the british lawmakers say that rupert murdoch was responsible for the phone hacking scandal. >> rupert murdoch should not be running an international company like b sky b. >> shining a light on the occupy movement. they are having an impact on the world of art. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america. the president made a surprise visit to afghanistan. he is there to sign an agreement on future dealings with the country. for more on the trip and the future of relations between washington and kabul, i am joined by former u.s. defense secretary, richard cohen. he sizes agreement which marked involvement in afghanistan. 2024. what will that mean? >> that was always the plan. the notion that we would be there just for a short time, that meaning a decade. changing afghanistan on the ground will take decades and not just one. the plan was always to increase the troop level, then try to stabilize responsibility over to the army and police, reduce our presence, so we could have a prevention force that would prevent a resurgence of al qaeda, taliban, and serve to discourage the taliban from pa

uk lawmakers a rupert murdoch unfit to lead major global company, and uk lawmakers a rupert murdoch's executives misled parliament over phone hacking. and deliberately ignored evidence of malpractice, covered up evidence and efforts to expose wrongdoing. if you missed any of our coverage of the levinson inquiry into british phone hacking, those hearings are available on our website at c-span.org. go to the c-span video library. spent our live coverage on c-span2 will continue at 8:30 a.m. issue. limper goes a a look at the economy. panels through the day will focus on government spending, the housing market, federal banks, the impact of free markets, tax rates, the dollar and a number of other topics. coverage starting at 8:30 a.m. eastern. you can also see online at c-span.org. >> our companion network c-span will be live at 10 eastern a set of national drug control policy will discuss the obama administration's approach to drug control which was released on april 17. >> i have seen to earn a certain place where people listen to me, and i've always cared about the country. and the gr

report murdoch who founded -- rupert murdoch founded the organization. also the human cost of phone hacking, it was not just a technical trick or a victimless crime. the cost was laid bare in some of the statements filed by a newsgroup is papers and we cite one of those statements, those of shalit church and her family. >> thank you. the report talks about our astonishment at the failure of the company to investigate fully and uncover incidents of phone hacking from the period of the court and taylor settlement through 2010 and 2011. there were plenty of flights flashing on the dashboard to suggest a greater investigation was needed. i am looking at the pivotal role of james murdoch in the gordon taylor case, we have been minded to follow precisely the evidence we were given, which does not contradict anything he said to the committee and therefore it is not possible to say he misled parliament. we can be critical of the actions at that time. of the failure to disclose information about phone hacking. the failure to investigate it fully. i would also tou

, and rupert murdoch himself. guest: they have given evidence. they were summoned to by levinson, who has subpoena power. host: we want to talk to melanie sloan about impact here in the u.s.. [video clip] >> we hired a law firm to look into this and aid our cooperation with the police. after the charging you -- not the arrest -- that was it, they were close to the files. i can't believe they would have done that and they were unhappy with our cooperation. >> that is not evidence we have had at all, mr. murdoch. it demonstrates the law firm you mention produced just one document, which you know, to not represent the position at all. one way or another, news international being obstructive. does it not shock you? >> it shocks me deeply, and i was not aware of it and i have not heard of it until he said that. host: this was done with support and guidance of the house of commons but it was a separate, independent inquiry. guest: a separate inquiry into this whole saga. the inquiry that concluded this week was a cultur

rupert murdoch to give evidence to the committee. some slightly sort of, i don't quite understand why concerted members of discussion about rupert murdoch was some of ultraviolet to the committee but perhaps they could explain the. and furthermore why did not propose any alternative amendment if he disliked the characterization of rupert murdoch? and in particular why don't they support amendment vis-À-vis the fit person statements? >> first of all, in terms of, well, why do we not put an alternative, that was an amendment before. we were voting to restate the status quo of the report. so you don't put forward an amendment to an amendment that has not yet been voted on. that's just, yeah, i don't we understand your point really. >> go on. >> that's fine. >> we have to decide whether rupert murdoch misled us and what he said department of an no one proposed at any point that he misled parliament. now, there is in the corporate, a next step actually, the corporate line, that was an amendment i supported in the votes. and there we were

