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Eric Trump said top insurance executives laughed when he asked for more than $400 million in bond money for his father.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump to clarify how much his father owes in bond payments to appeal his New York fraud case.

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" had a hard time stopping laughing as one of Donald Trump's biographers explained how the former president found himself in the position of facing having his assets seized on Monday at the same time a court date will likely be set for his hush money trial.

Speaking with hosts Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend, writer and biographer Tim O'Brien kicked off his explanation of Trump's legal travails by saying of the former president "He dumb" which set off the outburst of laughter.

O'Brien told the hosts, "You mentioned at the top of the show about Trump, that 'he broke.' He's also, he dumb, And what we found out over this past week, particularly this cash situation, under oath a year ago he said I have $400 million and I'm adding to it monthly and then suddenly you come up to this judgment and you say 'Actually, I don't have it' ... He then takes to social media and said 'Actually, I have $500 million.' That had to make his attorneys pull out their hair and that is because he is ignorant and unsophisticated and he is not a good person, now in a courtroom where he is going to be put on the stand and held accountable for the fact pattern."

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"In this particular case, there is a tape recording of him directing Michael Cohen to get the money from the CFO so they can pay hush money. When he's on the stand, he doesn't stick to the script that he tends to brag and bloviate," he added. "That is going to hound them during this court proceeding; they have to be worried about that."

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NBC host Kristen Welker pressed former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel about her past statements suggesting the 2020 presidential election was not legitimate.

"Ronna, ultimately, there were 250 audits," Welker said Sunday on Meet the Press. "They never found any corruption."

With Donald Trump all but assured of being the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nominee, one longtime Republican senator hinted at bolting the party during an interview with CNN.

Speaking with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) bluntly admitted, "I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind. I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”

Murkowski, one of the seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial has long been at odds with the former president and, while speaking with CNN did not rule out leaving the GOP due to the former president's influence on the party.

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Asked if she would leave the GOP behind to become an independent, she replied, "Oh, I think I’m very independent-minded. I just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.”

Pressed on the issue, she stated, "I am navigating my way through some very interesting political times. Let’s just leave it at that.”

"Murkowski skated to reelection in her next two elections, even after voting to convict Trump in 2021, voting against Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court in 2018 and supporting Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022. She had been targeted by Trump and his allies in 2022 but was backed by Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and his high-spending outside group," the CNN report added.