some of the contracts date back to gordon brown's time.arillion, like all the big out sources, they take these long—term contracts from the government and operate on tiny profit margins. they're big companies and make big money but for instance take one or two or 3% profit margin and the only way to keep going and growing is to get more contracts. what carillion's been doing is even as it was heavily in debt, even as it was pushing ahead it needed to keep getting more business so the chief executive was rewarded for getting more contracts, not for sorting out the existing business and making sure it could do the work it promised to do. you end up the work it promised to do. you end up with this crazy situation where a company that was worth two billion and the key thing it was liquidated, not into administration, there was nothing seen worth salvaging from this company that only a few years ago was worth two billion. front major of the metro, carillion's hedge funds make a mint as the company fails, bosses hang on to bonuses. a lot of the

labor pm gordon brown may be trying to make an audience at the l.s.e. forget about how he oversaw a catastrophic economic crash in britain's economy alarming statistics about poverty have emerged in the past twenty four hours according to u.k. and you know the trussell trust hundreds of thousands of children who have nothing but food banks to feed them in austerity britain between april and september six hundred thousand three day emergency food supplies had to be given out to stave off hunger so what about the usa a country whose new liberal policies have long been revered by u.k. politicians we sent senior producer pete bennett to speak with the cost and crew of a film hotly tipped for the oscars the florida project this friday in britain the film follows underclass survival in the shadow of multinational media corp the walt disney company. co-written and directed by sean baker the florida project follows the misadventures of three kids living on the highway to the most magical place on earth disney will florida star an oscar nominated legend willem d

go through everything i've got someone here who can explain it for us which is fantastic alex gordon brown to your c.e.o. and founder of amiga one we've also got the technical director james i'll get you in a moment james andrew hey how you doing. tell us what the blow chain is in in a sentence can you achieve it i can try. look chain is the underlying technology of the next generation of the internet which is going to do you choose money and banking and finance and actually pretty much every sector of business on top of that what internet two point zero did to media and communication it's a decent realised it's a decentralized ledger in the same way that the internet is a way for computers to talk to each other but obviously a way for computers to talk to each other doesn't really explain what facebook google and all those things have done for society good or bad in the same way a distributed legit yes but it basically it's a way to run the entire. system of ownership and transfer of value in the in the world without the need for a central organization exactly minus the middleman minus th

it really is a story about a load of public policy decisions made by gordon brown, first in the treasurywning st. yafai is not as popular with the government any more. but the rent on these buildings, the government and what the tax payer pays, it is comparable to the cost of the build? the cost of publicly financing projects can be 40% higher than relying solely upon government money. if that was a bank offering you those kinds of differences, you would always turn it down. the figures are quite astonishing. {10.3 billion, the annual charges for 2016-17 for billion, the annual charges for 2016—17 for those deals. it is money thatis 2016—17 for those deals. it is money that is effectively going on improving health services and schools in those companies. john major, tony blair, it was really extended. you would argue that you would not get certain structures built if you did not have a pr five. and in the guardian, residents face a huge bill to remove cladding. this is people living near or at the g re nfell tower? is people living near or at the grenfell tower? it is extraordinary, thes

there was tony blair and gordon brown.ving birth and coming back six weeks later. it's not the long time to be off work. baby has two parents, who's going to step in? the husband. the daddy, clark. good for him. why not. he's going to be the first man of fishing and a stay at home dad. i think you might have to rethink that clark, i don't know how much fishing you'll be getting done. baby in a papouse. little more time consuming that people perhaps realise. that's all for the papers tonight. are we done? yes, don't forget you can see the front pages online on the website. it's there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers. if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on the eeg player. kevin, john, nice to see you. i'm going to go and talk to the lawyer about my transgression. coming up next, it's the weather. ? hello, it's been another difficult day for travelling, particularly to western and southern parts of scotland, where we've seen the heaviest snow showers today. the view from lab ark earlier.

