rupert did not say much, but every word that he said mattered. james murdoch talked a lot, and i cannot really remember what he said. i thought that was quite interesting. he said quite often, that is a very good question, i am glad that you asked that, which is a brilliant public relations ploy. >> what about rebecca brooks? >> i have sympathy for her. she is a woman under enormous pressure. i think she has been maybe rightly vilified, but she has been vilified as a woman. i feel there has been too much of that and there has been less talk about what she actually did at the newspaper. >> it depends how it plays out. if she is made the fall guy or she was responsible. >> we don't know. >> right now, the jury is open. >> did you have any dealings with her? >> i did, when the front page of "the sun" was very inaccurate. she was very charming and offered no hope of redress or anything. >> as a company, as news corp. or news international need the murdochs? >> the institutional shareholders are the people who will count on that, and we all know what

you questioned rupert and james murdoch in parliament on tuesday.arlier he gave me his reaction to what he heard at that session. >> i think the important thing in terms of the "news of the world" in the u.k. that rupert murdoch made it perfectly clear that he put his trust in the senior management. and i think he's lost that confidence and that trust in those people and he made that perfectly clear. so i think that was one of the most important things, and i think he said at one stage that he -- he was sort of disappointed at the performance of senior management. >> it was interesting to see how you and other members of the select committee were very keane to focus very much on rupert murdoch himself and bringing the question back to him whenever his son tried to intervene. was that a deliberate move on your part or was it something that you discussed with your colleagues beforehand? >> no, certainly not. at the end of the day, rupert murdoch is the head of the news international group. but to be perfectly honest with you, my individual sort of per

rupert murdoch. the woman in the gray i'm not sure who she is. she was sitting to the left op of wendy dang. michelle is with us now. is this ovenly some type of protesters coming in to disrupt this and create a true embarrassment to rupert murdoch by delivering a pie in the face? >> we guess. we're basically looking at the exact same pictures that you are. and we're seeing a feed from all over sources here in the uk. it's the same picture so far. it does look like he had smm something in a tin in his hand and then it's all over himself. you assume he was trying to throw a pie possibly in rupert murdoch's face. you never know was there something else dangerous involved surrounding that. there was tight, tight secure of course going in there. how he got that much in there. maybe it was shaving cream in a tin, who knows. we're watching this unfold right now. pretty shocking after so many hours of testimony that's really been gripping not only the uk but obviously the u.s. and elsewhere as well. for thi

for years, rupert murdoch has been behind numerous cruel tabloid headlines.ddenly he's on the front page himself, and that's a pretty awkward place for a press baron to be, suddenly the target of what they call in britain the gutter press. dan rivers, cnn, london. >> a lot of questions probably centers on who knew what it and when. >>> as we've been telling you the phone hacking scandal has cost london's top two police officials their jobs. let's go back to atika shubert. the two high profile resignations pretty much one after another. the timing also important but quite incredible what's unfolded in the last few days. >> reporter: really is, and it has completely tainted the british police. what lawmakers are looking at now is, one, did police ignore the phone hacking scandal when they should have investigated further and two, did they take police payments. they want to know how far the corruption goes in scotland yard. former senior police officer john yates is the latest head to roll. now under investigation for his failed review of the police phone hackin

james and rupert have not.interesting about this hearing is the difficult task that these three witnesses especially the two murdochs have because at one level they have to acknowledge what everybody now knows. this hacking was business as usual at the news of the world. this is something that's impossible that they couldn't have known about. on the other hand, they can't get up there and admit to crimes and get arrested tomorrow. so how do you acknowledge the wrongdoing without admitting that you are part of it? i don't know how you do that. i expect they will try to testify at a broad level of generality but these members of parliament know that and they are good questioners. a lot of these members of parliament especially those in the labor party have big axes to grind with the murdochs so this could be an extremely contentious couple of hours. >> often you see whether here or there you see hearings take place because someone has an ax to grind or it's political. at this point the police have been implicated

