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 rupert murdoch to withdraw his bid. they will have the option to say knows to news corp.. if they agreed to appear next week. >> there has been fresh violence in northern ireland tonight. there was an attempt to prevent the national

2006, a murdoch paper run at the time by rebecca brooks reported that brown's newborn son has cystic fibrosis. now brown questions the methods the paper used to get that information. tonight a statement from "news international" says the story "the sun" ran is from a member of the public whose family has also experienced cystic fibrosis. also on the defensive, investigators from scotland yards who face accusations that police accepted bribes from reporter. >> an organization of 50,000 people and we've always said from time, some day they'll -- >> reporter: with the investigation widening daily here in the uk, some are wondering if the scandal will spread to murdoch's media holdings in the u.s. >> we need to find out, affirmatively, look into whether or not american citizens had their phones hacked into by any murdoch journalists. >> reporter: for now the only evidence is here in britain but proving to be enough to tarnish the image of a worldwide media empire. stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. >>> in afghanistan tonight a lot of unanswered questions about the shocking assassination of preside

he attacks the way that it reported his youngest son was suffering from cystic fibrosis. he did not allege that his sons records had been stolen, but -- son's records had been stolen. >> your son will now be broadcast the media. we are incredibly upset about it. we're thinking about his long- term future. we are thinking about our family. there is nothing that can be done about it. >> they said they had been given the information by someone with experience with cystic fibrosis, and they said the article had been written sensitively. rupert murdoch, still in london, wanted reforms. he, gordon brown, did not. >> when the record as my prime minister -- when my record as prime minister is in, it will show that i refused to support commercial ambitions when i thought they were against the public interest. >> they are facing allegations against the news of the world -- "news of the world." the attack has been pressed home by labour's current leader. the family of milly dowler, whose phone was supposedly hacked. >> i think what the public wants us to do, as the house of commons,

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 had wanted the bbc and the media rater reforms. he did not. >> when the record of my time as prime minister was determined all the papers will be there for people to see, they will show which stood up to news international. we refuse to support the commercial ambitions when they're against the public interest. >> the murdoch empire is

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 up to news international. we refuse to support the commercial ambitions. >> mr. brown has now widened the attacked two other newspapers within the group. an attack that has been pressed, by the current

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alleges the use this information to publish the news that his newborn son was suffering from cystic fibrosis. a new police investigation will ensure that the culprits are punished. >> this looks like yet another example of an appalling invasion of privacy and had been a personal data. my heart goes out to gordon brown and his wife. to have your children invaded like this is completely unacceptable and heartbreaking for the family concerned. >> a parliamentary committee has been tried to discover why the police have been covering up leads into the affair. the police commissioner in charge of the investigation told them he was sure that his phone was also attacked. he denied this intimidated into closing the case. the british parliament's decision comes as a completely outraged public calls for an inquiry into the ties between rupert murdoch's news organizations and public officials. >> they want to show that they have the teeth and they're not the poodles of rupert murdoch and his media and that is the average person's opinion. they also want to snal that the takeover of their television stat

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 by some of the targets of its muckraking. george michael tweeted that closing news of the world is a fantastic day for brita

: he was shattered to learn that the sun was going public with the news that his baby son had cystic fibrosisly had kept strictly confidential. the person who told the browns that "the sun" would run a story on their baby's illness was rebecca brooks. at the time the editor of the sun newspaper, she's now rupert murdoch's british ceo and is herself being questioned by police. john yates, the officer you saw earlier on in my report, has just told the committee that he's 99% sure his phone was hacked, which shows that police investigating the news of the world were themselves not immune. chris? >> i'll tell you, this story grows more and more every day. cbs' elizabeth palmer for us in london. elizabeth, thank you very much. >>> like i said, there's so much more to talk about. we're joined now by steve hewlett who is a media analyst in london for us. good to have you here with us this morning. according to elizabeth's report there are claims the former prime minister gordon brown, the queen both victims of this hacking and rupert murdoch's newspapers. what's the latest on both sides of this stor

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, always the eve of the all-star game. here is a look at chase field in downtown in

more than $30,000 was raised for cystic fibrosis foundation. so it was a win-win all around. yankees for including me in that special game played from yankee stadium. thank you so much for joining us. we'll have a special show, crunching the numbers of the favorite summer tradition, the summer barbecue. each week keep it right here, where wall street meets main street. have a great weekend, everybody. happy fourth of july. i'll see you next weekend.

