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lot of laughs on the trip. i know not everyone is feeling enthusiasm. they defeated looking man came up to me and said i'm being crashed by debt. i'm completely wiped out i had to sam sorry. i cannot help you. the president has been slinging zingers. as republican with half $1 billion in legal fund. the clock is ticking of the largest of those. the $454 million went in new york finding trump liable for lying about his wealth to secure loans. he has four days to post the bond covering the massive amount pretty neat to secure it by monday, march 25th in order to avoid doing the actual judgment while he appeals rated in a filing earlier this week, his lawyers claimed it was impossible to do so and that he had been rejected by more than 30 companies. the attorney general's office disputed that, noting in a reply that trump would break up the amount he is and multiple smaller bonds, citing some precedent of other settlement network that way. they also suggest that the problem is of trump's making since the fraudulent lien laded the value of his properties which he now needs to use as collateral. today the judge overseeing the case ordered the trump organization to informant court appointed financial officer of any attempts to secure the bond. it also requires the company to inform her of any request required, information in response to request, anything made from the trump organization in connection to receiving such funds, and a personal defendants and obligations trump may acquire. it seems like a good moment when donald trump is under so much pressure and so vulnerable and obviously desperate and might the next president. not to mention the fact that he's already been deemed too untrustworthy to do business in new york state. trump is hoping to basically be bailed out the court. his lawyers are pushing for them to intervene and come in and basically say he does not have to pay, claiming a letter today that having the bond would cause him irreparable harm. if he doesn't get the answer he wants from the appeals court, that could be today or tomorrow. cannot secure the bond by monday. the wheels are already in motion in the state of new york for the start to season trump's asset. new york attorney general letitia james has formally registered the $454 million judgment against trump and westchester county in new york city where trombones to valuable properties. it will allow james to more easily secure the liens should she decide to do so on the trump national golf westchester and the mostly undeveloped 212 acre seven springs estate. a large gulf port, a 101 foot waterfall, 75 thousand square foot clubhouse. the town has valued the property at $15.8 million, which is in the grand scheme of things, not a ton of money. the seven springs estate was a major focus of the case, ironically or not. this judge ruling that trump wildly inflated its value. in 2015, the property was appraised for $56.5 million. trump claimed it was working is -- was worth as much as $290 million. i think the lower amount will probably be counted towards the penalty. he is also registered in manhattan with a verdict came down in the x president owns trump towers valued at $90 million, an office at wall street valued at $200 million and a condominium building at 19 $.8 million. the attorney general is not even limited to new york. some of his most valuable properties are out of the state including mar-a-lago emma the golf resort in miami and the golf resort in l.a. so the trump organization at least in new york has a functioning independent ongoing can turn is kaput. it has a federal judge. on top of all that, here is the thing. the ex-president is hemorrhaging cash with all of his legal fees. new filings with the federal election commission showing the save america political action committee. the lack of better words, slush fund. it's a bank account to pay his lawyers. they dropped $6.9 million in legal fees in february alone. that comes out to a whopping $238,000 per day. think about all of the lawyers, all the cases, all the filings at 238 thousand. a quarter million dollars a day. that sounds about right and we all know this is basically what trump's presidential campaign is all about, getting back to the white house where he would be protected from legal peril that right now is getting him drive. >> an investigator and journalist for many years. the author of the big chief, how trump placed himself and his family. author and part of the civil division of new york are good to have you here. david, let me start with you. i will start with a question that i was asking myself yesterday, which is, i have been through this enough times that i always think he is going to get out of it somehow. there is some favorable judge, some way out or the appeals court will come in and say yeah, you can't do this. what is your read on how up against it he is, having covered it now for decades including when he was really squeezed in bankruptcy back in that weight '80s? >> i think he may well pull a rabbit out of the hat on monday. he has done it before. but if he does, it means that we have a potential president of the united states that would be beholden to someone in a way that we've never seen before. the framers of our constitution were very careful to insulate the president from foreign money and from money from state government. he's not fond of both of those parts of the constitution. if it gets money from saudi arabia with putin's criminal gang, personal that so that we