he works for me now, but he's got a foot in breitbart media complex.ook, to me the most optimistic thing in the left, five or so years, has been the emergence of the tea party. when i came over from the left, the first thing i said is where's the ground war? where's the army? on the right there is none. i watch other comments progressive left i came out of active in the streets, we hated the democrats when we began. blew up their convention in 1968, but how that force move the democratic party's to the left until the democratic party now is really, it's run by the people who used to run the radical group of the '60s. although i once formulated a little different. i said the democratic party is a coalition of communism and crooks and that's where i would put the big governor of virginia, on the crooks side as opposed to the communist side. it's not that long ago when you would not have found three conservatives willing to march on washington. because they look at each other and say, what are we, collectivists? that's what they would say. and then, you k

the "the wall street journal" and i think even as the digital sphere the huffington and the andrew breitbart to be more declarative and created space by making cable news about, you know, the feverish pitch of the opinion rather than about the most convincing for facts reported and learned. he defined, in some ways, the times have comes to terms with that because of what murdoch has done in opposition. so i think he's done more to shape the main stream media than a lot of people recognize both in tribute to and in resistance to the way he's doing it. it might be somebody like jeff who used his personal fortune to buy "the washington post. or chris who bought the always aiming new republic with the billions he made with the first guys of facebook. it's hope we see new ones as well. >> thank you, david. thank you, sir. [applause] >>> is there a non-fiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv.

in 2009, met that report found that medicare breitbart was 118% of that medicare would spend. is that correct? >> yes. >> ms. baker and ms. gold, is it fair to say the reforms made by aca were intended to align medicare advantage payments with traditional medicare payments? yes or no. >> yes. >> despite claims made by some of my colleagues, these reforms have not run medicare advantage. in fact, the program is strong and growing. earnings are doing fine. salaries, dividends and bonuses and all those other good things to the companies and officers participating or enrolling. mr. baker, how many people are enrolled in medicare advantage toda correct, yes. >> is it correct that medicare advantage enrollment has increased 30% from 2010 to 2013, yes or no? it seems like they are doing pretty well, doesn't it? now is that correct be average but a care beneficiary will have a choice between a team pla plag the favorable to them in 2014, yes or no? >> yes. >> the affordable care act has not resulted in a drastic increase in the number of plans available to seniors who choose to partic