senator jon ossoff is standing by in the studio. he was doing field hearings in atlanta and he joins me after a quick break. quick break. a perfect day for a family outing! shingles doesn't care. but shingrix protects. only shingrix is proven over 90% effective. shingrix is a vaccine used to prevent shingles in adults 50 years and older. shingrix does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients or to a previous dose. an increased risk of guillain-barré syndrome was observed after getting shingrix. fainting can also happen. the most common side effects are pain, redness, and swelling at the injection site, muscle pain, tiredness, headache, shivering, fever, and upset stomach. ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingrix today. >>> since the overturning of roe v. wade, we have witnessed the horrifying effects of state abortion bans and restrictions including stories of a woman being refused care, forced to suffer in parking lots. we were talking about this with senator warren, until they

joining me now is senator jon ossoff of georgia. he was down in atlanta just this morning. second field hearing to directly hear from women and doctors on the impacts of george's six week abortion ban. he's also married to an ob/gyn, which i'm sure impact your thinking as well. the story i just told from propublica is shocking and upsetting. i had a hard time getting through it. it is not an anomaly. you were in georgia this morning. you have these hearings. you hear the stories, you are hearing the stories from these women who are experiencing the impacts of a six week abortion ban. what did you hear from some of these women this morning? >> thank you for having me. in the series of hearings we have heard from ob/gyn doctors and from woman whose pregnancies have been impacted by our state's extreme six week abortion ban. it is worth setting the scene before donald trump overturned roe v. wade and governor brian kemp in boast -- georgia had one of the highest maternal mortality rate in the country and half of the countries like any ob/gyn at all. there is an underlying mate

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jon ossoff, a senator from the state of georgia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, 3:00 p.m. on monday, >> lawmakers are currently in a month-long state work. vectored the upper chamber scheduled to return next monday and will consider domination of a u.s. district court judge. watch live coverage of the senate here on c-span2. >> and i remember looking out after the bombing and seeing mundell on fire. it was all around us. and i could hear the patient's screening for help. so wee said, i want each one of you to remember that you are an american. you are an officer in the united statesst army. >> how could they prepare us? there was no precedent for women, nurses being taken prisoner. >> life was pretty monotonous. it was a constant struggle from day to day to exist. food was very scarce. >> i went to bed hungry. i got up hungry. >> to us, liberat

introduced by georgia senator jon ossoff, an outspoken critic of the usps, legislation would term limit role of postmaster general to two five year terms and also force candidates to a senate confirmation hearing ahead of their appointment. >> what we have seen in the state of georgia over the last year has been abysmal performance by u.s. postal service leadership. their failure to execute a planned transition to the use of the new facility at palmetto for mail processing and distribution, a wide range of managerial and operational failures. it is clear that the united states senate needs to exercise its authority. >> while this new legislation won't directly impact how fast or slow you may get mail, it will hold the postmaster general accountable for their impact on it, or lack thereof. >> postal workers are out there every day working their hearts out to deliver the mail on time, but when they don't have the competent leadership and competent management at the top to get the job done, we see the kinds of performance failures we've seen in georgia. >> that's andy cole reporting now as

georgia elected joe biden and kamala harris, while electing two state senators, jon ossoff and raphael, but in response to that, we see that trump has tried to overtly steal the georgia election. and these rules that are passed by the state elections board make it much easier for them to do so. so, georgians know that trump is working to sew chaos and division, and to roll back our democracy. and we refuse to let that happen. we are not going back. and thanks to state leaders, these efforts to subvert our democracy, they're not going to go unchallenged. >> the process from here on out seems to me both interesting and a little bit unpredictable, because, of course, there's some intrarepublican dynamics going on here, too. governor kemp today asking the state attorney general to clarify whether he has the power as governor to remove members from that state elections board. i saw arguments today, some of the people who spoke alongside you at the georgia state capitol saying that absolutely the governor does have that authority, not only can he, but he must investigate these ethics violati

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jon ossoff, a senator from the state of georgia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patty murray, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 3:00 p.m. on monday, 3:00 p.m. on monday, >> lawmakers are currently in a month-long state work. vectored the upper chamber scheduled to return next monday and will consider domination of a u.s. district court judge. watch live coverage of the senate here on c-span2.