this should not be a focus simply on rupert murdoch. there is a corporate conclusion about news corp's and news international. it resounded around australia. the phrase was "collective amnesia." if there is one phrase that should at the same way it is one that is used an amendment by me. this was about willful blindness. the failure to follow up public wrong doing some undisciplined the perpetrators. i think that phrase should receive it as well. >> rupert murdoch to get evidence to the news corp.. i do not quite understand why members felt the discussion was somehow the altered virus. why did they not propose any where alternative amendments if they liked the characterization that was agreed? why did they not propose an alternative amendment statement? >> in terms of why do not put it, that was an amendment to the report. we were remaining the status quo. we do not put that on one that has not been on. i did not really understand your point to be perfectly honest. >> we have to decide whether rupert murdoch misled us. no one has propos

rupert murdoch to give evidence to the committee. some slightly sort of, i don't quite understand why concerted members of discussion about rupert murdoch was some of ultraviolet to the committee but perhaps they could explain the. and furthermore why did not propose any alternative amendment if he disliked the characterization of rupert murdoch? and in particular why don't they support amendment vis-À-vis the fit person statements? >> first of all, in terms of, well, why do we not put an alternative, that was an amendment before. we were voting to restate the status quo of the report. so you don't put forward an amendment to an amendment that has not yet been voted on. that's just, yeah, i don't we understand your point really. >> go on. >> that'sfine. >> we have to decide whether rupert murdoch misled us and what he said department of an no one proposed at any point that he misled parliament. now, there is in the corporate, a next step actually, the corporate line, that was an amendment i supported in the votes. and there we were

unfit to run a company that is he harsh verdict of rupert murdoch. this is the same committee that both testified in front of last year. based on the committee's findings they did not like or believe what they heard. >> in these world and [ inaudible ] mislead the committee repeatedly about the true extent and nature about the investigations they claim to have carried out. >> in the view of the majority of the committee members, rupert murdoch is not fit to run an international company. >> more than any individual alive, he is to blame. >> here to help explain the day's events and what they may mean for the future is reuter's correspondent. he got smacked down today. this was huge. what does this mean? >> it really was a damming report on news corp and what the committee thought of what they had said at that hearing. they basically said we didn't believe what you said. >> they called him a liar. i was turning pages and seeing caustic commentary other disrespect for rupert murdoch, this is the sort of commentary you heap on somebody you are about to s

murdoch but couldn't decide to announce whether rupert murdoch was unfit. the conservative party thought it shouldn't be included. members here thought it should be included. in the end it got voted through by a majority of one. it's in the report. it's controversial. it's blistering and withering for rupert murdoch. it will sting here and in the u.s. and will no doubt have big repercussions for news corp. >> what do you think those repercussions could actually be? >> reporter: already they were attempting to buy up the rest of bskyb which they own 39% of that. they abandoned that in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. now there's a question of whether they can hold any shares in bskyb. the tv regulator is debating on whether they are fit and proper people to hold a broadcasting license in the united kingdom. this report is going to be included in their assessment and it's not good news. basically if politicians, this powerful committee, says they're not fit and proper people, possibly the regulator may agree. >> dan rivers for us this morning. thank you

unfit to run a company, that is he harsh verdict of rupert murdoch. this is the same committee that both testified in front of last year. based on the committee's findings they did not like or believe what they heard. >> in these world and [ inaudible ] mislead the committee repeatedly about the true extent and nature about the investigations they claim to have carried out. >> in the view of the majority of the committee members, rupert murdoch is not fit to run an international company. >> more than any individual alive, he is to blame. >> here to help explain the day's events and what they may mean for the future is reuter's correspondent. he got smacked down today. this was huge. what does this mean? >> it really was a damming report on news corp and what the committee thought of what they had said at that hearing. they basically said we didn't believe what you said. >> they called him a liar. i was turning pages and seeing caustic commentary other disrespect for rupert murdoch, this is the sort of commentary you heap on somebody you are about to s