rupert murdoch owns 12%. the prince owns 7%. what is more, he is far richer than rupert murdoch. rupert murdoch is said to be worth $7.5 billion. the prince is said to be worth $20 billion. i met the prince on an upper deck of his yacht. >> we hope that as this thing unfolds, the truth will come out. it is very important for me and my company, who are investors in news corp., to get this in order. ethics to me are very important. >> some terribly unethical things have taken place. hacking into the telephone of the murdered teenager. hacking into the relatives of british soldiers who have died in action. these are awful things. >> these are the problems of one newspaper, not of news corp.. the news of the world was shut down. unfortunately, the tactics used by tabloid newspapers are used by other tabloid newspapers also. >> james murdoch is in an uncomfortable position. either he knew what was going on and did not tell authorities, in which case he is perhaps liable for criminal prosecution, or he did know, and as a manager, he looks like he was not in control of his own organizat

bernie kerik was also a tool of rupert murdoch.ng would stop bernie kerik from doing anything murdoch or his lieutenants wanted him to do. bernie kerik was and is a criminal, and he was rudy giuliani's choice to be the police commissioner of the city of new york. there is no doubt tonight that bernie kerik is at the top of the list of people the fbi is going to want to interview in the investigation into what exactly murdoch's phone hackers may have done to the families of 9/11 victims in new york city. and if the fbi can find any dirt on bernie kerik in this case, then kerik will crack and tell them everything he knows about rupert murdoch and his empire. if murdoch needs kerik to stay quiet, then he needs to find a way to get the word to bernie that murdoch can do more for him in whatever is left of his future than the fbi can. murdoch and his new york team know how weak bernie kerik is. if they have to count on him to keep their secrets, they must be very, very worried tonight. >> my choice ultimately was and is bernie kerik. be

phones of murder and terror victims as well as dead soldiers the paper is a jewel in the crown of rupert murdoch's global media empire and a public inquiry has been promised by the government that has the details for us now from london. it started off relatively early really with just we understood the news of the world had been allegedly hacking into the phones of celebrities and politicians and to be honest no one in this country really cared about that very much we we all think that celebrities and politicians are sort of fair game as far as that kind of thing is concerned but then of course it escalated when it was alleged that the sunday version of the newspaper had tucked in to the telephones of relatives of soldiers killed in combat and also that those caught up in the two thousand and five london bombings the anniversary of which it is today in fact also the most shocking thing really for a lot of people in the first thing that was revealed was that news of the world journalists to deliberately hacked into the telephone of a missing girl milly dowler who was later found had been

the author of "inside rupert's brain" joins me now.murdoch said. >> do you accept that ultimately you are responsible for this whole fiasco. >> no. >> you're not responsible? who is responsible. >> the people that i trusted to run it and then maybe the people they trusted. >> paul, you wrote a book on this man, i want your perspective. how do you think he did? >> oh, i don't think he faired really well at all. most media observers will not really believe that rupert murdoch had no knowledge of what was going on, even if it was maybe just, you know, kind of implicit knowledge as opposed to real direct smoking gun knowledge. he hired rebekah brooks, was a loyal confidant of his. everyone knows that media tabloids is his first love. >> anything about his response, he said this is the most humble day of my career. do you buy it? >> i don't doubt that it is probably the most humble day of his career. he's had plenty of humble days, having sold myspace for a fraction of what they bought it for. it's been a rough patch for him. i do believe t

somebody tries to pie rupert murdoch. describe the scene as you recall it and especially i would say a rather feisty defense of mr. murdoch by his wife. >> oh, i mean, well, we're watching from the back. the picture -- all of a sudden, the noise. you see this woman in pink launch herself, going to give somebody a right hook. you then see james murdoch get out the chair like this. now, at first i couldn't tell whether mr. murdoch sr. had been hit. you can then -- in later pictures if you look close, you can see the foam. more than one person suggested that, you know, this could have been a brick, it could have been, you know, nails, it could have been much more serious. you have to bear in mind if it had been anything like that, it wouldn't have got into the room. we don't know how he got in with some shaving foam. he could have said he was just been home doing the weekly shopping. who knows? it was serious, but not because it could have been a much more vicious attack. it was serious because it was a disgrace. because any

