. >> thank you, senator ossoff. mr. secretary mayorkas, want o thank you once again for your service to our country and your willingness to tackle these incredibly challenging challenges that you have before you and also have an opportunity to thank the men and women answer each and every day the department of homeland security to keep us safe. certainly i think every member of this committee is thankful for the work you do and everybody at the department of homeland security. we look forward to working closely with you as we work to overcome these challenges. the record for this thing will remain open 415 days until august 11 at 5 p.m. for the submission of statements and questions for the record. with that this hearing is now adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> today on the communicators, technology reporters discussed the future of the tech industry and congress' tech agenda. >> when you look at the priorities dominating congress, you saw the pandemic takeover e

i think warnock and ossoff ought to say, we're not doing anything with y'all until you do what's best for us. and they have got to get in a room by themselves if necessary and bring this caucus together. we bring the pressure on our side. you put the squeeze on the inside. they can do it. they can do it. because they can do it for anything else they want to do it. we've seen it too many times. you've got to act now. and the people in arizona, people in west virginia, march on your state capitol. we're going to join -- if they don't do this by august 6th or 9th, we're going to start marching on state capitols, brother cape hart. this is too serious. we cannot die and leave this democracy's bridges crumbling and destroyed because we didn't do what needed to be done right now. >> and with that, we're going to have to leave it there. beto o'rourke, former congressman from texas, bishop barber, thank you very much for coming to the saturday show. >>> coming up, the cdc now says the war against covid has changed. how? we'll discuss that next. s changed. how? we'll discuss that next. someone

i was proud to introduce this legislation with my colleagues, senators baldwin and ossoff and that it has the support of health care stakeholders in georgia and across the country. entities like the georgia hospital association and the grady health care system. understand how expanding medicaid in georgia will improve health outcomes across the state, strengthen our rural hospitals, and health care workforce, and create good-paying jobs. medicaid saves lives and also saves jobs. as it turns out, the right thing to do is also the smart thing to do. and so i'm glad that this plan is on its way to being included in the forthcoming economic package, and i'm going to do everything i can to keep pushing to make sure that it happens. but today i come to the senate floor to talk not so much about policy as much as to talk about the people behind the policy efforts that we lift up. we should all waste endeavor to see the human face of the public policy we put forward. and so i want to talk today about cynthia english. she is a truck driver in albany, georgia. it's a town in the southern rural

ossoff: thank you, doctor. for the benefit of other members of the committee, as a health care provider and a trained public health expert, the nature of your preparation, how does it feel to be testifying before the committee on this subject? dr. perritt: to be honest with you, it makes me angry. there is no other care i provide that is scrutinized, politicized, and criminalized in the same way that access to abortion care is. abortion is health care. politics has absolutely no place in the decision-making. whether they are seeing a doctor like me, who has trained more than 14 years to provide community-grounded, culturally responsive, patient-centered care, or whether they are seeing amazing colleagues like nurse practitioners and midwives -- we have a wonderful network of health workers that absolutely support the people we care for. none of us trained to be able to show up here, to attempt to defend the care we provide medically because of political interference. sen. ossoff: thank you. the doctor/patient r

i yield back, mister chair. >> thank you senator ossoff. i would like to ask professor goodwin about something i think i just heard miss foster say, namely that somehow the health protection act would forbid women from requesting ultrasounds. i just want -- >> senator, that is inaccurate. and if you will allow me, i would like to quickly make three points. the first is that, liberty is founded in our constitution. so, when we hear questions about whether abortion is in the constitution, that reflects an originalist argument which fails on its base, because liberty is in our constitution. but if we want it, and to think about it more politically, who would dare think about holding to a constitutional vision that denied women personhood? a right to vote and a right to be gainfully employed and earn equal wages? a constitution that was interpreted to maintain a black people as three fifths of a person. but there is a second point that i want to make, because dr. king was invoked today. and in 1966, dr. king said, of all of the injustices and i

