coulson? >> the point was made by number of people, deputy prime minister was asked if it was right to give the job to mr. coulson. i'm made a decision. this man had resigned from the "news of the world" over the hacking scandal because it happened on his watch. hold on. island to the question. he gave the assurance he didn't know about it and i took that decision and it is a judgment i don't hide from and don't run away from and are am totally accountable for it. some people question that judgment on which the deputy prime minister -- that is why i have been so clear this is my decision that i am responsible for end people hold me accountable. i have been utterly frank about 20/20 hindsight or double vision but i don't believe in politicians running away from the decisions they make. i don't do that. >> the prime minister will have little time to consider my question which relates to stopping the scandal to undertake criminal activity. however he has widened the stakes to cover all courses. t

he employed andy coulson as his head of communications. coulson has since resigned. there is newspaper speculation rife in the uk that coulson may be arrested in connection with the hacking in the next few days. waiting for the prime minister to address those issues. we'll bring you that live when it happens. >>> earlier we spoke to one of rebekah brooks' former colleagues, paul mcmullen, former climbist for "news of the world." he's less than impressed with his old bosses. >> so far five of my colleagues have been arrested. the police asked me to come in for questioning to arrest me as well at scotland yard. for the last year our bosses, rebekah brooks, murdoch's right hand woman in britain, and also the editor, andy coulson have been saying it's the reporters. it's nothing to do with us. we didn't know it was going on. that was an outrageous stance for our bosses to take, throwing the reporters to the wolves. >>> among the celebrities, politicians and royal aides hacked is lord prescott. the former deputy prime minister, john prescott has led for calls for action a

it contained no allegations directly linking andy coulson to illegal behavior. it did not shed any further light on the issue of phone hacking. imad the editor of the guardian the very next month and he did not raise meat -- rates with me once. i'm at 10 a year later, and he did not raise that either. if this information is so significant, why have i not been asked one question about it? the reason why a, the reason why, the reason why, mr. speaker, it did not add anything to the assurances that i was given. if i was lied to, if the police relied too, it would be a matter of regret and a matter of criminal prosecution. >> anybody might think it was an orchestrated noise that was taking place. order, the house will come to order. >> andy coulson had hired a man, and jailed for seven years, for criminal conspiracy to make payments to the police on behalf of "news of the world." this evidence cast serious doubt on his assurances as an isolated example of illegal activity. the prime minister says the chief of staff is not pass on this very serious information. can h

coulson and bringing him into the heart of do you think street? >> the prime minister. >> what i would say to the right honorable gentleman is stop hunting feeble conspiracies and go to the level of events. most of that was just a tissues of totally -- i will try and answer every point -- first of all, let me thank him for what he said about recording parliament. that is right. let me thank him what he said about lord levson. let me thank him what he said about the panel which we sent the names to his office this morning. i have to say on most of the other questions i feel he wrote the questions before he heard my statement today. he asked -- he asks about the issue of -- he asks about the issue of bskyb. the cabinet secretary has said there was no breach of the ministerial code. i have set out every single meeting since the last election. no. the right honorable gentleman published a list this morning but it does not go back to the last election. and indeed when are we going to see the transparency from tony blair and from gordon brown? second, s

coulson and mr. wallace, but i met mr coulson once. i didn't meet them together at all. >> is it conceivable they wouldn't have known about each other's jobs? >> it is inconceivable they wouldn't talk. >> let's move to the contract. >> to say that mr. coulson worked for the prime minister, working for me. >> mr. wallace was not working directly for me. this is a minor part-time role for which i had some advice. >> were you one of the people consulted when mr fedorcio worked with him as a consultant? you have 69 press officers in the metropolitan police but needed another consultant? >> it is what you found out. [talking over each other] >> has it gone down? >> age 45. >> you needed an extra consultant. >> yes i was. let me say the benefits of what we know now, i regret we -- quite clearly the comparison. this is the time when mr fedorcio's deputy was a long term absence with serious roles. >> you were consulted. >> i do think you need an additional portion. someone was known to me. wallace came up and are have no concerns about that. s

