good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle lai from miami, and we are now 225 days away from the election. and today was a pivotal day in two quarts for the twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president donald a trump. today was his deadline to come up with over a $460 million bond in his civil fraud trial. meanwhile, his defense team and a hush money case had to explain to a judge why they wanted to further delay that trial. the day ended with two rulings one ensuring that trump will be the first president to stand criminal trial. the other means that he will be the first president required to post a nine figure bond in a fraud case. laura jared has all the details reporter: last minute, an appeals court reducing the bond in his civil fraud case by mored than half to $175 million. the trial judge had set it at more than 450 million. mr. trump, praising the ruling. what they did is they did election interference, which is court cases, let s try and tie him up and