>> this book is 14 years in the making. " on his own terms" is the title. if you have something final to say, you can, but i want to finish by showing a video clip of your first appearance on this network, because you had a tremendous impact on this network on history as your help guide us through these years. here you are, and again, but may mention, it is "on his own terms: the life of nelson ockefeller." you won't wake new city. best you are on to a new city. what are you going to do? >> i want to move back to grand rapids michigan, or the next six years of my life is neatly programmed out. i will be working on in writing -- and writing a biography of

gerald ford. -->> here you were about 21 years ago. thank you for joining us. >> your library is located where? >> here in iowa, west of davenport. we have not been untouched by the flood. but i want to add, and be rateful for the opportunity, that we are open and have been open to the flood. put in a good word for tourism in the midwest generally, a lot of people think that everything is underwater, and that is not true. there are people in the tourism ndustry who are hurting. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments, visit us

at q&a.org. they are also available as odcasts. >> up next on c-span, prime minister david cameron takes questions at the house of commons. then, former surgeon general thoughts about the response to bola and other issues. >> on the next "washington journal," "the hill" political reporter camera joseph looks at strategies final weeks of the election. the former ambassador to zimbabwe will talk about the response to the ebola virus. and dr. tom inglesby talk about

federal programs that provide money to prepare for emergencies. washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> monday night on "the communicators," technology in he campaign. >> historically, it was on one contributions and a website. -- online contributions any website. our company has tools that allow the shoe level part, the direct ail. you are seeing more direct marketing channels come online where there are personal online ads. you can do personally addressable interactions through

social network. i think that there is a pretty wide swath of things that you can call digital. >> we will get from the broadcast era -- we are at the tail end of what we know, broadcast television has dominated. as we evolve into addressable television, it is moving and relationship era. - into a relationship era. when you build brand advocates, you have someone that is advocating for and influencing teir sphere of friends, we have o move from the message and do a better job of going the right messenger to deliver the message. >> monday night, on "the communicators, lowe's quote on c-span2. >> members of the u.k. parliament returned wednesday to question prime minister david

cameron on domestic and foreign issues. the opposition leader challenge the prime minister about recent comments made by the u.k. welfare minister about the disabled receiving minimum wage play. other questions focused on the threat of ebola, demonstrations in hong kong, palestinian statehood, and the national health service. this is 35 minutes. >> order. questions for the prime minister. >> prime minister, thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this house i have further meetings later today. jane. >> everyone is breathing a sigh of relief that the government has at last committed extra money from the conservancys.

will he now receive the widespread public local concerns and commit to reversing the government's 1.2 billion pound privatization of cancer are? >> minister, can i welcome the right honorable lady's welcome to the fact that money is being put forward to help with the university trust is doing because there is a 256 million pound investment including 80 million pounds of capital funding that is going in to making sure this project can work and work well. i have been following the situation closely and will continue to do so. on cancer, what i would say to her is that the number of people are being referred to cancer treatment under this government is up 50% and we inherited the worst cancer survival rates anywhere in europe and they are now at record levels. >> does my right honorable friend agrees with the opinion

of one member of the house sitting on the opposition benches and he knows who he is but the only way to get the u.s. is to vote conservative. > if i may, criminally unsound udgment. >> i can't think who my honorable friend is referring to but if it is true, you are not satisfied with the way that the e.u. is working at the moment. if you want change, if you want reform, if you want renegotiation, if you want a freedom, it is not for us to decide, but for the british public to decide in or out there's only one choice and that is to vote conservative. >> mr. speaker.

i should say at the outset i am speaking -- wouldn't have missed this meeting with the prime inister for the world. every time that someone gets the job it is good for them and good for their families. can he confirm the latest figures show wages are filled, -- still failing to keep pace with inflation. and that he is presiding over the longest slump in living standard for a century. >> let me charge the right honorable gentleman, we wish him to get well soon with his sore throats. if he gets the doctor's appointment we hope he doesn't forget. o show up on time. i am very glad, i am very glad he has asked me about unemployment because i think the figures out today, they do show the long-term plan is working. we see unemployment give the 2

-- below 2 million and the claimant count below 1 million and we have seen the biggest annual fall in unemployment since records began. long-term unemployment, reduced -- youth unemployment, long-term youth unemployment, women's unemployment are all down but there is absolutely no complacency. and to answer his question directly, yes, of course we have seen stagnant wage growth but that is because we are recovering from the longest and deepest recession in this country's history. let me remind him the institute for fiscal studies, we had a great big recession. we have had the biggest recession we had in a hundred years. it would be astonishing if household incomes haven't fallen and earnings haven't fallen. of course that has happened and we know who is responsible. >> mr. speaker, he obviously noticed that i lost a couple of paragraphs in my speech. have noticed, i have noticed,

