rupert murdoch seems to be going around and just sort of asserting himself directly. what people around him say is kind of an undisguised personal disdain for romney stems from a couple things. one is that rupert murdoch's a guy that made his career and fortune taking huge risks, huge aggressive risks and romney is just unbelievably risk-averse, came up through the inside, through constantly making the safe choice. there's sort of a character issue there. i think it seems like the central issue that murdoch says to people around him, he thinks romney's weak. >> weak. as a personal characteristic? >> yeah. that's the one thing if you look through his whole career, what rupert murdoch likes, he likes strength. >> let's look at a couple tweets that had everyone abuzz. tyler, i want to bring you in as i tell you about the tweets. we will go to a full screen and see where it all started. murdoch first wrote met romney last week, tough old chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from teams and hires real pros. doubtful. that's a prediction. then rupert

rupert murdoch? >> we never talked about it. when we said go find money, peter and i said this is how the stories got told. it was reported he snuck out with all the dispatches to london and the "times" of london. when i went to pitch the story, he never said a word and never said a word. he had such a big empire, would he he waste his time on a film that was just peanuts to him. of course, what it was i tapped into an honor with him. >> peter weir is the one who brought mel gibson. >> yes. he found mel gibson. mel gibson who has had an interesting career. he was -- he's an american, born in upstate new york, went to australia when he was 10 and had done minor films. we saw him on stage actually. his australian accent was so thick that we started giving him american lessons when we did the film. you could tell them extraordinary potential. peter found him, peter was also an extraordinary director, a wonderful person to deal with. that was a one-off experience, a fabulous experience. >> did you do bre

romney is adding to his campaign, he's not shuffling. >> an interesting lesson, rupert murdoch and wall street journal pounded on romney for agreeing with the obama administration that the mandate was not a tax. justice roberts said. and two days later the romney campaign went back to a better position and could be a useful tonic of critics helping romney find his own rhetoric. >> a tax when he did it in massachusetts part of the tax structure-- now, okay. i've got it. >> and that's a better explanation than the one that governor romney has given. >> and speaking of, i guess, honesty in advertising, the obama campaign is still running this ad saying that while mitt romney was at bain capital, he was moving jobs out of the country and so on and so forth. and it wasn't, he wasn't there and wasn't doing that, are the media picking up on it. >> you know the line about, falsehood gets around the world, halfway around the world before it catches up. jim will know what the exact quote is. john, your line about honesty in advertising, you might as well talk about politics, they're contradictory

jack welsh and rupert murdoch are telling mitt romney, fire your staff. "the kudlow report" moments away. >>> you just got a dose of discipline that i think is going to save and make you a lot of money. don't ignore it. remember discipline. that's your only friend in a tough time. i'm jim cramer. i'll see you tomorrow. >>> why are rupert murdoch and jack walsh calling for mitt romney to fire his top campaign staff? good evening, everybody. i'm larry kudlow, back and rearing to go. this is "the kudlow report." our top story tonight, fire the staff. rupert murdoch, jack welch, the biggest names in business are saying that romney is not tough enough and he lacks the stomach to take on president obama. and by the way, why in the world did mitt romney flip-flop on the obama care tax hike? why did he do it? >>> also this evening, why have ceos lost confidence in the american economy? only 17% think positively on the my in the second quarter. that was 67% in the first. and worse yet, they don't see it getting any better. we have two powerhouse ceos who are my sp

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to the guy who hacked scarlet johansen's phone here's rupert murdoch rupert murdoch snobs britain says he will invest his billions in the u.s. he says he has moved on after abandoning b. sky b. bid amid phone hacking scandal again it's a scandal when it's a crime that big guy has committed rupert murdoch appears to have turned his back on britain following his humiliation over the phone hacking scandal he says he's no longer going to invest in the u.k. now max this guy chris cheney who hacked the phone of scarlett johansson hacker oh scarlett johansson sixty six thousand dollars over nude photos feds say a man who hacked the e-mail accounts of celebrities should pay movie stars scarlett johansson sixty six thousand and compensation federal prosecutors said and should serve seventy one months in prison i don't get murdoch statement that he's been humiliated he's been not humiliated he's now splitting up his company into two again using a wall street tricks to boost his balance sheet because he himself can't grow a business if you took away his illegal activity his wiretapping his. words

what is rupert murdoch trying to accomplish with the 140-character swipes at romney? >> the dignity has gone out of this. rupert murdoch tweeting it mitt romney and the editorial, you didn't mention william crystal, also who doubled down and compared -- >> we'll get to that. >> we'll get to him. i read in "the new york times" that -- that rupert murdoch wanted chris kristi to run. >> is does this criticism matter? >> sure it matters. it controls a bullhorn in the media. he put out a tweet. i put out a tweet like that, no one would look at it for a year. look, there is a -- historical analogies in our business, and most are lame. but having put that disclaimer out there, this reminds me so much, this campaign, in many ways of 2004. so many similarities between romney and john kerry and the situation they faced, they're from the same state. they have similar weak nots, personalities. one of the things so similar, the base of the party, the ideological base of the party, never believed he was resolute enough. they saw him as the best acceptable alternative. the best acce

