thank you, mr. chairman. all members. we will will, the committee will now have a break for five minutes before we move to the next. so another pause now for the moment but not after a highly unanticipated moment when a protestor made a move toward rupert murdoch, trying to reach mr. murdoch with paint or shaving cream or something similar. his wife, wendy, you will see in a moment clearly seen slapping and reaching toward that protestor. they cleared the room and mr. murdoch came back as you saw without his suit jacket. and that concludes nearly three hours of testimony, the 38-year-old son james, saying the actions of phone-hacking are regretable and apologized but the toughest questioning appeared to come at the very beginning of this hearing when mr. murdoch was asked whether or not anyone was lying to him, who else was involved, what was mr. murdoch told by whom and when? now several of those questions mr. murdoch defered to his son james,
that you in fact are the captain of the ship? you are the chief executive officer of news corp., the global corporation. yes. i ran a much bigger ship. it is a much bigger ship. you are in charge of it. as you said in earlier questions you do not regard yourself as a hands-off chief executive. you work ten to 12 hours a day. this terrible thing happened on your watch. mr. murdoch have you considered resigning? no. why not? because i feel that people i trusted, i m not saying who, i don t know to what level have let me down, and i think they behaved disgrace flee and betrayed the company and me, and it s for them to pay. i think that frankly i m the best person to clean this up. thank you mr. murdoch. as i say i do very much appreciate your immense courage in having seen this session through despite the common