person has been handcuffed and removed from that committee room, at least from these pictures you just saw, a car being reversed into the building there, and looks like murdoch s car there. we should remind now that this session started just after 2:30, so we are coming up to two and a half hours of evidence being given, you know, and it was only scheduled for an hour. an hour. we ve got some of what happened. let s speak to jerry jones our deputy political editor. jerry shows us what you ve got. yes, obviously we ll have a look at the picture. we ve circled. you can see the man he s in a sort of checked shirt here. this is rupert murdoch s wife obviously hits him on the head there. you can see he has some sort of plate in his left hand. i m going to interrupt you
you said that your friend of 52 years, i think, les hinton has stepped down and has resigned because he was in charge of the company at the time. in other words, he said he was the captain of the ship and therefore he resigned. is it not the case, sir, though 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
can i, on behalf of the committee thank you for giving up so much of your time this afternoon to come here and, i would like to apologize again for the totally unacceptable treatment you received from a member of the public. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. chairman. all members. we will will, the committee will now have a break for five minutes before we move to the next. so another pause now for the moment but not after a highly unanticipated moment when a protestor made a move toward rupert murdoch, trying to reach mr. murdoch with paint or shaving cream or something similar. his wife, wendy, you will see in a moment clearly seen slapping and reaching toward that protestor. they cleared the room and mr. murdoch came back as you saw without his suit jacket. and that concludes nearly three hours of testimony, the 38-year-old son james, saying the actions of phone-hacking are regretable and apologized but the toughest questioning appeared to come at the very
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
there, and looks like murdoch s car there. we should remind now that this session started just after 2:30, so we are coming up to two and a half hours of evidence being given, you know, and it was only scheduled for an hour. an hour. we ve got some of what happened. let s speak to jerry jones our deputy political editor. jerry shows us what you ve got. yes, obviously we ll have a look at the picture. we ve circled. you can see the man he s in a sort of checked shirt here. this is rupert murdoch s wife obviously hits him on the head there. you can see he has some sort of plate in his left hand. i m going to interrupt you for a second if i may. we are looking at a man with white paint perhaps on his face, some sort of white splattering on his face. four police officers at least surrounding him there, and it