it is a 40% rise roughly since gordon brown left office.to keep up in recent yea rs not been able to keep up in recent years with this rising tide. they had not been able to build the they need and, for example, we can show you another graph showing you why. if you look at the amount that the hospitals has been spending in the last four years on things like buildings, renovating existing buildings, renovating existing buildings and new equipments, there have been big declines in the last four years. about 50% down on new equipment. we‘re not putting money into expanding the pipeline, not in hospitals, social care or gps, so we can cope with this ever rising demands. when it would like this, it looks as though it is all about money. is it all about money? money isa money. is it all about money? money is a necessary but sufficient part of the answer to problems in the nhs. the thing is, you have to remember that there are things like recruitment which have leadtimes. we have a problem at the moment getting and keeping staff, not least because

most of it's going to be front loaded into this year basically they're doing like brown's bottom gordon brown when he sold all the u.k.'s gold announced it to the world we're going to sell our gold drove the price down got the guarantee lowest price for the united kingdom here apples guaranteeing the highest price ever paid for apple to buy these hundred seventy three billion dollars worth of shares they're saying that this is going to be front loaded into twenty eighteen most of the share buying will happen this year and those of us who are not participating in this game called central bank apple computer warren buffett trifecta of fraud are going to be put out on to the surf slave circulation waves yeah we're going to be surfing. surfing on the ups and downs of the stock market manipulation of their fake money and their fake i didn't know who i did just go surfing on the ocean of free money as it comes crashing in on the on the other sure. all right more coming your way after the break don't go away. i think there is indeed potential to come out of this impasse of implementing the minsk agr

labor pm gordon brown may be trying to make an audience at the l.s.e. forget about how he oversaw a catastrophic economic crash in britain's economy alarming statistics about poverty have emerged in the past twenty four hours according to u.k. and gio the trussell trust hundreds of thousands of children have nothing but food banks to feed them in austerity britain between april and september six hundred thousand three day emergency food supplies had to be given out to stave off hunger so what about the usa a country whose new liberal policies have long been revered by u.k. politicians we sent senior producer pete bennett to speak with the cost and crew of a film hotly tipped for the oscars the florida project this friday in britain the film follows underclass survival in the shadow of multinational media corp the walt disney company. co-written and directed by sean baker the florida project follows the misadventures of three kids living on the highway to the most magical place on earth does the well florida star an oscar nominated legend willem dafoe an

well, i think the last act of the labour government under gordon brown, which was a sensible one, wasis the second david owen u—turn. you don't like the phrase, but you've changed position on europe, from being pro being in the eu to being very much for being out of it. and in terms of socialism, and a pure left—wing ideology, you rebelled against it, and now you are for it. i neverjoined the liberal party. i stayed a social democrat all this time. i told you, i don't think currently the labour party is a social democratic party. that's why i have notjoined it. but i am of the left. i am a passionate believer in the national health service. i believe that the creation of that in 19118 was a great thing. he rejoiced in the fact that he didn't have to ask his patients to pay. so, on social policy, i've always been on the left. but i was, when i was leader of the sdp, and even before — i believe that we did have to change trade union laws. i believe that we did have to change the economy. and above all, i wanted strong defence. all of those were challenged by michael foot in 1981 to 1983

labor pm gordon brown may be trying to make an audience at the l.s.e. forget about how he oversaw a catastrophic economic crash in britain's economy alarming statistics about poverty have emerged in the past twenty four hours according to u.k. and gio the trussell trust hundreds of thousands of children have nothing but food banks to feed them in austerity britain between april and september six hundred thousand three day emergency food supplies had to be given out to stave off hunger so what about the usa a country whose new liberal policies have long been revered by u.k. politicians we sent senior producer pete bennett to speak with the custom crew of a film hotly tipped for the oscars the florida project this friday in britain the film follows underclass survival in the shadow of multinational media corp the walt disney company. written and directed by sean baker the florida project follows the misadventures of three kids living on the highway to the most magical place on earth disney well florida. an oscar nominated legend willem dafoe and the cost

know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown or tony blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging. what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging seems to be going on industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise papers are worried that there is a maze has been involved has been does. in effect advisor on tax dodging i'm not i'm not in the slightest worried by that i'm sure that he can defend himself on this but quite honestly i think there are bigger things that the cons country needs to concentrate on and as i said it needs to concentrate on the hip hop.

