:00:12. > :00:16.For decades, one man has wielded extraordinary power in Britain.
:00:16. > :00:21.Murdoch had complete control over parliament, the Government and, I
:00:21. > :00:25.am sorry to say, the police. They murdered schoolgirl threatens to
:00:25. > :00:30.destroy his power after the News of the World was forced to admit it
:00:30. > :00:34.hacked into her voicemail and deleted messages. That suddenly
:00:34. > :00:44.struck people as disgusting, I think that was the end of it for
:00:44. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:52.After two weeks of revelations, resignations, apologies and arrests,
:00:52. > :00:56.Rupert Murdoch is fighting to save his reputation. Shame on you
:00:56. > :01:06.exclamation this will prove to have been the biggest scandal in British
:01:06. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:21.politics for the best part of 75 Was it really only five weeks ago?
:01:21. > :01:31.What a swell evening it was, when some of the most powerful people in
:01:31. > :01:33.Britain got together for the News International Summer Party. Turn to
:01:33. > :01:41.your right and she would see a bishop, to your right, David
:01:41. > :01:46.Cameron, straight ahead, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband. Everybody there,
:01:47. > :01:53.naturally, paid court to Rupert Murdoch, Britain's most powerful
:01:53. > :01:56.media baron. Ed Miliband came in with two or
:01:56. > :02:02.three advisers, I spoke to him and one of the advisers was clearly
:02:02. > :02:06.looking very anxious, it was clear he had to meet Rupert Murdoch.
:02:06. > :02:12.But the world of News International was threatened. The phone hacking
:02:12. > :02:15.scandal was closing in. One party guest said so in the House of Lords.
:02:15. > :02:19.Isn't it the case that the editor is responsible as to what goes in
:02:19. > :02:24.the newspaper, and therefore he also should be given a custodial
:02:24. > :02:29.sentence and, indeed, the proprietor and board of directors?
:02:29. > :02:37.So when he arrived for the summer party, Lord Sugar was told, you are
:02:37. > :02:43.fired. He was asked to leave. But everyone else stayed on and no
:02:43. > :02:48.one's spirits were dampened when the weather suddenly changed.
:02:48. > :02:52.The world looks so different now. In the last fortnight, public
:02:52. > :02:57.opinion and the entire British political establishment have
:02:57. > :03:01.rounded on News International. Tomorrow, Rupert Murdoch, his St
:03:01. > :03:05.James and Rebekah Brooks - who, until Friday, was considered almost
:03:05. > :03:15.family - will have to face the music before a House of Commons
:03:15. > :03:16.
:03:16. > :03:20.Over Sydney Harbour Bridge by Rolls Royce, Rupert Murdoch on his way to
:03:20. > :03:26.his office. A Rupert Murdoch's first step
:03:26. > :03:29.towards building his global empire began when as a 37 year-old
:03:29. > :03:33.Australian newspaperman he bought the News of the World. Will the
:03:33. > :03:38.paper had any political orientation, like the Sun and the day the
:03:38. > :03:44.Herald? No fixed orientation in the sense of being allied to any party,
:03:44. > :03:48.it will be quite independent. he bought the Sun, the Times and
:03:48. > :03:52.the Sunday Times. It is a fantastic benefit he brought to the newspaper
:03:52. > :03:57.industry, freeing up the ability for newspapers to come alive.
:03:58. > :04:01.Beyond that, he subsidises the Times, which loses about �50
:04:01. > :04:07.million a year. Very few people would suggest the British media
:04:07. > :04:11.would be better off if the Times did not exist.
