chairman and chief executive of news corp, rupert murdoch and james murdoch. i also thank you for make yourselves available to the committee this afternoon. perhaps i might start with mr. james murdoch. you made a statement on the 7th of july in which you stated that the paper had made statements to parliament without being in full possession of the facts and that was wrong. you ve sensely admitted parliament had been mislead in what we had been told. can you tell us to what extent we had been mislead and when you became aware of that. i would like to say as well just how sorry i am and how sorry we are to particularly the victims of illegal voicemail interception and their families it s a matter of great regrefort mine, my father s and everyone
committee this afternoon. perhaps i might start with mr. james murdoch. you made a statement on the 7th of july in which you stated that the paper had made statements to parliament without being in full possession of the facts and that was wrong. you ve sensely admitted parliament had been mislead in what we had been told. can you tell us to what extent we had been mislead and when you became aware of that. i would like to say as well just how sorry i am and how sorry we are to particularly the victims of illegal voicemail interception and their families it s a matter of great regrefort mine, my father s and everyone as the news corporation. and these are standards these actions do to the live up to the standards that our company aspires to as we are around the world. it s our determination to put