there was questions about his decision to hire andy coulson as his media chief. >> the right hon. gentleman. >> a stormy session in parliament. david cameron rallied his party as he deflected criticism. he has announced an inquiry into the phone hacking affair. at the heart of the scandal, there are questions about the cozy relationship between the police come and media, and politicians in britain. >> i am the first prime minister to publish meetings between senior executives, private tears -- proprietors. this stretches right back to the general election. >> it was his decision to fire the former "news of the world," editor andy coulson that is drawing the most criticism. there are questions about whether andy coulson knew about the illegal activity on his watch. >> he was caught in a tragic conflict of loyalty between the standards and integrity that people should expect of him and his staff and his personal allegiance to andy coulson. he made the wrong choice. >> you don't make decisions in hindsight, you make them in the present. you live and you learn and to believe you me, i

he did do some formal work with andy coulson.e 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 private guest said you pay for yourself. i have do

his critics say that this is only the beginning of the price he has to pay for hiring andy coulson. the man who returned home tonight, knowing he is destined to make headlines but never to write them. >> reports from syria say that seven people have been killed in the latest anti-government demonstrations. protesters took to the streets to cities across the country. security forces killed several and the capital of damascus. authorities say policemen was killed in home. they visited the flash point where people danced in the city square. the libyan rebels trying to oust one of gaddafi's from power saying they have made significant advances towards the capital of tripoli. we have been talking to rebels on the front line near the city of misrata. >> a quite extraordinary change has taken place here this village. just a few days ago when we were here, there was scores of men firing their guns, firing of rockets, and behind this sandbank over in that direction. you can see the amount of spent cartridges littered about the place as evidence of how fighting the -- how intense the fighting

surely he realized that coulson must have known about the phone hacking.son himself is at a police station in central london at the moment we understand, about to be arrested. >> you know, i heard lord prescott earlier saying this is like closing down the factory and all the factory workers and owners go away scot-free. what about managers and what about management and the people who own this company? >> reporter: well, this is part of the rupert murdoch empire. it is a jewel in the rupert murdoch empire. one of his favorite tideses, "the -- titles, "the news of the world." there are lots of questions about what will happen about the executives, notably rebecca brooks, who used to run the paper in the early 2 00s -- 2000s, she's a close ally of rupert murdoch. he was desperate to keep her, to save her, she's been clinging on to her job amid calls from every political party here that she should stand down. she remains in post and some headlines here saying that murdoch has sacrificed an entire paper to save one woman. >> wow. all right, dan rivers. we'll ke

cameron defended hiring andy coulson but he said that in hindsight he would not have made the same choice. this report contains flash photography. >> a french in need -- a friend in need is a friend. they become a massive headache. david cameron has always defended his decision to give andy coulson a second chance. >> with 20/20 hindsight, i would not have offered him the job and i expect he would not have taken it. you don't make decisions in hindsight, you make them in the present. you live and you learn, believe you me, i have led. >> the prime minister said he was extremely sorry. what he -- was he ready to say sorry for hiring him? >> if it turns out that i had been lied to, that would be a moment for a profound apology. >> few expected him to go that far. >> that is not good enough. this is not about hindsight, mr. speaker, it is not about whether mr. colson lied to him, it is about all the information that the prime minister ignored. >> there was questions about the prime minister's other choice of friends. there was many meetings with news international bosses with rebekah brooks

brooks testifying with andy coulson. coulson went on to become david cameron's spokesman and has since resigned and has been arrested in the scandal. >> can i ask, the one element if you ever pay the bliss for information? >> we have paid police for information in the past, and it's been -- >> will you do it in the put? >> it depends on -- >> within the code and within the law, there is a clear public interest and the same holds for private detectives, subterfuge. >> it's illegal for police officers to receive payments. >> no, no, no. i just said within the law. >> this is not only the beginning of the scandal. it's the beginning of the news corporation's attempts at damage control. coulson stepping in to blunt brooks' answers. i spoke with the other british whistleblower about the death of sean hoare and about the spread of allegations of illegal practices up the chain of command at news corp. here are the other stories we're digging into tonight, first. >>> deadline, do they know what the word means in washington? two

coulson. he says if mr. coulson lied to him, he would apologize. mr.that isn't good enough. because people -- people -- it's not about hindsight, mr. speaker. it's not about whether mr. coulson lied to him. it is about all the information and warnings that the prime minister ignored. he was warned. and he preferred to ignore the warnings. >> reporter: ed miliband didn't quite go as far as calling on the prime minister to resign, but he did call on him to say sorry. david cameron, on the other hand, said he had nothing to apologize for. he wanted to give andy coulson a second chance. he believed him when he said he knew nothing about phone hacking. now we know that, well, we don't know for sure what andy coulson knew. he's been arrested. it's all rather embarrassing. the prime minister still sticking to this line, look, he's not been tried and judged yet. let's wait and see what the police find out. >> it is incredible, dan, to watch this all unfold between the hearings yesterday and everything that's happened and all those that have resigned and been a