i have noticed that since we last met, he has lost key members of parliament. >> let's talk about what he said at a conference. the last election said this. you can't talk about tax reduction unless you can show how it is paid for. the public are not stupid. so, mr. speaker, when he announced his 7 billion pound unfunded tax cut, he must have had a secret plan to pay for it so what is it? cutting public services? >> people don't have to look in the crystal ball, they can read the book. we have cut taxes for 26 million, we have taken 3 million people out of income tax altogether. we have raised the personal

allowance to 10,000 pounds so if you are on minimum wage we cut your income tax bill by two thirds but we have only been able to do that because we remembered something important. you have got to have a long-term economic plan and we have to cut the deficit. we do have a plan. the deficit is down by a third. the imf say we are fastest-growing economy in the g-7 and with a record like that you can afford tax cuts, the people deserve. >> we have seen the record. cut the tax credit. working families and the bed room tax. that is the record of this prime minister. now, he can't be straight about tax plans because maybe he could be straight about his plans for tax credits. can he confirm as a result of his plans, a one earner family with two children or 25,000 pounds a year will lose 500 pounds a year? >> the best way to help people lose to take some out of income tax altogether.

next year you will be able to earn 10,500 pounds before you pay any income tax altogether. we think it is better not to take people that take money of people in the first place. he wants to compare records and after all this is the labor party, so let's look at the record on labor and here it is, women's unemployment is up 26% under labor, down 7% under this government. youth unemployment up 44% under labor, down 22% under this government. the economy is growing. the deficit is coming down. we are getting britain back to work, the long term plan is working but one thing that could wreck it is a labor overnment. >> he didn't answer the question or confirm the figures. let me just tell him that the chancellor's own figures show -- he can't even admit that. but me ask you about -- let me ask you about one specific issue

about disabled people in the minimum wage which goes to these expenses. in response to a question, a conservative party conference, the welfare reform minister said this. you make a really good point about the disabled. there is the group, actually as you say, they are not worth the full wage. was i confused? >> absolutely not. disabled people should be paying the minimum wage and the minimum-wage under this government is going up and going up in real terms. it is now at £6.50. we will be presenting our evidence to the low pay commission calling for another real-terms increase in minimum wage. he talked about the chancellor's figures. let me give him the chancellor's figures. inflation of 1.2% five year low, the biggest annual fall in unemployment since records began. the fastest growing economy in the g-7 and next year pensions getting 150 pounds a year.

those are the chancellor's figures, those are the government's figures and we get mayhem from labor. >> to be clear about what the welfare reform minister said. it is very serious. he didn't just say disabled people were not worth a minimum wage, he went further and said, quote, he was looking at and i quote, when there is something we can do, if someone wants to work for 2 pounds an hour. mr. speaker, surely someone holding those views can't possibly -- stay in this government. >> those are not the views of the government or anyone in the government. the minimum wage is paid to everybody, disabled people included. court order, order, order. -- >> order, order, order. passions are running high. the prime minister must be heard. >> let me tell you, i don't need lectures from anyone looking after disabled people. i don't want to hear that. we paid the minimum wage, we're

reforming disability benefits, we want to help disabled people in our country and help more of them in to work. instead of cast aspersions, why doesn't he get back to talking about the economy? >> i suggest if he wants to protect the rights of disabled people he reads carefully what his welfare minister has said because they are not words of someone who ought to be in harge of policy. mr. speaker, in the dog days of this government the conservative party is going back to its worst instincts. unfunded tax cuts. and undermining the minimum-wage. the nazi party is back. >> i can tell him what is happening in this government. the economy is growing and the deficit coming down. the government is on the side of hard-working people and he told us about the forgotten paragraphs in his speech.

i got a copy of the main here. -- them in here. they came under the heading of hard truths. well, i have got a hard truth for him, he is not up to the job. >> mr. speaker, hundreds of thousands of people across the united kingdom, have their privacy invaded by nuisance phone calls every day of the week. does the prime minister wants to tackle the problem of money support stronger for the purpose? >> i am very happy to look at what my honorable friend says. we have the tps service that helps people of little lot of -- avoid a lot of these calls but i have heard pressure to be done and happy with what he says.

