murdoch. >> mr. murdoch, at what point did you find out that criminality was endemic at news of the world? >> endemic is a very hard... is a very wide-ranging word. >> tonifrontline correspondent lowell bergman goes inside the phone-hacking scandal... >> they hacked my phone, and they ran some pretty hideous stories about my sexuality. >> they hacked my messages between myself and the chief executive. >> that rocked a government... >> this is becoming a very, very big scandal. biggest news organization in the country are in trouble, biggest police force in trouble, and furthermore, the new prime minister's right-hand man is in trouble. >> ...and shook the media gia. >> i would just like to say one sentence. this is the most humble day of my life. >> there is a shakespearean tragedy to what's happened. what's created him now looks like it could destroy him. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broa

or rupert murdoch. so this is partly a question of where the evidence leads us. and sue acres this week said that these corrupt payments, a very wide range of public officials, were authorized and approved at a very senior level at "news international." we don't know quite what she's talking about there and i think the fate of james murdoch will partly lie in the answer to that and also in the imiment announcement from the house of commons select committee on media, what they make of his testimony. i think the defense strategy is to try to put a series of firewalls between rupert and the board and the scandal. and it looked as a while andy coulson, the former editor of "news of the world" would be firewell -- >> all are gone. >> and closer and closer to rupert murdoch, and i think the hope now that this can be contained in the u.s. but this week's revelations about industrial scale corrupt payments, as john says, do heighten the risk of a prosecution in the u.s. under the foreign corrupt practices act.

your evidence that murdoch right now today james murdoch right now today should be in the custody of the f.b.i. who is in charge of arresting people for foreign corrupt practices act the man has obviously brought foreign officials police officers and politicians in the u.k. but he's not arrested was interested because he's connected he's an oligarch listen to how somebody who is not one of these oligarchs is treated suspect a celebrity hacker case sorry for all of this christopher chaney thirty five a nobody from jacksonville florida is accused of hacking into the accounts of more than fifty celebrities including movie stars scarlett johansson a meal a coonass and singer christina aguilera a grand jury indicted chaney and nine counts of computer hacking for again eight counts of aggravated identity theft and nine counts of illegal wire tapping if convicted of all twenty six counts cheney would face a maximum of one hundred twenty one years in federal prison here's rupert murdoch who has been hacking celebrity accounts for over a decade quite clearly and what does he face nothing abso

that rupert murdoch's news corporation adding gauged in systemic widescale. bribery of corrupt police officers corrupt government officials in the u.k. so here you have rupert murdoch doing all the bad things that everyone is up in arms about in terms of what is being revealed through with the leaks but somehow through were rupert murdoch's organization there's not that level of outrage your thoughts on the role of the media in maintaining this this dual standard system where murdoch is good given so far a slap on the wrist for doing things for doing is spying illegal spying corruption where is wiki leaks which is doing actually a public good service is seen as somehow in bed with the terrorists well it's certain certain very big forces are attacking wiki leaks it would seem. the u.s. government for example there are you know people who really don't want we keep leaks doing what they're doing they're a major threat to something and that's why you see blockading in the payments they can't you can't pay you can't donate money to wiki leaks through pay pal maste

murdoch's business back in the united states.but i don't think anyone has any doubt that it also reflects the steadily-building pressure on james murdoch the son personally, on rupert murdoch, on the entire enterprise by these growing circles of allegations about all sorts of ethically questionable behavior here in britain. >> ifill: you talk about ethically questionable behavior, a lot of fallout from that just in the past six months. do we knowhether james murdoch himself has been or is likely to be implicated directly in these schemes? >> i think the likelihood is no. certainly in terms of being personally involved in things like the phone hacking, these alleged... in fact now recognized corrupt payments to police and other officials, that didn't happen on james murdoch's watch. he wasn't in charge in the time. it's a little like wergate. e issue isn'the crimes o the alleged crimes it's the alleged coverup or the questions of basically who knew what when. >> ifill: take him out of the succession loop? is it assumed by moving t

stock holders are looking to push james murdoch out and another senior murdoch staffer has been jailedpert's grip on things continues to loosen. james' announcement he is stepping down may not be the end of things: at last year's annual meeting 35% voted against james murdoch's election to the board. according to one senior executive the younger's days may be limited: all of this comes as the report that rupert murdoch will be called to publicly testify in late april or early may. the american correspondent for the guardian joins me now. when they had the vote it was thought if they got 10% against that this would be a major statement of opposition to his continuing involvement and they got 35%. is that an indication that he might be ousted from the inside? >> it is far worse than 35%. it is just the murdoch vote nearly 70% of independent share holders. the problem is there is a dual voting system and the family controls the company. the share holders ousting james through a vote is limited. it is a sign of something much more important is a growing mood within the company and people a

