and ofcom report publication. so your letter on process before he receives it is transmitted to him or the gist of it is transmitted to mr. hunt's advisor in advance, isn't? >> i think is in terms of updated, this is where we are, this is the letter we're putting together come is the helpful or not? i think it's a staff conversation, as i understand it, you know, about process. and again, because the undertaking was again, we were sort of a new territory in terms of timetables, in terms of whom mr. hunt had to consult with them how to run the, et cetera come process was at the top of vermont. >> he thinks the ofcom report, a departure from the process, stop by sometime, provide some content to the public debate. a bit later on, he is keen for me to work with his team on the statement through the course of tomorrow and offer some possible linkage to naturally his view. so the public statement mr. hunt is going to put out is one which is going to be a collaborative effort between his, mr. hunt's team, and your team,

to ofcom or the competition commission, or whatever, but we never thought of that. i mean, i'm being quite honest with you, that we be held up for a couple of months in europe but there was just nothing here. in fact, we were waved through in europe in two weeks. >> can i just understand the chronology, mr. murdoch, that by the 30th of september, 2009, had there been keen in turn consideration with a news corp. regarding the acquisition of the remaining shares in bskyb -- >> there was certainly a desire there for a long time. i remember when mr. kerry returned to the company after many years. the first thing he said to me was, we should cleanup the situation at the sky, or bskyb. you know, we started this company and it was a long-standing ambition. with hindsight, i regret that i ever agreed to an ipo. i admit there were different times, probably manager pressures. >> just wonder though, mr. murdoch, whether someone of your thinking that mr. brown had said we will declare war on your company that you interpreted that being the very least the possibility of obstacle

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. >> my recent to involve ofcom to a much greater extent under the enterprise act was precisely because wanted to address the concerns that members of this house and the public might have about me prejudging this issue. on every ruling that i made, i considered the independent advice and i followed it. >> the culture secretary -- can he tell the house now -- did he know of the exchanges between the special advisers and of the contents of the exchanges? >> did he know anything? >> that was sent out in a statement by adam smith when he resigned. >> order. let's calm down. answer.ear tehe >> he was authorized to be the point of contact between my department and news corp. i did not know the communications themselves nor did i know the volume or the tone of those communications. >> can the secretary of explain cheerleader for the murdoch corp.? >> look at the evidence and the decisions that i made. i made the decision that news corp. did not want, including the final decision. this is what precipitated the collapse of the entire bid. >> the secretary state did not need to speak with murdoch

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have you ever asked newspapers to make lives on comfortable for regulators such as ofcom of the competition commission when they're considering action that might be used to the detriment of the news core's business is? >> nope. >> why did you close the news of the world rather than tough it out, mr. murdoch? >> well, i think it's explained in my statement, but i could put it in a little more six simply cannot win the milly dowler situation was first given a huge publicity, i think all the newspapers took this as the chance to really make a really national scandal. it -- it made people all over the country aware of this, who hadn't been falling. you could feel the blast coming in the window almost. and, as i say, i would say it succinctly, i panicked. but i'm glad i did. >> it's obvious that closing it was a disaster both -- >> i'm sorry i didn't close it year before and put a sunday sun in a. the light volume with helpless back the news of the world leaders only half of them ever read the sun. then you have a quarter -- >> it certainly hasn't stopped the excellent sales everyday of the sun

and ofcom report publication. so your letter on process before he receives it is transmitted to him or the gist of it is transmitted to mr. hunt's advisor in advance, isn't? >> i think is in terms of updated, this is where we are, this is the letter we're putting together come is the helpful or not? i think it's a staff conversation, as i understand it, you know, about process. and again, because the undertaking was again, we were sort of a new territory in terms of timetables, in terms of whom mr. hunt had to consult with them how to run the, et cetera come process was at the top of vermont. >> he thinks the ofcom report, a departure from the process, stop by sometime, provide some content to the public debate. a bit later on, he is keen for me to work with his team on the statement through the course of tomorrow and offer some possible linkage to naturally his view. so the public statement mr. hunt is going to put out is one which is going to be a collaborative effort between his, mr. hunt's team, and your team,