most of it's going to be front loaded into this year basically they're doing mike brown's bottom gordon brown when he sold all the u.k.'s gold announced it to the world we're going to sell all our gold drove the price down got the guarantee lowest price for the united kingdom here apple's guaranteeing the highest price ever paid for apple to buy these hundred seventy three billion dollars worth of shares they're saying that this is going to be front loaded into twenty eighteen most of the share buying will happen this year and those of us who are not participating in this game called central bank apple computer warren buffett trifecta of fraud are going to be put out on to the surf slave circulation waves yeah we're going to be surfing. surfing on the ups and downs of the stock market after manipulation of their fake money and their fake i didn't know who i did just go surfing on the ocean of free money as it comes crashing in on the on the other sure. all right more coming your way after the break don't go away. i think there is indeed a potential kind of come out of this impasse something t

of that gordon brown and tony blair are not going to be like the razor me and slag your they're all of the organised different absolutely. how different is he i mean you have a councils in this country labor council get off shoring funds to avoid tax have to go to local well this and local governments is in a paulus situation and i don't know the details about why certain doing that but when local government if it absolutely decimated with funding cuts you know there will be some creative accountant see going on in order to try to minimise the impact of suspect on frontline services but i speak for certain i don't know that the local government is one thing what about the fact that at the conference in brighton widely seen as a successful labor conference there were tables going for more than a thousand pounds for pharmaceutical company bosses to come and meet with people in germany gorgons labor party do represent pharmaceuticals in belgrade new energy future you offer they can they can come and talk to is certainly but i am very strong of a firm view that there is a very powerful cas

of that gordon brown and tony blair i'm not going to be like to raise them in slag your they're all of the organised different absolutely but how different is he i mean you have councils in this country labor council got off shoring funds to avoid tax have to go to local well listen local governments is in a paulus situation and i don't know the details about why started doing that but when local governments have been absolutely decimated with funding cuts you know there will be some creative accountant see going on in order to try to minimise the impact of suspect on frontline services but obstacle speak for certain. no that's a local government is one thing what about the fact that at the conference in brighton widely seen as a successful labor conference there were tables going for more than a thousand pounds for pharmaceutical company bosses to come and meet with people in germany corbin's labor party to represent pharmaceuticals in the right new energy future you offer they can they can come and talk to is certainly but i am very strong of a firm view that there is a very powerful

know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown returning blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging . what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging seems to be going on industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise papers you know worried that there is a maze has been involved has been does in effect advisor on tax dodging i'm not i'm not in the slightest worried by that and i'm sure that he can defend himself. this but quite honestly i think there are bigger things that the cons country needs to concentrate on and as i said it needs to concentrate on the hypocrisy of the labor party in turning down the offer to recoup eight point six billio

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most of it's going to be front loaded into this year basically they're doing mike brown's bottom gordon brown when he sold all the u.k.'s gold announced it to the world we're going to sell all our gold drove the price down got the guarantee lowest price for the united kingdom here apple's guaranteeing the highest price ever paid for apple to buy these hundred seventy three billion dollars worth of shares they're saying that this is going to be front loaded into twenty eighteen most of the share buying will happen this year and those of us who are not participating in this game called central bank apple computer warren buffett trifecta of fraud are going to be put out on to the surf slave sensation waves yeah we're going to be surfing. surfing on the ups and downs of the stock market after manipulation of their fake money and their fake i didn't know who i did just go surfing on the ocean of free money as it comes crashing in on the on the other sure. all right more coming your way after the break don't go away. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worr

tony blair and gordon brown turbo—charged the number of pfi contracts.lic sector projects. rohan silva advised david cameron on government delivery. the original thinking was to bring private sector investment, but also rigour and discipline, to the building of public sector projects. government wasn't so good at getting stuff built on time and on budget. the truth is, though, that this approach was really abused, particularly in the 2000s. it got extended to schools and hospitals, completely inappropriate for this type of financing. the collapse of carillion, a big pfi provider, has put the debate about private finance and public projects back in the spotlight. the government insists pfi has delivered, and the rules have been tightened. but today's report shows just how high the cost has been. kamal ahmed, bbc news. president trump has denied that his views have changed about building a wall along the border with mexico. building the wall was a key campaign pledge, and embodied his vision of america first. in the second of our reports charting a year of