:04:11. > :04:19.Having built a huge stake in the British press, he made his move
:04:19. > :04:23.into TV by launching the pay-TV satellite station Sky. February 5th,
:04:24. > :04:29.1989, the dawn of the new-age. Competition law could have stopped
:04:29. > :04:32.him from owning a TV station and newspapers, but the then
:04:32. > :04:36.Conservative government waved it through. Margaret Thatcher gave
:04:36. > :04:42.Murdoch power in return for his unqualified support, leaving a
:04:42. > :04:46.legacy of 40% of the British media controlled by Rupert Murdoch. She
:04:46. > :04:50.delivered into his hands power which he has pretty ruthlessly used
:04:50. > :04:57.down the years which means most prime ministers have conducted
:04:57. > :05:01.their dialogue with Murdoch from their knees. Murdoch is about money,
:05:01. > :05:06.with money comes power. That power and influence to get you to do
:05:06. > :05:12.things. If you fear him, and fear is that the background, if you fear
:05:13. > :05:18.him, that gives them a great deal of incident -- of influence.
:05:18. > :05:22.Rupert Murdoch has which political support between parties in Britain,
:05:22. > :05:27.-- has switched his political support between parties in Britain
:05:27. > :05:31.but has been consistent in backing his own commercial interest.
:05:31. > :05:36.Everybody understood that he is a businessman, he wants certain
:05:36. > :05:43.things and has done this in America, Australia and the UK. He backs the
:05:43. > :05:51.people who will be most congenial to his business.
:05:51. > :05:56.Sky TV was merged into a 39% stake in BSkyB, and Mr Murdoch's ambition
:05:56. > :06:01.until last week was to take it over completely. Its annual revenue of
:06:01. > :06:04.nearly �6 billion easily outstrips the BBC licence fee. The former
:06:04. > :06:09.Prime Minister says that was just part of a wider plan that he
:06:09. > :06:14.opposed and paid the price for. News International has an agenda
:06:14. > :06:19.about the BBC, an agenda to neuter the regulatory organisation Ofcom.
:06:19. > :06:22.Partly because we refused to go along with some of their commercial
:06:22. > :06:30.proposals purely in the interest of their company, News International
:06:30. > :06:35.did not find they could support Labour at the last election.
:06:35. > :06:40.But Murdoch's Newspapers could exercise power in another way, by
:06:40. > :06:44.the power of scandal. Stories about people's private lives could
:06:44. > :06:50.destroy reputations and careers. they turned on you, they could be
:06:50. > :06:54.very nasty indeed. They had a lot of power, money and resources at
:06:54. > :07:00.their disposal to analyse people, to follow people and intimidate
:07:01. > :07:04.people. In 1992 it seemed the Liberal
:07:04. > :07:12.Democrats, led by Paddy Ashdown, had a chance of holding the balance
:07:12. > :07:15.of power. A vote for Labour and the Tories, they are the real waisted
:07:15. > :07:21.votes win this election. As the election campaign was about to
:07:21. > :07:26.start, the sun broke the story that Paddy Ashdown had had an affair. --
:07:26. > :07:31.the Sun broke the story. It also reported a burglary at the offices
:07:31. > :07:35.of Paddy Ashdown's solicitor. All that was taken was a small amount
:07:35. > :07:39.of cash and a private note detailing the affair. It was such a
:07:39. > :07:45.professional job but Paddy Ashdown's solicitor did not know
:07:45. > :07:48.they had been a breakdown until -- a break-in until a lawyer from News
:07:48. > :07:55.International phone to say they had been given the document and they
:07:55. > :07:58.had to check it was genuine. It was. The story was published. It is my
:07:58. > :08:04.view that this brief relationship of five years ago is and always
:08:04. > :08:08.should have remained a private and personal matter. A burglar with a
:08:08. > :08:14.long record was later convicted of handling stolen property. He
:08:14. > :08:20.explained he passed the NOTA the Sun's sister paper the News of the
:08:21. > :08:24.World. -- he passed the note to the son's sister paper the News of the
:08:25. > :08:28.World. Within parts of Murdoch's News of
:08:28. > :08:35.the World, relying on law-breaking to get his story seems to have been
:08:35. > :08:39.widely accepted. A book published in 2008 revealed some trade secrets.