used to be nine weeks when ossoff and warnock won. reduced to 28 days. and guess what, rachel, you can register to vote 29 days. so no new voter can register, and you cannot vote on weekends in the runoff, but you can in the general. everything is done to sow confusion. limited hours for the ballot drop boxes. less ballot drop boxes. limited restrictions when it comes to mail-in balloting. it's one thing after another. and you brought up one of the most egregious things, and senator warnock has a bill to fix it, that basically takes the power that was instilled in the local officials and the local election boards and then basically says, hey, state election board, we're going to throw off 2/3 of your members, we're going to replace them with our own so it's a republican legislature and then if we find a few technical violations we're going to get rid of your local election officials. this is a pure smackdown of voting rights, and it's why we went there and it's why the solution is the for the people act. basic national -- >> the for the people act obviou

what we learned is the runoff period for warnock and ossoff, that used to be nine weeks. it's down to 28 days. can't vote on weekends during the runoff period. and if you want to register in those 28 days, too bad. you have to register 29 days before an election. surgical precision. those are the words of a north carolina judge when looking at a discriminatory bill that was passed there years ago. literally discriminating with surgical precision. >> you mean the republicans are doing that because not a single republican member of the committee was present for that hearing. go on. but why weren't they there? >> what i was most concerned about is they didn't put witnesses. if they want to defend this bill that takes away people's freedom to vote if they're in rural georgia or suburban georgia or if they're in the cities, then be there and defend it. they sent no witnesses. so it did give us an opportunity, and this is why we brought the rules committee to georgia, to the civil rights museum. it gave us a case, the opportunity to show the people of georgia, look, we have a j

by mail, and then here's my favorite, the run-offs that they require here, they were nine weeks when ossoff and warnock ran. they reduced them to 28 days, because you have to register 29 days before in georgia. so all of this in my mind is to quote a judge from north carolina, done to discriminate with surgical precision to make it harder for people to vote and incredibly confusing. that's what stacey and jeff and i heard from voters here in cobb county. i'm at the smyrna community center right now where they had five-hour waits. that's where i am in this building. and tomorrow, we go to the civil rights museum. and we hold our hearing for the first time in two decades to have the rules committee go on the road to get the evidence of what's going on here in georgia. >> so they literally cut the time to a day difference between registration and another thing that i find so -- if it wasn't so sad, and so wrong, it would be funny. you're going to cut the amount of dropoff boxes, like if you -- if you had 20, you cut them to 10, all of a sudden they're not fraudulent? if they're something wrong

senator of georgia, john ossoff about the role social media plays in stoking the fears about the coronavirus vaccine. >> misinformation is dangerous and there's a lot of misinformation is out there. i think politicians should be cautious about demanding certain forms of speech and expression be removed from public platforms. my principle concerns about social media platforms are route r ed in their invasion of privacy. i try to build support across the aisle for a new privacy legislation to ensure that the data of american citizens is not exploited against our will. right now, using these platforms, they learn so much about us, who we are, what we like, where we go, who we spend our time with, that data is exploited and monetized and we lose control of that. i think we need strong privacy legislation at the federal level to protect our privacy. >> you've heard critics of the president's comment saying that the white house should not be interfering with private enterprise. what's your response to that? >> well, look. as i said, i think that politicians should be generally cautious about deman

senator john ossoff of georgia about the issue. i'll ask about what the president said yesterday on covid and that facebook and the misinformation on facebook and other social media outlets are killing people. this is what the president had to say. >> they're killing people. i mean, really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. and they're killing people. >> he is referring specifically to facebook. do you agree? >> look, misinformation is dangerous. there's a lot of misinformation out there. i think that politicians should be cautious about demanding certain forms of speech and expression be removed from public platforms. my principal concerns are rooted in their invasion of our privacy. one of the things i am working on now is trying to build support across the aisle in the senate for new privacy legislation to ensure that the data of american citizens is not exploited against our will. right now, using the platforms, they learn so much about us, who we are, what we like, where we go, who we spend time with,