. >> have you been in contact with andy coulson during the sheraton case? >> i think andy was -- andy coulson was in downing street during the sheraton case so i would have had. >> did you have direct contact a? email, letter -- >> i would have had contact. >> email? just a conversation? >> it was mainly to do with work, and by email or by telephone. >> just of couple of final questions. why were you paying andy coulson's legal fees and glen mulcaire's legal fees during the sheraton case? >> as i understand it i know james murdoch could address this. when andy coulson left the "news of the world" he had an agreement that all matters relating to this. his legal fees, were paid. and i think the same for clive good man. on glen mulcaire his legal fees would be paid when he was a codefendant in the civil cases. >> are you aware of any payment to police officers. >> no. >> okay. >> i have questions about the milly do yo dowler. "news of the world" during milly dowler ab suction and murder. i have specific questions i'd like to ask you about this. could you paint

coulson.> rose: he said nothing thatwot in the hiring of coulson, even though he had been warned? >> the prime minister clearly attaches a great deal to personal loyalty. as he told the house of commons today, he asked mr. coulson whether there was anything he had to hide, whether there was anything wrong, and mr. coulson has also given evidence before parliament. he's been interviewed by the police. so cameron's comment today, was "wl, if i was in effect lie to, not quite indirectly, there will be grave consequences. then at that moment in future i will offer a profound apology." that's quite a lot in etonian terms, charlie. >> rose: i'm not sure whatetoni. catherine, do you know? >> i've been around enough etians, i'm beginning to learn, partly by bter experience. >> rose: some have speculatedons attracted to mr. coulson he gave from a different kind of background he did, which did not include eaton. >> that's ry much my view, that one of the reasons that andy coulson's disadvantages outweig

coulson. i was not given specific information that would lead me to change my mind. mr. speaker, the country has a right to expect that the prime minister would have made every effort to uncover information about him to protect herself and his office. the prime minister and those around him made every effort not to hear the facts about mr. coulson. in the last week, we have become aware of five opportunities for the prime minister or his staff to have acted on specific informations that would surely have led him to change his mind about mr. coulson and all were declined. his chief of staff was told february 2010 that mr. colson had a convicted criminal to workout -- work at "news of teh he world." even rebekah brooks said the decision was extraordinary. in may 2010, the deputy prime minister warned the prime minister about bringing him to downing street. he did nothing. on the september 30th, 2010, "the new york times" "did multiple sources saying he knew about the hacking at "news of the worl

coulson. >> millband says cameron owes to it the british people to be more forthright blchl the country has a right to expect that the prime minister would have made every effort to uncover the information about mr. coulson to protect himself and his office. yet the pattern of events suggest the opposite. >> in this case, the opposite attracts a public tongue lashing. >> the prime minister was compromised by his relationship with mr. coulson. he was hand strung by a conflict of interest. >> by cameron gave as good as he got. >> is stop hunting feeble conspiracy theories and start rising to the level of events. let us remember during the last parliament reports of the information commissioner ignored. reports of the select committee ignored. the failure of the police investigation ignored. we now know exactly what kpaert was if you like the slumber party and it was the party opposite. >> nbc's martin fletcher has the latest from london. a parliamentary session that be sound more like a service

23-year-old denis coulson?o teach new sex tricks to a girl he was told was 15. >> oh, my god. i'm a [ bleep ]. >> after he's arrested, he's put in an unmarked car and taken to this ems station, where he will be questioned by law enforcement. his car is searched. police find directions to the house, along with condoms and marijuana. >> more tv in here? >> coulson is then brought to a room where he waits to be interrogated. that's where he meets harris county sheriff mike jolly, who finds out this isn't coulson's first run-in with the law. >> there are no get out of jail free cards. >> why did you pick that girl? >> let's just not talk about it. >> turns out scoobydoo had several prior charges. >> coulson, he had four prior charges from theft to simple battery, simple assault. some of these are aggravated-type crimes. >> but he was never convicted. tonight he will have four more charges added to the list. enticing a child for indecent purposes, obscene internet contact, criminal attempted child molestation and po