:08:39. > :08:44.I was amazed by the ingenuity of these guys in trying to find out
:08:44. > :08:50.anything they could about people without asking or doing so in a
:08:51. > :08:55.direct and very often legal way, they found ways around the law, all
:08:55. > :09:00.evidently did not think the law mattered too much. They did not
:09:00. > :09:08.seem concerned as long as what they had would do the job, they would
:09:08. > :09:12.get on with it. This sports reporter was delighted
:09:12. > :09:17.to get a job on the News of the World in the 1990s. When I was
:09:17. > :09:22.finally offered a staff job it was a superb moment in my career. It
:09:22. > :09:27.was the biggest paper, read by the most people, a paper that could do
:09:27. > :09:31.things no other paper could. chief northern sports writer, one
:09:31. > :09:37.of his key tasks was to report everything that he could about
:09:37. > :09:41.Manchester United's tough box -- tough boss Alex Ferguson. Matt had
:09:42. > :09:47.heard Fergie was ill and might retire. He could not stand it up
:09:47. > :09:52.and asked for help. Within a few hours or a day, I got a phone call
:09:52. > :09:57.saying, we have his medical records in the office. I was a bit
:09:57. > :10:01.surprised. Up to that point in my career I had never been in a
:10:01. > :10:07.newspaper that could suddenly gain someone's medical records that
:10:07. > :10:14.easily. And that swiftly. I was told down the phone up the story
:10:14. > :10:20.was true, he has recently had to go to hospital to have various cheques.
:10:20. > :10:24.The medical terminology was read out. Did you think it was legal?
:10:24. > :10:29.certainly thought it was wrong. When they contacted him, Alex
:10:29. > :10:34.Ferguson apparently blew his top. The story never appeared and he is
:10:35. > :10:43.still on top of his game. The News of the World used private
:10:43. > :10:47.detectives and illegal methods against any one. Even royalty.
:10:47. > :10:54.They hacked into the phone messages of Prince William and quoted their
:10:54. > :11:00.word for word. For a brief moment in 2007, the culture of criminality
:11:00. > :11:04.was exposed. Private detective Glenn Mulcaire and the News of the
:11:04. > :11:08.World's royal correspondent Clive Goodman were jailed and disgraced.
:11:08. > :11:12.News International insisted Clive Goodman was a rogue report and it
:11:12. > :11:17.went no wider. A blind man in a very dark room can see the official
:11:17. > :11:21.version of events does not make sense. Nick Davis and the Guardian
:11:21. > :11:24.newspaper believed there was a cover up from the start. Glenn
:11:24. > :11:29.Mulcaire had pleaded guilty to hacking into five phones of none
:11:29. > :11:34.royals, too. Who had ordered him to do that, how many other names were
:11:34. > :11:38.in his notebooks? A private investigator, working full-time for
:11:38. > :11:42.the News of the World, but apparently hacking voicemail for a
:11:42. > :11:47.hobby? Just because he had time on his hands? He was working 80 hours
:11:47. > :11:52.a week for the paper, of course he was doing it for them. What was so
:11:52. > :11:55.sickening about the official version of events was not just that
:11:55. > :12:00.News International chose to lie to us about it but that the police
:12:00. > :12:03.allowed them to get away with it. Andy Coulson, the News of the
:12:03. > :12:08.World's editor, resigned, but denied any knowledge of phone
:12:08. > :12:14.hacking. Within a few months he was hired by
:12:14. > :12:18.David Cameron and went with him to Number Ten. Critics say this was a
:12:18. > :12:23.huge political misjudgment. I find it quite extraordinary that David
:12:23. > :12:27.Cameron, despite all the informal, off-the-record advice that he must
:12:27. > :12:31.have been given by all and sundry, went ahead and made that
:12:31. > :12:39.appointment. But there was a small group of people who have no fear of
:12:39. > :12:44.News International. -- who had no fear. A Manchester solicitor called
:12:44. > :12:48.Mark Lewis set the ball rolling. It happened that one of the non royals
:12:48. > :12:53.who had their phone hacked into was already a client of his, Gordon
:12:53. > :12:58.Taylor of the Professional Football Association. I had a conversation
:12:58. > :13:04.with one of the detectives, he told me there was something like 6000
:13:04. > :13:09.victims. He would give me enough to hang them and that they did not
