. >> after the massacre at sandy hook elementary school, rupert murdock tweeted "when will the politicians find the courage to ban weapons" today, weapons designed expressly to kill human beings and then modified to meet the federal machine gun ban have no legitimate place in american society. time to get rid of them. here is republican joe scarborough. >> do they want to be seen two years or four years as the party of glocks, the party of bushmasters, the party of combat-style military weapons, rapid fire clips. >> if they want to go around and debate that for the next four years, good luck. >> if we're having to defend 10 mm glocks, bushmasters. >> ridiculous. >> assault-styled weapons we will lose. >> and here is what they are saying on the cable news network owned by rupert murdock. >> if the feds can tighten up gun laws without violating constitutional laws, they should do so. we can tighten up the purchase of guns, and particularly heavy weapons, like the ars. we can tighten them up. i would support, for example, anybody owning the ar would have to register with the fbi. so the fbi w

murdoch was the mother of four children, including rupert murdock.rts she contributed to estimated 100 charities annually. many of them concerned with the health of children. in 1963, elizabeth murdock was made a dane commander of the order of the british empire. one of britain's highest civilian honors for her services for social welfare. australia bestowed a similar order companion of australia in 1989. prior to her 100th birthday, the australian prime minister called her woman with turbo charge for her community service in her advanced years. on behalf of her extended family, rupert murdock said his mother would be mourned by countless thousands of australians whose lives she touched. we lost the most wonderful mother but we're grate to feel have had love and wisdom for many years he said in a stat statement. throughout the life demonstrated best qualities of public service. the energy and personal commitment made the country a more hopeful place. she will be missed by many. dame elizabeth murdock survived by 77 direct dekren dents, 50 great grand

. >>> news today out of australia that the mother of media tycoon rupert murdock has died. zabeth murdock has four children, and her son went on to control the global media company news corp. we are told she died at her home in melbourne. she was 103 years old. michael holmes is with us, an aussie himself. >> indeed. >> she was -- she's a hero in australia. why? tell us a little bit about her. >> people look very fondly on dame elizabeth. she was a remarkable woman in her own right, and, in fact, the tale of how she came to be where she was in a position to help so many people is a good one too. she came from a reasonably well off family. went to a boarding school. when she's 18 she appears in a magazine as a deb taunt, right? >> right. sure. >> the publisher of that magazine was a man called keith murdock, later to be sir keith murdock, and he was 42. she was 18. he was smitten with her. he gets an introduction at a society event, all very proper, falls in love. he is smitten. they end up getting married. a lot of people didn't want them to get married because of the huge a

rupert murdock divided his company that will remain the news corp name. the other will be called fox group. >> and mitt romney has a new job. after keeping a low profile since losing the election last month, he is now signed on as a member of marriott international board of directors a position he held twice before. >> funeral as much ass still pending tonight for mike nevin a supervisor who died over the weekend of an aggressive form of cancer. he was a former san francisco police inspector and served as a bodyguard in to the mayor. he was mayor of daily city before being elected to the san mateo county board of supervisors known as a champion of people in need. in his community, serving as executive director of an organization helping former offenders and substance abusers find housing and jobs. mike nevin was 69 years old survived by wife, three children and five grandchildren. stay with us, more still to come. >>> indicate middleton will have to spend the next several days in the hospital. kate and prince william are expecting their first child, third

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. >> hugo, he also has the support of rupert murdock on this. they are not frequent bed fellows. rupert tweeted when will politicians find courage to ban automatic weapons? >> i was struck by when i read the names in the black box on the front page of the "new york times". you had three types of people. you had women. you had teachers. you had children. that's a pretty good base, a foundation for a real serious movement, and i think that, you know, on the other hand, i was watching "meet the press" with diane finestein, but some of the things she said was you see where the temz of the deal already are. they talk about the assault weapons ban that they're working on, that she's working on, and it exempts, she noted, as a virtue of the bill that it exempts 900 specific types of guns, and you see something like that, and you're, like, that's the bill that we're hoping for, you know? that's where things are right now, and that is, you know -- i don't think that's going to be the things that keeps kids safe in schools. >> we can do better than that. to go back to joy's point, the nra i

. >> i've read that i guess maybe it's common knowledge that when rupert murdock purchased the "wall street journal" he was trying to take away circulation on the times and he was introducing that greater new york section. do you know if he's been successful with that? >> i think he's been moderately successful. he has a great amount of financial resources and he's pouring them in. i don't think he's in any way melt the goal of being a national newspaper on the level of "the times." i think clearly he had some set backs in england for his stat chure which as undermind the regard in which he's held. but certainly that picks up some readership for him and he's moved into more sports criticism. he's made that effort and maybe more is forthcoming. and he has his pay wall too, so we'll just see. i think so far i would not say that he's made it into a rival of "the times." and certainly he's not doing the foreign coverage they've done or the investigate toir journalism. it's still a business newspaper i think. and "the times" has stepped on his toes too. they hired as their business editor