earlier, i spoke with john ossoff about the issue. he told me he is urging the state department to try to fix the problem. >> have you been hearing from people with renewing passports? apparently there are a lot of complaints it is taking an exceptionally long time for renewals and new applications to take place, in some cases as long as 12 weeks. and many people are calling their senators, members of congress. are you fielding a lot of questions about it? >> absolutely. my office received thousands. >> what do you say to people, what's the answer? >> what i say to the state department is this, this is clearly a breakdown. american citizens should be able to deserve consular services, passport services that are timely and effective, even in the midst of a crisis. if the state department now a year and a half into the pandemic hasn't developed the procedures to adapt to covid-19 to make sure american citizens about to embark on international travel or may be abroad, needing assistance, can't get help, then there need to be reforms at t

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. >> so you know, we spoke with georgia senator jon ossoff's office who said the office has gotten thousands of calls about these passport delays and request for help. and he told our frederica whitfield moments ago that the state department isn't moving faste enough. here he is. >> looks to me like a failure to adapt to the circumstances. there were certain changes made to procedures at the passport offices in response to covid-19, and that's fine because it was necessary from a public health response to protect folks who go to the passport office, to protect those who work at the passport office. we're now a year and a half into this pandemic, and providing passport services is a vital function of the government. it's a vital consular service we provide to citizens, and the state department needs to take action to reduce these delays. >> do you agree with those comments? do you think the state department really needs to step it up? i mean, especially if they're having shortage in staff? >> yeah. i absolutely agree. i mean, we know this moment was going to come. it's -- it is difficult. we

that is where senator warnock and senator ossoff became great senators as they are. they produced the time for that runoff to only 20 days. there is no time after the general election. they reduced it, and, wait they can't replace a law that you cannot register as a new voter you have to do it 29 days before, pretty obvious. >> we did see the astonishing thing in the runoff senate campaigns in georgia and that was that they were able to get more voters in that senate election for the second round of the senate election. >> exactly. and the ballot boxes, the jump up boxes, so important. i'm sure a lot of your viewers use. that they said you have to use less of them, you could only use them at the early voting locations and, only during those hours. a bit redundant. it's just a measure after measure. i'm looking forward to working with our two great senators in georgia, member of the rules committee. the day before i will be seeing the great stacey abrams. we think it's really important for these senators to go to georgia and see exactly what is going on and hear direc

that is where senator warnock and senator ossoff became great senators, as they are. but they reduced the time for that runoff to only 28 days, so there's no time after the general election. they reduced it. that way they kept in place their law that you cannot register as a new voter. you have to do it 29 days before. pretty obvious. >> and one of the things about that is we did see this astonishing thing in the runoff senate campaigns in georgia, and that was that they were able to get more voters engaged in that senate election for the second round of the senate election. >> exactly. other things they do, the ballot boxes, the drop-off boxes, so important in so many states. i bet a lot of your viewers use those. they said you have to have less of them and you can only have them at the early voting locations, and only during those hours. a bit redundant. so it's just measure after measure after measure, is and i'm looking forward to working with our two great senators in georgia, members of the rules committee, and the day before i'll be seeing the great stacey abra

i don't care if it's senator ossoff, senators warnock, you need to call them. the other side is mobilizing go to stop jim crow 2.0.com to learn more. this monday, this fight is not over, craig, let's be clear just like congresswoman beatty said. senator klobuchar are doing a field hearing for the for the people act. they're going to be in atlanta on monday hearing from voters and advocates about voter suppression and let's also remember that if we had re-authorized the voting rights act in the beginning of the year or last year, the horrible bill that passed in georgia would likely not have been able to go into law because it would have been reviewed by the department of justice. the john lewis voting rights act is critical to shoring up voting rights in the south and across the country, and it's got to be married for the for the people act, and we have republicans from texas to new hampshire trying to make it harder to vote all inspired by the big lie. it is time for congress to act. they have a constitutional duty in the 14th and 15th amendment to protect bla

the most recently election in georgia back in january of this year, when senator warnock and senator ossoff won, it was many, many organizations. stacey abrams was obviously, extremely significant, but there were 20 or so organizations, and we did a thing called win both seats along with andrew yang and others and we raised about $3 million that went to those groups to help support getting the vote out. this is the same thing that we believe will happen nationally, as it relates to many of these states. >> martin luther king iii and andrea king, thanks to you both and we appreciate your efforts. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage after a final short break. e picks up the coverage after a final short break. among my patients i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity and gum gives us a dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. to be a thriver with metastatic breast cance