henry, rupert. goddamnit i had to close the paper. i'm angrier than a blooming onion.hen i'm angry i want to buy stuff. see if colorado is available. call me. bye. [beeping] [bleeped]ded. [bleeped] on the barbie. i want to buy hugh jackman and make him breed with kylie minogue. koala me back. [applause] >> stephen: crikey. it looks like his media empire might go down the toilet now, and in australia it goes down the other way. [laughter] because yesterday murdoch had to abandoned his 12 billion dollar bid to buy british satellite broadcaster b sky b. we don't get b sky b here because the british satellites drive on the wrong side of the orbit. it is so sad, folks. with "news of the world" gone and b sky b out of reach, all rupert has to comfort him are these few media properties. [laughter] see, that's all. from now on... okay. all right. we'll be [cheering and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. you're very, very generous. i can tell. folks, here in the united states of america, we're under constant threat from forces working to undermi

. >> oh, my gosh, i'm so >> stephen: tonight, will a scandal bring down rupert murdoch? no. then a new threat from gitmo detainees. if they get any more dangerous, we might have to charge them with something. and my guest is jose antonio vargas, who recently admitted being an illegal immigrant. my original guest was the american whose job he stole. who has two thumbs and is incredibly bad at gesturing at himself? this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheering and applause] >> stephen: thank you for joining us, everybody. [audience chanting "stephen"] oh, that's nice. thank you for joining us. you know, once these people... once these people start chanting my name, you can't stop them. [laughter] folks, i want to say hello to everybody watching in america, especially to our viewers in italy. welcome. [cheering and applause] buenos aires. folks, tonight america sits helplessly by while we inch closer to a catastrophe. and i'm not talking about the debt ceiling. someone will do something about that. i'm talking about the hell

rupert murdoch. old is the world. here is the guy who successive prime ministers have been paying court to, have been going to his parties, inviting him to their parties, listening to everything he says. it was said to me, the way we would tailor advice to ministers would be to factor in what rupert murdoch and what news international newspapers would be saying. that was advice to ministers. this was the sun king they all worshipped at. today, the pauses that he had before he answered questions, rupert murdoch, would have made harold pinter proud, had pinter been alive to see it. they were extraordinary. this was the emperor who no longer had his clothes. >> okay. now, before we come back to you, stay with me, michael. stay with me, michael. i want to show, proving there's nothing like seeing it again and preferably when you can see it even slower, let's have a look at the slow motion replay of the incident that took place, and you can make your own movement. there you are. there we are. so you see j

what i found fascinating is rupert murdoch spent a lot of his first testimony not being rupert murdoch and being contrite and as the afternoon wore on what you saw was the emergence of very much the 20th century media mogul got more gruff but maybe felt more honest. at one pointthe questioner said rupert murdoch i'm going turn to you since i don't seem to get far with james murdoch and he got more gruff. he steamed to respond in a differt way. james was every bit the picture of a 20th centu corporate polished ceo saying no matter the merit of the question that's a tremendous and terrific question and i appreciate the manner in which it's been asked and his preambles were enormous and the content of the answers were minimal and existing always flattering the questioner. what i liked was the contrast. murdoch was as he said, humbled and i think he was contrite. the measure of the contrition seed to go down toughout the day until we got the pie as some over the internet said that saved news corp. not sure that's right but it was astonishing. >> charlie: and james murdoch to be protective

