>> i said the conservative party didn't employ him or have a contract with him or pay him. he did do some informal work for mr coulson. the reason we know that is we announced it before the house of commons went down. we wanted to get this information out and when we get to the bottom of the work he did not like the complete lack of transparency and the party opposite we make that detail available. >> the recent remarks from the lord -- ward cit note that as a result of this inquiry politicians can impose what he called balance on the media. does he share my view that that is very dangerous? >> we want a free and vigorous press. sometimes it is infuriating but the idea of having equal coverage given to every point of view would kill the vibrancy of the press and respect him as i do if we had equal coverage the papers would take a lot longer to read every morning. >> [talking over each other] >> did the prime minister take the opportunity to talk to him about the phone hacking allegations and what his reasons re? >> he felt he was not able to go on doing his job of reallocat

the conservative party in bulgaria has suggested implementing tolls on the famous audubon. germany's location in central europe means that lots of people are using the audubon, and they are just through getting the trip for free. >> for many foreigners come a vacation in germany often begins in the audubon. not only can they often drive faster than they can at home, it is also free, but a conservative party wants to put a breaks on the fun. they say visitors should s share the cost of roads funded by german taxpayers. >> we have to share the costs better among road users. i think the austrian model works well. >> austria, like many other european countries, has a time based road toll. road users pay to use the roadways for a limited period. other countries burying have stretches of highway, where the users pay for the distance driven. critics say the european law does not allow for the selective tolling of foreigners. they say there is enough money for infrastructure, it is just not being well spent. like every other chancellor before her, angela merkel has not dared to res

he's in the conservative party. when questioned about it last year, here's what he had to say about the rupert murdoch phone hacking scandal. >> cooked up by labor party. >> cooked up by the labor party. phone hacking, made up by liberals. no such thing. where did mayor boris get his information? mayor boris got his information from john yates, the number two police officer in london. john yates, who it just so happens had to resign as the number two police officer in london just this week as did the number one police officer in london, the chief of scotland yard. that is just one of the ways the whole rupert murdoch scandal is getting awkward for politics and its most high-profile politicians, same goes for david cameron, also the leader of the conservative party, and the man he picked to be his communications director was arrested earlier this month. today the conservative party admitted ties to another person arrested in the scandal, advised on political matters in the run-up to the general election by a man named

coast and into the conservative party for the maiden is director of communications now i don't think without without that trying to kind of. legs give in to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite so big as it is now but the fact is there have been some real errors of judgment times out shared by a donor in the governing conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yes again you see this stuff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up about the connections because you have to sort of phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister and then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount of fingers in isn't just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him well still to come in the program of funding the man behind the drones u.k. and pakistani human rights groups want to press charges for unmanned attacks a

the governing conservative party but the department's david cameron yet again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections because you have to sort of phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it as being a large element of fingers it isn't just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least still around him. ok what is the phone hacking scandal in britain continues to unfold on a daily basis so in clouds gathering a prime minister david cameron he has close connections and backroom media and i have seen facing some difficult questions and parliament day well let's cross live now to london while he's there and that's sounding by for us. you've been following this very closely for us tonight it looks like one of cameron's hardest days since you take a in the p.m.'s chair doesn't it. that's right

the governing conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yet again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections because in hard to see the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister then leader of the opposition david cameron did know about it there's been a large amount of fingers in ears and just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for prime minister and he's now in a real fight he's in a really really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself very least still around him. still to come on the program use dark soldiers for israel and the war against lebanon are finding themselves stuck in a country that's forgotten their existence. georgia's latest spy saga has taken yet another twist of b.c. now says three photojournalists locked up on charges of espionage on behalf of russia have confessed their guilt but as i ask you that in a good report there are concerns that the suspects were worse into admitting crimes they didn't commit. and then there were none the last g

the governing conservative party but the prime minister david cameron yet again his chief of stuff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up about the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it as being a large element of fingers in isn't just the kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him. always get your opinion on the stories you see particularly this one we will know what you think about it did on our website today we're asking you what do you think the biggest fallout will be from the u.k. phone hacking scandal thanks for taking part if you have done so far this is what you've been telling us the majority of you think it will all end up with rupert murdoch losing his slice of the world's media cake compared to others if you are split between three opinions either the u.k. arm of t