don't, but we would have a president utterly and completely compromised donald trump my nine years ago, said to everybody, i have more than $10 billion and i don't need any money to campaign and i won't be beholden to anybody and we are now seeing that was a house of cards. the exact opposite will occur if he gets back to the white house. >> i want to emphasize this point. it's the opposite of that whole stick from 2015. i'm not beholden. he is beholden. he is wildly beholden. he is desperate to anyone who can write him a big enough check. to that end, i was a little confused on the technical details about this sort of assigned financial monitor. my take away from it was basically it does make sense to have someone to david's point watching how this is all going to go down when the reason you are paying the penalty is that you have been deemed too unethical to operate a business in new york state. and guilty of fraud. we want to make sure that you don't get up to some sketchy business in paying the penalty. >> the business itself is a fraud story in addition to donald trump and what's been held in this case. here is the thing. i just want to say to david's point. this is a different rabbit and a different hat. and it's because there have been findings, both against the company in terms of its own criminal liability and now against donald trump and his sons. the purpose of the monitor is exactly as you are imagining. it is to say we cannot trust the thing you say or do and we now have to protect all the interests of those who can be harmed including in this case what the judge is basically saying is look, there is a finding against you. you are obligated to pay it. we will make sure no funny stuff happens by making sure there is a monitor checking to ensure anything, attempts to secure the bond, or if you try to liquidate and sell any of your properties emma we are making sure we can account for the money and nothing wrong happens. >> and others are aboveboard and arm's-length transactions. it's also the case to zoom in on an important detail. they need the bond by monday. basically to say the bond stands in for the penalty during the course of the appeal. most legal experts i have talked to say there is really not much to appeal here. they don't have a strong appeal. the actual amount of money is going to be necessary. he is going to have to come up with $454 million at some point. the bond will not do eventually, right? >> know. and if he strategically files for personal bankrupt, which can be explained to his followers as the deep state marked us fascist. that will only delay, but not at the payment of what is owed here. two years ago, when all this began, he said he expected the report, it's terrible, fascist, marxist and new york are going to hit him with terrible penalties. did he act smart? of course not. he is a student to parties all weekend and wakes up monday morning and goes out, my term paper is due at noon. it's funny. just like that. it just garbage. >> what is striking is having read their filing from that they can't -- it did feel like this didn't who has not done their homework grade or judge, you've got to help us out. we can't do it. the response is this is on you. you brought yourself to this position. >> you don't get to get out of liability by saying it hurt you to be liable. the not how this works. >> has precise arguments as they are making in the filing. >> exact, which is why a lot of us are saying first of all, you are trying to be protected against protecting those that you have been found to owe money to. because that is what the bond is. they are trying to stop him from even having a bond. with the attorney general is doing his attacking properties by getting a lien saying everybody knows if you file bankrupt, we get to take first. we get paid first so that we are getting paid back for this liability before any of your other editors. all of this is very bad for donald trump. it's the bottom line. but you don't get out of this is bad for me when you're responsible for creating what's bad for you. >> on the bankruptcy point, again, i'm not an expert on this by any stretch of the imagination but i think these kinds of civil penalties are particularly difficult to wash out. in bankruptcy, they basically get first in line. >> right. if donald were to fire bankruptcy, it would be entirely strategic to the way because he starts off with an automatic 45 day stay to anything that is not criminal. his object is to get to the day after the election, november 6. with alex jones, it's been over two years since he filed bankruptcy and has not paid a penny to the sandy hook lantos. >> is a great point. the way, again, all of this is about delay. to get through, to get yourself elected president of the united states so you can do with multiple civil penalties against you and multiple criminal charges and indictments hanging over your head and sort of declare yourself king. >> this goes back to your point of both. is there an interest in donald trump winning this election? sure. it does not help him with anything. but does not help him. i would also say this. look, trump it would be very interesting to me if he did file for bankruptcy. as much as david is right that he could spend it, for the personal -- can you imagine the attack ads will all of the statements you made about what a great business man he is and now he can't come up with half 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what does this tell the biden folks about their position as we are entering the