eastern on "starting point" we'll talk about that position with tennessee republican congresswoman marsha blackburn. >> we have been warning you and now the time has come. hundreds of thousands of people are going to wake up this morning and computers will be dark. no web service. as of 12:01 this morning, the fbi, yes, it was the fbi who was behind this, set to turn off a whole set of servers that were keeping an estimated 300,000 computers safe from the internet doomsday virus. they've been keeping them safe for a long time but it couldn't go on forever. if your computer is infected you're on your own, unfortunately. dan simon live from san francisco this morning. so first of all, give us the backdrop for anybody still waking up not knowing this was coming. how did this all happen? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. this goes back to 2007. this was a sophisticated online advertising scam, ashleigh. cyberthieves from estonia were able to infect about 4 million computers worldwide with this really nasty computer virus. this malicious software. and that software forced unsuspecting users to fraudu

we'll talk to marsha blackburn more throughout the hour as well.to see you this morning, have a great monday morning. >>> ahead on "starting point," congress getting back to work after a fourth of july break. why the first thing house republicans plan to do cannot possibly succeed. and a baby golden eagle, inspiring millions after surviving being burned alive. an amazing story here, incredible pictures. i promise we're going to make you feel good coming up. this is richard's playlist, legend's "take me away." >>> i can't lie, clever. clever clever, jose baez. >> congress is back to work this morning after a fourth of july recess. in two days, house republicans plan to call a vote to repeal the president's health care overhaul law. but it's mostly symbolic because any repeal effort would likely die in the democratic controlled senate. and of course the supreme court has ruled on this, it is the law of the land, health care reform, yet republicans want to fight it to the bitter end. and i'm wondering, should congress people be spending more time help

we'll talk about that position with marsha blackburn along with democratic congress wwoman, mara kapturthe fbi turned off servers keeping an estimated 300,000 computers safe from the internet. the internet doomsday virus. if your computer is infected you may be on your own, you and your internet service provider. dan simon live from san francisco. how did this happen and what's it looking like? >> we're not quite sure the broad impact yet. as you said, maybe a few hundred thousand people affected. this goes back to 2007. this was a cleaver advertising scam orchestrated by people from astonia. a half dozen people from astonia were able to infect 4 million computers worldwide. they infected computers with malicious software. that software forced unsuspecting users to fraudulent websites and fraudulent advertising. the fib were able to break up this ring late last year. but when they discovered things, they realized that if they took down these bad internet servers they would cut people off entirely from the internet. they did something extraordinary. they took the bad servers down and put

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a jam packed show, legendary journalist dan rather, tom price, marsha blackburn and baltimore mayor, stephanie rawlings-blake. it is monday, july 2nd, "starting point" begins right now. here we go on this holiday week, good morning to you. our "starting point" this morning, millions of americans from the midwest to the northeast struggling to survive another day of dangerous and potentially deadly heat here. 16 people have already died since thursday when triple digit temperatures unleashed the deadly storms leaving millions without power. you see all of these states in yellow? these are the states suffering in ohio, 425,000 customers without power as of 10:00 last night. same story in virginia, same story in maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are waiting, waiting for that electricity to flip back on. there is still really no let up in sight this morning. 20 states under heat advisories and there's a state of emergency in maryland, ohio, west virginia and virginia. athena jones is live this mother. what's the situation, it sounds dire. >> reporter: it is, we're standing

we should point out this is in marsha blackburn's backyard and she has remained silent on the issue. the tea party is criticizing the governor of tennessee for having a lack of conservative values. is it a conservative value to promote and advocate institutional bigotry? >>> tonight in our survey, we had a excellent guest question. donald trump, yes, donald trump, we asked, well, he asked, we used his material. is it -- what is more important for the american public to have? what is more important for the american public to have? 94% say mitt romney's tax returns. 6% say president obama's sealed records. >>> coming up, house majority leader eric cantor is in deep trouble in his district. his democratic opponent is a 30-year army veteran who could pull off one of the biggest up sets of the year. he joins me next. stay with us. [ male announcer ] if you had a dollar for every dollar car insurance companies say they'll save you by switching, you'd have like, a ton of dollars. but how are they saving you those dollars? a lot of companies might answer "um" or, "no comment." then there's e

