for omidier, and grunwald however, propublica, founded in 2007, it is primarily funded by philanthropiconations. , such as the george sorros open society foundation and others. the money goes to being finance being news reporting. >> 50,000 to $half a million to produce. how can you get this accountability in the era of the web? we take our biggest stories, our stories that we think have the most potential for impact and try place them with other news organization every that can give them visibility to the rearedship that can cause the -- greatest impacts. impact. >> in october 2010, propublica partnered with five outlets, including national public radio and boston globe, and in 2011 the investigative outfit worked with the washington post for a story on the aftermath of the bp oil spill in the gulf coast and how people were profiteering through cleanup in the gulf coast. pro-publica has made its form work. welcome in a u.s. media landscape dominated by corporate media. the question is, will these organization is become parts of the corporate media them sestles? >> a company like amazon

joining us is charlie ornstein from propublica.artin to us what medicare d is and how it operates. guest: sure. the affordable care act is complicated. it medicare part d is more narrow. it is the prescription drug component of the medicare program. about 36 people -- 36% -- it helps subsidize their drug costs. it is hard to believe that it was just a decade ago that if you were old or sick, you were really struggling with your prescription drug costs. you are deciding whether you could pay our rent, buy your food, pay your car payment, or whether you would buy drugs. --s is how to really be a alleviate those choices. host: about $60 billion spent on this program in 2012. providehat goes to payments to insurers to provide drug coverage under medicare part d. government, but it is controlled by insurance companies. they bid each year to provide coverage for people in different parts of the country. people have the choice of choosing a medicare part d plan. the government plays an amount of money to subsidize the cost of everybody wh

there was a very interesting article on propublica today that laid out how many people have paid their first premium. in order to be covered you have to have paid the first premium payment and many brokerage companies said between 5% and 10% of those technically enrolled have paid their actual first premium payment, which means that you are talking about a fraction of even their fraction. so it is worse than she even suggested today and she was admitting today that it was horrible. >> so you are talking about 20,000 to 40,000 people. charles? >> look at every level, every number that you get on this is either inflated or deceptive. as we just heard from steve, the number of enrollees are not enrollees. it is people who put stuff in their shopping cart. amazon would never call it a sale until you get a sale. and they don't know how many have made the sale. because what they call the back-end, which is the cash register of the whole system, is not working. the idea that you have to hand-match people who paid a premium with the insurers isn't 20th century technology, it is 19th century te

propublica reporter and author of "the taliban shuffle." this week geraldo munoz and his book, "getting away with murder." in it the u.n. assistant secretary general reports on the international inquiry he led into the assassination of the former pakistani prime minister. the program's about an hour. >> host: welcome, ambassador munoz. it's a pleasure to be here with you today talking about your new book. i wanted to start with the obvious question, which is what made you decide to write the book? >> guest: well, it was an intense experience that i had in pakistan investigating the assassination of benazir bhutto, and immediately after i delivered the report to the secretary general, there was a change in government in my country, in chile. i was the ambassador of chile to the united nations. i'm a political appointee, and a new government came in of the opposition, so i had free time, first. and second, there were a lot of publishing houses interested in this story behind the scenes, beyond the report. and i took some notes, and i decided

new york times magazine and propublica co-published that piece in 2009. >> host: next caller is chuck in arnold, maryland. hi, chuck, you're on with sheri fink, five days at memorial is the book. >> caller: hello, dr. fink. i have a question for you. i organized a group under an fbi volunteer program called infraguard where we looked at nation wild, you know, long-term -- nationwide long-term disasters, and we have a group of top doctors including groups from the military who have formed an advisory group to look at health care infrastructure nationwide. ..tructure nationwide. i'm wondering if you would be interested in participating with critical infrastructure and how to do it and what we might do to improve it for things like this. and i didn't know there was an interesting might have been a way to contact you to participate in that. >> thank you. i urge anyone who wants to get in touch, you can go to my website which is sheri fink.net and i am also on twitter and i have my facebook page and there is a contact form on the website as well. and i think that i'm really glad to hear th

