welcome to 10:00 a.m. eastern hour, my friends. i m erica hill. voters will decide who will control congress. president biden announced he ll give a major speech tonight. a lot of big names hitting the campaign trail. former president obama is in arizona today. former president trump stumping for republicans in iowa and both expect to be it s liz cheney making waves in michigan with her endorsement of a democratic candidate, elizabeth slot kin. if we want to ensure the survival of our republic, we need to walk away from politics as usual. we are americans above all else. we re told the president s speech will be about protecting democracy. mj lee is joining us with details, all of this coming on heels of what prosecutors have said was a politically motivated attack of speaker pelosi s home and her husband paul was the one who was ultimately attacked. what do we know? president biden s schedule has been officially updated to reflect the speech he is going to be giving
was about 128 minutes on average. now it s more than an hour and a half at 100 minutes. another interesting finding in this report, researchers also looked at how many women lived more than an hour amp from an abortion facility. here s what that finding was. before dobbs, 14.6 of women of reproductive age lived movre thn an hour away. after dobbs decision, it jumped to 33.3%. we re talking about a third of women now live more than an hour away from having that access to abortion healthcare services, erica. that s really something. there s also been attention paid to one way providers have found a way to get around the reversal, prescribing abortion medication to people not yet pregnant. now the fda is saying this is not the thing to do. what specifically is the agency concerned about. the fda s concern here, erica