james murdock's father, the news corps chairman and ceo rupert murdoch said we are all grateful for jamesdership international where he has made lasting contributions to the strategy and paid digital content and efforts to improve enhance governance programs. including international operations and pay tv business. rick santorum is standing by strategy of asking democrats to vote for him in michigan. mitt romney called it a dirty trick. remember the santorum campaign ran robo calls asking democrats to vote for him. which is perfectly legal. that state like so many others has an open primary. romney called it outrageous and disgusting. >> i think republicans are v. to recognize there is a real effort to kidnap our primary process and if we want republicans to nominate the republic who takes on barack obama, i need republicans to get out and vote. and say no to the dirty tricks of a desperate campaign. >> shepard: mitt romney has admitted doing something similar as a registered independent in massachusetts. in 2007 he told abc news and i quote when there was no real contest in the republic p

even if that means james murdock having to leave the company that is it. >> he decided on closure at news of the world." when his father flew in, his -- james was nowhere to be seen. with the successful launch of the "sun" on sunday, news international is in a good place to build on its successes in the future. he has made lasting contributions. james will focus on the pay tv businesses including sky, where he remains chairman. >> he seems to be as successful in television. he will concentrate on that. normal newspapers. somebody said to me that one murdoch running newspapers is enough. >> this looks like the latest attempt to put the murky past the british newspapers behind it. there could be in but -- investigation into corruption of the son. there is an mp inquiry into phone hacking. all could produce further embarrassment. >> still to come, riding to victory in michigan. mitt romney eeks out a win in his home state. will it be enough to silence critics? thousands of students have been marching across spain to protest cuts in a education funding. >> at times, it seemed the recessio

the couple here with james murdock were married in 2009. two months ago, through a surrogate mother, they had their first child, a daughter scarlet. it was the explosion in the phone hack scandal last summer which brought rebecca brooks in center stage. on july 15, she resigned as chief executive of news international. two days later, she was arrested for the first time on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. today she's been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert justice. >> this story is nowhere near over and who knows where it will end up. but secondly, the original criminalities that they were investigating, phone hacking, is nowhere near as serious as what they're now investing, which is conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. >> they were arrested at their home after an early morning knock from the police. david cameron is a neighbor and friend of both of them. he was at eaton with charlie brooks, who became a leading racehorse trainer and the prime minister recently admitted he did ride a horse loaned to the couple

. >>> james murdock is resigning as the uk newspaper business. the son of the company chairman and ceo rupert may duck. he was executive chairman of a paper affected by phone hacking and plans to move to the company's new york headquarters. time to start the 5:00 hour. >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> historic day in

apple closing higher and there is elsewhere, james murdock stepped down as executive chairman of news international. this eight months after the phone hacking scandal and finally microsoft coming out with new software today, windows 8 now available for testing. a preview can be down loaded giving consumers an early peek at software designed to rival the touch screen features on the ipad software, let's users store applications in internet-based cloud to switch between computers and windows phones. in san francisco, bloomberg west, back to you guy autos thank you. everything going to the cloud. >> yes. >> including... >> yes. >> and by this time of the day we'd be seeing blue skies. >> things work out just the way we said there would. there are interesting cloud formations. and if you're headed to the clouds this is a great view from. angles the sky looks dramatic. and at the moment conditions are calm. look at live doppler 7 hd. there is widely scattered showers in the north bay and moving east. down the sounl bay, lighter and more widely scattered areas of spotty showers. and that is

. >> how should we view the resignation of james murdock to move from one job to another? his focus has changed in the company. when you're in the middle of a heated debate, people want to overread things. but i think this is about james really moving to new york full-time and to reposition his role in the company. >> is there a new heir apparent? >> i don't get into that. >> this is not criminology. this is knowing what the conversation is. because a huge media company has been challenged because of some of the things that went on at some of its newspapers, fair must have? >> sure. >> it affects all kinds of things, including succession, a number of employees resigned. there's a question about the newspaper division especially of this company and what came out of london. >> i would expect rupert murdoch who will be 81 next week, he will be there for a long time. he has a world class chief operating officer in chase carry. i think the core management team is solid and the company is moving forward even as we deal with the challenges. >> thank you very much for being here.

two weeks ago when rupert murdock came to london to open a new paper, his son lockland came with him, not jamesme activist investors and activists who said this family shouldn't be rung the company on its own. this is one of the biggest media conditions in the world and it needs more transparent leadership and a more active board of directors. so far, with yesterday's move with james murdoch still being in charge, still being deputy coo, it seems rupert murdock is resisting those calls. >> that's the family drama behind the succession. >> it might be a promotion. he'll be running some of the most valuable parts of the company, the international tv business. he will be in some ways removed from the british newspaper unit although let's be clear about this. every day we see new details about what's going on there. every day there's new testimony in this slow motion scandal. >> brian, "new york times", thank so much. soledad? >>> christine, thank you. before we go to commercial break i want to show folks as they start to pick up their belongings, this structure, that's a closet. people have been c