have to also show you re willing to compromise. neil: obviously he isn t going to talk about declaring an emergency when i guess this conference committee still has another week 1/2 or so to go but he seems to be signaling that. yes. neil: i m wonderings, i even heard from a number about republicans not sure that right strategy to take, might poison the well, if not but even more than another shutdown. i don t understand the logic. i don t agree with that. i think declaring a emergency certainly would be controversial. some republicans on capitol hill indicated they would vote against it. there would be a vote in the house and senate. i don t think that would get vetoed. i don t think enough republicans side with the democrats. joe manchin might vote with the president. he is in favor of the wall. i think the worst possible situation is another shut down. i think that is while we avoid it, through another deal more likely but more likely through an emergency declaration.
was the wedding of charles and diana. 750 million people watched that. so there. just putting it in perspective. i don t know why i mentioned it, but i just felt compelled to. all right, we ve got a lot going on here, because the polls, whether you looking at a two-person race or a four-person race, they re as tight as a tick, dead even. the latest from the trump national finance chairman. steve, you couldn t have, you know, a more heated poll situation going into this than the ones we re looking at. you ve heard what a lot of the clinton folks want to do to your candidate, expose him as a liar and exaggerator, and if they have their way to complete the trifecta, a thin-skinned guy with a big temper. what do you think? well, first of all, we couldn t be more excited about this evening. and i don t think we ll beat the wedding, but it s going to be a huge turnout. [laughter] i think most people know what they re getting with hillary clinton. it s a campaign of no change, a
and two banks that loaned money to the president s businesses. the other case involving manhattan district attorney sy advance. wants the president s tax records as an investigation into whether or not the president broke any state laws reimbursing michael cohen hush money paid to stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign. we have an all-star panel to kick things upoff for us. kara lee at the white house, indica katie tur and for expert and analysis on all of this, joined by msnbc legal analyst neil catiel, served as solicitor general in the obama administration and analyst and former missouri senator claire mccass kel and pete williams monitoring the court and will join us when the decision is announced. good morning to all of you. kara at the white house, set the stage for us. what are we hearing from the president with regard to the big decision? reporter: the president and his team have maintained the subpoenas for the president s tax returns and other financial documents