david cameron's former communications director andy cole son is also a former editor for the murdoch paper at the center of the scandal. he has been arrested for his alleged role in all of this. the question is, what did his former boss, david cameron know and when did he know it. >> let me say once more, if, if i was lied to, if the police were lied to, if the select committee was lied to, it would be be a matter of deep regret and a matter of criminal prosecution. >> order. anybody might think the that orchestrated noise is taking place. order! order, the house will come to order, and these order and these exchanges will continue in an orderly way. mr. ed milliband. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister has just made a very important admission. he has admitted that his chief of staff was given information before the general election that andy cole son had hired a man had hired a man jailed for seven years for a criminal conspiracy who made payments -- who made payments to the police on behalf of the "news of the world." this evidence casts serious doubt on mr. could you son's assuranc

journalists to go on the record to allege that phone hacking was endemic at the paper and that its editor andy coles an actively encouraged it who was found dead in his house on monday setting the blogosphere into a frenzy of comparisons with the case of dr david kelly why isn't the sun horror story bigger reminds me of how dr david kelly was bumped off eerily similar tragedies of sheen who are in david kelly this madness toward the end david kelly shawn who are that's what i'm thinking something's not trying dr kelly was the u.n. weapons inspector who first cause doubt on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence kelly's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hordes on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three.

sixty year old paper its last edition will be printed sunday earlier the tabloids former editor andy cole saying was released on bail he was at the paper what it allegedly intercepted phone calls from murder victims and dead soldiers families who else and later went on to become the prime minister's media aide he denies knowing about the hacking two other people were also arrested as public opinion has turned against the paper of prime minister cameron has promised inquiries into press ethics and practices john galt who used to work for the news of the world sister paper says britain's media is too close to the political elite . many of us were calling for a full public inquiry led by a judge and cameron has been dragged into this position he's now willing to let it happen six truly embarrassing for at least part of what's called the chipping condom set which is a rural parts of britain he lives down there at the weekend rebecca brooks lives down there son colin nish lives down there was a whole set you kind of make socially that said it was a different set when labor in power would try b

first time we've seen his judgment quite clearly brought seriously into question the decision to use andy cole son who had been the editor of the news of the world when some of these events will tell you your place as his press advisor was clearly a very very bad judgment and it's strong in him and he now is trying his best to make clear blue water between him and news international of the fact that they appears to be in some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to you have to start to wonder what else is in there and of course it's the height of the it's not just phone hacking it's now the use of what we call blanket these are people played to obtain information from what should be private sources like medical records and tax records so it's develop as we speak the explosion exploits of mixture of media and politics and the phone hacking scandal that's gripping the world's attention also the topic of discussion in today's edition of cross talk join host peter lavelle in the next hour here's a sneak peek. in this particular case with news of the world it looks more and more like y

editors supported a culture of listening to private voice mail sport stories because former editor andy cole said he later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations that the man was destroyed professionally by news international or the journalistic world in london is a very small amount was destroyed he was well known but he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed to be moralized police this thing called death doesn't appear suspicious and they're looking at suicide dr kelly's death was also recorded as suicide although many including leading doctors and m.p.'s. i've never expected that ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal house raised questions but so you thought only amongst its wits are aussie it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this has happened elsewhere say in russia or in india the british media would be so quick to accept it as a coincidence particularly ge

politicians celebrities and victims of crime a number of arrests were made on friday including that of andy cole some a former editor of the paper who has also served as the prime minister's a movie a chief the tabloids a former world correspondent was also arrested both men were later released on bail the prime minister has announced two independent public inquiries as a result of the scandal meanwhile news of the world staff are preparing for its final edition this sunday following the announcement its to close john gaunt who used to work for one of murdoch's newspapers says media and political circles in the u.k. are too close. they've closed down the news the world so up to five hundred people have lost their jobs and most of these people were not only to use the world when these allegations of hacking happened because what's going to happen now is the free press in the united kingdom which is something we really pride ourselves on there's a real danger now we're going to get overregulation by the government as a direct result of this of potent behavior by some journalists on the news of the

said that illegal phone tapping was widely used as a means of finding stories and a former editor andy cole said something cool since tonight. joining us live now in london with these latest developments tonight laura what more do we know about this dramatic development what are the police saying. we don't know very much at the moment kevin we do know that it was found dead along the road where sean hoare lived police haven't confirmed that it was in fact him yet they found they found a body dead at home in watford just outside london they say they are not treating the death as suspicious they don't think that any other party was involved but they say they are looking at the possibility that it might have been suicide now obviously this comes at a very unfortunate for the whole phone hacking scandal as it unfolds sean hoare as you said is a former news of the world journalist who worked on and. when he was editor of the news of the world on tickles and of course subsequently became david cameron the prime minister's communications director before he quit that post in january he was a show b

world editors supported a culture of listening to a private voice mail sports stories former editor andy cole said he later became a media director to the current prime minister has always denied the allegations and was destroyed professionally by abuse international. journalists in london is a very small planes and the man was distraught he was well known he was drinking too much taking drugs he was depressed moralized police the thing was death doesn't appear suspicious and they're looking at suicide dr kelly's death was also recorded as suicide although many including leading doctors and m.p.'s have never accepted that their suspicions of hardly been quelled by the fact the post-mortem reports and other evidence has been classified for seventy years so ten arrests six resignations two convictions and one death that the toll of the phone hacking scandal so far the death of a key whistleblower in this scandal has raised questions but so far only about twitter or c it's being reported as a horrible and unfortunate coincidence but it's doubtful that if this is happening elsewhere say in russia

cameron the current prime minister supported was supported murdoch and vice a versa and even hired andy cole some one of its 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 through the republican nomination to the reality is through fox news if you don't get on fox news if you're ignored by fox news you're republican you never going to you know there's nowhere to go but you get a softball treatment on their shows it's the only network in fact most republican candidates will even go out if murdoch doesn't support you here's your doomed. but back in one nine hundred seventy roger ailes proposed g.o.p. t.v. nixon here's the roger ailes secret nixon era blueprint for fox news last month cook john cook found us in the nixon library the papers that laid this out ailes handwritten notes on the memo titled a plan for putting the g.o.p. on t.v. news and now fox news controls the g.o.p. britons are waking up to how the fox empire has been controlli

he defended his decision to hire his excommunication chief andy cole son. he used to be editor at the news of the world tabloid. prime minister cameron says his former aid is innocent until proven guilty. >>> families of 9/11 victims want a miting with attorney general erik holder over the growing hacking scandal. this after britain's daily mirror reported its rivals offered to pay a new york police officer for the private phone records of 9/11 victims during testimony yesterday news corp ceo rupert murdoch said there was no evidence that happened. >>> time now 5:46 the taliban is denying reports that the group's leader is dead. a spokesman says someone hacked into his phone and sent out a fake message to journalists saying the leader has died. he has lead the decade long insurgency. he ruled most of afghanistan as leader of his taliban government. >>> san francisco supervisors also voted to monitor the cell phone radiation laws. they are now required to educate users about potential health risks but the new ordnance does not require the disclosure of ridda

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