ith people that the work wa our criminals. >> this is the editor of "the sunday times." in a statement tonight, they believe ethanol law was broken, no criminal was used edie story was published giving both sides of the hearing. he attacked the way it reported that his youngest son was suffering from cystic fibrosis. the revelation was not legitimate. they left him -- >> in tears. that is done something to be broadcast across the media. sarah and i were upset about his long-term future. >> the story originated from a member whose family also experienced cystic fibrosis. above all, mr. brown accused of news international of having an agenda against him. that one is the bbc and the media regulator off of the reforms. >> all of these papers will be there for people to see. that will show that we stood up to news international. we refused to support the commercial ambitions when we thought they were against the public interest. >> mr. brown has now widened the attack of newspapers within the group. that is being brought home by labour's current leader. they are calling for ru

well he has changed the nature of the industry and remember that when he first bought the times of london and the sunday times there were all of these predictions that he was going to turn them both into a scandal sheet and i think by any measure both the times and the sunday times are still very good newspapers i don't think he's run those newspapers there was the same protection when he bought the wall street journal serval years ago i think the wall street journal is still a very good newspaper people have been underestimating rupert murdoch for forty years and i think we underestimate and at some peril if we continue to do so in this case there are predictions that the deal for sky broadcasting may fall through i won't be so quick to make that announcement we'll see how this shakes out i do admire rupert murdoch because he's a risk taker when he bought the times and sunday times of london the newspaper business was absolutely in peril in the u.k. mostly because of the unions and because of some other economic factors he turned that around and he basically there are people who will say that he saved

>> this is the editor of "the sunday times." in a statement tonight, the paper said, we believe no law was broken, no criminal was used, and this story was published. he attacked the way reporters that his son was suffering from cystic fibrosis. it left some in tears. >> your son is now going to be broadcast across the media. we are incredibly upset about it. we're thinking about our family, but there is nothing that you can do about it. >> other parents in public life have also had children with medical conditions were sympathetic. >> my heart goes out to gordon brown. i know this myself when your child is not well, it is completely unacceptable. >> they said they did not access any medical records. the story originated from a member of the public. the article was written sensitively and appropriately. above all, mr. brown accused news international of having an agenda against him. rupert murdoch had wanted the media regulator of reforms. he did not. >> all the papers will be there for people to see. it will show that we stood u

former prime minister gordon brown is accusing "the sunday times" another murdock paper, of illegally pursuing private medical and financial information about him and his family. there are also reports that a member of the royal protect guard responsible for the royal family security sold a list of phone numbers to "the news of the world." >> the things we're hearing are appalling. what people need to know is i am determined to get to the bottom of this. >> reporter: there are already sign s that the expanding crisis is affecting news corp.'s business. the deputy prime minister nick cleg called on rupert murdock to back down on his deal to merge with a british tv network. cleg met with the parents of milly doweler. "news of the world" reporters hacked into the young girl's phone after she was abducted and murdered. the deputy p.m. did not mince his words, asking murdoch to look at how the country has reacted with revulsion. and it's time, he said, to do the decent and sensible thing and back off this deal. stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. >>> well, two crew members of the u.s. space

ross story stephen welcome it's based on this is no small issue i mean there's evidence that the sunday times owned by murdoch hacked bank brown's bank records is in france son's medical records and publish a story on the child serious illness or do you think this is going to end up in the u.k. . in the you're hearing i agree this will likely be reduced their attempt to start a process that a number of our distance are not right i'm not against it it needs to be referred to us. you know so impacts on the. we want to do our community our will to include. the. i think maybe even a larger question here is given that rupert murdoch owns a substantial media empire here in the united states particularly the wall street journal which is kind of his crown jewel here like the sunday times is in the u.k. and the wall street journal i believe correct me if i'm wrong is the dow jones company that owns it that murdoch owns now is run by a guy who used to work for murdoch in the u.k. apparently this has been going on for some time. is the c.e.o. first of all from from the wall street journal from his u.k.

