this phenomenally important decision that three times he should feel it significant enough to chew the kud, talk to, listen to, warn newspaper -- and it's what it leads -- it's whether it is appropriate to draw any conclusion about the relationship because that, i suppose is what i'm supposed to be thinking about. >> if i suspected rupert murdoch, i suspect had he been in london for that time, would he have seen him for a cup of tea or a half an hour chat, i suppose he would. i said before he's a very, very significant player in the media landscape. put it this way. i was, if anything, surprised at how few phone calls there had been when the cabin office produced this record. not that there had been, as you seem to think, so many. >> it's not so many, it's just the fact of them against all the other competing demands upon his time. he knew what the view of the sun was. he made it abundantly clear. he didn't have to speak to mr. murdoch. he could pick up a copy of the times. >> i can see why you say that. it's important to remember -- you see, we're looking to this now and people may think