- in macon, georgia, a voter that voted for joe biden and kamala harris and raphael warnock and jon ossoff, they're going to say, you know, my vote counted, this election really mattered. that's why we're going to win the midterms next year. but forget about that. we're going to show people that government can be on their side and government works and their lives are going to get better. it's going to change the way this country sees about the effectiveness of government, seeing it through the eyes of who's on my side. >> speaking of the midterms, so you've got an interesting race on the senate side. rob portman is leaving. you have a collection of republicans who are arguing over who can be the most ridiculous and detached and trumpian and you have tim ryan stepping into the race as well. talk about in a state that, look, quite frankly ohio used to lean purple and now it seems to be leaning red. what has a democrat like tim ryan or other democrats have to do to make sure they can be competitive and possibly win that senate seat in ohio next year? >> ryan is a good candidate for the senate

ossoff: thank you, chairman brown, ranking member toomey. thank you for your service, chairman powell. the covid 19 pandemic over the last 18 months has been the most significant shock to our economy and the financial system but stepping back, what do uss to be the most significant systemic threats to financial stability over the medium-term, limited to the u.s. or globally? chm. powell: the thing that worries me the most is cyber risk. you know, it is a constant concern and we spent lots of time and resources on it. so does the private sector but that is the one where we have a playbook for bad lending and bad risk management. we have a lot of capital in the system. but, you know, the cyber, as you see with ransomware issues, it has been ongoing rates to keep up. we haven't had the face of significant cyber event from us financial stability standpoint. that is the thing i worry most about. sen. ossoff: in terms of financial stability, what next preoccupied your attention or concern? chm. powell: you know, the economy is coming out of this g

senator awsat is next -- center ossoff -- senator ossoff is next. senator ossoff it's working as for the next five minutes. sen. paul: soft -- senator ossoff is recognized for the next five minutes. sen. ossoff: thank you. stepping back, what do you assess to be the most significant systemic threats to financial stability over the medium-term, either limited to the u.s. or globally? chair powell: i would have to say that the thing that worries me the most is really cyber risk. it is a constant concern, and we spent lots of time and resources on it. so does the private sector. but that is the one where we have a playbook for bad lending and bad risk management. we have a lot of capital in the system. but the cyber, as you see with the ransomware issues now, it is just an ongoing race really to keep up. we haven't had to face a significant cyber event from a financial stability standpoint, and i hope we don't come but that is the thing i worry the most about. sen. ossoff: in terms of financial stability following cyber, what next preoccupy zero tensio

who i adore -- for us to say that we have to go out and vote some more, like why did we give you jon ossoff and raphael warnock? >> go ahead, david. >> first of all, i love bakari, and he is a good friend of mine. whenever he starts off by saying, my good friend, axe -- >> i was going to say. >> i know that what follows isn't necessarily going to be all that receptive. but here's my question back to you, bakari. and what? what are you suggesting? what do you think the president should do? should they -- should they, you know, expel members? >> no. i think -- >> what exactly should they do? >> i think the furor, the speech, the oratory is great. but what you have to use instead of the bully pulpit has to be focused on two people, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. you're the leader of the party. you are the standard bearer. it's your responsibility not to go out and get 60, but it's your responsibility to go out and get two and make it 50 so that we actually have what -- if it's that consequential, because that's my point. if you're going to give a speech that's that consequential, go out and g

