one of those filibustering lawmakers included my next guest, republican state senator sandy senn. >>e always been each and every one of them about control. it's always about control, plain and simple. and in the senate, the males all have control. we, the woman, have not asked for, as a senator from orangeburg pointed out yesterday, nor do we want your protection, we don't need it. we don't need it. there is not a single thing that i can do when women such as me are insulted, except to make sure that you get into your fold, and you need to blame this earful on following that leader blandly off the clear for the third time on abortion. and i'm sure you get an earful, if you are being honest, from your wives, from your children, from your grandchildren. you cannot tell me that you are not. i know you are. >> very publican south carolina state senator sandy senn, who you just saw there, joins me now. senator, thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you for having me, sir. >> i want to be clear, you are a republican, you are conservative, you have conservative stances on a lot of

take a listen to how senator sandy senn pointed this out. >> abortion law is about control.t is always about control, plain and simple. in the senate, the men have control. and we as women have not asked for and did the senator from orangeburg ask for nor do we want your protection. we don't need it. >> these were the similar points in the filibusters when they killed it in a special session. sara, abortion is not off of the table yet, but the senate did pass a six-week abortion ban that would iron out issues with the supreme court that hay had, but the house only wants to take a ban from the point of view of the women, and then it went to states. thank you. >>> and now, mike pence went under oath. >>> and brittney griner overcome with emotion with the first press conference in the u.s. after being detained in russia. her coach going to join us just ahead. iness' payroll taxes will calculate themselves. right? uhh...nope. intutuit quickbooks helps you manage your payroll taxes,s, cheers! with 1 100% accurate tax calculations guaranteed. this is... ♪ this is iowa. we just hav

republican senator sandy senn argued her gop colleagues were blindly following the majority leader. >can do when you all, you men in the chamber, metaphorically keep slapping women by raising abortion again and again and again is for us to slap you back with our words. geoff: and independent senator mia mccloud, a sexual assault survivor, expressed frustration that she had to share such personal details to convince her male colleagues to vote no. >> just as rape is about power and control, so is this total ban. and those who continue to push legislation like this are raping us again. with their indifference. geoff: and in nebraska a 6-week , ban was defeated by an 80-year-old man. a pro-life republican man abstained over his concerns the restrictions went too far. in both south carolina and nebraska, abortion remains legal for now until 22 weeks of pregnancy. and it's not just abortion that's become a flashpoint at the state level. battles are also raging over transgender rights. the washington post reports that more than 400 anti-trans bills have been filed in the first four months o

one, senator sandy senn likened the implications to the dystopian novel the handmade's tale in whichated here today clearly puts the rights of the fetus over the rights of women. that was senator my a mcleod. to be blunt, the majority has no frame of reference. there's only five of us in this body who have actually given birth. some conservative women stood up and dissented to block abortion limits in nebraska and south carolina, very red states. do you feel like your message is breaking through? >> oh, i sure hope so. i don't think it's just me. it's a really big fight. there are people fighting on the ground all over the country and i hear about it every day. and it is so, so invigorating and it gives me so much hope. i do feel that it really is an honor to be able to represent so many people on the scale that i've had the opportunity to do so. i find this to be a tremendous responsibility and i take it incredibly seriously but it is going too take all of us and it is taking all of us. we are doing it together in every capacity you can imagine. >> i want to ask you one last questio