murdoch. might it be said that what that also demonstrates is that when the decision was taken in the summer of last year to clean out the stables as it were, that was almost argue that at least an overreaction? because you realize that the history's that fall between 2006 in last year demonstrated cover-up? therefore, it was necessary to go to accessible -- >> you use words like cover-up. certainly, disclosed not the committee but what was coming out, phone banking, plenty of hacking at the stage, although we went in and we went way beyond it. and way beyond anything that the police asked us to do, that i had made my personal pledge to parliament, and although this caused great pain, huge pain, to families, and as i say, distressed myself, but we did it. i'm glad we did it. we are now a new company altogether. and mr. justice leveson rather reminded me are talking about hindsight, but if i may just for a minute. if i, again, had really got into it when mr. goodman read that letter in 2007 say

murdoch? >> that i used the influence, the supposed political power, to get fall riverrable treatment. ( laughter ). >> jon: when you say you never used influence to get favorable treatment is a myth, do you mean that as in it's a fanciful way of explaining things that are hard to explain, or that it's a story about how grotesquely powerful beings assume various forms to ( bleep ) mortals? ( laughter ) ( applause ) by the way that-- the story is apparently how peaches ended up with fuz. come on, rupert murdoch! don't ( bleep ) on my chest and tell me it's vegemite. according to various reports, murdoch had been a frequent visitor and vestee of british prime minister wishing to thank him for his support for a long, long time. in 1981, two years bomargaret thatcher's first term, murdoch was allowed to circumvent monopoly rules to buy papers. and it was waived again for his satellite tv purchase. in 1998, murdoch asked prime minister blair to squash a european investigation that would further del

murdoch. the point i was gently putting to you is that you said if you want to judge my thinking, look at the sun. >> look at the editorials in the sun. >> yes. there's only two ways that the editors could logically know your thinking. either because you tell them or because they work it out. do you agree? >> i wasn't talking about the editors. i think i was talking about the politicians. >> no. no, you were talking about -- the direct quote is page 36 of the transcript in the morning. lines 15 to 16. if you want to judge my thinking, look at the sun. that's what you said. >> yes. i don't say absolutely parallel in every detail. it's not. but generally speaking, the issues that we get interested in that we fight for, you will find them in the sun and you will find that i agree with most of them if not all. >> just the -- >> there are details which i don't agree with only reasonably. >> just how they work out, what your thinking is. there's only two possibilities. either you tell them -- >> the

murdoch. i'm not going to present at any further. can i move forward with mr. brown? june 2008, we can take just one month, the documents demonstrate that you at dinner with mr. brown on the sixth of june and your respective wives were present to do you accept that? >> yes. >> fourteenth of june was the famous slumber party where i don't believe you were present spent i think they were just a bunch of women. complaining about their husbands probably. >> fifteenth of june you have -- you were mr. brown's dinner guests with president bush, do you member that? >> yes. that was a large party spent about 30 of 40 people there? >> yes. i'm sure there were other people there from the press. >> and then the 16th of june, mr. brown attends your annual party speakers yes, i think so. most people do. >> and were you involved in any way in the timing of the decision to support the party on 31st of september, 1989? >> no, i was not consulted as to the exact timing. we certainly had talks over a period. mrs

murdoch account is completely wrong. as for david cameron, he was flown out to meet rupert murdoch on a yacht in the mediterranean. why did politicians go to such trouble to see him? he was asked. >> politicians go out of their way to impress people in the press. >> one other politician who has crossed his path? the first minister of scotland. >> i do not know him well. he is an amusing man. i enjoy his company. >> he seemed to most stressed that he never traded endorsements from his newspapers, particularly "the sun," for some commercial favor. but one thing that he did except was that he had made news in his own newspapers. -- accept was that he had made news in his own newspapers. >> i am not good at holding my tongue. >> bbc news, at the levenson inquiry. >> the fallout from yesterday's proceeding continues to spread. the consequence of the defendants' actions have proven to be another setback for the government of the prime minister, david cameron. >> is he the culture secretary, or the minister for murdoch? protect

murdoch. >> i am getting ahead of you, aren't i. >> yes. >> can we just take five minutes. >> thank you. >> after a short break mr. murdoch continued his testimony and discussed ethical considerations and why he now feels he should have had a more direct role in the phone hacking case. this is an hour. >> i have been asked to make it clear by the metropolitan police they never said that we are satisfied there is any one rogue reporter. that was news international's assertion, not theirs. do you understand? >> i understand what you're saying. it was not my understanding until then. >> evidence to this inquiry day 18 page 7, line 18, day 18, page 26, line 22, according to the news corps website the entry for the tenth of july, 2009, says this. news international has delayed making the detailed statement until all relevant facts being analyzed and checked internally and externally news international has completed a thorough investigation into the various allegations made since the guardian broke

