let's get over to laura davidson joining us from new york. expected butely certainly something that clears uncertainty for markets. laura: certainly. it gives that government funding that certainty going forward. this is a bill that initially lawmakers but they might be able to attach some stimulus relief to. obviously as we have seen, that did not turn out. but they are talking about another stimulus deal that could potentially happen sometime before the election. it is still a long shot at this point but congress is wrapping up its work for the year and there are couple things left and this is a main issue for them to address. haidi: tell us about the stimulus package, because the house just delayed that vote on the bill. is this a positive sign given that that was not going to pass the senate anyway, so that might give them more time to try and negotiate something that could work. laura: it is a positive sign that talks are going well and there is at least some optimism both on pelosi's side, as well as -- they think they might be able to g

laura davidson has the details. what does this mean in terms of getting another round of stimulus measures before the election? laura: there are several things republicans and democrats agree they want -- another round of stimulus checks, more money for the paycheck protection program, small business loans. they want to have some money going towards unemployment. there is something they don't agree on, how much money state and local government should get. there is a big fight going on over tax breaks in the original cares act. this is something trump in the new york times article about his tax returns, he used. democrats want to get those revealed. they don't agree on the overall price tag, so that will be the discussion going forward. there was some momentum today. they delayed the vote to get more time to talk. house lawmakers are going to vote tomorrow and then go home. if something doesn't happen tomorrow, the optimism fades. haidi: we have seen a few pieces of breaking news from the white house, including the ex

joining us is laura davidson. laura, good morning.this in these tax returns, and there's so much here it's hard to know where to start. but i think one question we've all had is what would these returns tell us about the potential for foreign influence over the president of the united states because he owes so much money. what did you learn from looking through this, and how would you characterize the level of concern that we should have about that? >> well, there are tens of millions of dollars coming from overseas countries, and these are not all allies necessarily. there's certainly a lot of money where he has golf courses in scotland, for example. but there's also some from authoritarian-leaning countries, turkey. we don't know exactly the level of influence of tax returns. they only give you part of the picture, but this is something that we assume that democrats will seize on and really paint a larger picture of we don't know exactly what the conflicts of interest that this president could have either within this country or with