coulson's deputy. when the prime minister hasn't even apologized for the hiring of mr. coulson.we need representative to get to the truth of what happened but the prime minister is hamstrungpy the decisions he made and his refusal to face up to them. >> this afternoon boris johnson said paul stephenson's resignation was the right call but the mayor of london wasn't that helpful to his friend david cameron. >> mr. john son, michael crick, bbc "newsnight". if it was as you say the right call for paul stephenson to resign over the employment of a pr man who had been arrested in the phone-hacking scandal, shouldn't david cameron resign over the employment of a pr man who has been employed in the phone-hacking scandal? >> i'm not here to discuss government appointments. i'm here to talk about events in the metropolitan police service. those questions you must direct to government. i don't think there is recross in this matter actually because after all i'm not aware that number 10 downing street was actually in charge of the investigation into -- >> hang on a moment. the prime minist

coulson and bringing him into the heart of downing street?re on today's emergency hearing, i'm joined now by itn reporter sally biddulph. how did he do and what's your assessment? were things better or worse after things were done? >> well, rich, the consensus here in the uk is that david cameron actually did pretty well today. it was a difficult session for him in parliament. he was fielding, as you said, a number of questions from very angry mps. he stopped short of giving a full apology for hiring andy coulson to be his head of communications, andy coulson, of course, being the man from the "news of the world," the editor at the time of the phone hacking allegations. the opposition didn't like the fact that he didn't give a full apology for hiring andy coulson, and they accused mr. cameron of a catastrophic lapse in judgment of hiring him and mr. cameron countered by saying if he ever found out andy cowlingson had lied to him and if andy coulson is found guilty of anything to do with the phone hacking allegations, then as prime minister he

most of the grilling surrounded his choice to hire former "news of the world" editor andy coulson as his communications director. coulson was one of the first people arrested over the hacking scandal within rupert murdoch's media empire. >> with 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed, would i not have offered him the job, and i expect that he wouldn't have taken it. >> cameron says he regrets his decision to hire coulson and once again denies claims that his staff tried to stop an investigation into the phone hacking. more live from london with the latest. so does this get the heat off of the prime minister? >> reporter: well, tamron, it's been an incredibly difficult day for david cameron, but the consensus here in the uk is that he dealt with it pretty well. he tackled the question of why he hired andy coulson, the former editor of "news of the world" as his communications director and he didn't exactly apologi apologize. he said, of course, i regret it and i'm sorry for the furor it's called. >> the opposition leader didn't like what he said saying it showed him a catastrophic

coulson lied to him. it's about all the information and warnings that the prime minister ignored. >> reporter: labour says the prime minister should have turfed andy coulson out of number ten in september last year when the "new york times" published its report on rampant phone hacking at the news of the world when andy coulson was editor. the "new york times" quoted a former newspaper editor recalling, "dozens if not hundreds of meetings with andy. coulson would ask where a story came from, editors would reply, 'we've pulled the phone records' or 'i've listened to the phone messages.'" >> the public will have rightly the day after the murdochs were asked about meetings with david cameron, labour m.p.s asked repeatedly if he'd talked about the b-sky-b takoever bid in his private meetings with the murdochs and their team. david cameron repeatedly avoided answering the question at all. >> in the course of the past few minutes, the prime minister has been asked a simple question twice and refused to answer i

why did the prime minister hire andy coulson? was it at the advice of rebekah brooks?to tell you exactly why he did it. i was involved with -- they talk about this openly, i've spent time with all of these people, including the prime minister. rupert murdoch did not like david cameron. i've spent lots of time with murdoch mumbling about cameron, what a slickster he is. he liked gordon brown. rebekah brooks, however, likes david cameron, and she set out to convince rupert he ought to go with cameron. and one of the things here, she went to cameron and said you hire our guy, andy coulson. if you do that, i can help bring rupert around, and she succeeded. >> and he hired the prime minister, the candidate of prime minister, hired her, hired coulson, then ended up getting what, the respect or what? how would you describe how rupert responded to that deal? >> actually, rupert responded grudgingly. he still doesn't like david cameron, he liked gordon brown, but rebekah and his son james wanted this, this was their show, he was trying to be hands off, and plus he got a man in

