guy on the screen. president biden set to sign the inflation reduction act as it s called into law in just about 30 minutes from now. a huge $750 bill on taxes, climate, health care, we ll take you live to the white house. we ll also take you live out west and to the northwest. the very northwest with the final hours of voting in key primaries happening now in wyoming and alaska. our team out with voters and candidates including one in the fight for her political life. i m hallie jackson in washington. we begin this afternoon with nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. washington post investigations reporter jacqueline aalamani and chuck rosenberg. good to see all of you. let me do something a little different. there s new reporting out from the new york times here in the last few minutes that two of of the top trump white house lawyers have been interviewed by the fbi in relation to handling the documents that may have been taken from the white
the world did she get all of those votes in such a short tranche. another problem we re seeing, trace, the lack of enough voting facilities, right? because like in florida, there s one voting facility for every 2500 people. in arizona in maricopa county, for example, one for every 20,000. i don t know what it was in l.a., i had a place to vote. if you don t have enough voting facilities, you have a glut of ballots at once and they can t be counted timely. and in l.a., in l.a., it s big news we have dead heat. rick crusoe was a republican up until election. up until it was safer to run for a democrat. that s the whole thing. he s a republican. but he s running as a democrat because in california you can t win anything as a republican. my last thing on that would be we don t know in los angeles where the votes are coming from. in arizona, we can say, they re coming from maricopa county. in los angeles, you can t say,
fans and staff at arenas to get out and vote instead of showing up at a game. we have seen players and teams jump on the opportunity to use their platform before. notably with players showing support for the black lives matter movement after the murder of george floyd. some teams wore special social justice jerseys. this is not necessarily unfamiliar territory for the nba. shaq brewster broke this story and is in brooklyn for us. take us inside this move from the nba. reporter: this is something that was in the works for several months even before the end of the last season. and really it s the nba trying to capitalize on what you saw last year, which they were in 2020 where you had many of the arenas, more than two dozen team facilities and arenas converted into voting facilities. things like election day voting, early day voting and absentee ballot processing. while they are trying to see if they can do this for the midterm election, they are going to control what they can, which i
the way that the texas voting law is? if they would eliminate giving unfetterred control of poll watchers. i ve been in a polling place where they have walked behind me and tried to make me fearful and afraid. they didn t know who i was. i demanded they get away from me, and they did. the new law empowers partisan poll watchers to have, quote, free movement around voting facilities except to watch the ballot cast. election officials, who reject poll watchers, can be charged with a misdemeanor crime. poll watchers have been in these precincts for decades. james white is the only black republican in the texas legislature and supported the new voting law. poll watchers are already there. they have a lot more leeway now. poll watchers are already there. is it fair they have more leeway? do you agree with that? no, i don t. you can look voters in texas,