>> they are great in point. the workplace has devolved. they can't recruit. there are serious risk. the prime minister didn't have a clue about the nhs is reforms. will he acknowledge it is harder to be a gp and see a gp on his watch. >> everybody knows of course there are pressures, big decisions on becoming the government wishes to go on spending on the nhl's which is 12.7 billion more in and the bureaucracy so there are 20,000 fewer administrators and 6,000 more doctors, including, crucially, 1000 more gps. we need to go on to make sure the reform plus the money eases the pressure on the service to continue to see the success we have in our nhs today. >> since the conservative party and only the conservative party will deliver referendum and renegotiation, will the prime

minister tell us his intentions of bringing to this house the red line issues that will feature in his renegotiations and give us a preview of those today? >> i have set out some of the things i think need to change, safeguards for the single market, ability to block new regulation, making sure britain comes out and crucially as i said in my conference have to address the issue of immigration. i am looking forward to addressing all those issues in he months ahead. >> given the very serious spread of the ebola virus worldwide, with reports there could be up to 10,000 new cases per week by two months time, will the prime minister as part of the meetings today, at ensure that he works closely with the authorities in northern ireland given we share the frontier with other jurisdictions in relation to taxes on people coming into the

u.k.? is a serious issue for northern ireland and the rest of the united kingdom. >> i think that the honorable gentleman is absolutely right. there will be another meeting chaired today by the foreign secretary. i will be chairing one tomorrow. we will look at all these issues about where people are arriving to and cooperating properly with all the authorities. it is worth stressing there are no direct flights from liberia, sierra leone or guinea into the united kingdom so we are talking people who coming here in -- indirectly and to be rolled out more as the day goes by. i am absolutely convinced we will do everything we can to keep the country safe. we will make sure properly days on this, the republic takes place. >> thank you, mr. speaker. is my honorable friend aware that youth unemployment over the last couple years, cut by 53%, and employment by 43 percentage,

and the number of apprentices went up by 82% and thousands of lower earners? does that not show we are the rue workers party now. the union movement for hard-working people. >> i congratulate my honorable friend for the work he does locally to promote jobs and help promote apprenticeships and promote training. he is absolutely right. a 56% decline in unemployment in his constituency but let me stress there is more work to be done. we will stick into our long-term economic plan. we are not immune from the pressures including problems in the euro zone. and so we need to stick to the plan and do what we can to get more people back to work. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in the light of the national audit office estimate, 715 million pound cost to the taxpayer for the sales of royal

mail. what measures will be taken to ensure that when it sells euros star, the city gravy train will not be taking the taxpayer for a ride. >> let me say to the honorable gentleman there wasn't a cost to the taxpayer for the sale of royal mail. there was a benefit to the taxpayer, first time we had a receipt for the sale and we no longer had as we did in the navy years lost our loss after loss. -- labour years, loss after loss after loss. we have expressions of interest for the business that he referred to and we will make sure that we get valuable money for taxpayer to involve the private sector. >> the 1997 joint declaration committed britain and china together to preserve the freedom and stability and high degree of autonomy for hong kong for 50 years. recent large demonstrations show

that the people of hong kong have real concern over proposals to the election of the chief executive. does my right honorable friend agree with me we should do everything possible to pressure -- encourage the governments of hong kong and china to find ways for the widest possible choice in the important elections and that is vital to the stability in hong kong and the interests of both britain and china? >> i agree with my honorable friend that this is important. that democracy involves real choices. and i also think we should be clear about the importance we attach to the 1984 joint declaration because that joint declaration makes very clear that the current social and economic systems in hong kong will remain unchanged including the lifestyle. and it talks about rights and freedoms including those of speech, the press, assembly,

association, travel, movement and of strike. these are important freedoms, jointly guaranteed through the joint declaration and most of all we should stand up for. >> the fort telling -- the cost to as a gp practice of victoria and any special mention of constituents for police car and my constituency is in crisis, what can the prime minister ever do to my constituents that he as given to what they say? >> what i say to the honorable gentleman is we are not cutting spending on the nhs -- which is what his front bench recommended in the beginning of this parliament -- we're spending 12.7 billion pounds on the nhs. and if we look at his own clinical commissioning group in

east lancashire, the fund of 490 million pounds is going up by 2.14%, an increase of more than inflation. that is our policy, that is not the policy of the labor party. >> thank you very much. mr. speaker, the palestinian ambassador has described a -- monday's vote on the recognition of the palestinian state as a momentous vote. indeed it was. he also said now is the time for the u.k. government to listen to a democratically elected parliament and to take decisive political action by recognizing the state of palestine and the upholding its historical, moral and legal responsibility toward palestine. does the prime minister agree? >> i look forward to the day when britain will recognize the state of palestine but it should be part of the negotiations that brings about a two state solution. that is what we all want to see.

the state of israel living happily and peacefully alongside the state of palestine and that is where we should do the recognition. >> mr. speaker, in my constituency, an extra 30,000 because of the closure, is this accessible? >> as i said, what is happening in terms of nhs funding is the funding is actually going up. if we look at the clinical commissioning group, this year's funding is an increase of 2.14%. that is more money for the nhs. but obviously it is up to local commissioners to decide how to spend that money. but they have more money under this government where they would have had less under a labour

government, which said that spending more money on the nhs was irresponsible. >> will my friend agree there are too many people who cannot be described as rich who find themselves caught up in inheritance tax? will he also agreed this is not only unfair but this is not what the tax was originally intended to do and we need to reform it as soon as possible? >> i agree with my honorable friend. i think it was a step forward would the threshold was effectively increased by allowing the parceling between husband and wife which makes it 650,000 pounds rather than the 315 that it was before. and that only happened because of the pressure from the conservative party when it was sitting over there. taxes, as they say, are a matter for the chancellor and his budget, we all want to see a system over time and this may have to wait some time, but we all want to see a system where it is only the rich to pay inheritance tax and not hard-working people. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> this summer, mr. darlington marched 300 miles tiexiera rested his government's wasteful mismanagement of the health service.