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newspapers reveal private medical records of the son of gordon brown and the young boy's history of cystic fibrosis, which his mother and father were treating as a family matter. >> i can't think of any way that medical condition of a child could be put into the public arena legitimately. >> the international uproar over murdoch's newspaper hacking killed a pending murdoch broadcasting deal, namely, to purchase british sky broadcasting a deal valued at $12 billion. the sitting uk prime minister and the british public sidelined the planned merger. >> what has happened to this company is kisses graceful, it's got to be addressed at every level and they should stop thinking about mergers when they've got to sort out the mess they've created. >> on this side of the atlantic, lawmakers in the u.s. congress call for a hearing. house homeland security committee chairman peter king and the senate intelligence committee member jay rockefeller. >> you know the department of justice and all kinds of other federal agencies will be going after this very hard, and we will too. >> question, democratic senator rob

gordon brown has come out and said that his medical records were hacked into for a young son with cystic fibrosis. besides, this linked account are the ones that are occurring right now. cameron is acting as though his government could fall. he called for a very strong investigation. i think he will probably eat pie, but he's on very shaky ground. >> let put -- >> my thoughts, please. he's in a coalition government with a liberal party, and they're like two scorpions in a bottle. so tin treeing over there is really -- >> john, here's the key thing. first, i think the murdoch papers, some of these other newspapers that are non-murdoch may have done similar things. that will be helpful. secondly, the key question is does this jump the atlantic, where rupert murdoch's got the wall street journal, the new york post and fox news. murdoch's enemies are trying to dig up anything that connect some crime over there while they say the individuals are over here. that means it disqualifies them from having television stations. >> it will connect? >> i think they're trying to bring it across the atlantic, and

a good portion of them were people dealing with various forms of cancer: prostate, cystic fibrosis, multiple. and there were people in there with hiv. the stink was that somebody said-- a writer in the new yorker was saying that i was using my own status as a kind of license to make people-- to manipulate people. and that, she says, thinking people-- the only thing they can do is just-- because she said, "i'm not interested"-- how did it go? "in disenfranchised blacks, abused women, fat people," such and such, which is all things that she thought that i was-- the menu i was promoting. i was just talking about marginalized people in general. she said, "i'm not interested in any of that, "and therefore all we should do, and i encourage you to do, is just don't go," you know? as she didn't go. she didn't go see it. she had made up her mind that i had, "worked dying people into my act." there were videos manipulated by a professional video artist, quite beautiful portraits that only happened at a few places through the piece, and at the end. primarily, it was my transposing the materials from th

medical records of former prime minister gordon brown's baby just after he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. it was rebekah brooks, murdoch's british c.e.o., who called the browns to tell them the story was running, this according to former political aide david muir. >> they didn't know how rebekah came across this information and now that it's come to light it was obtained by what appeared to be an illegal method. >> reporter: as the revelations pile up, a police inquiry has moved into high gear. in 2007, an internal investigation at rupert murdoch's u.k. company is reported to have found clear evidence of illegal activity. but managers didn't take their findings to the police. instead, phone hacking victims who sued were paid to settle out of court. murdoch's son, james, now a director of the new york-based news corporation, authorized one payment for what's said to have been more than a million dollars. >> i acted on the advice of executives and lawyers with incomplete investigation, and that's a matter of real regret for me personally. >> reporter: now that has damaged rupert murdoch's