andy coulson is also a former editor of "news of the world." coulson has been arrested for his alleged role in all of this. so the question is, what did his former boss, david cameron, know and when did he know it? >> let me say once more, if i was lied to, if the police were lied to, if the select committee were lied to, it would be a matter of deep regret and a matter for a criminal prosecution. >> order. anybody might think that it an 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 miliband. >> 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 coulson had hired a man -- had hired a man jailed for seven years for a criminal conspiracy who made payments to the police on behalf of "the news of the world." this evidence casts serious doubt on mr. coulson's assurances that the phone hacking over which he resigned wa

back to coulson. he employed clive goodman who hired a private investigator to hack the phones of aides to the royal family. scotland yardman the investigation into the hacking and arrested goodman, colson and brooks. paul stevenson resigned. part because he hired neil wallace used to work at news of the worlds. john yates, number two at cotland yard step down yesterday because he refused to open the hacking scandal investigation a few years ago and also has ties to neil wallace. stephanie, we've tried to put that together as best we can, give us more on this tangled web in britain. >> chris, it's not easy and people will look at that and go huh? it is very confusing, this has been a mind-bending story because news corp. and its influence in this country is wide spread and we're now seeing that. this has been an unbelievable 36 hours where you have the top two men in charge of scotland yard resigning, rebekah brooks getting arrested, now this strange news of this journalist who has shown up dead, and

coulson and we will explore that later, what happened concerning that. specifically you make reference -- this excited lot of interest -- between what you did and the employment of mr. coulson and it sounds like you took a swipe at the prime minister bearing in mind that you said the prime minister has employed somebody who had resigned but mr. wallace has not resigned as a result of this. there was comment that you were resigning and they were just carrying on. you were treated differently or appeared to be treated differently? >> we always live in a world where the media interprets -- i was taking notice of the prime minister to mix something--make something absolutely clear. tried to make something absolutely clear. i do agree with the prime minister when he says of course the employment of mr. coulson and mr. wallace were different. mr. wallace was never employed to be my personal assistant. i know we are going to this later. he was employed to provide advice -- he would give me some occasional -- that was one of the reasons and it certainly wasn't -

the allegation which i have read is that i told the prime minister to hire andy coulson and that is not true. never was true and the idea came from george osborne. >> so you had no conversation with david cameron about andy coulson being suitable for that position? >> no. >> none whatsoever? >> no. obviously, you are talking about about before his appointment? >> yes. >> no. >> and you presumably would in a social context swap gossip with david cameron when you would meet, and that gossip could actually be having been obtained by illegalle means. are you satisfied that your dealings with david cameron before and after becoming prime minister that the sort of gossip that you might share was above board? >> well, as i shared earlier, any relationship and conversations with the prime minister were wholly respectable when i was with the "sun" and he was prime minister. >> and what about when you were at "news of the world"? >> again, that is not true. so, i didn't approve it. >> so, the news stateman report and the daily mail report is inaccurate that his salary is not being subsidized by "

. >> have you had any contact with andy coulson during the sheridan case? >> during the sheridan case? >> i think andy was -- andy coulson was in downing street during the sheridan case. so i would have had some contact. >> no direct contact, no emails or letters? >> i said i would have had contact. >> there are no emails just a conversation? >> it would have been manly to do with work, but by email or by telephone. >> just a couple more questions. why would the news of the world, why were you paying andy coulson's legal fees and mull kair's legal fees? >> as i understand it, i know james murdoch addressed this, when andy coulson left the news of the world, he had an agreement that all matters relating to this his legal fees were paid. and i think the same for clive goodman. on glen mullclaire, i think it was when his legal fees would be paid when he was a codefendant in these civil cases. >> are you aware of any payment to police officers? >> no. >> none. >> i'd like to ask some questions about the dowda case. you were editor of news of the world during th

prime minister tell the house whether he had any conversations about phone hacking with abdomeny coulson at the time of his resignation? will he place in the library a log of any meetings and phone calls between him and andy coulson following his resignation? >> as i said, i think perhaps before she wrote her question or had it written -- [laughter] >> of course, i sought assurances from andy coulson. i received assurances. those were assurances that were given. absolutely. those were assurances not just given at the time to me, but also given subsequently to the select committee and to a criminal case under oath. these were repeatedly given. let me say to the avoidance of any doubt, if they turn out not to be true, it's not just that he shouldn't have worked in government, he should face the full force of the law. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister related a different case of hacking, computer hacking gary mckenyon. once they have a legal process to follow, does he share the concern for the constituents nine-year nightmare as he feels his life is literally hanging on a thread, waiting t