murdoch. but certainly turning the other way around, mr. hunt pro-murdoch. that must have -- is it true that the longer this went on the higher the price might have to be? >> no. well, the longer it went on, the grittier the hedge funds got and big talk. that was their way of negotiating. it always is. >> is it your feeling, mr. murdoch, that were it not for the -- really the hacking scandal, the voice mail delete allegations you would have got the remaining shares in b sky b. >> well, i don't know whether we can put it down to this fortune. but the hacking scandal, yes. i mean, the hacking scandal was not a great national thing until the disclosure. half of which -- i'm not making excuses at all -- but half of which has been disowned by the police. but not for many weeks afterwards. we didn't know -- we didn't have any information because the police had under lock and key. still do. and we've been limited at all times by that. >> can i ask you this direct question, mr. murdoch. i told you tha

murdoch that it would be approved. january, he said it was "almost game over for the opposition to bid." and two leaders -- "we are in a happy place tonight." >> we now know he was being a back channel for the murdochs. the prime minister must show leadership and fire him. >> i have written the prime minister and i am confident when i have presented evidence, the public will see i have been hit with absolute integrity and scrupulous object to the -- i have behaved with absolute integrity and scrupulous objectivity. so mr. smith and mr. hunt face a perilous wall to stay in government. bbc news. >> for more on the political fallout from today's hearing, i spoke with our political editor, nick robinson from downing street. >> it is extraordinary. have they claimed another ahead? >> the culture secretary is not resigning. we're told the prime minister is behind him. the government director of communications, the head of news international, the very existence of the biggest selling newspaper in this country, and billions of

murdoch? >> i knew of mr. michel's existence a few months before that. >> now when you became acquainted with these 162 pages were you surprised by the extent of mr. michel's at to these? mr. michel's activities? >> i did not see anything wrong with his activities. was i surprised? that it had gone on so long and there were so many e-mails? yes. >> was at your surprise only on this when it should have happened much sooner, namely we should've gotten a bit much sooner? >> no, i was just surprised at the success of our competitors lobbying, and of course they would never have succeeded if it hadn't coincided with the hacking scandal. >> were you not surprised by the success of mr. michel been lobbying with mr. hunt's department? >> i don't think there was success. they were made to make very big concessions for reasons which i can't understand. >> were you not surprised by the degree of apparent closeness between mr. michel and mr. hunt's office? >> no, and i don't want to see -- say anything ag

murdoch's testimony after this quick break. in news related to the hearing this morning special advisor to olympic minister jeremy hunter has resigned over his role in rupert murdoch and news corp.'s attended take over a satellite broadcaster sky b. e-mails were released tuesday. you can see yesterday's inquiry and testimony by james murdoch on c-span.org. ♪ >> while we wait for the hearing to resume the senate gavels in this morning at 9:30 eastern and will be considering moving forward with the violence against women act. at 2:00 they will resume work on u.s. postal service changes and vote on methods of final passage. each requires a 60 vote majority. live coverage of the senate on c-span2. homeland security secretary janet napolitano is on capitol hill today testifying before the senate and the department of homeland security oversight hearing. was expected to address cybersecurity and cyberthreats and lack of experts to assist the federal government. the secret service investigation will come up. live coverage of that hear

murdoch? >> keith rupert murdoch. >> in front of you, i believe you'll see a witness statement you signed and dated 12 april of this year, with 44 exhibits. there's a declaration of truth on it. are you content that the inquiry receives your statement as your formal testimony? >> i am. >> mr. murdoch, as i've said to a number of other witnesses, indeed to many other witnesses, i am very grateful for the obvious care that you have taken in the preparation of your evidence, and the material that you've placed before the inquiry, and i wanted to record that. >> thank you, sir. >> you are the chairman and chief executive officer of news corporation, a company incorporated in the united states. >> yes. >> with total assets of $60 billion and a total annual revenue of $34 billion. is that right? >> yes, approximately, yes. >> for our purposes, if we can be more parochial, approximately 8% of news corp's revenues are generated in the united kingdom, 60% by news international. is that right? >> it is