tony blair, gordon brown, they were happy to see private involvement in the public sector.lvement in the public sector. beforejeremy corbyn there was a general acceptance that was 0k. was a general acceptance that was ok. but those days have now gone. that consensus has pretty much disappeared. this week, we will see a labour spokesman, after labour spokesman, attacking private involvement in public services in prisons, health, in hospitals, across the board. it is a glaring example of the kind of startling polarisation we are seeing in british politics. john pienaar, many thanks. in cumbria, an inquest into the death of 13—month—old poppi worthington has concluded that she was sexually assaulted before she died of asphyxia. cumbria's senior coroner said her father's account of what had happened at their home in december 2012 did not stand up to scrutiny. paul worthington had declined to answer more than 250 questions during the inquest, and has consistently denied any wrongdoing. he's never been charged, as our correspondent danny savage reports. for five years, the death

of the gordon brown and tony blair i'm not going to be like tourism in slag your for their all of the organ is different absolutely but how different is he i mean you have a councils in this country labor council get off shoring funds to avoid tax have to go to a local well listen local government is in a paulus situation and i don't know the details about why certain doing that but when local governments have been absolutely decimated with funding cuts you know there will be some creative accounts and see going on in order to try to minimise the impact of suspect on frontline services but i speak for certain i don't know that a local government is one thing what about the fact that at the conference in brighton widely seen as a successful labor conference there were tables going for more than a thousand pounds for pharmaceutical company bosses to come and meet with people in germany corbin's labor party to represent pharmaceuticals in well write new energy future you offer they can they can come and talk to is certainly but i am very strong of a firm view that there is a very powerfu

most of it's going to be front loaded into this year basically they're doing mike brown's bottom gordon brown when he sold all the u.k.'s gold announced it to the world we're going to sell our gold drove the price down got the guarantee lowest price for the united kingdom here apple's guaranteeing the highest price ever paid for apple to buy these hundred seventy three billion dollars worth of shares they're saying that this is going to be front loaded into.

know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown attorney blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging . what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging fees to be going on an industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise paper you know worried that there is a maze has been involved has been does. ineffective adviser on tax dodging i'm not i'm not in the slightest worried by that i'm sure that he can defend himself on this but quite honestly i think there are bigger things that the cons country needs to concentrate on and as i said it needs to concentrate on the hypocrisy of the labor party in turning down the offer to recoup one point six billion

tony blair, gordon brown, they gave a lot of business to companies like carillion.corbyn, there was a general a cce pta nce a cross corbyn, there was a general acceptance across party lines but those days are gone. the government is having to be the case again. that tells you a lot, volumes about the new dramatic polarisation of british politics. john, thank you very much. an inquest into the death of 13—month—old poppi worthington has concluded she was sexually assaulted before she died. the coroner found that poppi's death, in cumbria in 2012, was caused by asphyxia, after sleeping in a bed with herfather, paul worthington. mr worthington has always denied wrongdoing, and has never been charged with a criminal offence. from kendal, danny savage reports. for five years, the death of poppi worthington has been unexplained. now it is much clearer how she died and what happened to her beforehand. this 13—month—old suffocated after being left in an unsafe sleeping position by herfather. she died in this bed, where a coroner believes paul worthington also sexually assau

most of it's going to be front loaded into this year basically they're doing like brown's bottom gordon brown when he sold all the u.k.'s gold announced it to the world we're going to sell our gold drove the price down got the guarantee lowest price for the united kingdom here apple's guaranteeing the highest price ever paid for apple to buy these hundred seventy three billion dollars worth of shares they're saying that this is going to be front loaded into twenty eighteen most of the share buying will happen this year and those of us who are not participating in this game called central bank apple computer warren buffett trifecta of fraud are going to be put out on to the surf slave sensation waves yeah we're going to be surfing.

