settlements? i don t know the total. i don t know the total number, but around the world, it is customary, to reach out of court settlements in civil litigations and civil matters, and, it is something that rather than go through the lengthy and sometimes expensive litigation process with the risk that that often entails, it is customary to try to reach out of court settlements, in many cases. with news corporation, with the members of the outside directors, they reviewed all of these things. thank you. how is it possible to make payments to people that are not employees of news corp. and news corp. subsidiaries? i m sorry. how is it possible to transfer cash or some other fund, tor remuneration to people who don t invoice you, or who are not employees of news corp.
members of the britt parliament. they are supposed to hammer him and his allies on a empire destroying jobs and careers and now raising new questions about his company s conduct right here in the united states. bribery, hacking, corruption of power. lawmakers say the allegations are not about just sleazy journalism, about the power of an empire that has gone largely unchallenged, before now. it s 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. thanks for joining us. here are other stories we will take a look. another step in the nation s debt crisis but not any closer to a final deal. the house will vote on a republican measure but the president says he won t even consider it. the government deadline remains august 2nd before it runs out of money. the space shuttle atlantis on its way home. this morning, it did undock from the international space station and began the final voyage in the program s 30-year-old history. now back to the murdoch media scandal
talking about illegal immigrants. we are talking some are here legally. it s not just illegals. right. the issue is, too, it s got to be infuriating. you brought up a 12-year-old case. if there s an illegal immigrant trapped in prison waiting for this to go through the litigation process, who is paying for the meals, the prison cell who is paying for all of that time right now while this thing gets relitigated? taxpayers. american taxpayers are paying for all of this. lawyers say some of our clients are here legally and they deserve that second chance because they didn t understand the rules. we d like to know what you think. should they get that do over? friends at foxnews.com. get us on twitter as well. all right. there s another nasty storm that will be causing some big trouble for folks all across the united states. we don t need to hear this bad news, do we? what s going to happen in new york most importantly? it s all about you. it s all about us in new york, yeah.
have this power reigned in by the federal courts and forcing the constitution, limiting congressional authority and abuses. martha: all right. very interesting. what i m hearing from you is that it s clear from the judge he takes this issue very seriously, also, doj is now standing up and taking notice and no longer saying it s ridiculous to challenge the constitutionality of health care reform and that you think it s going to make it through this hurdle, is that right, sir? well, the judge indicated that it looked like the judge was going to deny the federal government s motion to dismiss on at least one ground, maybe more than one ground. that gets us past this first hurdle, and we go on to the second hurdle which would be the motion for summary judgment which is essentially a trial on the merits, we would go there from the court of appeals to the supreme court. we believe we would be completed with the trial court process by the end of this year and make it up to the united states
resolved through the litigation process. there was no third party administrator. we had to negotiate each one directly with. i have a lot of experience with feinberg and rosen which is the third party administrator here. they ve done a lot of other things. they did the 9/11 fund, the virginia tech shooting. they did agent orange for our military veterans. they have a lot of experience in handling these types of claims and generally speaking do a very good job. so you think that all pieces are in place for some sort of a successful conclusion when it comes to restitution, maybe something we ve never seen before. is that a fair statement? it may. i think the problem we have right now it s questionable as to whether or not the $20 billion is going to be adequate. we still have oil spilling all over the gulf of mexico. way ward hayward keeps saying it afs trickle. we all realize the impact is tremendous and we just don t know the yet how much this is going to impact the entire gulf