:13:09. > :13:12.need everything, he would just give me the papers on Gordon Taylor. And
:13:12. > :13:20.the papers were sufficient to succeed and to obtain a settlement
:13:20. > :13:24.on behalf of Gordon Taylor. We now know that to settle the case
:13:24. > :13:28.before it reached open court, the News of the World paid out around
:13:28. > :13:33.�700,000, hundreds of thousands more than Gordon Taylor would
:13:33. > :13:37.otherwise have won. But at the time, the confidential settlement ensured
:13:37. > :13:40.that no one learned any more about who had ordered the phone hacking
:13:40. > :13:45.to take place. And the payment was signed off from
:13:45. > :13:50.the very top. There was a particular settlement
:13:50. > :13:55.that I authorised, and I have said it was made with information that
:13:56. > :13:59.was in complete, I acted on the advice of executives and lawyers.
:13:59. > :14:03.There was in complete investigation, which is a matter of real personal
:14:03. > :14:10.regret for me. MPs will tomorrow want to ask, was
:14:10. > :14:14.James Murdoch involved in a cover- By quietly settling the first civil
:14:14. > :14:20.cases, News International appeared to have kept many of the facts
:14:20. > :14:26.about phone hacking out of public view. It was up his point that Nick
:14:26. > :14:32.Davis from the Guardian broke the story open. -- it was at this point.
:14:32. > :14:35.The story published in 2009 quoted police sources who had access to
:14:35. > :14:40.the material collected by the first inquiry, they were saying there
:14:41. > :14:44.were not just eight victims, there were, quote, thousands. 48 hours
:14:44. > :14:48.after we published the first story, News International made a statement
:14:48. > :14:52.accusing us of lying to the British people. What I am about to give you
:14:52. > :14:56.his copies of an e-mail... Nick Davis appear before a Commons
:14:56. > :15:03.committee, producing new evidence that News International still seem
:15:03. > :15:06.to survive unscathed. The strategy has been simple, they deny
:15:06. > :15:09.everything unless they are compelled by evidence in the public
:15:09. > :15:14.domain to change their story and admit something, then they admit
:15:14. > :15:16.that little thing and carry on lying about everything else.
:15:17. > :15:25.And Assistant Commissioner John Yates insisted there was no need to
:15:25. > :15:28.reopen the phone hacking MPs later condemned News
:15:28. > :15:32.International witnesses for their collective amnesia, but Mark Lewis,
:15:32. > :15:37.who gave evidence as well, says that some were still nervous of
:15:38. > :15:42.their power. Afterwards, two of the committee members came after me and
:15:42. > :15:47.said, you are so brave to be able to stand up to Murdoch and say that
:15:47. > :15:52.he does not scare you. I just thought to myself, crikey, you are
:15:52. > :15:56.the people who declare war in my name and you are saying that I am
:15:56. > :16:04.brave because I have taken on Rupert Murdoch. You are meant to do
:16:04. > :16:07.In New York, where the Murdoch group is based, the hacking scandal
:16:07. > :16:12.could easily be dismissed as no more than a little local difficulty
:16:12. > :16:17.from across the pond. Why would the global media giant Rupert Murdoch
:16:17. > :16:23.need to worry? He is the most powerful person in the Media
:16:23. > :16:28.Business in the world. I do not think the company for Murdoch
:16:28. > :16:33.himself really feel part of any place but News Corporation, has so
:16:33. > :16:36.it is a state within a state. New York is also home to a rival
:16:36. > :16:41.paper with a long record of investigations and a desire to
:16:41. > :16:45.uncover the truth about allegations of illegality, the heart of the
:16:45. > :16:50.Murdoch empire. Pulitzer Prize winner Joe Becker was part of the
:16:50. > :16:55.team that the New York Times sent to London. They told... The record
:16:55. > :17:00.to more than a dozen years of the World journalists. -- they talk to
:17:00. > :17:06.off the record. We heard the same story over and over again, the
:17:06. > :17:11.office cat knew, everybody knew. Essentially, all of the big
:17:11. > :17:18.showbusiness stories, one reporter said, came from the dark arts. And
:17:18. > :17:21.they were encouraged to use them. And the New York Times got one
:17:21. > :17:25.former News of the World journalists to go on the record.
