mulcaire s legal fees during civil actions. i don t know the civil actions. i do know certain civil fees were paid for mr. mulcaire by the company and i was as surprised and shocked to learn that as you are. can you understand that people might ask why a company might wish to pay the legal fees of a convicted felon who has been involved intimately involved in the destruction of your reputation, to buy the corporation s violence? i can t understand that. that s exactly why i asked the question. that s exactly what when the allegations came out, i said are we doing this? is this what the company is doing? and on legal advice, you know, and again, i don t want to be legalistic, and i m not a lawyer, but these are serious litigations, it s important for all of the evidence from all of the defendants to get to court at the right time. and the strong advice was that from time to time it s important and customary, even, to pay codefendants legal fees and i
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, who by the way is the deputy chief operating officer at news corporation. now in return, the company, james stated, has established a group to cooperate fully with the police and scotland yard. a police agency that is not absent its own issues. the top two police officers in london have since resigned. now we are awaiting rebekah brooks, a long-time executive with news corporation, the parent company of the fox news channel. brooks ran the tabloid news of the world when the hacking occurred some six to eight years ago. she has since resigned her position with the company last friday. as we await on ms. brooks, shares of news corporation, rather, are trading on wall street. they re up 5% during the
it s a very important question and i understand it will be one of the subjects of the judicial inquiry which the prime minister announced last week which as a company we immediately welcomed and we look forward to. this question of public interest, the question of what is acceptable and what isn t, in terms of investigative techniques is an important one. let me be very clear, the codes of conduct of news corporation globally for our employees, journalists or otherwise are very clear, that breaking the law is a very, very serious matter. it should be people who are law breakers should be held to account, and in the matter of something like phone hacking, or payments to police and things like that, we just don t think they should have any place in our business. you would be very clear that within your company, within your organization senior people should have been aware that certain things were totally illegal and unacceptable? i think after the particularly in light of the
certainly it s something that on a global basis, you know, we want to be consistent. we want to be doing the right thing, and when i say that illegal behavior has no place in this company that goes for the whole company. mr. rupert murdoch you are the chairman and chief executive of news corp. you are the head of the global company the buck stops with you. given these allegations that you have said indeed when you opened the session you said this was the most humiliating day of your life humble. i m sorry, humble, i beg your pardon. that is a misstatement. the most humble day of your life, you feel humbled by these events. you are ultimately in charge of the company. given your shock at these things being laid out before you and the fact that you didn t know anything about them, have you instructed your editors around the world to engage in a broad review of their own newsroom to make sure this isn t being replicate ned other news corp. papers around the plain, and if
yes. it was looked at in conjunction with the new and restarted criminal investigation. these are serious matters, we take them seriously. when we looked at those, when it was looked at, and it was deemed that these things would be of interest to the police, we immediately actually brought in addition counsel, lord mcdonald who i think you mentioned earlier, to help advise the company on what the appropriate way forward, in terms of full transparency and cooperation with police investigations were. and they are very serious matters and the company took them very seriously. just two questions. very quickly. the situation that i just painted where we re now here, not knowing who in news international was complicit in keeping that file containing how many pieces of paper, we are