these two guys were right at the foot of rupert murdoch. right? can he escape this now?ause he has it all planned out. but to think these two major figures -- we don't have a perfect analogy in america but it's like having a u.s. anchor being charged with a crime. it's like the white house being charged for the crime of hacking. this is a huge deal. but it has been 54 weeks since this story exploded. >> the magnitude of the scandal. we have now in the charges 600 people hacked. what began has one or two, and now the two top lieutenants to rupert murdoch, enormous sums of money being paid to bribe officials in government. it's inconceivable that they wouldn't have known about this. what am i missing? >> you are missing the fact that they did what always gets people in the end, is they tried to cover up bad business. there were hints and people talking to them about it, but they chose not to look closely at it. and we're seeing a huge global company meltdown. >> it is in meltdown, and rupert has dropped off of the board of some of his british newspapers. what does that do?

. >>> plus, rupert murdoch, the media mogul also in charge of twentieth century fox studios engages ina twitter war with scientology, calling it a cult. we'll have the details and reminisce about the marriage of tomcat later in the show. >>> but first, let's get to the news live here at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> the president's health care law is moving back to capitol hill. it could be three years before reaching the halls of the supreme court. house republicans say if the justices aren't willing to strike down the law, then it's up to lawmakers to repeal it. >> the idea that the federal government can mandate that the american people purchase a product is shocking to me, but they made their decision. i respect their ability to make that decision. but all it really does is strengthen my resolve and resolve of republicans here in washington to repeal this awful law. this has to be ripped out by its roots. this is government taking over the entire health insuranceç industry. the american people do not want to go down this path. they do not want the government telling t

it began with a few tweets from rupert murdoch advising mitt romney to shake up his staff and also amonishingplay it safe campaign approach. yesterday, "the wall street journal" which is owned by murdoch, published a blistering editorial. it said that romney was quote slowly squandering an historic opportunity to unseat obama. given the state of the economy. conservatives like the weekly standard's bill kristol and radio host laura ingram also piled on. here was ingram taking romney to task for his vacation in new hampshire. >> advisers telling him, it's fine, take a week. there's no week to spare. we got a country to save. should romney call the cease-fire or get out there on the trail and get off the jet ski? >> what's going on and how concerned should the republican candidate be? ed rendell was the former governor of pennsylvania and msnbc political analyst and steven more is on "the wall street journal" editorial board. he's the sfr economics writer. governor, the if the criticism were coming from salon.com and the new republic you and i wouldn't be here having this conversation. >> you'r

we just love those weird videos of course because of all that rupert murdoch decided to weigh in on twitter and tweeted watch katie holmes and scientology developed story develop something creepy maybe even evil about these people and so now everyone is going crazy it's over murdoch versus like tom cruise in the scientologists and you know i know that just really must've been a massive blow to scientology for someone as creepy and evil as reserve or how do you call you know going to be an evil that's just like you really can't get much lower yeah i love it i just want to see them go at each other and just like could destroy each other he's been getting you know totally trolled by all these scientologists and you can handle it like those are very murdoch exactly so i just wanted this war as a matter of money rupert murdoch or the scientologists it's a good question but i think he might be the only have you wait out there who can go up against scientology and say what he wants without them coming after until they get to him he will probably be a scientologist in a few years. i'm actually i'm

. >>> rupert murdoch has resigned from a number of news corp. boards and stocks here in the u.s. last year, murdoch faced allegations that his companies had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrity, royalty, and public citizens. again, rupert murdoch resigning tonight from a number of boards. >>> some much-needed rain is falling across a renal today. for what seems like most of the day, showers have been soaking us. looks like there's still a bit of rain out there. let's go to bernadette woods, who is live with our first warning doppler radar. we needed this, didn't we? >> we really did. it's unfortunate timing for people that had weekend plans. the soaking is still continuing. most of these amounts are light at this point. you steel still see a little bit of light rain and drizzle across the state. we want to show you as far as rh amounts go, this take us toback to whb we had the thunderstorms that produced a lot of flooding rain. we've seen anything from four and a half inches in frederick, and at vwi marshall where the records are kept, up to over 2- inches a few days ag