murdoch. would you agree that the -- >> i need a transcript. go ahead. >> would you agree that maintaining high ethical standards in newspapers costs money? >> no, i don't. i agree that failure to maintain ethical standards can be immensely expensive as i am here witness of today. >> that's certainly true. we'll come to that. in order to have proper systems in place internally to ensure that ethical standards are installed in the first place and then maintained and preserved, there is a commercial cost, isn't there? >> no. we have compliance officers. we have more now as a result of this. the cost is even though they're highly paid people, and distinguished lawyers, it is peanuts compared to what this whole scandal and inquiry has cost us. i mean, i am talking now hundreds of millions. i think -- you may want to go through a couple of other instances first before i would like to just expand on that at some stable. stage. >> now, put to your point, mr. andrew niels said in an interview he gave

murdoch? and i think that, showed frustration with some of the parrying and deflection we have seen in the previous 24 hours. so he had a tougher time, he made some fairly extraordinary admissions that he had failed, and that there had been a coverup, and essentially, you know, he said the coverup had been a very, very junior level within the news world which of course is now closed. >> john, when you assessed his performance today, did he open himself up to vulnerabilities weren't to the hacking scandal? >> no, i actually don't think he did. i think if there -- if joel klein and the others in his legal team are keeping score, the first thing that you would have to say is that he didn't -- he didn't worsen the situation as i judged it for news international, the british subsidiary or for news corp or the senior executives. i think what he took great advantage of a plalt form -- plalts form, seven or eight hours on the stand live television watched by millions in this country, a platform to let

murdoch? >> that i used the influence to get favorable treatment. >> meanwhile, the man who was the go-between has gone. adam smith described as the point of contact between the minister and the murdoch's, bidding for control for bskyb. material included apparently >>> e-mails -- damning emails -- the culture secretary paid tribute to the special adviser and insisted that he had acted would scrupulous fairness in his traditional role overseeing the bid. >> transcripts of conversations and text published yesterday have been alleged to indicate there was a back channel through which news corp. were able to influence my decisions. this is categorically not the case. >> defeated many reminders that he remains under pressure, heat -- a feat needed any reminders that he remains under pressure, he had to endure this taunt. >> words which at good the scene sounded by the leader of the opposition just minutes before at a charged session of prime minister's questions. >> while this culture secretary rem

murdoch? >> that i used the influence of "the sun" or supposed political power to get favorable treatment. >> and meanwhile, the man who was the go between has gone. government special adviser adam smith described as point of contact between minister and murdoch bidding of control of the u.k. satellite broadcaster be sky b. material when james murdoch gave evidence yesterday had included damning picks and e-mails indicating a government bias towards newscorp. >> mr. secretary -- >> facing the house of commons, the secretary jeremy hunt paid tribute to his special adviser but insists he had acted with scrupluss fairness in his quasi judicial role overseeing the bid. >> our transcripts of conversation and texts published yesterday between my special adviser adam smith and a news corporation representative have been alleged to indicate there was a back channel through which news corporation were able to influence my decisions. this is categorically not the case. >> but if mr. hunt needed any remi

we have seen that rupert murdoch has been on gmt. this is another facet of the relationship between the murdoch empire and government. >> that's right. this relates to e-mails that came out during james murdoch's evidence. it relates to the recent history when the murdochs were trying to launch a full buyout of the satellite broadcaster b sky b. the government was in the middle of trying to decide whether to allow that bid to go ahead. it appears the back channel of information going back and forth between james murdoch and the office of the culture secretary. that is why he is under so much pressure. ed miliband was there saying he was colluding with news corp. and that he was withholding information from parliament. that is very serious allegations. >> very serious. we are looking at pictures of rupert murdoch at the leveson inquiry, the inquiry into media ethics. if the board that you have this particular instance it over b sky b, but the broader question is that he had influence over several british politicians, several british l

murdoch. may not have it. >> the letter in january, yes. >> you got those. how many people did they employ in scotland? >> endeavour member of the number of the top of my head but i can come back with the exact number. but 5 or 6,000. >> as many as 18,000. >> that is the total direct employment base. more are in direct. >> in relation to him, after the 2007 election when scotland did not support his policy, news international, his party became closer. >> in 2007, that was the for i was fair. before i was there. i only met him much more recently than that. >> tab 67, we put together for you. the event which took place independent -- you recall this. , they say that you went around to the independent offices to an article which said rupert murdoch decided -- is that true or not. >> not correct. would you mind if i just give you my version of the events? >> thomas what happened. >> i had a meeting in the same building as associated newspapers which is in the article. we went downstairs. i was ups

