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
people thought that that outrage would translate into electoral doom for the political party that had been pushing to end roe. but instead after the court s decision, the response from elected republicans was basically, eh, no big deal. the kind of angry leftists, many of whom are pretty ignorant and don t even know what overturning roe means i think a month afterards are going to be surprised, wait, nothing about my life changed. there s a narrative forming in america that the republican party and the pro-life movement is on the run. oh, no, we re going nowhere. my guess is in terms of the impact on federal raies, i think it s probably going to be a wash. did not turn out to be a wash, not even close. in ballot measure after ballot measure across the country voters came out in support of reproductive choice. in kansas, in vermont, in california, in michigan, in montana, in kentucky, literally everywhere abortion rights were on the ballot. abortion rights won. in the
his 2020 campaign, protecting the soul of america, of course, was a central theme, but it goes to show six days out fret election day, the stakes are really high. mj lee, thank you. candidates and surrogates are sharpening their messages. several notable names will be hitting the campaign trail, or they re already there. jessica dean joins us this morning from philadelphia. boy, things are busy in pennsylvania these days. reporter: yeah, erica, it s a little busy here. they re getting a lot of high-profile visitors. the airwaves are flooded. pat toomey is retiring. we are start to go hear the closing messages from the candidates, and this polling