>>> and former british prime minister tony blair questioned on his close relationship with rupert murdoch. it's all part of the "news of the world" phone hacking investigation. we'll have the details from court for you. hi, everybody. great to have you with me today. i'm thomas roberts. and we great straight to what's on the agenda for this memorial day. and it's people in florida and georgia who are waking up to drenching rains this memorial day holiday. the second strongest storm to ever hit the u.s. in may could bring as much as a foot of rain and the storm making landfall originally in jacksonville, just after midnight, where the city's mayor, alvin brown, is bracing for the worst. >> everything's going to be shut down. we're really preparing for this tropical storm, and it's all about safety. we want people safe through this storm. >>> nbc meteorologist todd santos joins me now, because he's been following this storm. todd, what can everyone expect? they're waking up, certainly, they know the rain's been there overnight, but what can they expect today? >> one of the biggest thing, es

but it is even more difficult times for rupert murdoch. we already know that u.s. authorities are watching what's happening here to see what the outcome will be. this is u.k. prosecutors saying, okay, in this case at least, we believe we have the evidence enough to charge and bring rebekah brooks to court. if she was found guilty, send her to jail for this charge which is called perverting the course of justice which in simple terms refers to a cover-up. so a very, very concerning day for rupert murdoch. >> and the cover-up often is more worse than the mistake, the original mistake. we'll see how this all pans out. thanks so much. >>> that is a perfect segue into our next story, the cover-up being worse than the mistake. after weeks of standing pie her father's side, cate edwards is taking the stant in her father's defense. meantime the presiding judge banning a key witness from testifying in this case and that decision could force the former senator to testify. joining me now is north carolina's former deputy attorney general, hampton dellinger, hampton, it's good

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today blair is in a courtroom and the rupert murdoch incident took place in parliament. but it is a public courtroom and people do have access to it and the man wasn't armed. it certainly will raise some questions on how he got in through that door that he got into, but it's an interesting insight into just how divisive tony blair became towards the end of his administration. he really was elected in this -- on this wave of public support. and his decision to go to war with iraq ended up being extremely divisive that was against that war, predominantly. >> stephanie gosk in london for us today, thank you. >>> to syria now, where u.s. special envoy kofi annan arrived in syria this morning. annan said he was quote, shocked and horrified of the killing of more than 100 people in the town of hula friday. and more attacks to tell you about today, with shelling and troops killing at least 24 people in the city of houma. >>> tropical storm beryl makes landfall back here at home, at almost hurricane-strength, it is one of the most powerful storms to ever hit this early in the ye

critics say what he did was tantamount to a deal with rupert murdoch. support us, and we will give you freedom. mr. murdoch told the leveson commission that there was no such deal. they say they'd accepted his invitation to travel to australia to deliver a speech attended by him and his employees. mr. leveson said it was a charm offensive. >> having to go for one prime minister's questions and return for the next, had never been a very strategic position, i was going to go. >> mr. blair said when he became prime minister, he decided not to confront the media, but did the relationship become too cozy? >> that is not quite the way i would put it. you were in a position. it was a working relationship. you're in a position where you are dealing with very powerful people. >> mr. blair says since leaving downing street, he has become friends with rupert murdoch and became godfather to one of his children. some say too much power was given to the press barons. he also reflected on problems he had with papers like "the daily mail." >> with these big media group

murdoch, mr. rupert murdoch or mr. james murdoch. and if they had any way of doing this, they would have gone down that route. >> is there a new theory perhaps, the organized crime, you took your secrets to your grave? that went out the window we started flipping oc guys in the '90s '90s. they were weaker. you see the godfather you think they are tough, not so much. maybe newscorp is the new blood oath with rupert. what do you think? >> it might be something quite close. one of the striking moments. several striking moments on this whole thing. one of the striking moments since this broke last summer was rupert murdoch arriving in london and being asked by reporters in the scrum: what's your priority? you know you've just shut down news of the world. your company is in the middle of a big bid. what's your priority? he pointed at rebekah brooks and said she is my prior to. >> prior to -- my priority. >> it was a bizarre moment? >> there was rumors that she had something on the family. who knows? >> who knows. she is close toss david c

