i am also welcoming josh gerstein, who is a senior legal affairs reporter at politico. good to see you as well. barbara, his lawyers are telling the courts he does not have the cash. trump is limited social media he has cash. $500 million in fact. he says he would rather spend it on his presidential run. meanwhile, trump has not spent any of his own money on his campaign in 2020 or 24. in this case, he is hoping new york appeals courts intervene. what kind of view with the courts take of these consistent statements? his a particular. >> donald trump is not helping himself by claiming he has $500 million when he says he cannot get up the bond for his appeal. the idea of an appeal bond is you can still appeal a case. with the bond does is it puts the money up so that the attorney general or opposing party that prevailed in the court below cannot start seizing your assets. the idea is to put in an escrow while the case were sent away to the court on appeal so that everybody knows if and when you lose your appeal, the assets will be there and will not have been dissipated.