mr. brooks would like you to accept the list that has been prepared that we have objected to. we do not believe these of the tasks that are appropriate. we would like it to be included so that you can force the staff to agree with them rather than the regular negotiation process. >> we should not because -- i would be happy to go over this. this continue refers back to the 2007 ordinances which talk about a 360 megawatt program. we offered you a 30 megawatt program and one was to reduce debt and some because of the risk involved. trying to implement a program that we are not trying to implement is a strange thing to try to get someone to do. we're looking at a rollout and having someone to work for the 60 megawatt program which would make no sense to me. that is the general concept. >> can i ask for clarification? the 30 megawatt was for the shell portion. that peace is on a local builder out portion, right? >> let's talk about the financing. what we want to do is to financial assistance. the way that you build something is that you have investors or customers. what they would

mr. brookes points -- mr. bruck -- brook's . . as soon as that scoping is completed, we will be better able to understand those rates. basically, this is a comprehensive analysis of the potential short and long term employment options that will be offered by the program. this includes workers training, development, that will ensure local hiring and job retention numbers and emphasize a robust training. this also leads to other things such as local businesses, and also the ability to scope opportunities for local contractors. and especially in underserved communities. thank you. president vietor: thank you. additional comments? commissioners? ok, next item, please. i guess we're going to return back to this discussion. where are we -- >> madam president, regular business agenda item 9, a positive -- possible action to approve the project level scope, schedule, and budget of the june 2000 and revised water system improvement program and directs that to send a notice of change report to the california joint legislative audit committe

mr. brooks or mr. heaton had knowledge of. certainly her knowledge of those things has not been clear. i have seen no evidence of impropriety. >> [unintelligible] is that right? >> yes. >> in october of 2010, did you still believe it when you said you would vigorously pursue the truth? >> yes. >> if you were not worrying bend? >> i do not know. >> you acknowledge they you were misled? >> yes. >> are you aware that in march [unintelligible] police? >> i was not aware at the time. it had been amended. >> if you were anyone else in the organization? investigating it at the time? explaining why? >> let me say something. this is not an excuse. this is less than 1% of the company. distinguished people and professionals. >> [unintelligible] what i am trying to establish is paca how your wrongdoing was -- establish is how your wrongdoing was established at the time. were you made aware of [unintelligible] >> [unintelligible] >> what did they do, subsequent to the arrest? >> i told the investigators and eventually they investigated further. >> what did you do to investigate [unintelligible] ] b

mr. brooks for 22 years of service, adding, she has been one of the outstanding editors of her generationnd she can be proud of many accomplishments as an executive. we support her arrest she takes steps to clear her name. that is not a view echoed in the house of lords as one of the most vocal critics referred to her stated desire to remain on the bridge. >> she now says she likes to be on the bridge. i would not like her on the bridge the way she was going. that is why she has gone, thank god. >> this afternoon, rupert murdoch acted to underline the apology by his former executive. he met with the family who lost their daughter and who are most of the alleged targets of his papers from hacking. -- target of his paper's phone hacking. >> i want a totally private meeting. i was appalled to find out what had happened. and i apologize and have nothing further to say. >> the solicitor spoke for the family. >> he was humble to give us a full and sincere apology to the family. we told him that the teller family -- the dowler family told him that his papers should lead the way in policy for dec

but sources linked to mrs. brooksaid the voice mail on this loan was not activated until 18 months ago, suggesting there were no messages. today's allegations surfaced hours after lord justice levenson said his judicial inquiry could begin while the police investigate. >> it should be possible to focus on the extent of the problem, in a way that will not prejudice an investigation without examining who did what to whom, which might. >> news international said once the facts were known, it would take action. and glenn calmly repeated his mantra. >> u.s. and north korean officials have begun talks inside a possible easing of military tensions on the korean peninsula. it is a sign that they are serious about resolving negotiations on the nuclear weapons program. i asked if there had been any progress in the bilateral talks. >> it is difficult to say because the officials have not been telling us very much. they have basically been throwing out diplomatic cliches. i think the north koreans said they were constructive and

mr. speaker. in light of ms. brooks revelation business how cozy and close the relationship was between news international and tony blair and murdoch's secret back door meetings at number 10 in the last and present governments, does the prime minister agree that the those governments have been so reluctant to act in response to the 2003 recommendations, the 2006 information commissioner report and last year's mp's for a judiciary inquiry for phone hacking. >> people shouldn't shout the honorable lady she may give a very fair point and it doesn't reflect well on either conservative or labour. there was a lot of warnings about what was going. warning for the information commissioner, warnings from the select committee but we didn't put high enough up the agenda the issue of regulating the media now we shouldn't be pointing fingers about this. we should be recognizing that we need to work on this to get it right, to respond to those reports and actually put some of those proposals into the law. >> my right honorable friend