the younger brown was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. >>> people across the country are dealing withsive heat. it could reach dangerous levels this week in nearly two dozen states. as we report, some areas have already seen temperatures well above 100 degrees. >> it's about 105. >>> reporter: and forecasters say that's just the beginning of the heat wave. 23 states are under heat warnings from oklahoma to connecticut at from the deep south to th ohio valley. in illinois a 51-year-old man died because of excessive heat. his air-conditioner wasn't work. in oklahoma, temperatures topped 100 degrees for several days in a row, causing a road to buckle. and in milwaukee, dozens of runners were either hospitalized or treated for heat-related issues during a half marathon sunday. doctors say anyone, know matter what same they're in, can fall victim to the heat. >> it can be very serious and you can do long-term permanent damage neurologically. your brain can't function at temperature extremes. if you get to hot you can have long-term damage. >> reporter: high temperature records have been br

before brown took office in 2006 he and his wife discovered their infant had cystic fibrosis. the newspaper is accused of containing confidential information to break the story. >> they told me the story about medical conditions and this story, i was in tears. >> he told the bbc, they obtained confidential information on bank account and legal files. "good morning america" will have more on the widening scandal coming up at 7:00. >> back here. tech giant cisco confirmed that will be laying off employees next month. bloomberg reports that they on could cut as many as 10,000 jobs or 13% of its work force. san jose based company reported about $8 billion in profit last year but had a series of disappointing earnings. in a statement. they announced they will cut billion dollars which will include layoffs. >> congress is taking up a bill that may decide the fate of incandescent light bulbs. they pushing legislation that will overturn measures in the energy act requiring more efficient versions of the light bulb. they claim the new standards are a symbol of an overreaching federal g

details included the fact that brown's baby son had cystic fibrosis.hugh grant tells the bbc in this broadcast that paparazzi working for murdock told him they were listening in on his voice mail. celebrities have long been at the arget of tabloids. some guess was codes but many cell phone users don't require their voice mail system to ask for a pass code when they call in on their own sell increase. you have a pin when you access repoetly but not when you use the faen. if you can spoof your number, think that the call coming from this phone, you don't need the pass ward ness sarly. how do you spoof a phone number. news.com, a good website, not news of the world, is exmining it as a security plau which it is. >> very shifty, really. it is 5:57. the csu board meeting is meeting about another tuition hike. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can

that child has cystic fibrosis. and we're told the only reason the browns knew about this was somebody from the newspaper rang them to say we believe your child has cystic fibrosis. there's a lot going on. "news international said please don't do any more reporting on this and any information you have, wherever it's coming from, they say, please let them have that information because there's an ongoing investigation. this is a story that's only raising his head now about gordon brown. >> he like so many other british politicians were scared by retaliation by these tabloids and media empire, if you will. >> of. >> and that is the great unanswered question. who was scared of whom at this point. many people in the uk will suggest that rupert murdoch and his ceo at news international, former editor of "news of the world" they really wielded so much power that politicians both of the former ruling labor party here in the uk and now the current administration, the conservative party have cozied up to these guys way too mu

that, of course, led to the story that the five-month-old baby hat cystic fibrosis.raged. on friday "the guardian" apologized and said you did not have evidence that the medical records were obtained by "the sun." that's a pretty bad mistake, isn't it? >> well, the difference is between the medical information and the medical records. "the sun" says they didn't have access to the medical records. and gordon brown, his recollection as he told us, was that they did say they had the medical records. if "the sun" -- that's the difference. i don't think if you spoke to gordon brown tonight he wouldn't say he was happy about "the sun" ringing him up and saying they were going to publish information about his medical condition. i don't think it makes it much better for "the sun," we correct things when we get something wrong. >> there's a difference between making that kind of mistake which you did correct and all the allegations swirling around "news of the world"? you don't see them as anyway comparable? >> well, we haven't used illegal techniques. we haven't been going a

the past few years, he was wronged by one of the newspapers to say we believe your child has cystic fibrosis, a really appalling turn of events for prime minister gordon brown and for news international. this has extended outside of the british tabloid newspaper now that we closed out the weekend. now we're talking about news international. >> the wave that the business operates over there seems to be very different than the way things operate here. there was a sense that some of this, not all, but some of this had been going on. were the authorities aware of this? did they sort of turn a blind eye until it passed that line and it went from scandalous to unacceptable? >> let's think about that for a moment. this saga has been going on and we've known about it as certain members of the general public for six or seven years. it really hit the headlines when we found out that prince william and harry's phones had been hacked by a private investigator and a royal correspondent at the news of the world. they were later imprisoned for that. then it sort of rumbled on a little bit. while it was sim