love, who i adore, for us to say that we have to go out and vote some more, why do we give you jon ossoff? >> first of all, i love bakari and he is a good friend of mine. whenever he starts off by saying, my good friend, i know that what follows isn't necessarily going to be all that rece receptive. but here's my question back to you, bakari. and what? what are you suggesting? what do you think the president should do? should they, you know, expel members? what exactly should they do? >> i think the furor -- i think the oratory is great, but what you have to use instead of the bully pulpit on the rest of us, instead of talking about donald trump, it has to be focused on two people. it's on kyrsten sinema and joe k manchin. you're right, we only have 40 votes. it's your responsibility not to go out and get 60, but it's your responsibility to go out and get two and make it 50 so we s actually have -- if it's that consequential, if you're going to get a speech that that's consequential, get two votes. >> you're a young political talent. you could be sitting in that chair one day. tell me exa

they just had a big turnout and two democrats, raphael warnock and jon ossoff, won the u.s. senate race. and before that, joe biden won the presidential race. and so, what's their answer? well, as reverend warnock likes to say on the senate floor, some people don't want some people to vote. and it's to limit the number of voters. so that's why we are bringing the rules committee. we are going to have some excellent witnesses we announced today of a state legislator, a longtime advocate on voting rights. um, as well as a voter. and hear from other voters, as well, over the weekend about what happened to them in their own, individual stories. because when people hear the stories of the long lines and seniors waiting in line, hot. when they hear those stories, they know that there's only one path to go and, that is, the path toward a righteous democracy and allowing people to vote. >> senate rules committee chair woman, amy klobuchar, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank, lawrence. >> thank you. >>> and coming up. supporters of donald trump interrupted a town ha

ossoff: thank you. general, thank you for your service. in response to senator king, he noted your testimony for earlier today that you had seen the requisite authority is granted, the former d.c. guide within minutes. in this case, it took over three hours. you stated it was a combination of political concerns and optical concerns. can you break down which concerns you believe or political and which you believe were optical and what is your assessment that the three-hour delay was the function of political and optical concerns? >> i don't think it was so much political. let me focus on optics. because that is what i heard. the word "optics" and the word that having a uniform presence at the capital could inflame the protesters. sen. ossoff: who made that statement? maj. gen. walker: senior leaders in the u.s. army, general flynn and others. they got back to me saying, and district of columbia senior leaders that it wouldn't be the best military advice to send uniform guardsmen to the capitol because th

. >> senator ossoff. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and, director wray, greetings from your home state of georgia. >> thank you. >> there's been a significant increase in shootings and violent crime nationwide over the last 18 months. there were at least 10 people shot in atlanta, georgia, on sunday. what does the fbi assess is driving this crime wave? >> well, certainly i am following the same trends you are with concern, not just in atlanta, but in other cities around the country. i'm not sure there's any single factor that's driving it. i think it's a variety of things. we are seeing -- some of it may be, you know, the pandemic itself in its own way has had an impact. there are people who are may be not at jobs or maybe not -- not in school or not otherwise available and they're more -- there's more potential for wrongdoing to occur. we've talked about some of the challenges with local police departments and some of the issues there in terms of their recruiting and staffing. a lot of them are understaffed in addition to th

next we have senator cruz and then after that will be senator ossoff. and if there's any other senators who wish to ask questions, who haven't asked questions, you should tell us, because those are the last two we have. senator cruz. senator cruz: thank you, madam chair. and let me say to each of the witnesses here today, thank you for being here. thank you for your testimony. and thank you also for your service. i want to thank each of you, and also each of the heroic law enforcement officers who demonstrated extraordinary courage in fighting to repel the terrorist attack that unfolded on the capitol on january 6th. and we are grateful for the bravery and the courage in the face of a truly horrific attack. senator cruz: in the aftermath of that attack, there is naturally a process to assess what could have been done to better prevent that attack, to better secure the capitol. and i think everyone recognizes that hindsight is different from a decision made in the moment, facing the threat immediately. but this hearing is nonetheless productive for analy