andy coulson was his communications guru. prime minister is facing growing calls to explain while he shows to hire a man. >> he resigned because of the things that happened on his watch. i decided to give him a second chance and no one has ever raised serious concerns about how he did his job for me. the second job did not work out and he had to resign all over again. the decision to hire him was mine, and mine alone, and i take full responsibility for it. >> as for the questions about -- >> on the case of backup brooks -- rebecca brooks, i do not think the prime minister should choose who should run it news organizations. >> david cameron has done his best to try to distance himself from the scandal. questions about his own judgment and his friendship continue. especially now some say they warned him years ago about hiring the former editor. >> president obama, the u.s. economy has been the overriding challenge. today, it comes more disappointing news. only 18,000 jobs were created in june, the fewest in nine months. that pu

made an error of judgment in hiring coulson. so he is being forced repeatedly to defend himself on that. of course, the opposition labor party is taking good advantage of the situation and using it as a platform from which to -- david cammeron. >> that's what's going on in the united states as well, amy. thank you very much. now some analysis on the situation. joining us from washington. dr. nile gardner. senior fellow at the heritage foundation. as mentioned amy, people are exploiting this situation. it is a bad situation. anybody who broke the law should be held responsible. everybody knows that journalists are citizens, too. we break the law, we should be held responsible for it. but here in the united states, there isn't any intrusion of this story thus far on news corps properties. none. yet, you have the "new york times" absolutely running wild with the story. front page, front page, front page, column, column, column. vicious stuff, vicious stuff. and it's all ideological, is it not? >> you know, i think we all -- we are

he was warned by lord ashdown by hiring andy coulson. he's now admitted in the house of commons today that his chief of staff was given complete evidence which contradicted andy coulson's previous accounts. >> on wednesday, sensationally as the house of commons was about to debate rupert murdoch's controversial takeovered by for the british broadcaster bskyb, rupert murdoch abruptly walked away from the table acknowledging theed by was impossible in the current clima climate. suggesting that the a.c.led ho -- holds he could come back again. with talk in the u.s. that news corp may be viewed there for bribing police from the foreign services act. there's speculation he may come back to the table at a future date. he desperately does want to get his hands on that broadcaster bskyb. we'll have to see if he comes back to play another hand. wolf? >> dan rivers from london. thank you. and dan mentioned the possible u.s. investigation. did rupert murdoch's news corporation take advantage of 9/11 victims here in the united states? up next you're

in terms of andy coulson, no one has argued the work he did in government in any way was inappropriate or bad. he worked well in government. he then left government. there is a contrast in the situation where clearly at the metropolitan police the issues have been around, whether or not the investigation is being pursued properly. >> tonight, the phone hacking inquiry is making more headlines. police officers are at the home of the reporter, who was now found dead tonight, after telling folks to he had been pressured to hack phones. his death is being described as unexplained, but not suspicious. nick robinson, bbc news, westminster. >> the sun newspaper has suffered major attacks by computer hackers. anyone trying to access the web site was redirected to the speed of -- feed of lulzsec. they posted claims that rupert murdoch had been found dead. it has emerged that officials in the american state department and the libyan government held a meeting in tunisia. americans say they delivered a certain message that colonel gaddafi must step down. more details about the meeting. >> from the

putting his fingers in his ears and say that i don't know what anyone will have to tell me about andy coulson. each time there is another meeting -- move and the story, david cameron will have a lot to answer. >> we have seen the fallout and this is felled around the world. people tune in to watch the murdoch testimony. -- we have seen the fallout and this is being felt around the world. the news corp. shareholders, do they have confidence in rupert murdoch? i see that shares closed up in news corp.. >> i think was a good day for the murdoch's. there was a lot of questions, would this be a huge disaster. they came away with that when any damage to themselves. i thought that james murdoch gave a very strong performance. he stayed on script in the face of tough questioning. he was apologetic to the families and victims of the hacking scandal. he said again and again that we set up a compensation committee for the victims. for he looked confident without seeming arrogant. i think he did a good job. >> you think that he can still succeed rupert murdoch? >> i think that he has a long way to go. he