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 to try to figure out if mr. brown had obtained the acquisition of an apartment below market rates. the second question was about the son and the son issued a statement saying that they did not illegally obtained medical records nor did they commission anything else to do so. the information of the diagnosis had been brought to them by the relative of someone else who had the disease who is sympathetic to the browns. they're proud of the coverage of the b

his son has cystic fibrosis. we believe that gordon brown only found out about this after a journalist rang him to talk to him about his son. >> blink and you might miss something in this scandal. thank you. >>> today tony blair told our wolf blitzer he doesn't think he's been hacked and mr. blair says he's surprised people here in the united states are so scandalized by the story. >> i'm quite surprised how shocked you guys are over here. >> we're pretty shocked. >> yeah. and maybe we just -- >> i'm shocked that you are not shocked. >> you know, i lived with it. for 50 years. >> should we be shocked? with us now the president and editor of "hhollywoodlife.com. and nile gardner. now that you're an expert, tep help us put that into context. it's pretty shocking when you find that bank accounts have been hacked, accounts of politicians, murder victims. >> we should be shocked and the british public clearly are deeply shocked by the whole affair. after all, we're talking here about highly illegal activity carried ou

gordon brown, the former prime minister, talking about the fact that his disabled son, his son has cystic fibrosisson alleged by gordon brown in the house of commons yesterday, was stolen from a hospital by a criminal that he believes was working for "the sunday times" newspaper. so you have that kind of power. you have the ability to humiliate an mp and the ability to intervene in their personal life and that's why he was so forceful and powerful. i can tell you, andrea, until about three weeks ago, you couldn't count on five fingers the number of politicians who would stand up to rupert murdoch in britain because every single one of them was frightened of his influence. >> of course, gordon brown's little boy frazier is doing very well but it was at birth that that information came out. i want to ask you about your own child. you had an experience that was rather startling and in retrospect it does appear to have a sinister possibility. >> in 1995, i guess, i rose to a certain level of prominence because i interviewed the late princess diana. >> a lot of prominence, let me tell you. internationa

. >> that they had information that fraser had cystic fibrosis which was a matter that they the family were just getting their heads around at the time and dealing with. >> reporter: it was a fast moving day of swirling allegations, political and corporate positioning. amongst the allegations, it was suggested that royal protection officers in the police force had sold confidential royal numbers to the news of the world, that the prince of wales and the duchess of cornwall may have had their phones hacked into. halfway through the day, rupert murdoch announced that he was suddenly changing his tactics for how he could get his hands on the 61% of b-sky-b he doesn't already own. rupert murdoch woke up at his london home with a new plan for how to get his hands on the whole of b-sky-b. he'd go down the route he'd been trying to avoid, a drawn-out reference to the competition commission. the commission doesn't normally complete its reports in under a year. but the murdochs have decided their best chance of keeping their takeover bid in play is to go down this road. >> reporter: earlier, th

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 revelations about what may have happened to gordon brown and his family started trickling out over the internet, came extraordinary news from news corporation, that they're withdrawing their undertakings about spinning off sky news. that only minutes before the secretary jeremy hunt was due to address in peace about the future of the news corporation did for sky. at the same time, david cameron was six miles away in canary wharf fielding questions from journalist

really upset that he was hacked and there was information about his child having cystic fibrosis andlegedly and numbers of the members of the royal family. this could get worse. we're keeping an eye on it. >> it's costing the company money too. the stock value has take an hit. >> plummeting. >> thanks very much for that. zain verjee in london. >> calories on a menu make a difference. better food choices if you know what you're eating has too many calories. >> totally. look at me, i come back to new york and dropping the pounds because of calories on the menu. i make that up. that's not really true. >> see if it works for everyone else. elizabeth cohen joins us. >> you have to stay and watch to find out the real answer. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. new ensure high protein... fifty percent of your

