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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:15:48:00

i would love to see my sons and daughters follow everything, if they are interested. >> rupert murdoch you said that you have had meet insurance with prime ministers during your career. in the period after the arrest -- >> i would say leave me alone. >> of clive goodman, you said earlier one that you were aware of the situation when clive goodman was sent to prison. and you were there at that stage. in the years after that when there were numerous reports, investigations, hears from this committee, we've heard a lot about them today, can any senior politicians that you were in contact with during that period of time raise this as an issue with you, raise concerns about phone hacking. >> absolutely never. the people i met most in those days was mr. brown when he was chancellor, his wife, we struck

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:18:09:00

struck me that the news of the world, has been an anti-establishment kind of publication. it always seemed the paper that was on the side of the little person fighting the establishment. would you say when you became editor and your relationship with those prime ministers, there was a shift in actually the news international became parts of the establishment as opposed to being anti-establishment? >> considering the amount of complaints i used to get from both prime ministers about the coverage in the "sun" they would say that many not the case. one of the main campaigns we have had is for help for heroes. i think the "sun" is the paper for the military and that caused to us have very, very uncomfortable conversations particularly with prime minister gordon brown.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:18:12:00

international's support to him was helpful flits cal. would that grease the wheels for the takeover of b. would you encouraged to get closer to the prime ministers with that in minds? >> no, not at all. i have read many, many allegations about my current relationship the prime minister david cameron including that my extensive horse riding with him every weekend up in oxfordshire. i have never been horse riding with the prime minister. i don't know where that story came from. i was asked three days ago to disclose the racehorse that i owned with the prime minister, which i do not. if i was asked a week ago to explain why i owned some land

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110719:18:11:00

>> well, as long as the story was true and accurate and part of the campaign, then, no, there is is no reason for a prime minister, and that is exactly why we have a free press. >> does the final question is, and this is my final question, and there is a sort of feeling that in some way, that you had a close relationship with the prime minister, and the current prime minister and i think that the allegation goes, and it seems to me that it is no different with your relationship with the previous prime ministers, but just for the benefit of what people may perceive that you had a close relationship with the prime minister, and that was helpful to him, and certainly "news international" reports helpful to him politically, but in return, what news corporation was hoping for in some way grease the wheels to the takeover of bskyb, and was any of that -- was any of that sort of part of the wider strategy of news corporation? were you encouraged to get closer to the prime ministers

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:18:10:00

and one of the issues that still is apparent today as it was back then is the lack of awareness of other aspects of the media and of parliament to acknowledge that currently we have soldiers fighting in afghanistan a war. and people don't seem to forget that. so i would not say that any prime minister would think the "sun" was not fighting for the trite people. the "sun" continues to fight for the trite people. >> how often would any of those prime ministers ask you as editor or chief executive, how often would they ask you not to publish a story? would they sort of ask you to spike a story? would that happen? >> i can't remember an occasion when prime ministers asked us not to run a story. >> or politicians generally? >> no. i would say that i can remember many occasions when cabinet

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:18:08:00

downing street while david cameron has been prime minister. yet under prime minister gordon brown and tony blair i did regularly go to downing street. >> how regular is regularly? >> on prime minister gordon brown in the time that he was in downing street, and while he was -- also while he was chance lower, i would have gone maybe six times a year. >> with tony blair? >> probably similar. in the last few years a little more. but if you want the exact numbers i can do my best to get that. but strangely, it was under labor prime ministers that i was a regular visitor to downing street and not the current administration. >> do you think that there was a change of emphasis when you were the chief executive of news international in that it always

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:18:12:00

would you encouraged to get closer to the prime ministers with that in minds? >> no, not at all. i have read many, many allegations about my current relationship the prime minister david cameron including that my extensive horse riding with him every weekend up in oxfordshire. i have never been horse riding with the prime minister. i don't know where that story came from. i was asked three days ago to disclose the racehorse that i owned with the prime minister, which i do not. if i was asked a week ago to explain why i owned some land with the prime minister, which i do not. so i'm afraid in this current climate, many of the allegations that are putting forward -- i'm

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110719:18:09:00

became editor and obviously your relationship with those prime ministers, there was a shift in actually the "news international" being aer pat p the establishment as opposed to the anti-establishment. >> well, considering the number of complaints i would get from the i prime ministers about the coverage, if they were here now they would say that is not the case. throughout my editorship at the "sun" one of the campaigns is help for the heroes and the "sun" is absolutely the paper for the military and that caused us to have very, very uncomfortable conversations, particularly with prime minister gordon brown. one of the issues that still is apparent today as it was back then is the lack of awareness of other aspects of the media and of parliament to acknowledge that currently we have soldiers fighting in afghanistan, a war,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110719:18:08:00

was -- and also while he was chancellor, i would have gone maybe six times a year. >> and with tony blair, similar? >> probably similar, and maybe in the last few years a little more, but i mean, i can if you want the exact numbers, i can do my best to get that, but strangely, it was under labor prime ministers that i was a regular to downing street, and not the current administration. >> and do you think that there was a change of emphasis when you were at either the "sun" or the chief executive of "news international" because it struck me growing up that the "sun" and the "news of the world" and particularly the "sun" was a rather antiestablishment kind of publication, and always seemed to me the sort of paper that was on the side of the little person fighting the establishment. would you say that when you

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110719:15:48:00

>> rupert murdoch you said that you have had meet insurance with prime ministers during your career. in the period after the arrest -- >> i would say leave me alone. >> of clive goodman, you said earlier one that you were aware of the situation when clive goodman was sent to prison. and you were there at that stage. in the years after that when there were numerous reports, investigations, hears from this committee, we've heard a lot about them today, can any senior politicians that you were in contact with during that period of time raise this as an issue with you, raise concerns about phone hacking. >> absolutely never. the people i met most in those days was mr. brown when he was chancellor, his wife, we struck up a friendship and our children played together on many occasions. and i'm very sorry that i'm no longer -- i thought he had great values, which i shared with him,

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