actually let's just play a sound bite from one of those republicans marsha blackburn. >> okay. >> how many times are we going to do this? we're going to keep at it until we get this legislation off the books. it was a bad bill. it has become a bad law. and, quite frankly, if you are satisfied with a tax based government controlled limited access bureaucrat centric health care program, then this is for you. >> the reality check, suzanne, is yes republicans control the house which is why they can do this. they do not control the senate so this will go nowhere in this senate and obviously they do not control the white house. but if they do control all of those bodies, if they have effectively a hat trick in november, then they could repeal the health care. but in the meantime they don't have that ability so what democrats are trying to do, you saw part of it earlier, is try to have a little bit of fun. there is this theater. let's put on a show. listen to some of that. >> i don't know why republicans want to go back to the day when chicken noodle soup was the only option for hard working

. >> tennessee congresswoman marsha blackburn serves as a deppity whip for the house and is on the housend energy commerce committee. she joins us now. thank you for joining us. >> yes, ma'am. good to be with you. heather: senators john mccain, lindsey graham and kelly ayotte who we just heard from, they're all visiting my home state of north carolina a huge swing state, huge military population. they're disagreeing with the defense cuts heading to virginia and florida. sticking to the north carolina alone, that state will lose health screenings, education, senior nutrition, veterans services and employment help worth more than $100 million. so what does is at stake if these cuts go into effect? >> well, first of all, i was in north carolina a couple of weeks ago, heather and, they are talking a lot about these proposed cuts and are very concerned about that for the military families. and the way it affects the families is the readiness and the deployment skills. and as you said, these are going to hit every area of other military expenditures. we want to make certain that our men and wo

i want to move on this is a bit of sound from tennessee republican senator marsha blackburn. >> thise were in committee with the bill, whether we were debating it on the floor? it was this isn't a tax, this isn't going to be a tax. all we're going to do is penalize you if you don't take an action. >> is it a tax? >> it is really not a tax. i know the supreme court has said it is one. it's a penalty in essence for failing to buy insurance. but regardless of the label, my hope is that we recognize that only 1% of the whole population will be affected by this penalty or tax, whatever you want to call it. >> the 4 million people we've been talking about so far. senator blumenthal, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> swimmer michael phelps coming in first again. he and ryan lochte, their mostÑ stirring duel yet saturday in omaha. they went stroke for çstroke. phelps won with the fastst tiese in the world this year. is such a blessing. not financially. so we switched to the bargain detergent but i found myself using three times more than you're supposed to and the clothes still wer

. >> marsha blackburn is a member of the health care subcommittee.esswoman, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let me just begin with the point we just left off with. this is a large ly symbolic vot. you don't have republican controlled senate, you don't have a republican sitting in the white house. i know a lot of americans are thinking they're just wasting their time up there on the hill voting on july 11th. why bother? >> well, i think the reason that you bother is specifically this. the american people want congress to say obama care was a mistake and what they would like to see us do is start over with a clean slate and do this right. and, brooke, what you're going to hear is us focus on five things. increasing access and choices, decreasing cost and mandates. simplifying the system for both patients and providers restoring that half trillion dollars worth of cuts that were made to medicare, and making certain that we make health care tax free because right now one thing we know for sure it is not. so we're going to just put our nose to th

we have great legislation introduced by my friend, marsha blackburn of tennessee, she has a great bill. and it allows for competition between insurance companies across state lines. so if you live in arkansas and see a health care plan that you want to buy over in tennessee, our neighboring state, well, you can buy that plan. and then if you move to arizona, don't know why you would leave arkansas, but if you did, you could take that with you across state lines. competition. choice. patient-sent -- patient centered options. that's the kind of health care reform that i favor, that many folks here in the house favor and that are reflected in the over 200 bills that have been introduced here. and we want to get to that. but before we can get to that, before we can focus on the replace, we have to repeal. and that's why we're here again asking the senate to do its part. and i tell you, i have had some folks on twitter and facebook and other places just say, you are wasting your time. why are you just wasting your time? i think i was asked that on television earlier today. and my response w