gordon brown really wanted to sack alistair darling as chancellor.o do that. this is a prime minister without the authority to do what she wants. we thought she was getting a bit stronger after getting the brexit breakthrough and it seems that this is a massive step back for her. francine: don't you speak to your ministers ahead of the reshuffle to feel out whether they are happy to be reshuffled instead of a public humiliation? >> these things are never easy. you're talking about people losing their jobs. these things are never that soon -- smooth. we had tweets coming out from the conservative central office with the wrong person in the wrong job, misspellings. there was a general sense of chaos and it went on and on late into the night. even the very conservative supporting press for the savage in their assessment. the telegraph called the night of the blood stiletto -- blunt stiletto. tom: does she clean house in her communication staff? let's assume it's not the dysfunction that mr. wolff describes in his book. does she clean house and hire davi

some of them go right, right back to the laika interestingly enough, right back to gordon brown and tonyivate finance contracts were first put together.” was talking to the head of public assets at oxfordshire county council and they pulled the plug on their deal with carillion, way before, three orfour months deal with carillion, way before, three or four months before the first profits warning last year because they said the work simply was not good enough. is that the kind of thing the government should have been aware of? what is astonishing, and i think your correspondent just astonishing, and i think your correspondentjust pointed this out, is that the government was still signing new contracts, right up until september of this year, which is bonkers! because we knew the share price was sliding and everyone in the city knew what was going on. the debts were piling up, the bank loa ns were the debts were piling up, the bank loans were piling up on the government was still signing contracts. that is why i have suggested, and i will suggest this in my column tomorrow, this was somethi

rediscoverd to they need to rediscover tony blair and gordon brown?t onillion was actually very point. people are-class also suffering. it's not just working-class people in britain. middle-class people are suffering. their money is not stretching. they're watching the children coming out of university and not getting jobs. are seeing the housing crisis for the next generation. there are a lot of people in the middle class who are very anxious about what has been happening under austerity and not very happy with the government. they look at carillion and think they're her -- here are a lot of jobs and small businesses. we had outsourcing to outsourcers. they kept going down the line and some of those small companies are going to really suffer because they will be at the bottom of the list. tom: i am guilty of this. i'm going to china, i get the fancy plane in, the fancy car and the fancy hotel and i say london is no different. i go to the big fancy hotel next our offices and i say i have been to london. the rest of the united kingdom are they engaged

pfi was massively expanded under labour, under tony blair and gordon brown.y given us some evidence, that the cost wasjust so given us some evidence, that the cost was just so much given us some evidence, that the cost wasjust so much higher. we have to respond to that. and where it is cheaper for the taxpayer to get some of those contracts back, essentially nationalising these vehicles, if you get better value then the government have to look at that. labour is opposed as i understand to folder pfi contracts. does that not mean that pupils and patients are going to have to wait an awful lot longer for new hospitals and schools because simply no spare government cash to build those buildings? certainly the opportunity to fund those in a traditional framework. when people talk about debt on the government balance sheet, we are just getting back on the balance sheet. we believe that government taxation and borrowing should not be any fiscal allusion, it should reflect the liabilities. if that is the case it is possible to do that. given the fa ct we is possible

it was the previous government with gordon brown who increased national insurance and allocated it toorth considering and worth discussing, because what is clear, we can't continue with the years and years of cuts and underfunding and the privatisation of community health services that we have got at the moment. it is pushing the nhs to the brink. the fact that we have got people waiting hours on trolleys, people waiting hours on trolleys, people having their cancer operations cancelled, i'm talking to you from leicester, a gentleman here had his bladder operation cancelled twice. 0ne trust was considering delaying chemotherapy starts. we can't carry on. we want dignity and humanity in the health service and not cuts that are going on.” humanity in the health service and not cuts that are going on. i think the last time i spoke to you, you did say, you did spell that out that labour would ask people to pay more tax to improve health care and increase funding, do you think that the conservatives, some parts of conservative party, are starting to come around to that idea and do you acce

the whole pfi project was expanded under tony blair and gordon brown because they saw it as a way ofthey don't care who is building them, theyjust want them belt, they do not care who is performing the operation, they just want do not care who is performing the operation, theyjust want it done. by operation, theyjust want it done. byjeremy corbyn say it's not that simple and services suffer and money gets pushed to one side because private companies obviously focus on profits and so some of the money that could go into improving and investing in public services inevitably gets siphoned off. it's a pretty fundamental ideological moment and also the moment when many people they will be watching, people who work for carillion work in the supply chain for carillion who are desperate for clarity about their future. we are slightly in limbo about what will happen to many thousands of people because they do not know if they will have a job beyond today. let's see if we can find out as prime minister's questions gets underway. this morning i had meetings in addition to my duties in this hous