:17:25. > :17:28.Sean Hoare, who had quit with a drink and drugs problem, said that
:17:28. > :17:33.not only had Andy Coulson known about phone-hacking he had actively
:17:33. > :17:37.encouraged it. Afterwards, police in the UK questioned him, not as a
:17:37. > :17:43.witness but as a suspect, and he insisted his solicitor was present
:17:43. > :17:47.when he talked to us. It was endemic. You know, it happened.
:17:47. > :17:53.Phone-hacking and the use of illegal practices to secure stories,
:17:53. > :17:58.that was endemic? That is what you're saying? Yes. People were
:17:58. > :18:02.scared, right? If you have got to get a story, you have got to get it.
:18:02. > :18:07.You have to get that by whatever means. Were you subject to that
:18:08. > :18:16.pressure? Yes, of course I was. I mean, that is the culture of News
:18:16. > :18:20.If a couple of reporters from the New York Times can come here and
:18:20. > :18:24.find reporters to tell us what is going on, it is astonishing that
:18:24. > :18:29.Scotland Yard could not or did not. The police have already paid a
:18:29. > :18:32.heavy price for their failure to investigate properly. Yesterday,
:18:32. > :18:37.Britain's top police officer resigned and said there was no
:18:37. > :18:45.impropriety in his links to a former News of the World journalist.
:18:45. > :18:48.Today, Assistant Commissioner John Yates also resigned. Back in 2003,
:18:48. > :18:53.News International executives were questioned in a parliamentary
:18:53. > :18:56.committee about corrupting police officers. One element of whether
:18:56. > :19:01.you ever paid the police for information. We have paid the
:19:01. > :19:06.police for information in the past. Will he do it in the future?
:19:06. > :19:11.depends on... You operate within the law, and if there is a clear
:19:11. > :19:15.public interest, the same holds for subterfuge, whatever you want to
:19:15. > :19:21.talk about. It is illegal for police officers to receive payments.
:19:21. > :19:24.As I said, within the law. In April this year, Rebekah Brooks wrote to
:19:24. > :19:30.Parliament that she was dating the widely held belief that payments
:19:30. > :19:35.had been made in the past two police officers. The MP raised the
:19:35. > :19:38.issue is one of the very few who have taken on Mr Murdoch.