they said at least 50% more without rupert murdoch. the way they get it is from estimates of barclay's, and they say that it is worth much more than it trades for on the market, so there is a generic murdoch discount which encompasses that he will make decisions that are not consistent with the other shareholder interests. and so what makes news corp vuler inable is that this could make the murdoch discount as they call it bigger. in the short term, it may not matter that much, because murdoch's family owns 43% of the company and it would be difficult to kick him out, but if the family is discredited and the investors see a company worth a lot more than it is trading for and ripe for a takeover and you know who is very good at taking over businesses that are ripe with family struggles? "the new york times," because that is how he acquired them. they might not even need that much convincing to sell the company for much more than it is worth if they remain in charge of it. joining us now are brian steltzer, journalist at "the new york ti

and is not indispensable. >> pressure on rupert murdoch's media empire in the u.k. has intensified following new allegations of malpractice by journalists of its newspapers. >> breaking news coming to us from the writer news agency. an explosion has hit a gas terminals on each of its border with israel. the blast happened at a pipeline distribution station. one report said masked gunman had launched a raid, starting a huge fire. it is the third attack on the pipeline within the last few months and the second within the last fortnight. more on that story to come. story,eturn to our top the phone hacking scandal that is engulfing the rupert murdoch media empire here in the u.k. there was an article headlined "murdoch's watergate." thank you very much for joining us. >> the story has a question mark at the end. this is about a massive abuse of power, just as watergate was about a massive institutional abuse of power from the top down. what we are seeing here is astonishing and unprecedented, the hacking scandals shaking rupert murdoch's empire. none of us should be too

is the day rupert murdoch and his son did not want to see. they were summoned to answer questions about the scandal that rocked the country, allegations of widespread criminal activity by reporters at murdoch's now shuttered tabloid "news of the world." listen to this for a man infamous for his arrogance and ruthlessness. >> this is the most humble day of my life. >> reporter: rupert murdoch born in australia, age 80, an american citizen, presides over a global empire with $33 billion in revenue. he's the boss, but the buck does not stop witith him and he is n planning to step aside. ? because i feel the people trust trusted, i feel i'm the best to -- >> reporter: at his son james, an american citizen, runs company operations in europe and asia. when he was younger, he was the family rebel. now if he can hold on, he'll take over from his dad. >> if i knew then what w we kno now we would have takenore action around that and moved faster to get to the bottom of these allegations. >> reporter: it was james who did most of the talking. coming to

this is the front page. >> this is a nice shot of rupert touching his son's arm. the minority group, controls all of the other major newspapers. he and his son looking grim and pretty unhappy in the background. >> ha people have been arrested in the united states for cyber attacks. it is retribution for the decision to terminate the accounts held by the whistle blowing site wikilieaks. -- wikileaks. details about a warning from the international monetary fund. >> the rest of the debt crisis is threatening the recovery of not just europe but the world. the finance ministers are due. the german chancellor has said it is unlikely that they will draw a line under the problems. these calls from the imf are worrying. >> this is about the possibility not just within the rosellen, but outside of it. on the one hand, it is a situation where it is a junior financing -- it is facing in a shut by lead to a break out. we might see a change of course. the situation is really out of control after italy has been hit. it is really too big to bail out. >> president obama have focus

including some close to rupert murdoch himself? bryan todd reports. >> reporter: arrested, questioned for nine hours then released, rebecca brooks could play a key role. she was the fire wall between the public's fury and murdoch's family. now that she's an exmurdoch employee. >> can rebecca brooks bring someone else down. >> it's hard to see brooks having any interest in bringing anyone else down. she will fight very hard to clear her name. >> reporter: sarah smith says that's because brooks still values her ties to the murdochs or may have an eye on a editor job elsewhere. he won't comment on reports that she has several million dollars coming in severance pay. the list of casualties appears to be inching closer to the powerful ruling family. paul stevenson and john yates have resigned over their handling of the scandal. there was eddy colson out as prime minister david cameron spokesman this year, arrested earlier this month. last hint in chief checktive of dow jones and publisher of the wall street journal is gone. news of the