died for a while until roger ailes met rupert murdoch who was willing to throw half a billion dollars into starting the new g.o.p. t.v. network in the first five years it lost hundreds of millions of dollars yes sean hannity lost one hundred million dollars a year for about five years the kind of money richard nixon could only have dreamed about but they got it everywhere position did as real news that a g.o.p. t.v. even going to face so far as to call it fair and balanced g.o.p. t.v. owned by murdoch and run by ale. this is now the most powerful media voice in america when it comes to republican politics their opinion shows are blatantly black biased toward our right hard right republicans and even sean hannity is pain . to the racist birth or do. you know i've never been a birth or. i did it was odd that they didn't release the birth certificate to me i'm like as removed from my birth certificate right it's pretty easy to get doc absolutely. and multiple university studies even show the g.o.p. t.v. so badly misinformed its viewers that they actually know fewer true things and more f

rebekah brooks, the former head of rupert murdoch's british newspapers, was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. the maximum penalty if convicted is life in prison. more from elizabeth palmer in london. >> excuse me. >> reporter: rebekah brooks turned herself in this morning. the charges: hiding information from the police, both documents and computers. in one instance, said the prosecutor, she acted with her assistant. >> rebekah brooks and cheryl carter conspired together permanently to remove seven boxes of material from the archive of news international. >> reporter: an angry brooks left the police station a few hours later. >> i am baffled by the decision to charge me today. >> reporter: brooks was among the most powerful editors in britain with enormous political clout through the newspapers she ran for rupert murdoch. but last summer she was forced to resign after evidence emerged that some of her reporters allegedly bribed public officials and hacked into the voice mail messages of the royal household, celebrities, and even a murdered teenager. more than 80

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a british government committee stated in a report today that rupert murdoch is not a fit person to run a major international company. as parent of its investigation into the phone hacking scandal by a newscorp owned paper, the committee accused its ceo of quote willful blindness to the hacking by the news of the world. dan rivers is following the story and i asked him what this really means for newscorp. >> erin, this is potentially very bad news for rupert murdoch's u.k. business interests because at the moment the british tv regulator is already deliberating about whether rupert murdoch is a fit and proper person to have a tv broadcast license. the fact that this committee has come up with a very similar conclusion concluding that he's not a fit person to have the stewardship of a major international company, some might say is another nail in his coffin and may increase pressure on him to stand aside. that shareholders and the board of newscorp may feel that he and he alone is going to cost them possibly their broadcast license in the u.k. and they're a major cash cow for newscorp. e

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what does this mean for old rupert. >> rupert murdoch is 81 he's made it this long, he'll survive this. they tried to turn the tables, talk about how they were in cahoots with david cameron, we'll see how in this plays out. >> the joke, which i do not endorse, rupert murdoch says, you say i'm unfit to run a news organization, well i -- >> there's always that. >> we know na james has had his troubles, elizabeth doesn't want the job and lock lynn doesn't seem to be able to get the job. wendy, who's next? >> roger? >> we'll see. thanks to jonathan, joy, ryan and thank you, as always to willie geist, staying up so late to stay on the show. willie, who gets up way too early on msnbc, at the insane hour, i will say the insane hour of 5:30 in the morning. >> you're so kind to return the favor tomorrow morning live in studio, alex wagner. >> there will be muppets. see you back here noon eastern. david frahm, rick tyler, karen finney. find us at facebook.com/nowwithalex. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. good afternoon, andrea. >> as we say at the state department, muppet are not negotiable. n