:19:38. > :19:42.relationship between the News of the World and the Metropolitan
:19:42. > :19:48.Police is what I was trying to get that in 2003, and it has continued
:19:48. > :19:51.to be sold are institutionally corrupting. Later that year, the
:19:52. > :19:57.News of the World and the Mail on Sunday vote printed a picture of Mr
:19:57. > :20:01.Bryant, who is gay, posing in his underwear. It was clearly in News
:20:01. > :20:05.International's sites. On one occasion at a Labour Party
:20:05. > :20:10.conference, Andrew Pierce, who was writing for the Times, took me into
:20:10. > :20:15.a party, and there was Rebekah Brooks. She said, it is after dark,
:20:15. > :20:22.shouldn't you be on Clapham Common? Their husband said, shut up, you
:20:22. > :20:26.homophobic cow! Most people whose private lives become the stuff of a
:20:26. > :20:33.tabloid splash are far too embarrassed to fight back. But the
:20:34. > :20:37.former boss of Formula One did just that. Multi-millionaire Max Mosley
:20:37. > :20:41.had his enjoyment of sado- masochistic sexual pastimes exposed
:20:41. > :20:46.by the News of the World. He sued for the invasion of his privacy and
:20:46. > :20:49.won. Once it was out and I was conscious of the fact that
:20:50. > :20:55.everybody walking down the street knew this most intimate thing about
:20:55. > :20:58.me, there was really no point in stopping. Occasionally, you think,
:20:58. > :21:02.is this what the trouble? And then you think what they have done to
:21:02. > :21:07.you and you think, if you do not do something, they are going to do the
:21:07. > :21:13.same to other people. So he decided to help others to sue News
:21:13. > :21:17.International over phone-hacking. If an ordinary person brings a case,
:21:17. > :21:23.they have got a mortgage and their house. Even if they are very, very
:21:23. > :21:26.unlikely to lose, if they did lose, they might find themselves with a
:21:26. > :21:31.bill for �300,000, and that takes it out of the reach of a lot of
:21:31. > :21:35.people. So what I have done in some cases is, I have said, if you do
:21:35. > :21:40.lose, and I'm sure you will not, I will meet that. You have been
:21:40. > :21:44.covering people's wrists in these cases? In some cases, yes. To what
:21:44. > :21:53.financial extent? Well, if everything went wrong, I would
:21:54. > :21:59.The civil legal actions gradually revealed the names of more News of
:21:59. > :22:04.the World executives involved in phone-hacking. Mr Coulson, dr have
:22:04. > :22:09.any regrets? And Andy Coulson resigned, this time from Number Ten.
:22:09. > :22:14.The pressure was building. Now the police began a new investigation,
:22:14. > :22:17.and a succession of arrests have followed. One by one, more and more
:22:18. > :22:25.people have been told that they, too, were the victims of phone-
:22:25. > :22:31.hacking. Until one name changed 13-year-old Milly Dowler went
:22:32. > :22:36.missing on her way home from school nine years ago. During the search
:22:36. > :22:41.for Milly, the News of the World did not just hack into her phone.
:22:41. > :22:51.Finding that a voicemail was full, messages were deleted to make room
:22:51. > :22:51.
:22:51. > :22:55.It crossed a line, somewhere in the kind of national consciousness.
:22:55. > :23:02.That is enough. You can do a bunch of other stuff, but you cannot do
:23:02. > :23:07.that. Nelly's parents were told about the phone-hacking by the
:23:07. > :23:13.police just before the recent trial of her killer. -- Milly. They
:23:13. > :23:20.contacted solicitor Mark Lewis. of a sudden, you could see the real
:23:20. > :23:25.human effect of parents who were clinging on to hope that their
:23:25. > :23:34.daughter was alive, and the News of the World had given them that false
:23:34. > :23:37.home. It had given them something to cling on to, that she was alive.
:23:37. > :23:41.When you start hacking into the phone of a 13-year-old murder
:23:41. > :23:46.victim, even altering the evidence, deleting some of the messages and
:23:46. > :23:56.so on, that suddenly struck people as disgusting, disgusting! And I
:23:56. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:03.think that was the end of it for News International had started by
:24:03. > :24:08.saying just one rogue journalist was involved. Now they shut down
:24:08. > :24:17.Britain's biggest selling newspaper and put 200 journalists out of work.