rupert murdoch's already shaky. public fury over the case challenges the future of britain's newspaper industry. they've got to take no they've got to take a chainsaw to government spending and do something about it calls for the u.s. to cut spending and threats to the country's credit rating might be downgraded if will make us fail to raise america's debt ceiling as more. economic crisis. one hundred thirteen bodies have now been recovered from the water. disaster on the volga river while divers and continue efforts to find a still. warm welcome to you this is the light from moscow i'm. a former executive editor of the disgraced news of the world newspaper has reportedly been arrested over the phone hacking scandal british pressing the rupert murdoch to face questioning of a continuing allegations that several of his newspapers were. voicemail hacking and bribed senior officials but he's a lawyer and reports the media mogul's read rise over the decades was littered with red flags warning of what was to come. rupert

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phone hacking scandal rocked rupert murdoch's already shaken. public fury of the case challenges the future of britain's newspaper industry. calls for the u.s. to cut spending and threats of the country's credit rating might be downgraded if lawmakers fail to raise america's debt ceiling that says more e.u. states plunged deeper into economic crisis plus. initial investigations into the sinking of the belgariad point to negligence that the tragedy could have been avoided. and made an investigation into sunday's pleasure cruiser disaster as divers continue to retrieve bodies from the would be death toll now standing at one hundred thirteen. with news and comment from around the world this is r.t. live in moscow twenty four hours a day with a rapid change of heart rupert murdoch and his son james have now confirmed they will give evidence to a parliamentary committee investigating the u.k. phone hacking scandal this comes hot on the heels of earlier reports that they declined the summons it's alleged that several of murdoch's newspapers were engag

rupert murdoch agrees to face a grilling by the u.k. parliament over phone hacking allegations while in the u.s. the f.b.i. begins its investigation into claims that news corp journalists tried. voice mail of the nine eleven families. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making i would liken this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body credit downgrade hangs over the u.s. says a moody's a ratings agency threatens to knock the glitter off the country's aaa position as the eurozone. slide introducing tough spending cuts. initial investigations into the sinking of the belgariad point to negligence the tragedy could have been avoided heavy lifting equipment arrived at the scene of the pleasure ship sinking on the river volga as prosecutors make the first arrests over the tragedy that claimed more than one hundred lives. bringing you the top news headlines and commentary from around the world this is our team had with us the sick look at your top stories rupert and james murdoch can . given in to press

live claritin clear. >>> it was a day of humble pie for rupert murdoch., there was this. >> i would just like to say one sentence, this is the most humble day of my life. >> then there was this. a man identified as activist and comedian jonnie marbles, charged rupert murdoch with a shaving cream pie, but one of the many reasons murdoch is married to a woman 37 years younger is that she is the best body guard in his entourage. wendi murdoch, seen here in the pink jacket, is a former employee of her husband and a former volleyball player who demonstrated the quickest reflexes in the room when she sprung towards the assailant and spiked the pie back in his direction. just before the attack, the comedian tweeted "it is a far better thing that i do now than i have ever done before." the gist of the murdoch testimony was i run a very big company and i didn't know any of these bad things were happening. >> did you or anyone else at your organization investigate this at the time? >> no. >> can you explain why? >> i didn't know that. this is not an excuse, maybe i

you can see rupert's wife. she's 42 years old. the mother of his two youngest children grace and kiloey jump up and attack the man in the face. he's been taken away in handcuffs. but again, you can see how close he gets in proximity to rupert murdoch and the rest of murdoch family. james answering the questions there, obviously startled and taken off guard. but rupert murdoch's wife jumping up in defense of him very quickly striking the man. there we have a picture of the guy that attacked the murdochs. it looks as if these got something all over his face. i'm not sure if he was trying to do something -- there's something in britain where i think people throw pies in other people's faces. maybe that's what he was attempting to do inside. it looks like he's got something in his face. again, police were quick to cross the room. the bobbies that you see there came in to ecourt the man out in handcuffs as we understand it. again, you can see rupert murdoch's wife jumping up. rupert murdoch was sitting there listening to his son who wa

