you mentioned the employer mandate being delayed by one year to 25th teen. that is for companies with 50 workers or more, that they won t have to provide insurance benefits until that time, 2015. friday, july 5th, often times in washington we get the friday afternoon document dump if it is not something the administration is wanting to tout. this was particularly interesting friday dump because it was friday afternoon of a holiday weekend. hhs came up with their final rule on obamacare and it was 6906 pages long and in it says, that you would also, for the state s that are implementing obamacare, these state exchanges, they won t have to do the random checks to find out if someone is eligible for the subsidies 606 pages long. eligible for subsidy is in 2015.
again today mark o mara, the defense attorney for george zimmerman, kept asking all of these witnesses, do you hear any of that in those recordings that george zimmerman made with police, ill will, spite or hate? they all said, no. the defense expects to wrap this case this week, so this could be going to the jury perhaps by thursday or friday. back to you. jenna: very interesting, phil. thank you. jon: there are new concerns out there that the price of obamacare is spinning out of control. a leading republican senator now asking the administration why the costs of insurance subsidies keeps rising. chief national correspondent jim angle is live in d.c. with that. jim? reporter: hello there, and, of course, there s also a new delay in verifying the income for claiming those subsidies which you mentioned earlier, and that comes on top of the letter from senator hatch who s asking why the president is already requesting 107% more than three years ago to pay for subsidies.
that rather than challenging it? of course they were, rick. they ve been adopting the obama administration excuses and explanations going back to when obamacare was first passed in 2010. so this isn t something new. and all the things i mentioned earlier, all the signs that were out there that obamacare s implementation is in trouble were ones that almost all of them were not covered at all. look, all you have to do, and juan may have done this, i have done this, is to go out and to talk to leaders of fortune 500 companies or small firms with under 50 employees, and they both tell you the same thing. where i even the big companies say, you know, we may dump all our employees onto these exchanges and pay the fine. that makes more sense to us. how many employers out there, thousands and thousands of them are keeping, are going to keep their level of employment below 50 workers so they aren t subject to it. subject to obamacare. i mean, there are just so many trouble signs out there t
the, that the at least the obama administration rick: juan, real quickly, just a couple quick seconds here, do you think this will ever cease to be such a hot button issue, politically speaking, obamacare? no, rick. i mean, you know, there have been, i think, 37 awe tempts to repeal it by republicans now in the house, all in vain, but it remains a politically-strong tool for republicans against this president and against democrats in general. we re going to see more of it in the 2014 midterms, i think. rick: juan, fred, gentlemen, thank you both. great to talk to you. catch news watch tomorrow, 2:30 eastern time. eric shawn filling in for jon scott tomorrow, 2:30 p.m. eastern time right here on fox news channel. arkansas a well, the nsa leak scandal causing big changes in the way folks are using the internet, giving search engines and privacy software a big boost. the latest details in a live report coming up next.
surprising, significant, a setback for the president. but is it really a shock, or did the mainstream media ignore signs that perhaps this was coming? fred barnes is executive editor of the weekly standard, a fox news contributor, juan williams is a fox news political analyst. gentlemen, good to talk to both of you. fred, should reporters have been so surprised there s so many hurdles for obamacare? well, they should have been surprised that the obama administration would finally admit that they had to delay something here as important as the employer mandate, but they still shouldn t have been surprised with all the problems out there. the landscape, rick, is strewn with signs that obamacare was in trouble, you know, going back to the train wreck that senator baucus said it was going to be. and then you had sebelius, the health and human services secretary, out trolling for private funds to help with obamacare. if you talk to doctors, they would tell you about how they were going to