0 >> with an eye on the 2014 midterms, republicans had new ammunition for their long claim that the cost of the health benefits will hurt the economy in the long run. >> they can say anything they want, but this number is a lot worse than anybody thought. >> though the president insisted to fox new's bill o'reilly that government is not growing out of control. >> we have not massively expanded the welfare state. that's just not true. when you take a look at it, actually, the levers of support that we provide to folks who are willing to work hard, they're not that different than they were 30 years ago, 40 years ago, or 50 years ago. >> the white house also touted that the cbo report has good news, including the so called risk corridor provisions are doing better than expected. they claim they will turn to an insurance industry bailout. they claim they're turning a profit. >> now to your health care coverage. if you made it through the first round of policy cancellations under obamacare, you still might not be in the clear. jim ingle tells us a lot more of you will learn if you like your policy, that doesn't mean you can keep your policy. >> president obama delayed the inevitable by postponing the employer mandate by a year and urging that cancelled individual policies in 2013 be extended into 2014, but the reprieve ends this year for both the president and millions of policy holders. >> it's going to be millions of people, and it's probably going to be tens of millions of people, but one thing we're sure of, there will be more cancellations this fall than there were last fall. >> and people will probably be getting the cancellation letters about the time they're going to the polls in november of 2014. >> andy and his family in louisville, kentucky, were facing a tripling of their costs until their insurance company let them extend their policy for a year with the president's blessing. >> with respect to the pledge i made if you like your plan, you to crafting spy eye, a malware he used to transfer money out of victims' bank accounts and into accounts run by criminals. >> they sold the software, including specially made versions of the malware to at least 154 of his criminal clients who unturn used it to affect an estimated 1.4 million computers around the world. >> that fits a pattern. last month, a mexican couple was arrested in texas holding 96 counterfeit credit cards. police believe they purchased the data from the target stores breached. congress is working on a bill to replace a patchwork of state laws. it would require companies to report any breach to the company and the customers and it may also require a chip for pins. chips embedded in credit cards provide another layer of security, but this war is shifting. >> it's in the cloud, in software that sits in the cloud on mobile devices, so the threats are exploding, but so are the attacks surfaces. >> experts warn consumers also need to be proactive, checking accounts frequently and reporting unusual activity. they also suggest using credit cards instead of debit cards. >> we'll talk about with the panel more about what you talked about with congress doing more. >> orrin hatch calls the idea of giving bonuses to irs employees after last year's targeting scandal outrageous. the tax agency is reinstating the bonuses which will be about 1%. the acting commissioner and the wienl charge of screening tax exempt groups resigned in the wake of revelations that conservative groups were subjected to more scrutiny. >> the dow gains 72. the s&p 500 was up 13. nasdaq finished up head 35. >> a big chunk of your taxpayer money will go to the farm measure bill. it made it through the senate and is on its way to the president. mike emanuel explains while the bill received a lot of votes, it doesn't have a lot of fans. >> the ayes are 68. the nays are 32, and the conference report is agreed to. >> the senate passed a bipartisan compromise of a five-year, $956 million farm bill which took three years of negotiation. it's expected to reduce the deficit by $23 billion in the next decade, including cutting $8 billion in food stamp funding by correcting a program misuse. >> we think we have tightened it up so it will not affect the payments to those who are truly eligible and those who need the help, and yet it will make sure the taxpayers are treated fairly as well. >> the chair of the senate agriculture committee says this deal ends indefensible spending after many years of trying. >> we have finally ended direct payment subsidies which are given to farmers even in good times. instead, we move to a responsible risk management approach. it only gives farmers assistance when they experience a loss. >> yet one critic called the measure a marriage of convenience between welfare and corporate welfare. >> the farm bill is really two bills. one that spends about $200 billion to subsidize the agriculture industry. and another that spends $750 billion on the public assistance program previously known as food stamps. >> and others seem skeptical of what's in the fine print of a 949-page bill. >> sadly, rather than a blockbuster of fiscal sanity, taxpayers are going to be saddled with what looks to be another rerun of missed opportunities to reform federal agriculture policy. >> jay carney called it very positive, congress worked in a bipartisan way to get this done. the president is expected to sign it friday in michigan. shannon. >> mike emanuel live on the hill, thank you. up next, president obama says he is the key to the fox news channel's success. but first, here's what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 5 in san diego with a story of a real-life castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the pacific ocean. wdrv in louisville with a debate, creationism versus evolution. bill nye will take evolution against bill hamm. tickets sold out in two minutes. >> this is salive look at denver from fox 31. the big story there, the rescue of a teenager held hostage for nearly 18 hours by a convicted criminal. police say their s.w.a.t. unit successfully freed the 13-year-old and the hostage taker was fatally shot. that's the look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. for over a decade