but we know that rupert murdoch just hates this kind of situation. and he may, just may say things that he will regret later. and the whole empire seems to be teetering on the edge right now. we even have reports yesterday that some members of the board of news corp. are looking at replacing him. i'm not sure how they can do that. but the very fact that that's come up is absolutely an astounding reversal for a man who was receiptly citizen cane. >> news reports, coo, to succeed rupert murdoch. are we hearing anything from news corp. about chase carey? >> we're hearing from the, independent board members, independent directors they're called of news corp., making a statement today, very brief statement saying that they fully back rupert murdoch. so backing off from those reports. but you know, peter, so many, especially the biographers of rupert murdoch, those who know him well, are saying the name, the family, the brand, is just too tainted now. it's irreparable. >> one final thought, "the guardian" newspaper where you are is also reporting as we've

rupert murdoch knew nothing, absolutely zero? he had newspapers under his control that were delivering the most spectacular stories, stories about members of the royal family asking 500,000 pounds to allow people access to prince andrew. he -- that's the sort of story that his newspaper was delivering. members of parliament, for example, caught in bed with various women. again, stories that his newspapers were delivering. that is the kind of detail that rupert murdoch provided and yet was supposed to believe after today, he knows nothing and can't remember anything of the criminality. >> martin, your command of the story and perspective on it is invaluable to us. you can see martin bashir on msnbc, martin, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> it's a great pleasure, lawrence, and thank you for having me. >> coming up, what's next in the investigation of rupert murdoch's empire and what could come back to haunt him? [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of

british parliamentarians also grilled media mogul rupert murdoch and his son james pre- empt rupert murdoch apologized for the phone hacking, but he denied that he was ultimately responsible. he interrupted his son to say that the day was the most humble in his life. the proceedings took a dramatic turn when a protester hit rupert murdoch with a foam pie. >> there was a police escort for rupert murdoch as soon arrive for the parliamentary hearing. he and his son james appeared together. they faced tough questioning but were not r0quired to answer anything self incriminating. his son james was talking, and rupert interrupted. >> this is the most humble moment of my life. >> , murdoch said he had lost sight of "news of the world" and that he really did not know what was happening at the paper. the chief denied ultimate responsibility for the paper and blamed those he had trusted to run the paper. he also explained why the company had not investigated allegations earlier. >> it was not our job to get to justice. it was up to the police to bring charges and to carry out their investigation, whi

he successfully pied rupert murdoch with shaving foam on a plate. what was interesting, if you look at the picture again, and you see close up, wendy dang, rupert murdoch's wife launches out of the seat, hits good night with the pie, grabs the plate and lunges into her face. murdoch does restart the hearing ten minutes later. he's without his jacket and apologies all around for what took place. >> a remarkable day in london in parliament today. we're going to stay on top of this story. richard, thank you very much. lots of emotions, lots of tough questions in the parliament. was there more heat, though, than light? and joining us now from london, a member of the parliament. she's a member of the conservative party. thanks very much for joining us. do you think you got answers from rupert murdoch today? >> we got lots of answers. some questions still remain to be answered. if they didn't know, why didn't they know. but we did get very exhaustive answers to difficult questions over a sustained period of time. >> what's the biggest question you still w

do -- rupert murdoch has literally no idea what to do. >> thank you. could be the worst humanitarian disaster in world gear that is how the united nations commissioner for refugees is describing the drought ravaging east africa. today, he urged kenya to open a new refugee camp completed last year but never used. currently more than 350,000 people are sheltering in camps. it's from that we get this report. >> every morning, the weight, the weary and hungry. more than 1000 people desperate to into the refugee camp. the story is depressingly familiar. the drop in somalia drove her here, but like many others, she had to leave a sick relative, her husband, behind. >> he told me to save myself, save our children. do not stay around to die. some in the village were already dead. nor are right here -- this man ever arrived here a few weeks ago with his wife and parents, but on the long walk, his 3- year-old son died. >> he was crying all the time. there was nothing we could do. he was so hungry, so he just gave up. we buried him by the roadside. >> the camp he