. >> he did enough to satisfy the conservative party. he was meant to be in africa. he will finish -- and cut his trip short to go to the house of commons. there was a meeting this evening. they banged their desks for a long time. he faces a difficult challenge facing the labor party. two areas highlighted -- point number one, why did he bring him into downing street when there were allegations of phone hacking. and he had david cameron -- the chief executive of the u.k. wing, do you have any discussions with her about rupert's attempts to retake control. they said, he had no inappropriate conversations. >> first of all, the murdochs, now david cameron. what is the mood on this? >> among conservatives, they believe the labor party are making political capital about this. the labor party thinks the prime minister made a good decision. a catastrophic misjudgement in bringing him into downing street. this said to the political world -- don't talk about this. if they can talk about that, they can jump over this. the phone hacking issue is not an event that will not go aw

neither he nor his company has ever been employed by a contracted by the conservative party. about this issue. finally, there is the question whether everyone is taking responsibility in an appropriate manner. i want to address my own responsibilities very directly. it brings me to my decision. i have said very clearly that if it turns out he knew about the hacking he will not only have lied to me, but he would have lied to the police and perjured himself in a court of law. if that comes to pass, he could face severe criminal charges. that would be a moment for a profound apology. i will not fall short. on the work he did, perhaps not for the last time, it has not been the subject of any serious complaints. he left months ago. i believe i have answered every question about this. it was my decision. i take responsibility. >> i apologize for interrupting. the house has come to order. people will make judgments about it. i regret and and sorry about what this has caused. i would not have offered him the job. i accept -- expect he would not have taken it. you live and learn. i ha

, when we talk about what has been abused as a result of the infringement of liberties, the conservative party would think it better to hear the evidence, because, mr. speaker, -- >> the right honorable gentleman says he was not aware of systematic abuses of power and news international. international executives in conjunction with members of the then government party in this house, conspired to smear lord ashcroft, and members opposite -- big discounts in order to try to undermine this. he knew about this then. why was nothing done? >> i have to say to the house that i am surprised that this debate, which started with our desire to protect the life of innocent children, should end up with the conservative party more interested in defending lord ashcroft. mr. speaker, i would have thought, i would have thought, that if the honorable member felt there were so many abuses in news international that he knew about at the time, then he would have advised the then leader of the opposition. >> i think the member for giving way. giving way. it is nice to see him in the chamber. >> listen carefully to

there were politicians from the conservative party and labour party who were enthralled with rue meritrdoch. -- rupert murdoch. the political currents are opposite. everybody is attacking him. there's a major change there. the political culture has changed not just for the politicians, but for the police and journalists. >> thank you michael isikoff and robert moore. >>> up next no question it's hot outside, to rush limbaugh it's another plot by the government. stick around for the side show. i >>> welcome back to "hardball." now for the side show. first up, the weather. let's be clear, the fact that most of country in the grips of a record heat wave is not by itself proof of global warming. it does get hot in the summer. to be sure we don't get the wrong idea, here comes rush limbaugh to tell us what we think is record heat is no more than a government plot. >> we're playing games with us on this heat wave again. going to be 116 in washington. no it's not. it's going to be 100. maybe 99. the heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the hum