rupert murdoch is in a frenzy.after scientology and tweeting like a man with his pants on fire. stay tuned. we'll be right back. after college, i moved back in with my parents. i was worried about 'em, you know? i mean for instance my mom went to bed tonight before making my dinner. which is fine, i mean i, i know how to make dinner. it just starts to make you wonder. is this what happens when you age? my friends used to say i was the lucky one. i had the fun parents. where's the fun now? night guys! [ sighs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] venza. from toyota. >>> up next, rupert murdoch weighs in on the divorce of tom cruise and katie holmes. and the church of scientology. >>> in the big finish tonight, a d.c. meteorologist is in trouble for telling the truth for this weekend's freakish weather. bill nye the science guy weighs in. >>> don't forget to listen to my radio show, follow me on twitter, and like the ed show on facebook. i would appreciate that. thanks. coming right back. why not make lunch more than just lunch? wi

we all know where rupert murdoch is coming from. we all know where his media empire is coming from, a very conservative republican. but it was striking to me to see him basically admit, outright, that he wants mitt romney to win the election. i thought that was kind of striking. i always thought there was a little more nuance there to see him come out and say that, i thought was interesting. but the question of fernstrom and his long-term future in the campaign. the one thing is this, this the friday, the next jobless report comes out. and we know the romney campaign, it is all about basically, they want that number as high as possible, heading into november. and i've got to say, if it's bad news this friday in terms of where the economy's going, you know, we will now be talking about eric fernstrom -- >> let's dwell on some bad news for romney for the moment. let's listen to mitt romney talking about the mandate in 2006 and 2008. >> for those that have higher incomes, we expect them to have health insurance. and if they don't, we'r

a former aide to david cameron and former protege of rupert murdoch, they are topping the list, among eight journalists charged today. dan rivers joins us from london to talk about this. dan, they're accused of illegally eavesdropping on the voicemails of some of the world's biggest celebrities, but also a murder victim as well. remind us just how big this case has become. >> reporter: oh, it's become vast. we're only really at the beginning of the legal process here. we've got eight people charged today with hacking phones or commissioning people to hack phones. they include rebecca brooks, one rupert murdoch's most trusted executives, the ceo of news international. her deputy andy colson has been charged with five different counts. he, of course, went on to be a communications director for the british prime minister, so there are political implications. we have a whole slew of other senior journalists on the newspaper who have also been charged. but the victims, we're getting more and more information about the variety of people whose phones it is alleged were intercepted or hacked

i will call your attention to two tweets from rupert murdoch, because why not. yesterday, at 7:32 a.m., he tweets early, mitt romney last week, tough old chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires new pros. doubtful. today at 8:52 a.m., romney people upset at me. of course i want him to win, save us from socialism, et cetera, but should listen to good advice and get stuck -- actually, retweeted that second one, the et cetera part. we're at the thousand words. >> so rupert murdoch. save us from socialism, et cetera. that kind of boils down to where there's this fissure between what the koch brothers and the rupert murdochs of the world are bankrolling so much of the opposition to obama. what they feel and what is their hot button issues versus where is the economy, where are the jobs, those are the real questions. i don't think this election is going to be won or lost on rupert murdoch's fear of socialism, et cetera. >> but to his point, sam, we know the romney campaign is a very insular, very tight-knit group. we saw what e

it looks like the breakup of tomkat has gotten the attention of rupert murdoch. no better distraction for murdoch than news of katie holmes filing for divorce from tom cruise and asking for sole custody of their daughter suri. he gave his two words worth, he got that off his chest, but he wasn't done. murdoch got some push back via tweeters, so he responded, scientology tweets hundreds of attacks. expects they will increase and get worse and maybe threatening. still stick to my story. maybe he was worried after the "new york times" reported katie holmes thinks scientologists are following her every move. of course, it's just as likely the people in the suv were paparazzi, not scientologists, so rupert, relax, will you? tom cruise, by the way, is in iceland filming a movie. tomorrow, he is 50 years old. tonight, i asked in a survey, do republicans care about providing health care to the uninsured? i got a high number, 9% of you said yes. 91% of you said no. >>> coming up, a meteorologist said the heat wave is a sign of global warming. now he's under attack. we'll s

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rupert murdoch slam screen scientology, calling them out.e watch katie holmes and cry to go story develop something creepy, maybe even something evil about these people. there is the great irony of rupert murdoch calling anybody else evil but nonetheless it's an interesting point. let's go to our expert off scientology, the village voice. tony we've got mormons running for office and if you touch the reasonable issue people say woe woe, woe, you can't do that. can we go to the scientology issue? >> i think you raised a good question whether we should discriminate against scientologist. we should not. scientology itself is splitting in half. there are people who are part of the official church and then there, there is a growing number call independents who are breaking away. that's not the issue here. the issue is the practice and abuses reported inside the church of scientology and the way children are treated. this is what i think has got katie holmes very worried and why she's getting out. >> talk to me before we do anything else. how do t

