Thanks to you at home for joining us.

This hour, really happy to have you here.

And right off the top, there has been some breaking news

just in the last hour or so.

In a couple of the legal cases involving

former President Donald Trump, one of these we've been watching now for a few weeks.

He lost a big fraud case against his company a few weeks ago.

There were huge financial penalties that he's been ordered to pay in that case.

He is going to appeal the judgment,

he's going to appeal the ruling in that case, but he in the meantime has to put up a

bond while he files that appeal. We've been watching this because the amount of the judgment against him was so huge.

The bond he has to put up is huge, roughly a half billion dollars.

So his lawyers told the court as the deadline for filing that bond for posting

that bond approached his lawyers told the court that they'd been unable to

obtain the bond they said they had reached out to 30 different insurance companies,

but nobody would help him post a bond of that size.

At that point, it looked like New York's attorney general who brought this fraud case in the

first place the AG might be about to start seizing Trump's bank accounts and

seizing his properties to secure the judgment.

But then, you may recall, there was sort of a last minute

reprieve for Trump.

A New York appeals court lowered the bond

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