>> what i have said is the conservative party did not pay them.e did do some formal work with andy coulson. we announced that before the house of commons went down. we wanted to get the information out, and unlike the complete lack of transparency we saw, we will make that available. >> what about the recent remarks about the results of this inquiry that they should impose a balance in the media. >> we want a free and vigorous press. sometimes it is infuriating that the idea of having equal coverage to every point of view would kill the vibrancy of the press, and i have to say if we have to have equal coverage of every speech, it is going to be a lot harder to read in the morning. >> >> after he resigned, did the prime minister take the opportunity to talk to him about these phone hacking allegations and what his reasons were for resigning? >> he felt he was not able to go on doing his job with all the allegations. he felt nikkei not doing his job. he needed to move on. i have been clear about the reasons for hiring. you do not have to reveal priv

unclear but there is a series of angry messages criticizing norway's liberal party and the conservative party say that he was a member of the youth party. he makes his court appearance on monday. >>> a meeting between democrats and republican leaders ended with no word of a deal. dale nodding ham has more. >>> congressional leaders were call to the white house that the deal collapsed with housespeaker john boehner. the talks ended in less than an hour with no new deal and lawmakers continued the meeting on capitol hill later scrambling to find the way to prevent the first government default in history. president obama used his weekly radio address to urge lawmakers to put the differences aside. >> everyone is going to have to be willing to compromise. otherwise we'll never get anything back. >>> john boehner broke off talk" president friday in a dispute over newscasts revenues. the housespeaker told fellow republicans saturday that congressional leaders should have a new dent plan in the next 24 hours. but the president and congress still have a long way to go to find some common ground and i

whether the conservative party had also employed neil wallace.onservative party chairman assured all accounts have been gone through and confirmed to me that neither neil wallace nor his company has ever been employed by or contracted by the conservative party, nor has the conservative party made payments to either of them. it has been drawn to our attention -- it has been drawn to our attention he may have provide andy colson with some informal advice on a voluntary basis before election. to the best of my knowledge i didn't know anything about this until sunday night. but as with revealing this information we'll be entirely transparent about this issue. finally, finally, mr. speaker, there is the question whether everyone, the media, the police, politicians is taking responsibility in an appropriate manner. i want to address my own responsibilities very directly and that brings me to my decision to employ andy colson. i have said very clearly that if it turns out andy colson knew about the hacking at the "news of the world" he'll not only have

there were politicians from the conservative party and labour party who were enthralled with rupert murdochpolitical currents are opposite. everybody is attacking him. there's a major change there. the political culture has changed not just for the politicians, but for the police and journalists. >> thank you michael isikoff and robert moore. >>> up next no question it's hot outside, to rush limbaugh it's another plot by the government. stick around for the side show. you're watching "hardball", only on msnbc. but it's our job to make them say something interesting. so how about this weekend we learn some new tricks of the trade... then break out our doing clothes and get rolling. let's use some paint that helps us get the job done in record time and makes a statement when we're finished. we're lowering the cost of a new favorite color. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. glidden premium paint has been rated a best buy, and you can only get it at the home depot. because a chicken is what it eats. [ jim ] this seal verifies we feed my fresh all-natural chickens an al

it shows you just how dug in some of the tea party and more conservative party members are, not just about the bills being argued this week but about the core set of facts. the group that does not want to pass any type of measure this week really does not believe that default will happen. there is a gap between what the conventionalal wisdom is and the group of freshman tea party members that thinks it won't. does not believe default is likely to happen. what we have seen as a result of this whole debate is just how far apart the two facts view reality. you can bridge differences in legislation. it is really hard to bridge differences in how people see things. >> so, are we going to go into default on tuesday? >> i think we will. i think he got exactly right what will happen with a few small change it is. they will pass it tonight by a small margin. it will go to the senate and be defeated. democratic and senator leader will offer an alternative that looks similar but will have some softeners for the tea party and liberals so that they can pass it through the senate. and then send it

a conservative party confirms he was a member of their youth party from 1999 to 2004.kes his first court appearance on monday. > the body of five time grammy award winner, amy winehouse who was found dead today in her london apartment. an autopsy will determine the exact cause of death, but winehouse struggled with substance abuse. the beehived tattooed singer, song writer's 2007 album, back to black, blasted the british artist into the stratus fear. drugs started to ravage her body. winehouse was only 27. ironically, that's the same age other famous musicians died. including jimmy hendricks, and kirk cobane. >>> checking the area headlines, police made an arrest in a grizzly case from last month. fredy was found in buena vista park. he had been murdered and set on fire. david diaz has been booked on suspicion on arson and suicide. >> a stove as a source of fire at the retirement community. eight units of a two-story condominium were badly damaged just before 7:00 last night. but the 13 tenants got out safely. the stove was in a downstairs unit and the fire appeared to