the growing scandal. he says the times of london, reporters for the excuse me sunday times, had misrepresented themselves in order to obtain private and personal financial documents and other records. he said he was the subject of other forms of bragging they call it here and voice mail hacking efforts. in addition he says the saab lloyd sun newspaper, part of murdock's stable had somehow gained access to private medical records for his infant son. several years ago there was a story in the son about the diagnosis that the browns had received that he had the cystic fibrosis. and it was heart breaking for the browns to deal with it but in that moment just as they were dealing with that diagnosis, they had the dwhraition too and rebecca brooks, editor of the sun and it's interesting how often she pause up, she called gordon brown to inform him of this. he said they were deaf stayed and -- devastated and he said these are private and violating that could be a crime. news international today issued some sometimes, sometimes from the sunday times said that misrepresentation they did was in the public interest

there is also a public interest defense for blaging, and you might argue that if gordon -- if the sunday timesve that gordon brown was involved as chancellor of the exchequer in a dodgy deal they may have been a public interest defense to find out. because of the access to his son's medical records that, of course, -- >> especially with rebecca brooks who is really on the hot seat right now and under fire seemed to be supported by rupert murdoch at this point. when she's calling the prime minister at this point and saying that, look, we've got this information on your son, who's got cystic fibrosis, how much heat is on her? what's going to happen with her? >> there's a huge amount of heat on her not least because as long as rupert murdoch supports her, in the public realm she has zero credibility. she was editor of the news of the world at the time and she claims to have known nothing about it. let's take it at her word. nevertheless on her watch her journalists were hacking the mailboxes of missing 13-year-old teenager who ends up to have sadly been murd ired. all things are happening and she

"the sunday times" is accused of tricking his accountants into handing over financial information. those accusations will only add fuel to the political firestorm that has charred news corp's reputation but haven't dissuaded him to take over the satellite tv company british sky broadcasting. news corp decided to let regulators rather than lawmakers have the final say on the taker. >> reporter: rupert murdoch has upped the stakes to take over bskyb. until the hacking scandal hit its empire last week it was skpted murdoch would be allowed to buy the 60% his news corp doesn't already own. on monday news corp formally withdrew pledges to sell off sky news. the company has given the government little choice but to refer the proposed takeover to competition authorities. >> it will mean that the competition commission will be able to give further full and exhaustive consideration of this merger taking into account all relevant recent developments. >> this takes the decision whether news corp can take over bskyb away from politicians and slows the whole process down. >> it's obviously polit

times," and "the sun newspaper," claiming investigators working on behalf of "the sunday mes" tried to get his banking details by posing as him on the phone, and details about a property that he was selling from his lawyers, and "the sun" tabloid paper, tried to get details of an illness that his son had that ended up being a front page story. and then queen's police told details to "news of the world," and officers gave "news of the world" phone numbers of the monarchy. so there are victims -- families of victims of 9/11, and terrorists attacks, and murder victims and so on, and it's getting bigger and bigger. >> what does the london police have to say about this? they are investigating all of this. >> reporter: they are investigating all of this. they have come under stinging criticism for the way they conducted the initial investigation. now they have a different officer in charge and she is due to speak here tomorrow. and they have got some embarrassing situations here with their own force, allegedly, according to the newspaper, being involved in selling details about

i speak to the editor of "the sunday times" every sunday, not to influence what he has to say at all and i am very careful about making a remark to imply otherwise. i am not really in touch. the editor i spend the most time with is the editor of "the wall street journal." to say that we are "hands off" is wrong. i work a 10-12 hour day. i cannot tell you the multitude of issues that i have to handle every day. "news of the world," perhaps, i lost sight of because it was small in the general framework of my company, but we are doing a lot of other things. >> if i could help you out here, if someone told me that you would speak to the editor of "the sun" daily or twice a day, we recognize that description? >> no. >> you would not have traditionally spoken to the editor of "the sun" that many times? >> i would like to, but no. >> i understand it you would not speak to the editor to influence what they print, but i am intrigued as to how these conversations go. i would imagine it. something along the lines of, "anything to report? anything interesting going on?" and the editor says, "a st