before gordon brown became britain's prime minister they found their infant son had cystic p cystic fibrosis. >> they would mow me thehehad this story about fraser's medical condition and told me they would run it. >> reporter: how did that happen? >> in tears. >> another scandal about it. and with it for the first time it is spreading beyond "news of the world." allegations that murdoch's son own the awe dust sunday times look broke the law to get stories. >> i'm wondering if you can help me. that call to a law office who was said to be an accountant working and looking at the financial times looking for some dirt. the questiroyal's reporter cliv goodman asked for carne from andy soleson to buy the green book which contains all the confidential phone numbers of the royal family and their staff. in that e-mail goodman says a proil protection officer has a stolen company and wants $1,600 for it. >> if i was alleged somebody has taken money to disclose telephone numbers and for them and their anyones, it's an appalling breach of secucuty. >> meanwhile a huge murdoch takeover bid has been delay

gordon brown became britain's prime minister, he and his wife discovered their infant son had cystic fibrosislashed across the front page of the murdoch-owned "sun." brown says it was devastating. >> in tears. your son is now going to be broadcast across the media. sararaand i were incredibly upset about it. >> reporter: and another murdoch paper, "the sunday times," was allegedly using known criminals to hack into brown's tax records, his bank accounts. brown says it was a vendetta because murdoch didn't like his politics. >> i'm shocked. i'm genuinely shocked to find this happened. because of the links with criminals, known criminals, who are undertaking this activity. >> reporter: even the royals were targeted. there are damning allegations that murdoch management knew years ago "news of the world" had breached state security but didn't tell police. it's alleged the paper's royal reporter asked the editor for $1,600 so he could buy a top-secret directory called the green book which contains all the confidential phone numbers of the royal family and their staff. the crisis is spinning out o

his accountants and his banks and tried to get medical records on one of his sons who sadly has cystic fibrosisof a big scandal. wasn't just the biggest guy out there today who may be a victim of this targeting. charles and camilla allegedly told they have been targeted by the "news of the world" reporters and it seems that royal protection offices for the queen and prince phillip may have been targeted effectively. those are the allegations for information on the queen and prince phillip. quite remarkable stuff today. >> you're right. if you blinked, you would have missed it. all of the different people coming forward with all of the different allegations. i have to take you back to rupert murdoch. we know news of the world is his. correct me if i'm wrong, he wants to buy the b-sky-b, which is a british satellite broadcaster against the government's advice. the deputy prime minister waving him off this deal. will he succeed? >> well, yeah, that's been a very interesting story today. the government have been sort of trying to move away, sort of kick this to the grass effectively. what happened

betty had cystic fibrosis. this was in the middle of the big prepositions of the pre buzzer report with gordon brown. gordon brown reacted very badly. how did they now? where could -- where was the public interest? he was not going to allow them to make a story out of this sun's elements. he was concerned the story should come out and a positive way and not tragic or heartbreaking. mr. brown wanted to issue a pre- emptive statement to stop the sun from coming out with an exclusive story. rebecca brooks, the editor of "the sun," got hairy. there was no justification for a statement. this is the not the way things were being done. she was frightened gordon brown was going to stop exclusive. in the end, "the sun" managed to get the story out by being interviewed on the sky news. jordan -- gordon brown issued a positive statements. >> thank you. george it used to be the press secretary. you're a good friend of court in brown. how significant is this about his son? >> i did not know about it until i saw today. i wou

news of the world" contacted the browns saying that the paper knew that their newborn son had cystic fibrosisand it was going to print the story. gordon brown spoke today with the bbc. >> in tears. your son is now going to be broadcast across the media. sarah and i were incredibly upset about it. we're thinking about his long-term future, thinking at our family. >> reporter: at the time only a small group of doctors knew the diagnosis and the browns themselves had only just been told. >> they didn't know how rebecca came across this information and now that it's come to light, it was obtained by what appeared to be illegal matters. >> reporter: "the guardian" reports that brown's financially details was also obtained illegally by "the sunday times." one of murdoch's most highly rega regarded publications. a lawyer from brown's bank sent a memo to the paper in january 2000. someone from the "sunday times" or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as mr. brown for the purpose of obtaining information. news international manages its british papers, says it is aware of the new allegations involving