when did they know it. were they participants in terms of covering up the hacking? that is criminal behavior in the uk. it's criminal behavior here. and if you knew and you failed to act, you could be considered a co-conspirator. then we're talking about other issues, like paying police for stories. were police on the receiving e

hugh grant has been hacked through his cell phone before. and he is taking a very big stand against the news of the world its publishers and the people behind this. he actually did a little covert mission. we'll have hugh grant live to talk about that because this is a very big story, reaching the parliament and prime minister. it's unbelievable stuff so we'll talk about that. also, the story that everyone is talking about the verdict and the reaction in the casey anthony trial. we'll ask an advisor to her defense team what led the jury to return that not guilty verdict. and also the president calls in congressional leaders to work on a debt ceiling deal. some say there will be talk but little action. we'll talk to two key senators involved in the dealing. we have that coming up on "the early show." very busy show this morning. all that coming up and darius rubbinger in concert in the plaza behind me -- rucker in concert in the plaza behind me singing. >> it's all good. >> reporter: i don't know if frank told you about his vocal stylings. he

just ask hugh grant, who lashed out on bbc. >> you guys have no morals at all. who got hurt, as long as you were able to sell your newspaper. >> reporter: say the word tabloid here in britain, and people think of "the news of the world." nothing would stop it in pursuit of a sensational headline. not human decency, not even breaking the law. >> we've always had in britain a vivid tabloid irreverent. but in the last two to three decades, that has descended beyond the gutter into the s sewer. and that happened at the same time as mr. rupert murdoch entered the market. mr. murdoch, in myy view, has debotched british public life. >> forgive the individual by all means. but you can't forget. >> reporter: that is media tycoon rupert murdoch. he bought the legendary london tabloid 42 years ago, and with it staggering profits, built a global media empire. in the u.s., murdoch owns fox news, "the wall street journal," "the new york post" and a lot more. he is even bigger here in britain, where he owns a major tv network and almost 40% of the newspapers sold, including "t

. >> hugh grant was the celebrity victim of the phone hacking and he even wears a wire to secretly tapeation -- wear a wire with a conversation with a former news of the world journalist who admitted to hacking's people's phones. >> that's right, the guy who got car head from an l.a. rose prostitute is now the moral compass of my nation. (laughter) so let me ask you this. let me just ask you this, jon. do you feel any better about america yet? (laughter) >> jon: you know what is weird. >> what. >> jon: i actually do. >> that's good. >> jon: i feel kind of good now. >> and that means that my work here is done. >> jon: you're not buying, you're just walking on my desk. we'll be right back. you're not crying. >> jon: there are some wars, there are some wars so grisly and heartbreaking that nobody wants to talk about them. >> birds all over america are dying. baffling scientists. but now george ep fenway of the american bird conservancy thinks the reason could be in our own backyards. >> cats. >> cats? >> yes, cats kill hundreds of millions of birds. >> is this why birds are so angry? (laug

scandal first broke, the targets were mainly celebrities like mick jagger, gwyneth paltrow and hugh grant. >> at the center of the controversy is rebecca brooks who headed up the tabloid newspaper for years. she's now in charge of murdock's british news corporation. the paper is already taking a hit. several companies have pulled their ads. charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >>> police have already begun to look into evidence the newspaper paid off officers in return for information. >>> anny hong is in for howard bernstein. she's up with the forecast next. >> hey, andrea. we've got some light rain and some -- a couple of thunderstorms going through the area. first, here is a look at your allergy report. the pollens are low but the mold still medium. i'll let you know how long the summer-like pattern sticks around. >>> rising waters are complicatingerts to clean up an oil spill in the yellowstone river. federal officials say it took exxon mobil nearly twice as long to seal the pipeline as they publicly reported. teps of gallons of crude oil that seeped into the water way in montana. exxon

. >> we are just learning a british judge has allowed actor hugh grant to see if his voice mails were revealed. >>> a federal court has overturned two felony acquittals of a man urging people top shoot barack obama before he was president. his messages were quote dangerous but were also protected free speech. prosecutors could ask for a rehearing by the court of appeals. >>> in a few hours the senate committee will hold a hearing on a proposal to repeal the federal defense of marriage act. it would give married same sex couples the same benefits. yesterday the white house -- >>> sunday is the same day -- so many people want to get married on that day in new york city. mayor michael bloomberg announced a lottery has been set up. 764 couples will be set to get married at the five clerk offices. new york city has received more than 2600 applications for marriage licenses. >>> the obama administration is considering a plan to offer free birth control as part of the health care reform law. if that idea is approved no copay would be required when a woman picks up monthly contraceptives. it

