If it's Thursday, four more states today begin enforcing near total bans on abortion,

putting the procedure out of reach for millions more women across the country.

What's next in post-Roe America?

Plus, President Biden makes his return to the campaign trail holding his first rally of the midterm season

as he battles low approval ratings and some growing backlash

over his plan to cancel student debt. And a judge has ruled that parts of a key Mar-a-Lago search

warrant document will be unsealed tomorrow, what we expect to see and what it means ahead. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. More than 40 million Americans live in states today with less abortion access than they had yesterday,

as near total bans officially went into effect in four states, Idaho, Tennessee, Texas, and

Oklahoma. All told, more than 20 states have now moved to impose new restrictions since this

summer Supreme Court ruling. The Washington Post reports nationwide,

one in three women has now lost access to an abortion. One in three, it is a staggering number,

one that has completely shifted our political landscape ahead of the midterms. In Idaho, a federal

judge granted the Department of Justice a temporary injunction against part of that state's ban

last night. The injunction allows doctors to continue providing abortions as emergency medical care.

The DOJ sued Idaho claiming emergency medical care is a federal constitutional right.

The judge ruled in the government's favor. Now, big picture, it's a rare, narrow,

and temporary win for the Biden administration's broader fight against this summer Supreme

Court ruling. The rest of Idaho's law, for example, banning all abortions with narrow exceptions

for criminally reported rape and incest, went into effect going well beyond the state's previous six-week limit.

There are three other states where the DOJ has not intervened with bans going into effect today.

These new laws and some of the most restrictive in the country in Tennessee, the previous six-week

abortion restrictions is now replaced with an almost total ban with no exceptions

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