is it no longer a stretch to say we might see a james murdoch or rupert murdoch perp walk?members of parliament have been openly skeptical even disdainful. he's had to go fort and acknowledge substantive evidence proved things he said were wrong. his subordinates said they showed him things several years ago that he has sworn he did not know of. >> the horse will always give you away. talk about cleaning the stables. great pleasure to see you again, sir. >> thank you. >> rush limbaugh and the women and the advertisers and the bizarre thing his bosses did to his show today. next. >> limbaugh declares victory in the sandra fluke fallout while his bosses suspend all nationally advertised barter deals associated with his show. an exit poll has romney up by two points on san toruloma and three on gingrich. in fact, romney had led in the first set of exit polls in mississippi by four points. it could be very, very close. details ahead. ttv

jim axelrod reports, that puts james murdoch in a tough spot. >> reporter: james murdoch has long insisted the hacking was the work of a rogue reporter who tapped into voice mails and e- mails of the people in the news and has consistently pushed back against any suggestion he knew of any illegal behavior. as he did during this parliamentary inquiry late last year. >> mr. murdoch, you must be the first mafia boss in history who didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise. >> mr. watson, please. i think that's inappropriate. >> reporter: the hacking targeted celebrities like hugh grant and the "harry potter" author j.k. rowling, as well as murder victims like 13-year-old milly dowler. she was already dead when a reporter hacked into her cell phone and retrieved the messages, leading her parents to believe the girl was still alive. but so far, nothing has directly connected the murdochs to any wrongdoing. on monday, though, police investigator sue acres said she had evidence employees have murdoch-owned newspaper had bribed a wide range of public officials in return for stories. one rep

>> the newest rupert murdoch scandal, his pay t.v.people, steal secrets, gave them to a pirate website in order to put the rival out of business. coming up. attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching act i.v. you had hundreds of women show up, thousands signed petitions. they made their voices heard. what happens is that now, the legislators are running scared. very similar laws have passed quietly in other states for the past 10 years, really in the past two years have intensified. pennsylvania a similar law was shelved, idaho this proved to be political poison. women are paying attention and having their voices heard. >> thanks for coming in. >> the aclu considers a demand that to get a job you have to let an employer open your private mail, the senate wants to make it illegal to hand over a password to your facebook account. was we might as well stick with what we have. now it's something new in the eyes of rick santorum, a guy he would be willing with whom to share the

is it no longer a stretch to say we might see a james murdoch or rupert murdoch perp walk? >> members of parliament have been openly skeptical even disdainful. he's had to go fort and acknowledge substantive evidence proved things he said were wrong. his subordinates said they showed him things several years ago that he has sworn he did not know of. >> the horse will always give you away. talk about cleaning the stables. great pleasure to see you again sir. >> thank you. >> rush limbaugh and the women and the advertisers and the brought to you by thermacare heat wraps. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells for up to 16 hours of back pain relief. can your patch say that? thermacare works differently. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe and unlock tight muscles for up to 16 hours of relief. that's 8 hours while you wear it, plus an additional 8 hours of relief after you take it off. can your patch, wrap cream or rub say that? so if you've got pain... get up to 16 hours of pain relief with thermacare. >> limbaugh declares vict

with a conversation with lowell bergman, the producer of a "frontline" documentary on pbs about the murdoch investigation in london. >> what's at stake is not only a lot of the coverage, which is focused on the family and who's going to succeed rupert but it's also the basic notion of how he built his'm tire because when you think about it, these tabloids in the u.k. were the foundation, the money machine back 30 years ago that helped him grow in the united states, pushed him forward. they were a phenomenal success. >> rose: the supreme court considers health care and the murdoch investigation in london when we consider. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: today the supreme court of the united states began three days of oral arguments on president obama's signature domestic achievement. the health care reform law. congress passed the patient protection and affordable care actin 2010. the court's decision is expected in june. health care coverage for tens of millions of americans is at stake. the rule willing also have

on the occupy spring, and murdoch-gate touches very near the throne. james murdoch out.ichael wolfe analyzes. and the right winger who has solved the crisis of food stamps. all who receive them, he says, should lose their right to vote. all that and more now on "countdown." good evening this is wednesday february 29, 252 until the 2012 presidential election. romney beat santorum in the arizona primary while he tie loses counts but ties delegates in michigan. in the classroom if you get 15 and the other guy gets 125 you're even. ifin politics,. >> it was a big night for me last night for me. i was very pleased. arizona and michigan right next door. >> right next door in super state ohio where he was this morning, where he's behind and he repeated the mantra that he won last night. >> we didn't win but a lot but we win by enough. that's all that counts. romney dominating in arizona beating santorum as expected by 20 points. santorum thanking his michigan supporters last night. >> the people of michigan looked into the hearts of the candidates and all i have to say is i lov