company, but, you know, my father' direction and my direction is that this is not the time to be worrying about that. the company has to move forward on all of these other actions and really get to grips with the facts of these allegations and understand them as fully as we can. >> can i appeal both to the witnesses and indeed to members to try and keep brief because we still have quite a lot to get through. >> good afternoon. in your statement the 7th of july, 2011, to james murdoch, you said that the company paid out of court settlements approved by me. i did not have a complete picture when i did so. what do you know now that you did not know then? >> i think the -- essentially the new information that emerged that is critical here is the