the information showed while he was editing the news of the world, andy hired jonathan reed, a man jailed for seven years for a criminal conspiracy and who made payments to police on behalf of the "the news of the world." can the prime minister tell us what happened to that significant information that was given to his chief of staff? [cheering] >> i'd like to answer this, if i may in full. first of all, all of the questions relate to the fact that i hired a tabloid editor. on the bases of assurances that he gave me he did not know about the phone hacking, he was not involved in criminality. he gave the same assurances to the police, committee of the oath, and under law. if it turns out he lied, it won't be he shouldn't have been in the government, he will be prosecuted. i do believe we must stick to the principal that you are innocent until proven guilty. [cheering] >> let me deal with the information in remember last year. first of all, it was not passed on to me. let me be clear, it was not some secret stash of information. all of it was publish in "the guardian" in february 2010, it w

>>shepard: thank you, jonathan, from new york. the walter reedtal closed the doors after treating wounded service member and presidents for more than a century. long before a 2007 "washington post" newspaper investigation revealed poor living conditions at the hospital, and it treated hundreds of thousands of the fighters from before world war one. president nixon recovered from a staff inspection there. and president eisenhower died there. so did arm general mcarthur. and a military panel in 2005 decided to close the aging campus to cut costs. it will not merge operations with the national naval center at bethesda, maryland. >> our rich history on this old campus is ending but as we have been reminded many times, walter reed is not a building. walter reed is the people who provide care and compassion for wounded, ill, and injured war years. >>shepard: the government will preserve some of the builtings as historic landmarks but walter reed is a thing of the past. officials in west tennessee avert a major budget crisis that would have forced 100,0