listed company rupert murdoch's news corp could face one hundred million dollars bill for u.s. investigation into police payments dr evil here one hundred million dollars fine they're facing for forty four billion dollars i'm going to you know sort of those are clear about this that all means is that they call of goldman or morgan and they borrow one hundred million which then morgan will put on to the taxpayer tab as part of the overall bailout so this potential hundred million dollars would only happen if the u.s. department of justice decides to investigate based on america's foreign corrupt practices act so basically american listed companies aren't allowed to bribe foreign officials or let police or royal protection officers. well i you know the u.s. justice system is got some cards to play and i mean clearly in los you want to just say that nine eleven was a joke and a bunch of financial mercenaries died on that day and we shouldn't give a flying hoot about it but unless you feel my way then you should prosecute rupert murdoch if it up and stop complaining you whining bab

more questions to rupert and his son james. louise mensch accused me not one but twice of boasting in a book that i had gotten scoops when i worked for the daily mirror. >> piers morgan side open until his book, clearly published before this whole controversy broke, that he had hacked phones, he said that he won scoop of the year for a story, and he actually gave a tutorial on how one accesses voice mail by punching in a set default code, and clearly from the account that he gives, he did it routinely as editor of "the daily mirror." >> absolutely wrong, mrs. mensch. i never hack aid phone, never told anyone else to hack a phone. here is what i actually said in the book "the insider." apparently if you don't change the standard security code that every phone comes with, then anyone can call your number and if you don't answer, tap in the standard four-digit code to hear all your messages. i'll change mine just in case. but it makes me wonder how many public figures and celebrities are aware of this little trick." she was confro

. >>> rupert murdoch, mr. and mrs.hmann, and the debt ceiling gave the writers of the late night comedy shows everything they needed to work with this week. >> if this isn't good you guys, the u.s. is in serious danger of defaulting on our foreign loans, explains why china showed up and broke the statute of liberty's kneec kneecaps. >> we are like children. that's why yesterday once again, dad, much to his chagrin had to come home early from work and give us a talking to about not cleaning our budget. >> we're going to meet every single day until we get this resolved. we're going to get this done by august 2. we might as well do it now, pull off the band-aid, eat our peas. >> who keeps peas under their band-aids? you know, you get the senseç obama is the first president in history that begins every press conference with a heavy sigh. just comes out and goes -- wait, i'm being told his peas mention was not a metaphor. during budget negotiations, apparently, john boehner was literally not eating his peas. i didn't reali

. >> rupert murdoch and his son james r. and not see. the british law makers grill them over what they knew about the scandal. a dramatic attack interrupt the hearing. -- is due to die in texas tomorrow. it is now one of his victims fighting to save his life. hoping to make a splash, the london olympics. we follow one british athlete training hard to make the cut. welcome to our viewers on pbs and america. shocked, appalled, ashamed, the words that rupert murdoch used before lawmakers. that was his reaction tuesday phone hacking scandal that has unraveled his empire and sent shock waves through the military -- through the metropolitan police. they apologized for the hurt that was caused but they claimed that they were not responsible. the proceedings were interrupted by protesters with a plateful of foam. >> the moment when two of the world's most powerful media moguls, rupert murdoch and his son,, arrived to be held to account for the way that there company invaded the privacy of individuals. >> do you have anything to say about the pho

rupert murdoch. you said that your friend of 52 years, i think, les hinton has stepped down and has resigned because he was in charge of the company at the time. in other words, he said he was the captain of the ship and therefore he resigned. is it not the case, sir, though that you in fact are the captain of the ship? you are the chief executive officer of news corp., the global corporation. >> yes. i ran a much bigger ship. >> it is a much bigger ship. you are in charge of it. as you said in earlier questions you do not regard yourself as a hands-off chief executive. you work ten to 12 hours a day. this terrible thing happened on your watch. mr. murdoch have you considered resigning? >> no. >> why not? >> because i feel that people i trusted, i'm not saying who, i don't know to what level have let me down, and i think they behaved disgrace flee and betrayed the company and me, and it's for them to pay. i think that frankly i'm the best person to clean this up. >> thank you mr. murdoch. as i say i