. >>> british lawmakers have released a scathing report about rupert murdoch and the phone hacking scandal that engulfed his media empire last year. murdoch and his son need to take responsibility for the wrongdoing. >> reporter: law makest had tough -- makers had tough words for rupert murdoch. >> he is not fit to run an international company. >> reporter: the much awaited report from a parliamentary panel concluded that murdoch and his son, james, oversaw a corporate culture that allowed the tabloid phone hacking scandal in britain. it also says murdoch, quote, exhibited willfully blindness to what was going on in his company and publications. >> corporately, they had misled the committee repeatedly about the true extent and nature of the investigations that they claimed to have carried out in relation to phone hacking. >> reporter: the committee does not have the power to invoke sanctions, but this report is expected to bring the scrutiny of murdoch's media empire, including britain's largest satellite broadcaster -- [indiscernible] murdoch came to england last week to defend his image

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blare is taking heat for what critics say was a relationship, too cozy with media mogul, rupert murdoch who owns news of the world. blare is god father to one of murdoch's children. the former prime minister defending his handling of the press during his time in office. >> that relationship is inevitably going to involve a close interaction and i think that has always been the case. what is more, that interaction will always involve a certain tension. >> reporter: the former prime minister insisting he had to manage the media carefully, arguing he was trying to work around the power the papers wielded instead of taking them on. >> this would have been an absolute major confrontation, you would have had virtually every part of the media against you in doing it, and i felt the price you would pay for that, would actually push out a lot of the things i cared more about. >> reporter: the enquiry was disrupted when a man burst into the room and started shouting accusations calling blare a war criminal, because of iraq. before being dragged out by security. >> the man is a war criminal. >> re

rupert murdoch was there? >> no, he was not. >> is said that you kept waiting for a breakfast meeting the following morning. is that true? >> no. >> and he sent a dress to the police station? >> that is not true. where is it fun -- from? >> various sources. >> you need better sources. >> they are all in the public domain, actually. it may be leading up to a question much later on in relation to all of it. there is evidence of a 40th birthday party for you at mr. murdoch also house. where politicians there? >> some. >> were mr. cameron and mr. blair there? >> it was a surprise party. i know mr. blair was there. i am not sure if mr. cameron was. possibly. there are several stories as to what the birthday present was but i will not ask you. >> you have asked me if i had been swimming with mr. murdoch. please ask me about the birthday present. >> no, i will not. in 2006, you were appointed chief executive international. >> 2009. i discussed the appointment with james and rupert murdoch. was it rupert murdoch's ide

, i think tony blair would probably admit that he got a reasonably fair hearing from rupert murdoch's press, perhaps helped by the fact, as he admitted here today, that in 1995 he traveled halfway around the world to australia especially to meet rupert murdoch and some of his top executives and then just two years later, lo and behold, "the sun" newspaper switched its allegiance famously from the conservatives to back tony blair and new labor and that resulted in a landslide victory for new labor, which continued for two subsequent elections. so i think he probably would say that, yes, he was treated reasonably fairly, although as he admitted here today towards the end of that the relationship did begin to sour. john? th our fifth story out front tonight. music stars are no strangers to politics. frank sinatra was friendly with jfk and ronald reagan. elvis and richard nixon, there's two great tastes that go together. and bono and george bush. and of course beyonce and president obama. obama is giving the medal of freedom award to bob dylan trying to build that bridge as well. but some

if they also agree with this report, it could potentially be disastrous for rupert murdoch. it would mean that he's unable to able to hold his 39% stake in the british broadcast, which is a cash cow for news corp. in terms of their global earnings and also increase pressure on rupert murdoch from shareholders and the board of news corp. to possibly step aside because they would argue perhaps that he and he alone is the main obstacle to not being able to broadcast in the usa. >> are they saying that mentally he's not all there? >> no they're saying, they used the word fit. they didn't say fit and proper, it is important because that is slightly different. they said he was not a fit person to exercise the studwardship of a major company. all that basically means is that they feel he has presided over a culture in which it is acceptable to lie to parliament and to blackmail people and to cover up wrongdoing and have a company in which it is perfectly acceptable to break the law by hacking into people's phones and pay off policemen and so on. they they're all saying the corporat