>> i believe it was june, yes. >> "the sunday times," a great newspaper, portrayed -- painted a picture on the 10th of july from this file that six so-called gate keepers on the news desk dealt with glenn and they named them as alex, clive goodman, james and edmundson. do you recognize that summary. >> respectfully i would ask you to please understand that detailed questions about any of the evidence, information that we passed to the police in relation to their ongoing criminal inquiries are difficult for me to answer. and i would appreciate it if we could allow the police to undergo the important work that they are undergoing. there is a process that's important. we are cooperating with it, we are providing information on a regular basis, the company is providing information on a regular basis as needed by the police. i really believe that we have to allow the police to conduct their investigation and hold the people who did wrong to account in this area. >> okay. i'll respect that. >> i think if we were to comment on anything now, it could result in guilty people -- >> i fully unders

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since then, sun and the sunday times have been implicated in the hacking.rrent or former "news of the world" staffers, including editors have been arrested. "news of the world" itself has been shut down after 168 years. the british government is conducting an inquiry, rupert murdoch has apologized to the girl, milly dowler's family. then he talked to the press afterward. >> and i apologize and i have nothing further to say. >> nothing further except the full page apologies he's running this weekend. of course, now the resignation of les hinton, until today, publisher of the wall street journal and the person who succeeded hinton in the british job, rebekah brooks resigned this morning. potentially next on the chopping block, somebody even closer to him, rupert murdoch's own son james who has been busy not explaining himself, paying off phone hacking victims on the side. this is a damaging scandal. but that leaves some of the as-yet surviving parts of his media empire in the position of having to cover their boss' really big problem. when that kind of thing

the u.k.'s pay t.v. market i do admire rupert murdoch because he's a risk taker when he bought the times and sunday times of london the newspaper business was absolutely in peril in the u.k. mostly because of the unions and because of some other economic factors he turned that around. basically there are people who will say that he saved the newspaper industry.

it's now spread to "the sun" and "sunday times." oth so far have not been shown to have used phone hacking, but they have been shown to use what, at best, slightly underhand techniques, at worst illegal activities to get information. "the sun" is maintaining it got the medical records without breaking the law. "the sunday times" saying there was a legitimate public interest in looking into gordon brown's bank details and so on on a tip, but there was some sort of corruption there or something which was all proved to be untrue. but i think this is spreading now and that's really, really bad news for news international and rupert murdoch. >> dan rivers in london, thanks so much. >>> happening now in london, wikileaks founder julian assange in court and appealing his extradition to swede wherein he's wanted on sexual misconduct allegations. assange remains in the u.k. under house arrest. the warrant is not related to the release of confidential u.s. documents. >>> and tensions between the syrian regime and the u.s. reaching a new high t

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former prime minister gordon brown says the sunday times gained access to his young sons, the dental medical records and it revealed that the boy was suffering from cystic fibrosis even before his parents were given a confirmed diagnosis. brown's successor tony blair had this reaction. >> which is certainly shocking to the british people has been the absence of basic standards in the way things are done. three former employees or arrested on friday, former editor rebecca brooks is expected to be questioned by police about messages deleted from a murder to teenagers and phone. if she had initiative decency she would have resigned if only because the phone was tapped and her family was led to believe that she was still alive. the >> mother and sister of that murder teenager met with british lawmakers today and say they're still waiting to hear from the newspaper. >> newspapers downfall is being hailed by some of its targets. george michael tweeted the closing of the news of the world is a fantastic day before britain. >> baseball's answer to the slam dunk contest and home run derby, al

another murdoch paper, "the sunday times," was alleged to try to get personal information on gordon brown when he was prime minister. >> the head of state, the royal family, their security is the duty of the police. the integrity of those officers must surely be beyond a doubt. this morning, the news of the world e-mail uncovered recently contained evidence that they were paying the royal protection officers for private information about the royal family. it also emerged that the phones of prince charles and the duchess of cornwall might have been hacked. the former royal editor was requesting cash from the newspaper's editor to purchase a confidential directory of the royal family's land line numbers. it implies that a police officer had stolen the directory and wanted 1,000 pounds for it. these latest disclosures about systematic wrongdoing at "the news of the world," could not come at a worse time for the owner because they are trying to buy one of the most important media companies in the u.k., british sky. his newspaper corp. owns 39%. the reason he would like 100% because this is a