next we have senator cruz and then after that will be senator ossoff. and if there's any other senators who wish to ask questions, who haven't asked questions, you should tell us, because those are the last two we have. senator cruz. senator cruz: thank you, madam chair. and let me say to each of the witnesses here today, thank you for being here. thank you for your testimony. and thank you also for your service. i want to thank each of you, and also each of the heroic law enforcement officers who demonstrated extraordinary courage in fighting to repel the terrorist attack that unfolded on the capitol on january 6th. and we are grateful for the bravery and the courage in the face of a truly horrific attack. senator cruz: in the aftermath of that attack, there is naturally a process to assess what could have been done to better prevent that attack, to better secure the capitol. and i think everyone recognizes that hindsight is different from a decision made in the moment, facing the threat immediately. but this hearing is nonetheless productive for analy

senator ossoff. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you to our panel. i'd like to begin with you, and regarding amazon products that's function with connections to wi-fi networks. what data regarding other devices on those same networks produced by other manufacturers might amazon devices collect, particularly amazon devices that act as a hub or a bridge between various networked devices? >> senator, i believe you may be referring to smart home devices that operate in a safe network for instance, an echo device. some of echo devices include hub technology to allow customers smart lights, smart door locks through an echo device to the internet. in that case we do receive information about the status of the devices so that we can control them on our customers behalf of alexa. >> you'd be collecting for example in that case about when, where, in what rooms customers may be turning on or off the lights, when and where within their homes they might be using connected cleaning devices. what other kinds of information might you collect from third party devices

to the senate under the 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 patrick j. leahy. president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands

are angry that reverend warnock -- -- has not made it possible for us to get to the majority like jon ossoff. they are angry because they know that black voters led us to victory. they are trying to suppress the votes of black americans. simple as that. i think anyone who denies that is denying reality. >> all right. senator bob casey, thank you for being with us. >>> coming up, "politics nation," frederick douglass once made a famous speech about the fourth of july. and we are still asking ourselves today, what, to the slave, is this holiday? i have more in today's rise up. but first, today's other top news stories. joe. >> thanks, rev. stories we are watching this hour. the partially collapsed champlain towers complex in surfside florida could come down later tonight. that's according to two sources close to the search and rescue efforts. crews are making preparations for the demolition and monitoring the potential impact of tropical storm elsa, which is tracking toward the area. 24 people are confirmed dead. and 121 are still missing as a result of the building collapse. >>> pope francis

democratic coalition came out en masse to vote for joe biden, to vote for senators warnock and jon ossoff in georgia, that all of a sudden there is a voter problem, a voting issue that needs to be solved. the problem is that too many of those people are voting and t idea that the supreme court would say, well, you know, it's not such a big deal, 's just really a travesty and it does not do anything for chief justice john roberts's goal of trying to keep the supreme court looking like a neutral player. when it comes to voting rights, chief justice roberts is not a neutral player in this. judy: speaking of what happened in the georgia vote, i happen to have a rare and very fortunately interview with former president jimmy carter, in planes on the occasion of he and his wife roslyn are about to celebrate their 75th anniversary of their wedding. i want to run a little expert of the interview. i did ask we did not know at that point with the court would do, but what about has happened in georgia, and the tightening of laws. here's what he said. >> all over the world, ever since it was founded,

, e democratic coalition, came out en masse to vote for joe biden, to vote for senators warnock and ossoff in georgia, that all of a sudden there is a voter problem, voting issue that needs to be solved. and that problem is that too many of those people are voting. and the idea that the supreme court would say well, you know, it's not such a big deal, realla travesty and doesn't do anythig for chief justice john roberts goal of trying to keep the supreme court looking like a neutral player. but when it comes to voting rights, chief justicroberts isn't a neutral player in this. >> woodruff: well speaking about what happened in the georgia vote i happen to beto have a rare and very fortunately had an interview earlier this week with former president jimmy carter in plains, he and his wife roz marin were about do celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. i asked him, we didn't know at that point about what the court would do but what's happening in georgia these tightening laws, here is part of what he said. >> all over the world, we've always, ever since the carter center was founded tried t