could there be a return to grace a political life like mr brooks just car after his sex attack is collapse. and there's a new u.s. defense secretary promises change and we look at the legacy in this essay that. the greek government has banned the telenor of ships bound for gaza from leaving it . seven hundred activists on board were planted by the israeli authorities right here in the palestinian territory as well as i read in which nine people were killed when one reads the. i don't. wish. government. talked. down to. one of the boats of the flotilla we had ten all together that started this mission one of them us try to make its way today out international waters where. the other ships twenty minutes out toward waters the coast guard came up stopped the ship from in front with a couple of larger. cutters. coast guard. down into indonesia and pulled up alongside the ship. i mean to you to board the ship. to the rest. of the square to back into a port we have. several other ships that are ready to leave getting ready to leave and two of our ships earlier this week have been sabotaged israe

mr. murdoch, or by rebekah brooks? >> i forget, but i expect it was my son.y contact with them both. >> okay. when were you informed about the payments made to gordon taylor and max clifford? >> no. >> you were not informed? >> no. >> at no point you knew that taylor and clifford were made payments? >> no. >> okay. >> you never informed the chief executives of news corp that you authorized payment of half a million dollars. >> can i answer the questions now, mr. watt stone? >> i'd like you to tell me whether you informed your father that you authorized payments to gordon taylor as a result of him being a victim of a crime? >> the settlement with mr. taylor -- i'm happy to address the matter of mr. taylor in some detail, if you would like -- >> first just let -- >> my father became aware after the settlement was made in 2009, i believe, after the confidential settlement had become public as a newspaper reported on the out of court settlement afterwards. but please understand that the settlement of an out of court settlement of a civil claim of that nature and

what his top priority was according to the daily mail the eighty year old media mogul gestured to mrs brooks she is he replied not the victims not the shareholders b. sky b. shares plunged as news corps bid mired in uncertainty it's first of all it's mired in uncertainty the guy should be in handcuffs the whole entire team should be in jail right now but here's how the guardian reports bloomberg they say reported that as many b. sky b. shares changed hands in the first ten minutes of treating them as in a normal day but there were also signs that some institutional investors were buying up b. sky b. shares often from hedge funds who are bailing out of the company what does that tell you max well it's me that he's got a great relationship with banks the same banks of the government bailed out are now buying shares of b. sky b. on the behest of murdoch and it collusion that is again completely out of thema to the sense of fair play and democracy in the marketplace again it's a fraud it's perpetuating a fraud and let me just put make a little side here the who's the biggest shareholder to come

end it was mrs merkel it's doing she's misleading her parliament in precisely the same way that mrs brook on that it was misleading his parliament because this money is not for this man he's for the french and german banks and for saving the banking system not saving but preventing another collapse of the banking system all right well finally of course we're talking to you you're actually saying on a greek island how much do you want for it how much do you want for your children. yes well that sounds very impassioned but as we know it is more all sad no place than today's global economy morals don't trade on any exchange therefore morals don't exist so it's just it's all everyone's got their price and so they globalized economy so out there is it that when a little less passion that maybe next week but let me answer this question in a dispassionate way i was talking to investors from switzerland and germany who really wanted to get their hands on going to gas and they said to me often they guns on the last few days that they will withdraw from the from the competition to get these assets

mr. brooks, this is your party, like it oernt. david and eugene rum, columnist for the post. you and i spoke about this a month ago, you were saying it's irresponsible for the white house to even imply there would be a default or republicans would take it to the edge of default because it was such a sure thing this will be ironed out and the debt ceiling would be raised. are you still a believer in that? >> i am astounded we have come to where we are. we are heading towards a crisis of unimaginable proportions, we didn't believe it would come to that, it couldn't, and the behavior of the republican party through all this has been pretty shocking. that said, it needs to be understood the president's own weakness has invited a lot of this problem. the republican party is a collecttivity, it doesn't have a single decision maker. the white house has unity. his weakness has empowered the most radical people in the republican party, people like john cornen. he has to worry about primary challenges. every time the president has retreated in the way he has, he's proven john cornyn's