stephen, i'm sure you saw today's "new york times," which reported on romney's relationship with rupert murdoch lack thereof. listen how "the times" describes one of the earliest encounters 2007 when romney met with murdoch and members of "the wall street journal" editorial board. quote, despite being deeply prepared and animated, particularly on his love for data crunching, mr. romney failed to connect with either mr. murdoch or the "journal's" editorial page editor paul gigot. instead of arctticulating a cle and consistent conservative philosophy he dwelled on organizational charts and executive management. at one point mr. romney declared, i would probably bring in mckinsey, the management consulting firm, to help him set up his presidential cabinet. a comment that seemed to startle the editors and left mr. murdoch visibly taken aback. tell us what the relationship is between the editorial board and governor romney, you would think this is a natural constituency for his campaign. >> well, we've been very tough on mitt romney. i know mitt romney personally, i like him. we found a lot of fault

to get a journalism oh jones magazine which is not owned by rupert murdoch rupert murdoch and tom dispatch and horace cooper conservative commentators senior fellow at the national center for public policy research welcome back to all of the. obama democrats have proposed actually here let me to move on to the campaign trail president obama just released this new ad hammering mitt romney on his record of outsourcing jobs and offshoring bank accounts check it out. i'm barack obama and i approve this message beautiful for spacious. right. for. gosh. and. has become a big issue on the campaign trail and romney has been leveling criticism at the president for being the outsource or in chief. it is interesting that that when it comes to the outsourcing that this president has been outsourcing a good deal of. american jobs himself by putting money into energy companies solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the united states if there's an outsourcing or in chief is the president of the united states. romney is actually right although on some of those details no

you've heard the same criticism from rupert murdoch, from jack welsh, from bill kristol of the "weeklyndard." and a you're a pro on this. is the romney campaign staff weak? >> no, i think it's a good staff and i think they've demonstrated that in the primaries. they not only can get a message across, but they're pretty tough when they have to respond. and her going to have to respond. in the last day or two, president obama or his surrogates have been all over the place, trying to claim that this is not a tax and that they want to go back to their original dishonest claim that it's not a tax. and you have them out there, trying to confuse the american public. and i think the romney campaign understands this. they're going to make sure people understand how dishonest that is. and they're going to emphasize the fact that this is a pattern of dishonesty. you have it in the ads. governor obama's running an ad claiming the governor outsourced jobs, and yet independent fact checkers have made it very clear that this is not true. and so i suggest to folks that when president obama affirms tha

. >> let's turn to tweets from rupert murdoch who is a leading light of the republicans.met romney last week. tough o chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from his team and hires some real pros. doubtful. romney people upset at me. of course i want him to win. save us from socialism. but should listen to good advice and get stuck in. does mr. murdoch have a point? >> i think american people are seeing the clear contrast between barack obama's failed policies and mitt romney's expertise and know how. >> i don't think that was the point that rupert murdoch is making. i was asking you about the specific point he was making. the specific point that rupert murdoch is making that barack obama has tougher and better people around him than mitt romney and that could cost mitt romney the election. do you agree with that? >> i don't agree with it at all. if you look at mitt romney's history, very smart guy with a very optimistic savvy message and people know they can trust him on dealing with the economy. if you look at his life's history, mitt romney has a

velocity is vessel is scheduled to reach the international space station next week. >>> media mogul rupert murdochng down. a media spokesman says murdoch stepped down from some smaller boards, but those boards are not named. news corp. announced it intends to separate into two entities. one that consists of the newspaper and print holdings and the other its telephone and film businesses the us in corp. is the parent company of fox news. we have breaking news out of oakland to tell you about. a chp officer was shot during a traffic stop -- shot at during a traffic stop. we have a crew on the way and working to give you a live report. we'll be right back. . >>> we're learning more tonight about what was inside that booby-trapped apartment where the colorado shooting suspect lived including improvised explosive device. our team coverages continues with craig boswell live in aurora, colorado. >> reporter: ken, good evening to you. all of those improvised explosive device and hazardous materials all of it removed from james holmes' apartment and taken out to a remote site where it will either by burned

there are 6% undecided at this point and i don't think they take their cues from rupert murdoch, billol, as much as he may think so. it's about impressions. i think romney doesn't have to be very specific in his policies to convey the impression he wants to as he's trying to do, as a successful mr. fix-it. >> i'm thinking about the fact that if rupert murdoch and all these people, not saying the average conservative watches out for them, but if the wind begins to move in a different direction and those people begin to feel its impact, i do think it makes a big difference. >> they're going to rally around romney. >> keep in mind there is another campaign operation that is working to fill in the blanks on mitt romney and that's called team obama. where mitt romney dare not tread, the president's campaign seems more than willing and able to. unfortunately, we have to leave it there. msnbc's lawrence o'donnell. be sure to catch him tonight -- >> what time? >> well, i think -- >> glad you asked. >> 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> you might see some of the people here on the show. we won't say who.