party. he is a conservative. many candidates in iowa are conservative and going after the same part of social conservative voters who formed the base of the gop electorate in iowa. could there be a situation of splitting that vote and paving the way for someone like romney or someone liked huntsman who says he will not compete, but also has a few moderate positions to come in and when? >> in that with governor huntsman in salt lake city and suggested he rethink his position -- in net with governor huntsman. whoever does well in iowa either wins the caucasus or a surprisingly strong second, it will be them versus romney in new hampshire, and everyone else will not be considered. you know the way it works. -- i met with governor huntsman. i think he is making a strategic mistake. i suggested he take another look at it and recognize the ethanol is not the main issue in iowa and more. corn prices are good, and we anticipate that we will see a phase out of the subsidies on ethanol, and we are strong supporters of rene

series of angry messages online criticizing norway's ruling liberal labor party and today the conservative partyfirmed breivik was a member of their youth party from 1999-2004. >> mitchell: jeff glor, from oslo, norway, thank you. here at home, another white house meeting this morning failed to break the deadlock on raising the national debt ceiling with that deadline just days away, leaders from both sides worked to craft a solution when they weren't pointing fingers. >> reporter: the faces of the president and congressional leaders said it all. they spent an hour today trying to pick up the pieces after talks collapsed. with a grand bargain to cut spending and reform the tax code off the table for now, the focus was on finding a way to prevent the government from faulting and financial markets from panicking. with congress now scrambling to come up with a solution, the president asked for progress reports throughout the weekend. after house speaker john boehner pulled out of the talks, an angry president obama complained that he'd been left at the altar. >> one of the questions the republican

weight behind the last two labor prime ministers it was only when he switched support to the conservative party that the labor party and the liberal left media became up on their high horse about these wrong doing ok if i go to you dave i mean if it's all of our politics in the u.k. and i accept oh is it all about fear in the united states because if you put those guys have pointed out to me it's not covered very much in the united states i mean you know shareholders are afraid every people are afraid of getting on murdoch's houses they don't know which way it's going to blow in the us. yeah i would i would agree with toby the there is quite a bit of far too cozy relationship between the media in general and and politicians and in news corp's case in particular fox news channel is widely regarded fairly or unfairly as a as the organ of the republican party and i mean if you just look at look at who there are on air personalities personalities have been it's loaded with either current or potential presidential candidates from the republican party so it's no secret that fox news channel tends to

party. he's a conservative. there are many folks in iowa many candidates in iowa, who are conservatives and going after that same pot of, you know, social conservative voters who form the base of the g.o.p. electorate in iowa. could there be a situation of, you know, splitting that vote, paving the way for someone like romney who has a -- someone like huntsman, for example, who says he's not going to compete in the race but also has a few moderate divisions to come in and win the caucuses? >> i actually met with governor huntsman when i was at the national governor's meeting in salt lake city and suggested he rethink his position of not competing in iowa. i think really after iowa since romney is the frontrunner, whoever does well in iowa either wins the caucuses or surprisingly a strong second. it's going to be them versus romney in new hampshire. and everybody else is not even going to be considered. you know the way it works. iowa wins over the field, and it's down two or three candidates. i think he's making

from a british conservative party. i think it would be immensely food dish to have another bailout because what we're doing with each so-called bailout is adding to the amount of debt owed by countries who are already bankrupt if we really want to fix this problem instead of adding to the debts of portugal greece and other countries what we should be doing is three things we should be devaluing the currency is that means leaving the euro we should be allowing them to default on debt restructuring if you prefer that time and we should be forcing them to downsize their expensive public sectors by so-called bailing out greece we're not helping greek people. what we're doing is we're transferring that debt burden onto the shoulders of european taxpayers it's an outrageous scam and i think it will mean that you know my children and my children's children will have vastly higher tax bills it's not right it's not good for us in western europe it's not good for greece it's not good for portugal but argument is that we should c