mr. brooks from alabama for half of the time, 22 minutes. mr. brooks: america is the greatest nation in the history of the world. we enjoy a standard of living that is envied by most. we are a beacon of freedom by all. have you ever thought about why america is the world's leader? are we just lucky? no. i would submit there are substantive reasons for our greatness. we are blessed today because of the sacrifices of those before us and those who ensured a better future. history shows us that great nations rise and great nations fall, but they rarely fall from without, without first suffering weakness from within. today, the greatest threat to america is not a foreign power. no, america's greatest threat is washington's irresponsible, dangerous and their spending habits. admiral mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, testified before the house armed services committee that america's greatest national security threat is our own sustainable and growing debt burden. it wasn't al qaeda. it wasn't north korea. it wasn't the taliban or any other

mr. brooks. if you remove the government safety net, it's okay with me, i think a private safety net and do it much better. >>> next, what if we do keep piling on the debt, can't pay our bills? that has already happened on a small scale here in america and we'll show you where and when, next. >>> a press circumference not a plan. >> i hope republicans wake up. >> the president wants us to help pay for his spending binge. >> the republicans in the house refuse to consider this balanced approach. >> i think the president should apologize. >> the debt ceiling is being held hostage. >> john: what if they don't work it out? they run out of money. pay the military and help the poor or medicare and social security. no, because the federal government can print the money. when they do, each bill decreases in value. eventually this becomes nearly worth less. it's equivalent to the government going bankruptcy, being unable to pay your social security check. what would that look like? it has already happened

the and now mrs. brooks was in a bit of a difficult position because she does actually have to be aware that she is arrested and of course has to be careful what she says. did she do the trick for you? >> well, she came with her lawyer and she made the point that she is under arrest and, again, she repeated the mantra that we heard from rupert and james murdoch. i guess with rebekah brooks we might call them the whopping three that they heard no evil, saw no evil, and this is, quite frankly, difficult to believe because she was in the hot seat. she was running "the news of the world" at the time. and she no doubt, again, the ball was rather dropped because the sean sayings that's come out of today is the fact that glenn, the man who did all the hacking, the demon hacker, is still being being paid or his legal expenses have been paid by news limited and he may still be paid. no one has actually seemed to have looked at his contract recently. this is the man for whose work rupert and james murdoch and rebekah

that is the question that mrs. brooks has to answer. >> we continue this evening with the incredible story of one of the richest women in china, zhang xin. >> from the outside, i hear friends talk about the rise of china, the politicians knowing what they do. in fact, someone mo who ves, works in china, a different picture. chinese are complaining about the government. the government seems to be rolling out of the policies, and managing the everyday problems. and in terms of theconfence ofecoming a superpower, i see -- i just don't see that. >> we conclude this evening with investigative reporter and author ahony somers. he's written a book called "the eleventh day: the fully sotry 9/11 and osama bin laden." >> what we did in the end was, i hope, successfuy to dispatc to sane americans the utmost of the conspiracy theorist ideas. >> send them away? >> yes. >> but i think what happened was that those ideas, the lingering thoughts about them, have distted the facts and have blurred the things that one really should be conce

mr. brooks, conservative columnists, is saying come on. you are marginalizing yourself. can't even you even hear from your own people that ideal logically agreed with the republican line. >> well, look, reverend sharpton, you showed some polls a minute ago that showed 70 or 8 30ers don't agree with republican owns this or that or the other thing. if the republicans are standing up for their convictions and beliefs against the tide of public opinion, it may be political courage an political decision. i don't agree that brooks is a great conservative, al. i think i'm known as a conservative. but let me talk about bill's points. you mentioned yourself, al, let's go back to bush rates. you are talking about raising taxes. we don't believe when the economy, when guys are out of work, 16% of our labor force is underemployed or unemployed, do you hammer the private economy. one more point. you mentioned yachts. i don't have a yacht. >> mentioned yachts. you mentioned airplanes. >> i went to bay water boats in georgia. they used to make a hundred boats a year. they were making o

i can't speak. >> rebecca brooks. >> i simply cannot speak for mrs. dirks when she was chief executive is one of the people who brought it may attention is a new thing. >> let me offer this questioning. i'm going to wrap up, but we have left now with a situation where you come having looked into this affair, having cooperated with police cannot tell us who launched the file, who was aware of its contents in who kept to you from being in full possession of the bank, evidence that clearly contradicts any assurance we were given not in one, but two committees with the inquiries. that's unsatisfactory. >> i can say that the company at the time engaged in an outside law firm to review a number of these e-mails are provided to the law firm as i understand it. they reviewed an opinion piece to the company of a respected -- the opinion was clear in the company on that. i cannot speak to individuals knowledge of different times because they simply don't know. what i do know is the company rested on not coming rested on the fact the police told us there was no