:24:17. > :24:27.A final tribute to his 7.5 million readers. This is for you. And for
:24:27. > :24:30.I thought it was just a despicable act, because there are great
:24:30. > :24:34.journalists and people who have been slaving away in a boiler room,
:24:34. > :24:38.and they ended up losing their jobs, carrying the can, when frankly it
:24:38. > :24:43.should have been the people at the helm of the ship we should have got
:24:43. > :24:48.into trouble. If that was meant to end the crisis for the Murdoch
:24:48. > :24:54.empire, it spectacularly failed. Rupert has no idea what to do, how
:24:54. > :25:02.to react, what to say. He lost control of the situation quite a
:25:02. > :25:06.Now the British political establishment race to a remarkable
:25:06. > :25:12.agreement. News International, which had exercised so much power
:25:12. > :25:17.and influence, was suddenly without friends. His organisation has grown
:25:17. > :25:21.too powerful, and it has abused that far. In an emergency debate,
:25:21. > :25:24.MPs queued up to condemn Rupert Murdoch. Their links with the
:25:24. > :25:29.criminal underworld, their attempt to cover up law-breaking and pay
:25:29. > :25:33.for people's silence tell the world war we need to know about their
:25:33. > :25:37.character. I think a lot of lies have been told to a lot of people,
:25:37. > :25:43.and then Parliament ends up being misled. That is a major
:25:43. > :25:48.constitutional issue for us to face. The handful of MPs who had taken
:25:48. > :25:52.Murdoch on were now speaking for the rest. It was almost as if
:25:52. > :26:00.people realised, they have gone too far, we cannot do anything other
:26:00. > :26:06.than speak out. It took a bit of time, but when it sunk in, it was
:26:06. > :26:12.the most uniting moment I have ever seen in a House of Commons.
:26:12. > :26:16.Prime Minister, embarrassed by his friendship with Rebekah Brooks and
:26:16. > :26:20.his close association with Andy Coulson, announced an inquiry.
:26:20. > :26:28.is on my watch that the music has stopped, and I am saying large and
:26:28. > :26:33.clear that things have got to The relationship has been too cosy
:26:33. > :26:37.between the press and the politicians. Very few had said
:26:37. > :26:41.anything until Milly Dowler, and then there was almost self-
:26:41. > :26:44.congratulation by the politicians at stopping this scandal. They have
:26:44. > :26:54.not stopped a scandal, they had reacted to a scandal that had
:26:54. > :26:54.
:26:54. > :26:58.Rupert Murdoch is in full retreat. His bid for the rest of BSkyB has
:26:58. > :27:03.been abandoned. After years of denial from News International, he
:27:03. > :27:07.said sorry to the country and promised to co-operate fully with
:27:07. > :27:17.the new police enquiry. Milly Dowler's family received their
:27:17. > :27:26.apology in person. Mr Murdoch, will it tell us what you said? Did you
:27:26. > :27:33.Law-breaking in one small corner of Rupert Murdoch's business empire
:27:33. > :27:38.and the attempt to conceal it now threatens its very foundations.
:27:38. > :27:41.effect of Milly Dowler is that it broke the spell. When Murdoch had
:27:41. > :27:46.had this complete control of parliament, the Government, even,
:27:46. > :27:53.I'm sorry to say, the police, suddenly that control was broken.
:27:53. > :27:57.On Friday, Rebekah Brooks resigned. Yesterday, she was arrested. They
:27:57. > :28:01.are pariahs, nobody wants to talk to Rupert and James Murdoch or
:28:01. > :28:09.Rebekah Brooks any more. If you had a central London party next week,
:28:09. > :28:15.nobody would turn up. Instead, they have an invitation they cannot
:28:15. > :28:18.refuse, to answer questions from MPs. I think Murdoch should really
:28:18. > :28:22.be truthful about all that happened and make it clear, and I think his
:28:22. > :28:26.son is with them as well, and Rebekah Brooks will be there. They
:28:26. > :28:30.are the Three Musketeers in this one, aren't they? They are the ones
:28:30. > :28:36.who directed what is going on. In this period of Atonement, tell the
:28:36. > :28:39.truth. What a story it could have made for the News of the World! A