>>shepard: the speaker is struggling to get support from tea party and conservatives in his party. >> we have the boehner proposal on the table that will cut next year $1 billion. >> boo! >> we are spending $1 billion an hour virtually. that is insignificant and not meaningful reform. >>shepard: if congress does not raise the debt ceiling which it has done 77 times in my life, the government will not be able to pay its bills. president obama has said that could affect social security checks, it could affect payments to veterans and the disables and affect student loans. experts say the nation would likely lose the first-class credit rating which it could anyway because we have sent the message to the world that maybe what we said in the 14th amendment, the first time we put income tax in place, to pay for a war, called the civil war, that we put that in the 14th amendment we have never come to this edge. but her we are. because they are playing politics. it is that simple. we have team fox coverage. mike, does speaker boehner have the votes in the house? it appears the conservatives a

prison crimes they didn't commit is was discussed as more the leader of georgia's own position conservative party mr cathy carver joins me live from tbilisi many thanks for being with us here on r.t. mr carver let's talk us through the chronology of all this person has three photographers the knowing the charges one of them protested hours on a hunger strike and then suddenly a confession a conviction and it all ends with a suspended sentence what do you things happening here. yes this is a story unfortunately in georgia and you know all the you reported he wrote all the faith healing short investigation and this investigation had nothing with justice first of. all this investigation was secret and no information was given no two made the lawyers because of the legal reasons the information involved state secrets and nobody knows until now. already today you know these reporters were already released nobody knows in the world concretely there where charles dean. is for their testimony when. themselves as. charged and is guilty. when the only against all of the defendants against all the people wh

clearly that he wasn't ever employed by the government and that he had never been paid by the conservative party to do that he's also faced repeated questions about whether whether cameron interfered in the b. sky b. deal that rupert murdoch was trying to push through did he have conversations with news corp executives about the b. sky b. deal he has refused to answer that it's really very directly saying only that he's had no conversations and so he's opposed the question over and over again this is really a web of scandal that we think is still unfolding really and it involves this tangled . and in the relationships between politicians and the police and the media and cameron has become more and more implications as this scandal has gone on it's now been revealed that his chief of staff allegedly all sed scotland yard the police force not to brief the prime minister on the phone hacking investigation as it was going on and people are now asking whether that was willful ignorance on the part of the chief of staff and on the part of the prime minister does he want to avoid knowing about the inve

coast and into the conservative party fota made him is director of communications now i don't think without without that kind of. legs given to the story i think it probably wouldn't have been quite as big as it is now but the fact is there's been some errors of judgment times out there in the governing conservative policy but the prime minister david cameron yes again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it there's been a large amount of fingers in isn't just a kind of heads in the sand and that is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a really really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least stuff still around him. and your view is always welcome on our stories you can have your say at r.t. dot com this week we're asking you what will be the biggest fall out from the u.k. phone hacking scandal here are the results so far. most o

fact is there's been some real errors of judgment it times out by a little in the governing conservative party but i did promise david cameron yet again his chief of staff has been shown to be essentially instigating a cover up by the connections. to the phone hacking and making sure that the prime minister and then leader of the opposition david cameron didn't know about it as being a large element of fingers in isn't just the kind of heads in the sand i've got is lethal for a prime minister and he's now in a real fight he is in a real really bad situation he could well be looking at some serious consequences for himself at the very least still around him. of course those could get your opinion on what you see on our station including this story because today on a website raskin you were what do you think the biggest fallout will be from the u.k. phone hacking scandal this is what you're telling us and let's take a look at that graph sings the most you believe in the battle group of the local man given the incompatibilities so you vote some fold on screen there. more of you as well as seem to