real general election? >> is also a senior and i have been having a conversation about over the last couple of months, as well when you look at the polling data. i think our theory of the case is look. i made this for a while. the early poland showing that biden is a lot closer to the floor than the ceiling while trump is a lot closer to the ceiling on the floor. what that means for the layman is that biden has more room for growth than trump and when the campaign is really engaged and voters start coming attention, not to mention when the biden campaigns search using it sizable resource advantage that they have right now over trump and republicans. to actually message until the guru. it's about who's got a good sure to tell. biden is stories sell. when you hear those stories, you will see movement. don't follow love or fall in hate with the polling numbers because those polling numbers will continue to change. it is instructive, not predictive. >> the hobbyhorse i have been writing, if you will indulge me for a few seconds, is basically that you know, he has really receded from people's minds. because he is really so almost uniquely odious, you can't actually remember how bad he is until he is in front of your face all the time. i really mean that and i thought that the ohio coverage was disruptive and disrespectful. it's been a long time since he did a very trump thing at a rally to produce the kind of news cycle. i think we will see more of that. and my occam's razor here is people don't like that. what do you think? >> i concur with your hobbyhorse. hope you didn't bring me for the condom course. the cold air in put on the campaign. pessimistic by nature. more trump is bad for trump should be covering his speeches more. people need to listen to them. there is data and evidence that we've seen in campaigns and in the news that show has numbers again. have anecdotal evidence from one of the swing voting groups with former republican friends. nine years of this evidence. called me after a tracy thing. does a crazy new cycle. like we cannot do this with this guy anymore. even right. well, i am a little bit worried about the border. if he's not in the face every minute, they start to forget how much they hate him. they will have to suffer through having his face and all of our faces as much as possible. >> were to receive the places that you think they're revising on messaging? they've been hammering the fans about future policies are like a $10,000 tax credit for homeowners and things like that. a minimum tax for billionaires. these are popular policies. the whole well. do you think this kind of meat and potatoes stuff is where they need to be focusing and hammering? >> it's all of the above. one of the things i think you have to do is say look, where is he struggling the most from his 2020 performance? struggling the most with younger voters. and what younger voters constantly say is that they don't see or they have not heard any of the things that he has done. i will also remind people that going in the 2012, voters were not where they needed for the obama campaign. we voted for change. we don't see or feel any change but we have a story to tell. with these younger voters, biden has a story to tell. another round of student loan forgiveness, environmental the and infrastructure policy going into environmental issues. he does have a good story to tell. got to tell both stories. >> someone famously said, elections are all about the future. he's got to pivot and talk about his future plans for building america. also to the point contrasting and reminding people over and over and over again that is not only a terrible person but he is not aware of for the vast majority of our kids are on most of their issues >> one of the things we spoke to was the fundraising advantage in recovering the surgeon frustration trump burning $250,000 a day on legal fees. i have to ask you this. there is a long back and forth about the rnc will use the rnc as a vessel to pay his legal bills. absolutely not. today, reporting on the joint fundraising agreement the political action committee that is the former president's legal bills before the rnc gets a cut that according to a fundraising communication attained by the associated press. it looks like they will be skimming off the top for the legal bills/slush fund. >> was at his daughter in law being installed there or the fact that the pack that he was running was spending over six figures a day. six figures a day on his legal fund. so they're running out of cash. i'm always with the view that money matters a little bit less in the presidential level. there is just a lot of diminishing returns they are. that said, there is a $100 million gap between biden and trump. at some level, the gap gets so big where biden is messaging and trump is just paying lawyers. i do think it will have an impact. >> i agree. my bigger thing is honestly the dependence and begging for billionaires to fund you actually hurts politically because you look supplicant, you look weak. >> now he is doing that. >> he needs a big check. >> thank you both. republicans are placing big bets on candidates with enormous personal wealth to flip the senate. senator brown in ohio does not have enormous wealth. we will talk to him anyway. any despite treatment, it's still not under control. but now i have rinvoq. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that reduces the itch and helps clear the rash of eczema—fast. some rinvoq patients felt significant itch relief as early as 2 days. some achieved dramatic skin clearance as early as 2 weeks. and many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal, cancers, including lymphoma and skin; heart attack, stroke, and gi tears occurred. people 50 and older with a heart disease risk factor have an increased risk of death. serious allergic reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant. help heal your painful skin— disrupt the itch & rash of eczema. talk to your doctor about rinvoq. learn how abbvie can help you save. hi, i'm katie. i live in flagstaff, arizona. i'm an older student. i'm getting my doctorate in clinical psychology. i do a lot of hiking and kayaking. i needed something to help me gain clarity. so i was in the pharmacy and i saw a display of prevagen and i asked the pharmacist about it. i started taking prevagen and i noticed that i had more cognitive clarity. memory is better. it's been about two years now and it's working for me. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. ya know, if you were cashbacking you could earn on everything with just one card. chase freedom unlimited. so, if you're off the racking... ...or crab cracking, you're cashbacking. cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or tacos at the taco shack. nah, i'm working on my six pack. switch to a king suite- or book a silent retreat. silent retreat? 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it must be reasonable he thinks. >> what is striking to me, though, and in a perverse way encouraging is that my fear would be he would just lie. i really thought he would just say we aren't doing a national ban but he knew full well the republican party would pass one and insist on one if they won power. what is clear to me is those folks inside the party, for him to commit to something publicly and we see it play out in real time. >> i am a little bit reluctant to psychoanalyze donald trump too much and sometimes he says things because he is under pressure sometimes because even though he is a compulsive liar he also, in his weird way pretty modest about what is in his mind. so whether this was strategic capitulation or, again, a musing of somebody surrounded by people who are all completely committed to a national abortion ban is difficult to say. you are right. this was always going to happen. and again it's not just the 15 week number but we have, next week i believe a supreme court argument about the abortion pill and the fda approval of the abortion pill. remember, this is because of that ruling by one of the judges that donald trump appointed in texas now going to be heard by the judges he appointed to the supreme court. so we could end up seeing the various sorts of restrictions and roadblocks that even go beyond that. >> on this national ban to return to your point and i do agree on the psychoanalyzing and the republican studies committee, a big group of house republicans release their budget plan including a 15 week number. so the kind of consensus view of the institutional party is coming around that but also the case that they have volunteered themselves for these amicus briefs and we want you to uphold this lower court decision but there are four members of congress, republicans, who are mad about the department of veterans affairs making ivf available to servicemembers. we are writing to express strong objections about the recent announcement to expand in vitro fertilization to eligible unmarried veterans and veterans and same-sex marriages. here is the money quote. "ivf is morally dubious and should be subsidized by the american taxpayer. it is well know -- known the embryos are frozen at a significant cost and the others cruelly disregarded and this is the position of a huge part of the republican base even though they just spent weeks running away from this and pretending they know nothing about it after that alabama decision. >> right. that is why when a number of women who said it tried to pass protections for ivf, it was the same set of republicans who said no, nobody wants to take this away and who wouldn't let those protections go through. and even though the republican study committee said that they have also endorsed of the life begins at conception act which enshrines the same fetal personhood law in the national law that was used to ban or restrict ivf in alabama. >> do you think we should get a campaign where abortion will be huge and consequential in this campaign. do you think we will have an actual honest, we are for national abortion ban and, no, we are not and i want to codify roe v. wade and i'm joe biden and i'm donald trump and i one national ban which i think would be clear fine and good for the country. >> i do also but my guess is donald trump will try to have it both ways or speak out of both sides of his mouth. on the one hand he could say 15 weeks. but then he will say, we will come up with a compromise that everybody will be happy with and sometimes he will say he wants to leave it to the states and he is very slippery like that. it's important, i think, for democrats to nail him down as much as possible because people still have a hard time believing that donald trump cares about abortion. the point isn't what he cares about but the point is what he has done and will do. >> that is right. every state in the union, massachusetts, california, new york, they will do it if they have the power. a will do it and they are coming for you. thank you, michelle. >> that is all in on this thursday night and we start tonight. >> that's an important point that those who think