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Just got off the phone with Don Hankey, chair of the firm that provided Trump with the $175 million bond.

He explained how the deal came about and what Trump used for collateral.

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Donald Trump's new net worth: $6.4 billion, up from his recent $2.3 billion. Below, a breakdown of all of his assets, including his hyped-to-the-moon social media business. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…

As Truth Social starts trading, Dan Alexander says, “Truth Social is a bad business…By any measure, this business has been a failure, but that doesn't mean that there can't be mania around it, which is what you're seeing in the markets right now.”

At 9:00 ET, we'll break down the latest on today's legal developments for Trump w/ Maggie Haberman, Tony Schwartz & our top legal voices. We'll also dig into the Truth Social merger with trading set to begin tomorrow w/ Dan Alexander, who has covered it closely for years.

Donald Trump's legal woes took a half-billion-dollar bite out of his net worth. Meme stock traders might just bail him out. Forbes looks ahead at Trump's return to the public market, where he'll have billions of dollars on the line.

With Chase Peterson-Withorn

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Coming up at 9 P.M., we'll speak to Dan Alexander, who wrote *the* Forbes article contending that Trump's longtime CFO Alan Weisselberg lied under oath — now that he's in talks to potentially plead guilty to perjury. Then we'll hear from George Conway & Elie Honig.

1.29.24 925 PM ET CNN Anchor Kaitlan Collins w/ Her panel consisting of CNN Political Commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin Alyssa Farah Griffin, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney SDNY & CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig Elie Honig , CNN Commentator Ashley Allison Ashley Allison and Senior…