certain things have to be reported straight to the very top? is there a law. anything that is a crisis comes to me. may i just may i? i think it s important to know there is a difference between being kept in the dark and a company, a large company the management of which is delegated to managers of different companies within the group and so on and so forth. i think this is that that my nats or myself was kept in the dark is a different thing from saying that actually the management of running of this business is often delegated often to the executive of a different company, or an editor, or managing editor, and decision-making has to be there. there are thresholds of materiality if you will, whereby things have to move upstream, so
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
have to rest on counselor s advice on some of these serious litigation matters. is the contribution still contributing to glenn mulcaire s legal fees? as i said before earlier i don t know the exact status of that now, but i do know that i asked for those things, for the company to find a way for those things to cease. would you let us know? i m happy to follow-up with the committee on the status of those legal fees. this is a serious question mr. murdoch senior. is it not time for the organization to say, enough is enough, this man allegedly hacked the phone of the murdered school girl. is it not time for your objection to stay, do your worst, you behaved disgrace flee, we are not going to pay any more of your costs? i would like to do that, i don t know the status of what
just to finish off this questioning. i m just going to wrap-up. we are left now with a situation where you, having looked into this a fair, having cooperated with the police, cannot tell us who lodged the file with harbottle & lewis, who was aware of its contents, and who kept you from being in the full possession of the facts, evidence that its clearly now been submitted to the police but continue tkeubts all the assurances that we were given, not in one but in two committee inquires. that s frankly i would agree is unsatisfactory. i can say that the company at the time engaged an outside law firm to review a number of these emails. they were provided to the law firm ace understand it.
they gave such a clean bill of health? all i can say is that having directed having looked at some of the things in that, and the advice of the senior people inside the company more recently that went and looked at that, it was the view of the company self-evident lee that it was right to bring this to the attention of the police and go forward. and that opinion from the counsel was something that the company, you know, rested on. it was a clear opinion about a review that was done about those records, and in addition in conjunction with the police continuing to say that there was no new evidence and that there was no reason to open a new investigation, and in conjunction with the pcc saying that they had done their review and done their inquire an inquie was nothing knew there. it was viewed that that was a settled matter.