i would just like to say one sentence. | this is the most - humble day of my life. thank you. the resulting scandal caused the news of the world to close down. i feel so appalled - by what has happened. murder victims, terrorist victims, who ve had their phones hacked, | is quite disgraceful. so, the government reacted by setting up the leveson inquiry. there were the most powerful people in the uk, told to sit in front of a microphone, while the world watched online, and talk about what really goes on in their newsrooms. newspaper executives denied any knowledge of illegal activity. we have only seen unsubstantiated allegations and i have seen no evidence to show me that phone hacking has ever taken place at trinity mirror. did you see this sort of thing going on, mr morgan? - no. are you sure about that? 100%.
them in court right now but where is the case at the current pace? how does it look for these two? as of this very afternoon i can tell you the case has been adjourned until january 6th so it is not going to be heard until the new year s and then of course it ll pick up yet again. it is important to point out that what we re seeing here is several newspaper executives and reporters here facing charges for conspiracy to intercept communications for those allegations of phone hacking but also rebecca brooks and her husband, charlie brooks, as well as her own personal assistant, are also facing other charges of obstructing police investigations with, and that is relating to a lap top that was found in a dust bin. of course the case continues and we should point out they have denied these charges. nina desantos, thank you for that. other news now, an independent report of the nsa s spying program is recommending keeping the program in place.
cain doesn t have the foreign policy chops on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everybody. it s tuesday, november 15th. ali velshi off today. i m christine romans along with carol costello on american morning. welcome back, carol. thanks. i had a great few days off, but it s going to be back. good morning to you. breaking news to tell you about right at the top. overnight police in new york city moved in and cleared out the occupy wall street protesters from zuccotti park, the birthplace ever the occupy movement. the evictions came overnight. police ripping down tents, signs and cleaning up. a number of protesters were arrested for refusing to get out. poppy harlow now downtown. we re hearing the park is back open. so have police allowed the protesters to go back, like they said they would? reporter: so far, no. so far we ve still got police as far as we can tell surrounding the park, but it is all cleaned out. we made it in
the u.s. and the resignation of two newspaper executives. sky news reporter james dougal has more on the developing story from london, jane? reporter: at the moment the murdoch empire is not terribly popular. murdoch issued an apology and publicized in many of the newspapers here in britain today and tomorrow as well. the phone hacking allegation was around members of parliment or celebrities. but it was discovered that a 13 year old murder victim mili had her phone hacked into in 2002 while she was missing. rupert murdoch came in britain and met with mili s parents and he apologized to them face to face. they were furious at what happened. they were calling for rebecca