rupert murdoch and james murdoch have continued with their defense that they did not understand the full picture of it. james murdock was explaining a bit about what happened in 2007 when he took over at news international. he was explaining a bit about the kind of corporate governance that was in place there. >> it was clear to me and the question became -- in the newsroom, in the past, it had not been tight enough. that is why a new editor was appointed. the new editor, who i thought had no skin in the game in the past, was there. the newsroom governance, again, was really an issue for the editor and the legal manager to be responsible for. those assurances were clear that they had strengthened the government's to be able to catch these things in the future. it was my understanding that the implication of that was the previously, in 2006, they have not been. their position was that they did not know about it. >> as we heard from james murdock, hindsight is a wonderful thing. that has been expressed. the interesting -- the point that they were buying of reputation by throwing money at t

today, it was the turn of rupert murdoch to face enquiries into ethics. yesterday, testimony from his son james was so bad that it led for calls for one to resign. he was downplaying his family's influence over u.k. officials. our business editor reports on today's extraordinary proceedings. >> driving through a little piece of history. rupert murdoch, he was about to be held to account in four hours of interrogation by the inquiry into immediate standards. >> i swear to almighty god that this will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the tree. >> a big figure in british media since the 1960's, former prime minister is always open to him. >> would it be fair to say about margaret thatcher and what she stands for? >> yes. i became that after she was elected. >> but with the election of tony blair in 1997, questions had arisen over whether his influence over political leaders is dangerous. >> i in 10 years never asked mr. blair for anything. nor did i receive it. >> if his ownership of this newspaper, that is what matters. >> if any politician wan

murdoch. is it your feeling that there's a lot of mythology around you that really needs to be debunked? >> yes. >> well, we'll see how we get on during the course of today. can i say what the plan is? >> well, we're going to focus on the political issues first, and the approach will be speaking chronological otherwise we'll lose track of where we are, then i'll go to the issue of phone hacking and then we'll look at some broader questions. are you content with that? >> yes, indeed. >> now the acquisition of the "l.a. times" and "sunday times" times -- the "times" and "sunday times", you bid on those papers in 1980, didn't you, mr. murdoch? >> yes, i -- perhaps. forgotten. >> ok. we'll talk about how many. at that stage you having acquired "the "news of the world" in 1968 and the sun in 1969, you had quite a bit of the u.k. market, is that correct? >> well, "the sun" must have been a more sudden success than i thought in memory to reach 30% within 10 years, but i'll take your fear. >> and the

does he think it acceptable that murdoch not -- murdoch knew not only about what is it going to do and say, but crucially, the regulator said on the 10th of january, 2011 and what the opponents have said on the 20th of march and 31st of march, 2011. is he really going to suggest to this house that james murdoch's advisers, and knowing all of this was just a coincidence, can the secretary of state explain to the house how, beginning on the 23rd of january, they were in a position to tell murdoch the full detail of a statement the secretary of state was not going to give it to this house until two days later? what ever interpretation is put on e-mail, there can be no doubt the e-mail accurately and in detail describes meetings the secretary of state has had and accurately foretold what the secretary of state was going to do? when it comes to the transparency, the secretary of state promised there appeared to be a great deal of transparency for murdoch but precious little for opponents of this bid before this house. it is being suggested he was in a good shooting with murdoch. why didn't

murdoch made down the tweets. [indiscernible] >> reporter: murdoch's arguments are being closely watched here but also in the united states where he has powerful media companies and this whole inquiry has already gotten in the way of some of his business plans. the first casualty was murdoch's top selling news of the word newspaper. hacking scandal brought it down last year. murdoch's son james testified tuesday and e-mails revealed his cozy relationships with politicians when he ran part of the family's empire. but rupert murdoch insisted he has never asked a prime minister for anything. cbs news, london. >> rupert murdoch did admit to one major error at britain sunday times nearly 30 years ago. his paper published hitler's supposed diaries but they opportunitied out to be fakes and murdoch called it a massive mistake that he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. >>> good morning. thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >>> i'm mike hydeck. you're going to notice it's a little war