and particularly with mrs. brooks, again and again, it was brought to her, but we never really fundamentally understood how did these people who should have or perhaps might have known failed to know? and i think that is still very much a question to be answered, probably by the judicial inquiry. >> let me turn to you, vicky ward, a personal friend of the murdochs. we spoke to you yesterday. you movingly spoke about rupert murdoch. it's a difficult day. he started off saying it's a the most humble day of his life. >> and there was an e-mail from wendi, that she had slapped him. and i e-mailed back, go, girl, or go, wendi. he was very fragile, contrite at the beginning and started to get more resilient, more rambunctious toward the end. he came out strong about the telegraph. an important point here. two years ago, the british public seemed quite content to -- when the "daily telegraph" broke a very big story about the abuses on mps' expenses and obtained this information by paying for it, paying for stolen documents,

>> the management of the company at the time recently the chief executive, mrs. brooks. >> that was her decision? >> she was chief executive of the company and senior level personnel skigdecisions are mad them. >> he left the day or the day after allegations were made about phone hacking. was that linked? did he resign? was he sacked? what happened to stewart cortner? how did he leave the company? >> that i don't know. that would have been for -- that would have been at the time a "news of the world" matter for them. >> why did les hinton resign? >> les hinton resigned, sadly, last friday, following rebekah brooks resignation and saying i was in charge of the company during this period that we are under criticism for and i feel i must step down. >> were either rebekah brooks or les hinton, were they asked to leave or did they ask to leave? >> they both asked to leave. >> why did you not accept rebekah brooks's resignation when she first offered it? >> because i believed her and i trusted her and i do trust her. >> so why did you accept it the second time around then? >>

under his and under mrs. brook'' leadership, complicity. it was to force bbc online to charge for its content and to sell off the bbc commercial and activities, to open up more sporting events to bids from bskyb, to open up the cable and infrastructure market, and finally to reduce the powers of their own regulator. mr. speaker, i rejected these policies. it was clearly in news international's interest. the truth is in government records for everyone to see, and i am happy to come forward with any inquiry. there were no behind-the-scenes arrangements, no promises. i doubt if anyone in this house would be surprised to hear that the relationship was that all these years -- neither -- neither -- going back to the events as early as 2007, as early as the summer of 2007, i think people will see on reflection this as some of proof of an over friendly relationship is absurd. making the the murder of soldiers could hardly be the reflection of a deep relationship towards me. and a front-page portrayal of me as dr. evil, hardly confirmation of our fr

mr. brooks: mr. speaker, i yield the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for three minutes. ms. delauro: i rise in strong opposition to this rule and the legislation before us today. if we do not act in two weeks, the united states will for the first time in history default on its debt. with the economy in the vulnerable position right now, we should be working to create jobs instead of acting responsibly and in a bipartisan way to raise the debt ceiling, the republican majority has decided to make this a form of hostage taking to press their agenda. congress has always paid for its past financial commitment. with republican majorities agreeing on raising the debt ceiling seven times during the bush administration. everyone understands a long-term challenge posed by budget deficits

mr. brooks is not listening to the same people i'm listening to which are my constituents. i don't think the message that he got from the november election was the same message i got. now we're spending 43 cents out of every dollar is borrowed money. the national debt's $14.3 trillion and threatens a sovereign debt crisis unless we deal with it and there's no national monetary fund to big the united states out if we turn out like greece. it's premature to be beclairing who is reasonable and not. negotiations really didn't start seriously until the president himself got personally engaged and ultimately only he and mitch mcconnell and john boehner are the ones that are able to make a deal. it's going to have to pass through the house of representatives and it's going to have to pass through the senate. that's why i think when president clinton said it may be too late to get a comprehensive dole and only a mini deal done to kick the can down the road but to get the cuts we can, that may be the practical outcome here. it's really too early to say. >> what about pocketing what

mr. brooks apparently is not listening to the people that i'm hearing from in my state and across the country. look, this deal is is not over yet. we still have some time. thankfully between now and august 2 to reach some sort of negotiated outcome. but what i think david brooks underestimates is what it's going to take to pass this. not only through the house but also through the senate. it's going to require 60 votes in the senate. so it will take more than the president having a press conference or having a meeting. we need to come up with a package that can actually pass both branches of the congress between now and august 2. and i just frankly don't think tax increases particularly during a weak economic recovery, are likely to pass either the house or the senate. >> woodruff: we hear you, senator john cornyn, thank you very much. >> thanks, judy. >> ifill: next, taking desperate measures in cleveland to deal with a massive foreclosure problem newshour economics correspondent paul solman has the story, part of his ongoing reporting on the housing crisis and "making sense of financial new