>> because rupert murdoch is a newspaperman. he loves the news. he loves dialling into his editors and giving them tips and hearing the gossip and finding out what's happening and trying to drive the news and drive the conversation. so when he says he's uninvolved with the newspapers there's some people in the business that say that doesn't ring true. >> spoken like a newspaperman. andrew ross sorkin. thank you. >>> and there was that startling moment during the hearing today when a guy attacked rupert murdoch with a cream pie and then murdoch's wife got up and took a roundhouse swing at the attacker. that kind of fierce devotion and protection seemed familiar to those familiar with wendi murdoch. nbc's andrea mitchell has more on the wife of rupert murdoch. >> reporter: she responded in a flash, leaping forward to protect her husband from an attacker. instinctive, fierce, athletic. a former volleyball player in school. all that, plus a lot more. the young, glamorous, chinese-born third wife of rupert murdoch. >> i think all the people are movers

>> rupert and i particularly. emma was the kind of -- when it came to preventing herself laughing on set was the best. rupert and i were terrible. >> during the interview, rupert had some fun and decided to ask some questions of his own. >> maybe they want to know on the last day, i brought them both a trumpet. yeah, why a trumpet. >> do you know why? >> because he's mad and rupert. no. >> he's crazy. >> i don't know if there's another reason. >> there's no reason for a trumpet? >> no. >> so then said, would you ever consider dyes your hair ginger? ? yes, but only for him. >> in a quiet moment. >> only at his request. >> and for emma? >> emma, who do you like best? me or dan? >> of course. neither. neither of you are that great. no. i'm joking. obviously, i love them both equally, because that's the diplomatic answer. that's the right thing to say. >> like their characters, emma and rupert have grown up in front of the world. unlike ron and hermione, they had to deal with the fame of who they are and what they rep

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think appeasing murdoch will particularly work everyone is watching for tuesday's committee where rupert murdoch and his son james will appear so it'll be interesting to see that but i think we should remember that the prime minister here and we would probably know today because it's saturday said the truth is we've all been in this together the press politicians and leaders of all parties and yes that includes me very sorry indictment for democracy in this country and coming through the house i suppose one could say that it was multinationals who are using murdoch in a way so they're lobbying rupert murdoch gets the big companies big multinationals and so forth that seem to get things done by there are helping m.p.'s behind me perhaps not as bad as in washington but i do think it's the end of outside influences outside on democratic forces as regards influences on the parliamentarians behind me it is interesting that he owned these newspapers and they always say rupert murdoch loves newspapers he basically had newspapers so that he could manipulate monopoly concerns over his broadcast i

and whether it's a pie thrower or rupert murdoch's wife wendy, or rupert murdoch, these are larger thanife characters and that really made the story. >> and piers morgan now on cnn and used to work for rupert murdoch and news of the world and editing his get it right. he was watching and tweeting after the member of parliament addressed him: . >> did piers morgan sort of nail is there? >> he has a stake in this fight. he's accused of being involved in or sanctioning similar practices because he wrote in his book how you do the phone hacking, if he wasn't doing it himself or people under him, a common practice on fleet street. a shot at gambling in the casino, this is part of this very aggressive down and dirty newspaper culture in britain where everyone knew it hospital operated that way and now there's a chance to use that culture against rupert murdoch. >> if you look at abc's news conference, they didn't explain the situation. it was like this paragraph on their website, and it didn't really explain what the situation was, that he'd really written a book and sort of mentioned it and