welcome back to daily rundown. it s just past the half hour, rupert murdoch s news corp. has its hands full, multiple investigations in great britain for allegedly bribery and phone hacking. the u.s. justice department and the fbi are examining whether the company broke laws in the united states. michael isikoff has been looking in to this. what do you know? what s the status of these probes? well, you know, the heat is turning up a bit. there s a report this morning that the the federal prosecutors are preparing subpoenas to news corp. on the phone hacking allegations. we also reported last night that the feds are interested in a prior act of computer hacking alleged against a major news corp. subsidiary, news america
biddulph. how did he do and what s your assessment? were things better or worse after things were done? well, rich, the consensus here in the uk is that david cameron actually did pretty well today. it was a difficult session for him in parliament. he was fielding, as you said, a number of questions from very angry mps. he stopped short of giving a full apology for hiring andy coulson to be his head of communications, andy coulson, of course, being the man from the news of the world, the editor at the time of the phone hacking allegations. the opposition didn t like the fact that he didn t give a full apology for hiring andy coulson, and they accused mr. cameron of a catastrophic lapse in judgment of hiring him and mr. cameron countered by saying if he ever found out andy cowlingson had lied to him and if andy coulson is found guilty of anything to do with the phone hacking allegations, then as prime minister he would come forward
executors to bring complete transparency to the relationship between government and the media, stretching back to the general election. speaking so clearly about the revulsion of the phone hacking allegations helped to cause the end of the news corp. okay. we have to get the feed back. we have martin fletcher back. this is a speech where david fletcher is setting the scene we have it back? let s go back. the key questions raised about my role and that of my staff. so first, first, the judicial inquiry and the panel of experts who will assist it. those experts will be the civil liberties campaigner and director of liberty.
we have a judicial inquiry. establish what went wrong, why and what we need to do to ensure it never happens again. on the first prime minister to publish meetings with media editors, proprietors, senior executors to bring complete transparency to the relationship between government and the media, stretching back to the general election. speaking so clearly about the revulsion of the phone hacking allegations helped to cause the end of the news corp. okay. we have to get the feed back. we have martin fletcher back. this is a speech where david fletcher is setting the scene we have it back? let s go back. the key questions raised about my role and that of my
and they accused mr. cameron of a catastrophic lapse in judgment of hiring him and mr. cameron countered by saying if he ever found out andy cowlingson had lied to him and if andy coulson is found guilty of anything to do with the phone hacking allegations, then as prime minister he would come forward and give a profound apology and put his full weight behind it, but for today there have been a lot of calls for mr. cameron to resign over the past few days, but for now those voices seem to be pretty silent. sally, really paralleling some calls for rupert murdoch for his future, that he might step down and lit his vice chair take over, how have those two prominent figures been compared in the uk? well, yesterday was pretty much rupert murdoch s today and today was mr. cameron s. there s been a big shift in focus in the uk press. yesterday, of course, we had the extraordinary scenes where rupert murdoch and his son james were put on the spot by a very powerful committee of mps, and th