the path to prime minister to being prime minister is through rupert murdoch here's some examples that margaret thatcher he actually actually added she allowed him to add the times of the times of london the sunday times to his portfolio of properties and she was richly rewarded for that in his bakers john major her successor in fact the day of the election he ran a headline that said was the effect of if if you can i think it was the his opponent if he wins will the last person leaving england turn the lights up and it was a real a real effort tony blair flew to australia to get on bended need to ask him to murdoch for his endorsement and murdoch flipped over to labor through the equivalent of the democratic party in this case it is about profit empowered not about politics for murdoch gordon brown the next prime minister attended rebecca brooks as wedding protege david cameron the current prime minister supported was supported murdoch and vice a versa and even hired andy colson one of the editors the guy who was running news of the world when they were hacking phones as press secretary brits are waking up to the fact that murdoch has been manipulating their politics but americans the path thro

her successor started publishing my puzzle in the "sunday times." two magazines wanted a crossword puzzle, this gentleman suggested may. -- me. when the magazine was taken over in 1980, that was my last job. you have to have two of every length word. the puzzle must be symmetrical. that is the hardest part of starting a puzzle. it is really hard to make a proposal reposal. it has given me satisfaction. it has taught me a great deal. -- it is really hard to make a puzzle. some of them are silly. the ones that are really interesting have given me a different slant on language. i feel i have gained something there. i have learned. >> she is speaking about her decades of teasing us with her crossword puzzles. the retired couple from scotland are the winners of a massive european lottery. their price is 185 million euros. that is the equivalent of $260 million. it is officially the biggest ever jackpot in your. they are among the 500 richest people in britain. he says they were tickled pink. in the last few minutes, it has been announced that the ceo of d

with regard to gordon brown came from the "sunday times" could that paper, could "the sun" be in troubleave been dragged into this scandal. they're all owned by rupert murdoch, all part of the news international stable of titles here. i don't think there's much chance of those papers closing down in the dramatic fashion "the news of the world" did. by all accounts, "the news of the world" it was so embroiled with illegal activities, it became toxic as a brand. at the moment, these are just specific allegations between these two newspapers. it has nothing to do with rupert murdoch, which is the big kind of rumor swirling around here in uk politics is, this is not just confined to rupert murdoch's titles. >> wow, to be covering politics in the uk right now. we appreciate it. >>> for weeks, gas prices have been falling, but suddenly the drop may be over. find out what to expect soefr the next couple of weeks, plus this. >> wow. this is really going to be big. all i could see was big cheeks. >> big cheeks, little squeezable thighs. maybe not so little. 16 pounds, folks. this little one is 16

the sunday times conceded not. >> are you considering resigning? >> he is not resigning. his newspaper had been out to bring brown down as a government minister he climbs. the statements -- the paper said we believe no law was broken. the story was published giving all sides a fair hearing. mr. brown also talk about another paper. he attacked the way it reported his youngest son was sauce -- suffering from cystic fibrosis. the revelation was not legitimate and left him -- >> in tears. your son is not quite to be broadcast across the media. sarah and i are upset about it. we're thinking about our family. there is nothing you can do. >> other parents and public life have also had children with medical conditions. there were sympathetic. >> my heart goes out to them. to have your children's privacy invaded in that way, when your child is not well, it is unacceptable and heartbreaking. >> the sun said it did not access medical records. the article was written appropriately. above all, mr. brown accused news international of having an agenda against him. he says rupert murdoch

newspaper in sixty eight and then bought another newspaper the sun a year later in one thousand nine hundred nine and then bought the times. and the sunday times in one thousand nine hundred ninety and then got a share of the highly profitable satellite t.v. network b. sky b. in one nine hundred ninety murdoch finally had enough media holdings to sway u.k. politics to make prime ministers leap at his back and call up her doc had an open door invitation with former british prime minister gordon brown and current prime minister david cameron as long as he entered number ten downing street through the back door tony blair flew to australia to beg murdoch for his support and when it was all said and done as we're learning now the corrupt tentacles of rupert murdoch's media empire wrapped around not just the british news media and the british government but even the british police force shooting off black ink of distrust around the very same institutions that are supposed to foster trust between citizens and their democratic government today that trust in the u.k. is broken so how long will it be before americans realize that the control of t

