saudi arabia, is it going far enough? is it seen as credible? we have seen one denial so far, a saudi official spoke to cnn kylie atwood, said they didn t see anything, they were following along in the media like everybody else and compared it to a soap opera. recent history with saudi arabia has shown sometimes their denials don t stack up. look what happened with jamal khashoggi. initially we heard he left the embassy on his own, everything was fine, they didn t know where he was. now they launched investigation and admit he did die in their consulate in turkey. so we have to see how the explanations continue to come from saudi arabia. however, if you look at the history between saudi arabia and ami which is the parent company of national enquirer, there s some history there. alex in his package there sort of alluded to that, before the saudi arabian prince came to the united states, this glossy 90 something page magazine appeared in super markets around the
there are some thing here that don t stack up. we might not have any evidence. this is the sort of thing that s not quite right. did that prompt any activity on your part as chief executive of news international to say let s go back over this because there is something not right here. everyone at news international has great respect for parliament and for this committee. to be criticized by your report was something that we responded to, we looked at the report. about it was only when we had the information in december 2010 that we did something from it. you heard today from rupert murdoch who said this is the most humble day. we come before this committee to try to explain openly and honestly what happened. of course, we were very unhappy
not be open there. there would not be a new criminal inquiry if it hadn t been for the information news international handled over. i m not saying we haven t made mistakes. but we but the metropolitan police have repeatedly said as you heard last week, the committee heard last week, they said there was no need for further criminal investigation. so i think that everyone involved in 2007 would say now that the mistakes were made. but i hope that you feel we have responded appropriately and responsibly season we say the information in 2010. there are some thing here that don t stack up. we might not have any evidence. this is the sort of thing that s not quite right. did that prompt any activity on
inquiry if it had not been for the information that news international handed over and i m not saying that we haven t made mistakes, but the metropolitan police have repeatedly said as you heard last week, and the first committee heard last week, they repeatedly said there was no need for further criminal investigation. so, i think that everyone involved in 2007 would say now that the mistakes were made, but i hope that you feel that we ve responded appropriately and responsibly since we saw the information in 2010. so, when you read the report, did that make you think, lower me, there arm se some things he that don t stack up, and there might not be evidence and they may not know something, and there is something not clearly quite right here, and did that sort of prompt any activity on your part as chief executive of
me, there arm se some things he that don t stack up, and there might not be evidence and they may not know something, and there is something not clearly quite right here, and did that sort of prompt any activity on your part as chief executive of news international well, let s go back over this, because there is something not right here? well, no, everyone at news international has great respect for the parliament and this committee and of course to be criticized by your report was, was something that we, we responded to, we looked at the report, but it was only when we had the information in december 2010 that we did something about it. but you know, i think that you heard today from rupert murdoch who said that this was, you know, the most humble day. we come before this committee to try and explain openly and honestly what happened, and of course, we were very unhappy