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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, March 25th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today what's next for Donald Trump's bond in his civil fraud case, plus how a

PAC scheme is helping pay his legal fees and what pawn shops can tell us about the state of the economy.

Former President Donald Trump's bond in his New York civil fraud case is due today

and he so far hasn't been able to make it. I caught up with USA Today, Justice Department correspondent

Aisha Bogchi for more on what might happen

to his assets and a look ahead to another one of his legal issues.

Aisha, thanks for making the time today.

Hi, Taylor, it's good to be here.

So Aisha, what have we been hearing in the buildup to this bond deadline?

It's been unclear.

Trump's lawyers told a New York appeals court that they have gone to 30 bonding companies and not one of them was willing to provide this entire bond based on the terms Trump's team was willing or able to offer.

They said that they wanted a bond where they would put up a mixture of assets

including some real estate and no bonding company was willing to take that as collateral to put up a bond of

$464 million.

So they have been struggling for a while.

We have seen this.

That doesn't mean that he couldn't have come up

with something somehow at the last minute minute but that hasn't happened yet.

So Isha, what does this functionally mean for Trump and his assets going forward?

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