world to other newspapers owned by rupert murdoch, a former prime minister gordon brown says the sunday times gained access to his young son's confidential medical records and revealed that the void was suffering from cystic fibrosis even before his parents were given a confirmed diagnosis. brown's successor tony blair had this reaction. >> i think what has shocked the british people is the absence of basic standards in the way that things are done. it >> 3/4 employees of news of the world were arrested on friday. a former editor is expected to be questioned by police about messages deleted from a murdered teenagers >> the mother and sister of the murdered teenager are still waiting to hear from the newspaper. >> there has not been an apology. >> and murdoch arrived in london on sunday and a brooks, was now the ceo of us international is his priority, this will billion dollar bid is now in jeopardy. the legal aftershocks are reaching this country. james murdoch could face prosecution under american locked for violating the foreign corrupt practices act. >> the paper is downfall is being held

he also owns the "the times," "the sun," "the sunday times," "sky news," and others. today, the conservative prime minister david cameron announced two government inquiries. >> we are talking about murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, having their telephones tapped into. it is absolutely disgusting. >> at the center of the story is the head of the media empire of rupert murdoch and so far, she has resisted calls to resign in and take responsibility. there is no sign of the outrage here diminishing it. there is a mounting advertising boycott of the "news of the robert " ford is just one of the company's saying it does not want to be associated with a company that does not know where to draw the line. abc news london. >>> if president obama made history today with a treat, the white house hosting the first- ever twitter town hall. the president discussed a lot of things taxes, housing, veterans affairs, the space program, but his first-ever tweet was actually a question to his online for all the words. he asked about what caused the they would cut to help the d

the sunday times is not a tabloid, and the times is not a tabloid. but they have huge influence on that country. they don't have the kind of idealogical -- >> what's the point? >> the point is that he is still enormously influential and they're being very cautious how they deal with him but this has changed the whole attitude of the british minister david cameron said this. >> the parliament hearings began tuesday when british prime minister david cameron was on a four-nation trip to africa. cameron cut short the trip to return to address the murdoch matter before parliament. cameron was asked whether he had discussed with rebekah brooks murdoch's now withdrawn $12 billion bid to acquire the mighty british sky broadcasting satellite system. rebekah brooks was murdoch's chief person and the editor at the news of the world in a, quote unquote, personal friend of the prime minister. >> that is why rebekah brooks was quite able to say at the house of commons yesterday that there wasn't a single conversation that coace in fron select committee. >> questio

the property at that time? >> the collar is known to have been working for the sunday times at that time. another charge is also from 2000, but someone rang the abby bradford six times at the details of mr. brown's account. the abbey wrote to mr. brown somewhat protected been. the letter was sent to sunday times, also. felt the abbey never got firm proof the paper was behind the call. but the worst charges concern gordon brown's son, fraser, who was born in 2006. the browns think the sun's front-page story that fraser had cystic fibrosis came from access to the baby's medical records. >> these are extremely serious allegations. i think like many members of parliament, indeed many members of the public, you know, i'm shocked and horrified at these allegations that people could do this to gordon or his family. it needs to be looked at. >> tonight, gordon brown said his family was shocked by the scale of lawbreaking and intrusion into their private lives. he's expected to do an interview tomorrow. >> it all seemed to happen today in one extraordinary mad rush around 4:00. not long after those

cleared them but the two groups that blew those thing out were the news of the world paper and the sunday times the wall street journal and fox of the three groups and fox news surprisingly all known by americans if you wish to think that if he was asking everybody else that he was there. are one thing let's not say that rupert murdoch was hacking everybody you know that he was you have to stick it here you have proof that rupert murdoch was doing it well you know i'm a bunch of people who work for him who say that at least once a month they get along phone call from him wanting to know everything they're doing he was a very he is a very clear hacking. you know i know not that you when you're when you're authorizing a seven or eight hundred thousand dollars from on the payment to somebody and the chairman calls up and says why don't you think they'd tell but let's be honest about this this is a liberal witch hunt and the liberals who wrote it and we got used to talking about the conservative which i hear you know you're going to find which is a thought susan wall street journal none of them hav