does he agree -- i sat down with the premise there, darlington is in the northeast of england. does he agree, it seems a member of his own cabinet spending 3 billion pounds on reorganizing the nhs was his biggest mistake? >> what we did at the beginning was make sure we cut the bureaucracy and put in the extra money but let me say this to the honorable lady. the only way you have a strong national health service is having a strong economy. let's look at the country that ignored the deficits. greece cut it by 14%, portugal cut their nhs by 70%. they have something in common with her leader. they all forgot the deficit. >> thank you, mr. speaker. may i welcome the 300 million

ound investment. with my right honorable friend recognizing substantial improvements at stanford in -- stafford in recent years and the hard work there. and confirm when the nhl is -- nhs is england led review of consultant led services of stanford and consultant will take place. >> i am delighted to add to what my honorable friend says about the hard work being done at stanford hospital. i think the big up with north staffordshire gives an opportunity for a fresh start. obviously like him i want to see as many services maintained that staffordshire hospital and i know local people who live in stafford or have their children in a local hospital i quite understand that. >> steve reed. >> thank you. mr. speaker. does the prime minister agree that the 11 million pounds wasted on a botched and abandoned reorganization of an -- old southwest london's nhs

services would have been better spent providing more for my constituents who don't have to wait over two weeks to be a doctor? >> he mentions waiting time. let me remind him of one thing. when this government came to office there were 18,000 people who were waiting longer than a year. that is down to 500. that has happened because we have run the health service and run the economy effectively and the reorganization that took place in the nhs was by getting rid of bureaucracy. 20,000 fewer administrators, 6,000 doctors, 3,000 nurses. that is a record we can be proud of. >> speaker, one in four bed in our hospitals are occupied by a patient with dementia. being treated in ordinary wards can cause them stress and confusion, hampering their recovery and that of other patients. would the prime minister agree

with me and with health practitioners at my local hospital that patients with dementia should be cared for by specially trained staff and where necessary in separate wards and would he support my campaign to make it so across england? >> i think in dementia, we face >> i think in dementia, we face an enormous challenge across the world. so many people have this condition and likely to get it. government has increased the research that is going into dementia. build more dementia friendly communities and trained over 100,000 nih staff on how to better treat people with dementia. we're trying to help them with the way we treat dementia suppressors -- sufferers. very often people being in a hospital is not the right answer for someone with dementia.

>> thank you, mr. speaker. a constituent was brutally murdered. .e have lost a local hero he ignored his own safety to syria.ildren in need in ably this noble sacrifice should be recognized in some way and for support for his widow and children. and the prime minister tell me if he supports these endeavors? >> i think she's absolutely right that alan henning was a hero. he went to serve others. it was about helping other people in their times of need. demonstrates the joyfulness. -- dreadful this.

i think she makes a very good suggestion. >> thank you, mr. speaker. it would help improve economic regeneration in these local areas and take into account that youth unemployment and those local areas are down an overall .nemployment is down it shows the long-term economic plan. and that's across the country. >> i think the gentleman is right, the claimant count in his own constituency is down by 36% a huge advance over recent years. he's right about the importance

of the local growth field. this is going to mean more transport links in and around midway, a total of 242 million pounds gone into this deal. like him, i feel i'll be spending time in those mid kaye towns in the weeks to come. >> my honorable friend, the member from richmond, will be pressing amendments to ensure the recall bill makes them accountable to their constituents real recall. will the prime minister support these amendments to honor the proms on which he sought office in 2010 prime minster, we made clear we wanted to see a -- in 2010. >> the second viewing of the recall bill will be happening soon in the house. getting this bill together, i think we've come up with the minimum acceptable for recall but there's a lot of very good arguments to be had about how we can go further and i look forward to having them in the house of commons.

>> richard harrington. >> since 2010, there's been 50 million pounds worth of expenditure of investments in schools. only last week we had the announcement of the st. john's church of england primary school under father john stevenson. how can my right honorable friend assure me that the situation of massive investments in schools will continue because it's hugely benefiting my constituents and their children? >> we are spending 18 billion pounds on school buildings in this parliament, more than labor spent in their first two terms in office combined and i want us to see that continue. i think what we're seeing in our schools is not just this important building work but a massive change in culture and leadership as we see standard