but it is different for james murdoch personally and the murdoch empire. >> it was said by some that james murdoch was going to focus on the pay-tv interest in the company. the fact that he has resigned from the crown jewel of the pay- tv interest makes it unlikely he will have a job in the pay-tv area. >> even with inquiries from any authorities continuing -- bbc news. >> now, if you are like me, you remember the day when dial-up service meant that high-pitched modem sound. for many americans in rural areas, the dream of high-speed internet is still elusive. for the 35 presidents of one california town, they are struggling to improve -- residents of one california town, they are struggling to improve their connection. they are hoping and nearby fiber-optic cable will help them. our video journalist would to hear their story. -- when to hear their story. -- went to hear. >> what distinguishes it from many other places is it is protected from development. i first came here in the 1960's. the difference between no internet and internet is huge. i mean, without internet, you are isolate

today's hearing put his son james murdoch in the hot seat. he spent over six hours being grilled about the phone hacking scandal linked to senior u.k. politicians. >> the company which she once let has been accused of having to close a relationship with various public officials. tonight, after a day of evidence from james murdock, the suggestion is it was to close a relationship with the office of a cabinet member. mr. murdoch stepped forward to give evidence under oath. >> i swear that the evidence i shall give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. could he was taken first to phone hacking, and, time and again, he claimed ignorance of the scale of wrongdoing at the company he headed. >> it is not what i was told at the time. that is not what they communicated to me. >> and that was pretty much get on phone hacking. the former executive chairman either could not remember or claim ignorance. and then to the question of news international's political links and specifically to the companies bid in 2010 to take control of

. >> british judges grill rupert mow rupert murdoch on his influence. i'm monica see mamee czar with the details. >>> media mogul rupert murdoch says that he wants to set the record straight in his testimony of britain's high court. the billionaire is facing tough questions about the close ties with the media and politicians which some think may have led to the phone hacking scandal. monica villamizar has more. >> reporter: rupert murdoch seemed relaxed as he took a seat at a government hearing into media ethics. the media giant insisted he's not angry at britain's prime minister for bringing him into it. >> i welcomed the opportunity to do it. >> reporter: he denied telling editors which british politicians to support. revelations murdoch's company spied on public figures and hacked phones of murdered victims to get information has sparked public outrage. [ people chanting ] the 81-year-old media mogul took to twitter to bash the government after he and his employees came under investigation. >> the extreme -- >> reporter: murdoch played down the tweet

murdoch?f you are operated the other way around. you -- that is what a shrewd businessman does, would you not agree? >> yes, i was looking at the newspapers together. >> commercially, that would be wise but legally, one had to look at them separately. >> no. it was one company. >> he made clear to parliament that he was looking at each of them separately. that was clear from the left- hand column. that is not necessary -- i could see your position. whatever the legal analysis, you would look at them as one unit. is that right? graphics yes. -- >> yes. >> they said something about you. if you look at page 01606, on the right-hand side, the 01606. on the right-hand side. he said in the middle of the right hand column, that is an isolated example. one could give numerous examples of the australian council brought in allegations by papers in their political reporting. powers.g his newspapers' i read the australian papers every day for the best part of two years when i was writing a book on austral

during an inquiry last week, it revealed he had ties to james murdoch. that is live atomic clock 30 zero cspan. a little bit later today, john brennan, the deputy national security adviser for a homeland security will speak at the wilson center here in washington. he is expected to discuss the president paused counter- terrorism strategy and that will be live in eastern. at 2:00 p.m., president obama will be joined by the japanese prime minister for a joint news conference live on c-span. >> the aclu has believe for some time that police departments around the world are attracting people's cell phones and make regular basis off and not getting aeah staff attorney will talk about whether current law adequately protect an individual's right to privacy at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators," and cspan to. >>-2. >> i live in yukon, okla.. >> this weekend, our local content vehicles explore the culture of oklahoma city including the works of galileo at the history of science collection at oklahoma university. >> the most important part of this book is on moti

murdoch. >> thank you. not really, but i accept your approach. >> it as regards to your relations with politicians, has it occurred to you that they might know what you want or what you are thinking by exactly the same processes, either because you have discussions with them about your views or because they get to know you and work it out? >> i am a only in this country a lot less than 10% of my time, except for this last immediate period. and i think they know my philosophy, yes. >> fair enough. may i ask you about mr. go, he is the key politician. >> no, i wish he was. anything other than to say he had a very distinguished career and i have made have -- might've made it occasionally for the times. i think he and his wife are distinguished journalists and they have come to dinner once in the past two or three years. that was with his wife. then on another occasion, when mr. joe pine was with me and he was to do a conference with mr. gove on education when he was -- long before he joined me wh