-- showed andy coulson had authorized payments to police for information. either he or news international did not tell the truth. >> discovering the truth could take months. today, britain pose a military families became the latest group to erupt -- britain's military families became the latest group to erupted in anger. it has been released that some of them may have had their voice mails intercepted. initially, no family scheme for reducing that police had warned them they might be victims. even the allegation was enough for the british royal legion to pull out of its fund-raising with the news of the world. >> we felt that until these allegations have been investigated, we ought to suspend working with news international. >> police are investigating the case of a man killed in afghanistan. according to his father, e-mail messages he received after his death have been read, he suspects by hackers. >> the need to be called to account for what they have done and to suffer whatever punishment is appropriate. i'm sure that will happen, but it is going to take

there was the ones that were gave to downing street about andy coulson's relationship with a detective who is facing charges for axe murderer. consequently, he was -- consequently, the trial collapsed. the general picture here is that david cameron was putting his fingers in his ears and saying i don't want to know what anyone has to tell me about andy coulson. if it happens that he is charged and goes to court and if he's convicted, each time there is another move and the story, david cameron will have a harder and harder question to answer. >> the fallout from the scandal is being felt around the world. people tune in to day to watch the murdoch's testimony. joining me to discuss the impact is the media reporter for the "new york times." the did the murdoch's do well enough to stay in charge of their own companies? >> i spoke to some wall street analysts to said yes, this was says good as that -- as it could have gone. every statement made with them and comparing them to their record and to whatever sources they are saying. for one day, it was a pretty good day for the murdoch's. >>

coulson lied to him.s about the information and warnings they ignored. >> you are looking at a live shot from parliament. >> incredible. >> an incredible inquiry into david cameron's -- let's continue. we'll comment with tina brown and the panel after. >> a full apology now for hiring mr. coulson and bringing him to the heart of downing street. >> prime minister. >> what i would say to the gentleman is stop hunting feeble conspiracy theories and start rising to the level of events. most of that was just a tissue of totally -- first of all, let me thank him for recalling parliament. i think lord leverson will do a good job. i have to say, on most of the other questions, i feel he wrote the questions before he heard my statement today. he asks, he asks about the issue of -- he asks about the issue of bskyb. they said there was no breach of the code. you heard -- you heard the evidence of rebecca wade saying there was not one single inappropriate conversation. when it comes to setting up meetings with news c

he still -- the question of andy coulson and why he hired him in the first place. he was asked time and time again what specific conversations he had with andy coulson. distanceng to put some between his former communications and himself. >> also, top people at the news international empire, including rebecca brooks. she's a former editor of "news of the world." did mr. cameron give a signal about her? >> that's the interesting part of this paris conference -- of this press conference. he did call for her to quit, but he did it in a clever way. said that if he was rupert murdoch, he would have expected her resignation yesterday. he's careful to not get involved in the running of a private company. he was effectively calling for her to go. the only problem for mr. cameron here is that the opposition has been calling for her to go for days. it does make the prime minister look like he is a bit behind the curve. >> mr. camera and talking about changing the political pollster -- mr. cameron was talking about changing the political culture. >> he made it clear that the

. >> reporter: cameron had rejected advice and hired his communications chief andy coulson, the former editor of "news of the world." >> with 20/20 hindsight i would not have offered him the job and i expect he wouldn't have taken it. >> reporter: coulson resigned in january and was arrested two weeks ago in the phone hacking scandal. it's engulfing the media and the police. cameron is accused of being too cozy with news executives, two dozen meetings in less than two years. he came out fighting. >> i never had one inappropriate conversation. >> reporter: as for rupert murdoch -- >> you might say that the murdoch brand itself is hopelessly tarnished. >> reporter: still, the verdict in britain is that murdoch couldn't have asked for better publicity from the pie attack during yesterday's parliamentary committee meeting. it deflected some attention from phone hacking, bribery, and corruption on to wendi murdoch, the press verdict, what a wife. >> she was terrific revelation. my goodness, she brought those proceedings to life. >> murdoch is not off by a long shot. he and his son james cou

coulson is a former editor at murdoch's now-defunct "news of the world."eron denied claims that he tried to stop the investigation into the hacking. >>> it turns out that hacking into someone's phone isn't that hard at all. bill whitaker has that part of the story. >> reporter: the 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 mil