pressure on the former president. they stepped up effort to get reluctant witnesses to talk about those classified documents at mar-a-lago. just as the trial of his company is getting underway. and, in nbc news exclusive. i go one-on-one with treasury secretary janet yellen. we talk about inflation, the economy and the financial crisis in the uk. and then, the grades are in and they are not good. historic setbacks in schools across the country after covid. we search for solutions as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. this is the final two weeks before election day and both parties have started a full court press for messaging what s at stake. earlier today president biden told democrats that his agenda is on the line. we just have 15 days until one of the most important elections in our lifetime. the choice could not be clearer. the stakes could not be higher. voting is now underway in several states, nbc news
last word which starts now. tonight, turning up the pressure on the former president. they stepped up efforts to get the reluctant witnesses to talk about those documents to mar-a-lago just as the trial of his company is getting underway. and, an nbc news exclusive, i go one-on-one with treasury secretary jen yellin. then, the grades are in, and they re not good. historic setbacks in schools across the country after covid. we search for solutions as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. this is the final two weeks before election day and both parties have started a full court press for messaging what s at stake. earlier today president biden told democrats that his agenda is on the line. we just have 15 days until one of the most important elections in our lifetime. the choice could not be clearer. the stakes could not be higher. voting is now underway in several states, nbc news reports that nearly 8 million
allen weisselberg, who pleaded to tax fraud earlier this summer, agreed to tax testify against that company, but we do not know what that is going to look like. we all there is also news in another case involving another trump ally in the senate. clarence thomas as temporary blocked a subpoena to lindsey graham. they want to question lindsey graham as to possible interference in the 2020 election. let s get started with katie bennett is here, pulitzer prize-winning reporter. david, and covering the trump family and its business interests. he won a pulitzer prize for covering them too. and barbara quaid, a veteran federal prosecutor in eastern michigan. he she worked with the she is now a professor at the university of school of law. katie let s turn to you first. tell us about this new reporting for trump aides getting pressured to testify?
michigan. he she worked with the she is now a professor at the university of school of law. katie let s turn to you first. tell us about this new reporting for trump aides getting pressured to testify? yes, so we see the justice department moving into a new phase of its investigation. it s documents, it s gathered material, and it s gathered video material that happened inside mar-a-lago related to the documents that belong to government. now it is trying to do is get people who were involved in moving those documents around, and who might have an understanding of what donald trump may have been thinking while he was wrangling with the justice department, trying to keep those documents. they re putting pressure on those witnesses, including cash patel, somebody who was he was on the people name to