now, of course there are pressures, but what we would need, and this is said very clearly by simon stevens, we need to get red -- get rid of it, things, but as he puts you only get more money if you have a successful economy. as he said, a tax funded health service requires a healthy u.k. economy. healthy u.k. economy, and we will have a strong nhs. >> mr. henry smith. >> thank you, mr. speaker. a recent taxpayers alliance study revealed that the amount of taxpayer money being spent on union office space is equivalent to 27 point 4 million pounds at london market value. friend right honorable agree with me that it is time for further fiscal reform? >> well, i think it is necessary to cap the donations that unions make two parties, and that should be introduced, but i think he comes up with an ingenious idea. if unions want extra space, maybe they should do what the government is doing and make additional space available to entrepreneurs so we will have more startups and enterprise. that is a contribution trade unions can make. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i tell the prime minister known

simon. judge steven roads, detroit will emerge from bankruptcy. he approved the city's historic restructuring plan to end the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. detroit in the space of about 15 months is getting rid of about $7 billion in debt. there is another 1.5 billion or so tacked on to improve city services, new development for the downtown. the detroit heart institute -- >> let's go to washington. >>> for running very strong campaigns. as i also said the day after the election, what we have seen now for a number of cycles is the american people just want to see work done here in washington. i think they are frustrated by the grid lock. they would like to see more cooperation. i think all of us have the responsibility, me in particular, to try to make that happen. and so this gives us a good opportunity to explore where we can make progress on behalf of the people who sent us here. the good news is today we saw another good set of jobs numbers. we now have 56 consecutive months of job growth, more than 10.6 million jobs have been

stevens on amending the constitution. former neurosurgeon. remembering presidents roosevelt and taft. plus a profile of book publisher simon & schuster. ..

stevens on amending the constitution. former neurosurgeon. remembering presidents roosevelt and taft. plus a profile of book publisher simon & schuster. .. >> columnist for the hill. this week syndicated columnist cal thomas and the latest book what works commonsense solutions for a stronger america. he argues that solving the country's problems start with looking at what works in the past, discarding politics and listening to voters. this program is about an hour. >> host: we are joined by cal thomas on the new book what works, commonsense solutions by a stronger america and sean hannity. that tells you a lot about this book. >> guest: he's a very good friend of christine harper collins, which is publishing the book thought that he would be a very good person to have a right the foreword. nancy pelosi wasn't available. >> host: this is intended for a conservative audience. >> guest: isn't liberal or conservative, republican or democrat. we have challenges that affects everybody regardless of their political background or persuasion. >> host: but if you had a sean hannity, he's a quite popular figure among the hard-line co

stevens on amending the constitution, former neurosurgeon ben carson talks politics with chuck todd, doris kerns goodwin remembers presidents road svelte and taft -- roosevelt and taft. plus a profile of simon & schuster, books on the pros and cons of football and a tour of the new york public library. for more information on this weekend's four-day television schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> up next, ronald kessler, author of "the first family detail," discusses what secret service agents have revealed about our presidents over the years and talks about the recent scandals involving the agency. he spoke at barnes & noble booksellers in washington d.c. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. let's see, there. i guess that'll work. as you can tell from the titles of my books, i like to write about secret subjects, paren my very challenging subjects that -- preferably, very challenging subjects that have consequences for society. it might be perverse because if a subject is too easy, i don't want to do it. this sometimes gets me into trouble. when i did a book called "moscow station," i revealed that a conscious gb around i've -- kgr

steven sedgwick is standing by. where are we on the central question as to whether there will be a meaningful cut tomorrow? >> simonswer to that question is more and more no. i think they might have strong language about sticking to the official 30 million barrels a day target which has been in place about three years. this is very much plan b territory. the russians and the mexicans who aren't in opec came here yesterday hoping someone would cut but they said they wouldn't be cutting themselves. the iranians i've been speaking to and venezuelans who are hawks came into the meeting hoping someone would cut but they didn't want it to be them, of course. the iranians saying to me they look to grow as soon as the sanctions issue is sorted out, grow their production by a million barrels, not cut production. who would be cutting? saudi and their gcc allies. as we've heard there the uae and saudis are turning around saying hang on a second, we're conduct? what about everyone else. we have to give up market share? some of you might want to increase production if you're iran or iraq or nigeria or lib dwra if they can sort