earlier my colleague, ben brown, spoke to masha gordon, a fellow mountaineer and friend of elizabethgn to help with the rescue attempt. she began by explaining why she needed to raise the money. the authorities demanded $35,000 upfront and we lost a day of rescue because we did not have the cash. once the fundraising began, we had to demonstrate we have the money. when did you first realise that she was in trouble, that they were both in trouble and they needed a rescue? we received a text on thursday night saying that tomasz developed severe frostbite and they needed a rescue. we were scrambling to get the money going to get the helicopters necessary. we were lucky to have a very competent team of climbers doing a descent of k2. we have seen some of the pictures of elizabeth and her friend, sadly, the rescue attempt for her friend tomasz has been called off for now. correct. she started her descent to try and get the rescue attempt on the way, she had no tent or sleeping bag because they were doing the light attempt and she then had to stop herself because she started developing fro

earlier my colleague, ben brown, spoke to masha gordon, a fellow mountaineer and friend of elizabeth to help with the rescue attempt. she began by explaining why she needed to raise the money. the authorities demanded $35,000 up front in cash. in fact we lost a day of rescue because we didn't have cash on hand. once the fundraising was on the way, we were able to demonstrate we had the money. so when did you first realise she was in trouble, the pair of them were in trouble and you needed to do a rescue? we received a text on thursday night about 7pm, london time, saying that tomasz, after the summit, got snow blind and developed severe frostbite and that they needed the rescue, and in the following 72 hours we were scrambling to get the money going and to get the helicopters necessary for that attempt. we were extraordinarily lucky to have a very competent team of climbers doing an historic ascent of k2. we were able to pick them up in the helicopter yesterday, and mount that ascent. we have just been seeing some of the pictures there of elizabeth and her friend, and sadly, the resc

earlier my colleague, ben brown, spoke to masha gordon, a fellow mountaineer and friend of elizabethgn to help with the rescue attempt. she began by explaining why she needed to raise the money. once the fundraising was on the way, we we re once the fundraising was on the way, we were able to demonstrate we have the money. when did you first realise the pair of them were in trouble and you need to do a rescue? we received the text about 7pm london time, saying that one of them became snow blind and needed rescue. we were scrambling to get the money going and to get the helicopters necessary. we were lucky to have a competent team of blinders doing an historic ascent of k2 and we were able to mount that ascent. we are seeing some pictures of elisabeth and herfriend, seeing some pictures of elisabeth and her friend, and seeing some pictures of elisabeth and herfriend, and sadly the rescue attempt for her friend tomasz has been called off, is that right? yes, he was in, one could say, a coma. she tried to get a rescue attempt under way. she had no tent or sleeping bag and she then had t

gordon wood brings his unmatched knowledge of scholarly literature to the task of recovering both sides of what is still america's long-standing argument with . so how does one rise from professor emeritus at brown university to become an unelected, unappointed but universally acknowledged dean of historians? it helps to have written 17 groundbreaking books about america's founding and its founding fathers during a nearly half century writing career. it probably helps that he has won the pulitzer, bancroft and john h coming crisis as well as the national book award nomination. and i cannot forbear mentioning the abraham gordon metal from this library. it surely didn't hurt that he received the national humanities medal from president obama in 2011. one of the few obama actions in no danger of being reversed. but having known gordon for a while now, i think there's another reason for his title. his unfailing good nature and kindness to others and optimism about the future. a well-founded optimism, he will tell you, based on the study of the past and a most welcome sentiment in these turbulent times. without further ado, let us welcome gordon would. [applause] >> thank you john for that generous i

gordon, thank you so much. of course something the russians obviously want to know about is whether oprah's going to run in 2020. before we go, this just in, from our friend laura brownf of their latest issue. oprah winfrey, addresses speculation of running for president in 2020. i always felt very secure and confident in myself in knowing what i could do and what i could not. so it's not something that interests me. i don't have the dna for it. i met with someone the other day who said they would help me with a campaign. that's not for me. >> pretty definitive. >> that is definitive. >> so it's tom hanks then. >> it is tom hanks for president 2020. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. stephanie. >> oprah knows what she can do and what she cannot. in my experience, it seems like oprah, she can do anything. good morning, i'm stephanie ruhle with a lot to hit this morning.