welcome, everybody. it is friday, july 15th. i m soledad o brien. you are watching snoonk kiran is off, christine is off, welcome soledad. good to see you. thank you. we have a lot to do today. let s get right to it. serious new pressure on rupert murdock and his global media empire. the justice department says it s now investigating the claims that one of its tabloids tried to hack 9/11 victims phones. a report in another british tabloid, the mirror quoting a source who says news of the world, the newspaper which folded under the pressure of the hacking scandal, hired an investigator to try to tap the phones. now lawmakers, law enforcement, and 9/11 families are all demanding the truth. susan candiotti following the latest for us on this and breaking, one casualty of the news international, rebekah brooks has resigned. the question is, does this mean that the walls are crumbling at news corp. it s too early to say, bulls this is a crack in the wall. she was a prot
one of them falls short in alabama. plus, politics and plagiarism. you know what that is never a good pair. find out who is landing in the crossfire on that one. first, our washington speak of the day, investigate, checking into a the background of a person for office to make sure there is no skeleton lurk. the investigate happens before the person is offered the jobs. two sets of vetting, yesterday the president announced the appointment of jack lou to be the next budget director, he has been vetted once, he is in a confirmed senate position at the state department to manage their budget there, however this is a different job and yesterday the white house was being a little bit defensive about whether his time at citigroup running a hedge fund, whether that needed to be revetted, essentially, before he accepted this job. those questions in the press briefing are what can be called