it takes dead aim at the ceo, rupert murdoch. kayla tausche, you are up first. >> tyler, that uk parliamentary committee did issue a very searing opinion nine months after receiving testimony from james and rupert murdoch concluding that news corp. exhibited willful blindness in dealing with the phone hacking scandal. the final report passed the committee by a slim margin with a 6-4 vote. news corp. has yet to respond. it likely will have to when it reports earnings next wednesday. the younger murdoch, james, as you said did get off fairly easy compared to the elder rupert. deemed not fit to run a major company. not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company. conservatives voted against that part of the opinion. concerned that it would actually exert undue influence over a decision by the uk broadcast regulator ofcom certainly evaluating whether news corp. is a fit and proper owner of a 39% stake in bskyb. ofcom said the committee report will be part of its assessment but its decision will be based

, i think tony blair would probably admit that he got a reasonably fair hearing from rupert murdoch's press, perhaps helped by the fact, as he admitted here today, that in 1995 he traveled halfway around the world to australia especially to meet rupert murdoch and some of his top executives and then just two years later, lo and behold, "the sun" newspaper switched its allegiance famously from the conservatives to back tony blair and new labor and that resulted in a landslide victory for new labor, which continued for two subsequent elections. so i think he probably would say that, yes, he was treated reasonably fairly, although as he admitted here today towards the end of that the relationship did begin to sour. >>> now let's check in with anderson cooper with a look at what's ahead. >> we've got more on the massacres in syria ahead on the program tonight. it is certainly a story that's difficult to watch, difficult to tell but a story the world needs to know about. of the wholesale massacre of more than 100 people in syria. dozens of them children. you're looking at the bodies there

he quickly resumed being grilled about rupert murdoch. stephanie gosk joins us from london to fill us in on this. it's been a heated morning so far, or afternoon, forgive me. >> reporter: it has. nothing compared to that pie-flowing incident with rupert murdoch in parliament last summer, but still a little bit of an interpretation. these hearings were triggered by allegations of phone hacking at the now-defunct "news of the world" newspaper, but their scope is much broader. in their final stages, it hopes to pull back the curtain on the media's influence over the government. tony blair had a close relationship with rupert murdoch while he was prime minister, but was it too close? >> it would be strange, frankly, if senior people in the media didn't have that close interaction. >> reporter: but he acknowledged the the relationship can grow into something he called unhealthy. >> those papers that take a particular view on a policy, a party, or a person, then that is driven with an aggression and frankly a prejudice that means you crossed th

so what does it mean for the future of rupert murdoch and his media empire? let's get to a contributor from "newsweek" and "the daily beast." he joins us this morning from london. nice to see you. thanks for being with us. i appreciate it. in addition to all we were talking about yesterday happening in parliament. the u.s. department of justice is also investigating. so how does what we heard yesterday out of where you are in england affect that investigation here in the united states? >> well, phone hacking isn't within the remit of the department of justice's investigation. i think you probably know that's probably more likely to be focused on the foreign corrupt practices act, which relates to something that committee yesterday didn't investigate, which is quite extensive allegations of corrupting officials. the other tabloid paper which murdoch owns, "the sun," the daily paper isn't accused or being investigated for payments to police. that comes under the foreign corrupt practices acts. and those investigations are still ongoing. >> news corp. currently

is not fit to report the financial news rupert murdoch is not fit to report the political news and the tabloid news even so you know this is another problem with as we started with you know good morning vietnam this you know really landmark film of the eighty's and ninety's where it's the propaganda that they're pushing that is actually created an impoverished population i love this wall street journal front page top story murdoch in hot water after you see investigating murdoch you're a loser go away murdoch leave the people alone understand that you're worthless no good just quit murdoch quit the business do civilization a favor do something japanese for your sort. oh america i did all the stuff. all right days ever thanks for watching other guys report thank you max doug no i am i coming away stay right there. for a moment. hi max keiser welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to reggie middleton of boom bust blog dot com reggie melton welcome back to the kaiser report thank you very much all right reggie let's talk tech everyone is buying apple but you put out a report rec