. >> the other one we're working with in america is repubu -- propublica. he's extremely experienced. >> did you send documents to him. >> one story, a small number of documents. he has access, again, it's open knowledge, i gave the cabinet on -- the cabinet secretary his name too. >> all right, thank you. >> thank you. come back with a quick supplement. just some names. >> just why you didn't redact those names before sharing with the new york times? >> there were 58,000 documents. >> so the public interest defense is not the journalism, but that you didn't have the time or don't want to spend the resources going through them before sharing them? >> it was a direct -- there was a direct -- there were conversations with the cabinet secretary which led me to think that it was wise to share this material. >> thank you. >> the ceremony that took place in your basement when the secret survey attended by yourself, how many people were there? >> there were two from the gchq. i think two or three from the guardian. >> and you'll just break up the hard disks and th

. >> the documents were obtained from edward snowden and shared with "new york times" and propublica. you can communicate openly between two characters. this is not something that goes over the line. it's in a smaller group. you can also gift money in the form of gold or characters or online currency. >> conceivably terrorists could plan real attacks through thinks fantasy games. experts say the fake identities, voice and text chat capability, the ability to speak to others in real time, are all features of game play that terrorists find attractive, but the nsa's spying program raises privacy concerns. >> it's a privacy viles. people who participate think of the game interactions as ephemeral. you participate in the game, it disappears, you don't know who the characters are. everything is fantasy. if it turns out that the government is routinely storing all of that activity, analyzing it, linging it up to actual individuals, then i think there will be concerns. >> according ko "the guardian" and "the times" with all those elves, gnomes being survail there's no indication of any plot f

host: we have been talking with charlie ornstein with propublica . that is all the time we have. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] ♪ hear from general motors chair and ceo daniel son he will beer speaking on the state of the audio industry. the house has completed its legislative work for the year but it will gather at 11:00 a.m. for a brief pro forma session. tw nominationso remain. several other major items include the budget agreement and the bill setting out the defense policies for next year. furthermore, we spoke this morning with a capitol hill reporter. host: thank you for joining as. this is the final week in session. give us what we can see over the next couple of days? they're coming into session after he got this afternoon and to work there a couple more nominations with folks at 530 as is fairly normal on monday afternoons. we will see the confirmation of and patterson to be a state as well as the confirmation of jeh johnson to be the secretary of homeland security. that will clear the dec

disguising themselves as avatars like elves, gnomes, supermodels all revealed by "the new york times," propublicathanks to leaked documents from edward snowden. dagen? dagen: much. good to see you. diet soda sales fizzling out. cold wells fargo -- according to wells fargo, no-calorie and low-calorie soda sales are quickly turning into the soft drink industry's biggest problem. sales are falling faster than the overall market, down almost 7% over the last year. for the third straight year, contracting at a faster rate that be regular soda. this is a big reversal from the early part of the last decade when diet soda consumption rose, it was at one point almost a third of the overall soda market and soda stocks are feeling pressure today. connell: that makes sense, i think. i drink less soda now. i used to only drink diet soda, but now i just drink less soda -- dagen: do you drink vitamin water and stuff like that? noncarbonated beverages? >> not much. water, coffee. dagen: and the journal also points to fear of sweeteners, fear, you know, health risks about sweeteners. connell: hmm. dagen: even tho

did the editor of "the new york times" phone number, e-mail address and stephen engelbert from propublica. not once in six months -- >> you can guarantee and often a difficult you can guarantee you're telling this committee you can guarantee the security of all these names of these officers? >> your original question was the copy "the new york times" has to i believe that is being held securely, yes. >> all the copies to anything under your control. have you guaranteed that these names will not leak out? >> i can only talk about the copies under the joint control of "the guardian" and "the new york times" and i can say -- >> you can guarantee it? both the criticism -- >> i just want to add in that six months it would have been open to anybody from her majesty's government to come and ask about the names, and that hasn't happened. >> has anyone asked you to destroy this information or handed over? >> it's a matter of public record the cabinet secretary came and asked me to destroy the entire cache of documents, so yes. >> but you haven't done so? >> no. that is also a matter of public reco