. >> hugh grant was the celebrity victim of the phone hacking and he even wears a wire to secretly tapeation -- wear a wire with a conversation with a former news of the world journalist who admitted to hacking's people's phones. >> that's right, the guy who got car head from an l.a. rose prostitute is now the moral compass of my nation. (laughter) so let me ask you this. let me just ask you this, jon. do you feel any better about america yet? (laughter) >> jon: you know what is weird. >> what. >> jon: i actually do. >> that's good. >> jon: i feel kind of good now. >> and that means that my work here is done. >> jon: you're not buying, you're just walking on my desk. we'll be right back. you're not crying. is this a good deal? i don't even know anymore. [ tapping ] well, know this -- for a good deal on car insurance, progressive snapshot uses this to track my good driving habits. the better i drive, the more i save. it's crystal-clear savings and only progressive has it. nice. this has been a public savings announcement. out there with a better way. now, that's progressive. >> jon: ther

. >> rose: this is the guy that talked to hugh grant when hugh grant was secretly recording him. >> that's right. >> rose: catherine, what is the damage t newscorp and what is the damage to rupert murdoch? >> well, again... i mean, as just said, you could be wrong by the end of the sentence on this one. i mean, i am worried... i share some of what roger said about what murdoch has actually contributed. but there's also the question of the print journals, what hapns to them now. there are rumors that he may actually divest of the remaining british papers and and this is not just a competitive market, it's a market where a lot of the papers aretruggling. so i'm not really answering your questions what happens to murdoch, i'm answering one of the things that troubles me about this story is is what's going to happen to papers like the "times" and "the sunday times" at this point. i think it is also answering what happens to murdoch in this country. i think they have played it so badly that he has gone from having too much influence to becoming a pariah. it's unbelievable that they made those s

tonight, hugh grant is suing scotland yard over the force's failure to tell him he was a victim. during those same years, murdoch's executives frequently denied wrongdoing. now it's apologies that are repeated. tomorrow in an ad in british newspapers, he promises tough action to prevent more phone hacking. some wonder if it's too late. >>> the problem is not that this is the wrong thing to do, he didn't do it a week ago. >> reporter: for the owner of fox television and the "new york post," each new drama risks turning a crisis into a catastrophe. the resignation of two cheever executives including les hinton who ran the "wall street journal" has not stopped speculation that murdoch's own son james could be a casualty of the scandal. >> by getting rid of the publisher of "the wall street journal," that was to keep it from spreading to the united states. >> reporter: in the u.k., where the scandal started with allegations of journalists listening to voicemails, the prime minister is under fire for inviting murdoch and his executives to dinners and weekends away. david cameron even

. >> nobody put it better than that great political analyst hugh grant. a great line.y three weeks ago all of our politician ins this country were sucking up to rupert murdoch drinking champagne on his lawn at a summer party so it's almost comic today they're competing in parliament to say he's a terrible person. they were afraid of him. >> the reason to dislike the tabloids if you remember, both british and-- >> there's a paragon of morality. >> you want hipocracy i'll give you hipocracy, robert greenwald in the huffington post says that, you'll love it, the danger, when ever enlarging corporations take control of the public's right to know. let's see, that wouldn't nbc, cbs abc and public radio, oh, no, that's the fox news channel. that's the great evil. want to comment? apparently not. >> and as-- >> not only that, but we have to go. >> you know, just in time. >> one of many media outlets at that people should experience, you should get your news from not just one source, go to many different places and get fair and balanced news, thank you. >> all rightment time fo

. >> hugh grant was the celebrity victim of the phone hacking and he even wears a wire to secretly tapeation -- wear a wire with a conversation with a former news of the world journalist who admitted to hacking's people's phones. >> that's right, the guy who got car head from an l.a. rose prostitute is now the moral compass of my nation. (laughter) so let me ask you this. let me just ask you this, jon. do you feel any better about america yet? (laughter) >> jon: you know what is weird. >> what. >> jon: i actually do. >> that's good. >> jon: i feel kind of good now. >> and that means that my work here is done. >> jon: you're not buying, you're just walking on my desk. we'll be right back. you're not crying. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write

targets of the tabloid hacking scandal include british royals, commoners, and screen stars, like hugh grant i think this is the watershed moment. >> reporter: but don't think hacking is just the scourge of the celebrated and sensational on the other side of the atlantic. your phone and my phone can be hacked. >> my ex-girlfriend found her way into my voice mail on my cell phone. >> reporter: -- just as easily as l.a. screenwriter where, rich keith. >> she would know things only on my voice mail and sometimes she would know them before i knew them. >> this is a crime that doesn't really leave a trail of evidence. >> reporter: cyberscientist christopher zboiian says hacking is hard to trace, but easy to do. especially with at&t and sprint, which together serve more than 48 million customers. unlike other customers, they donate require p.i.n. numbers to access voice mail. hacking their phones, zboiian says, is easy as one, two, three. go to any number of websites, punch in your phone number, punch in the number you would like to hack, and then punch in that number again to cover your tracks. a