Health right now. And a suspect is in custody. Thats important Breaking News right now. Reporter very important. Thats great. They were searching for upwards around two days now for her. And the fact that they found a suspec suspect. Thanks very much for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront next, Trump In Court for fraud. The Attorney General says he exaggerated his worth by billions. Trump calls her a racist. Trumps former Close Business Associate is outfront. Our legal analyst ryan goodman is here. Plus, rfk jr. Inching closer to a thirdparty run . Railing against what he says is a rigged system and why hes saying he takes votes away from trump. And the numbers dont lie. Last nights chief jets game was the most watched sunday game since the super bowl. Swift strikes again . Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, Trump In Court. Former president donald j. Trump appearing by choice in a new york courtroom today. Today is day one of his massive trial. It is worth saying this again that trump was there by choice. In fact, he actually postponed a scheduled deposition in florida so that he could be seen in person to say this. We have a rogue judge. A tiny fraction of what they actually are. We have a racist Attorney General who ran on the basis that she was going to get trump before she even knew anything about me. Well, Attorney GeneralLetitia James knows a lot about trump now. The powerpoint presenting trumps case is 65 pages. And in It Prosecutors lay out in detail what the judge ruled is a decade of trumps fraud. They go year by year here. Thats the entire decade. One, you can see 2014, they say trump inflated his wealth by 2. 2 billion. The Attorney General then shows her backup evidence. They point to a letter to Deutsche Bank from november 15, 2011, that stood out to me. There trump is trying to secure a loan using these massively inflated property values. The whole point was inflate the value, get a bigger loan. He writes, quote, as per our conversation, im pleased to equal the recently completed Financial Statement of donald j. Trump, open parentheses, hopefully you will be impressed, his signature at the bottom. While the accountants may have written the first few words of that sentence, there is no question that he personally included what was in the parentheses hopefully you will be impressed. Prosecutors are also pointing to the assistant vice president. Bernie says, quote, Allen Weisselberg told me, donald likes to see it go up in that period that you just said, like when he was president. Prosecutors follow up and ask him, so, mr. Weisselberg told you that mr. Trump likes it to go up . Bernie replies he likes it to go up. And it i dont think refers to assets. I think it refers to net worth. And that, of course, goes to the entire motive of everything, trumps Modis Operandi to try to be seen as worth more than he really is. And inside the courtroom today, our reporter said trump sat with his arms folded. Heres some of the courtroom pictures. Scowling occasionally, flipping through papers. At times he could be seen leaning over to whisper to his lawyers. Inside the room trump avoided eye contact with the Attorney General. But outside the courtroom is a different story. Nprs Andrea Bernstein said trump glared at the new York Attorney general when he left the courtroom for lunch. And then he slammed her personally. This has to do with Election Interference, plain and simple. We have a corrupt Attorney General in this state. This is a witch hunt for purposes of interfering with the elections of the United States of america. Its totally illegal. Now, it has been very successful for them because they took me off the Campaign Trail. Reporter now, one quick fact check here, it took him off the Campaign Trail, in this specific case is not accurate because he did not have to be there today. He wanted to be there. His presence was not required as it has been in the other times it was to be booked. The reality of it is is that this is the Campaign Trail for trump. It is a way to motivate his base. He gets to have those sound bites. And the case all in here is going to be quite involved. It is expected to take up to three months. Which means it will be wrapping up as his other cases are ramping up. In january, the Defamation Trial begins in the e. Jean carroll case in new york. Two months later in march, the justice departments 2020 election case begins that day before super tuesday. You remember that date was set. Three weeks later, the new york Hush Money Trial begins with alvin bragg in. May that is when trump is expected to stand trial for his handling of classified documents at maralago. So, a lot to break down tonight here, trumps day in court, his chosen day. I want to start with brynn gingras. Brynn, he was there. There were a lot of questions about whether he would be. Some were very surprised. So what comes next . Reporter well, as you pointed out, erin, he had sort of a Campaign Rally many times when he left the courtroom to talk to those cameras. Now, in the short term, what we do expect inside that courtroom is to hear tomorrow from donald bender. Now, that is trumps former accountant for trump himself, and trump org. We finished up todays testimony with him on the stand, the states attorney basically trying to bring out financial documents and use him as a witness to ask questions about the makings of those financial documents. We also expect in the longer term on the witness list for the new York Attorney general is trump himself, trumps children. Also michael cohen. Of course, hes trumps former fixer, who is the reason this whole case got even started if you remember his testimony to congress where he said under oath that trump did falsify business records. On the defensive side, the list is more than a hundred witnesses could be called in this trial that you just pointed out, could last for three months. Among them, were told, is an nyu Business School to talk about how trump came to the valuations that are all being questioned at this point of many of his properties. Its unclear if he will then be called again, trump himself, on the defensive side to the stand. But thats, of course, a very strong possibility. As for trump, like you said, erin, he was here today. Its very possible he comes back tomorrow. We havent heard officially just yet. He was very engaged today with his attorneys sitting at the Defense Table with them, talking to them, listening to the testimony as it was being given. But, as you also pointed out, erin, didnt make any contact, or very little contact with Letitia James. Eric trump, however, is sitting in the front row behind his father. He actually did walk over to Letitia James and did shake her hand a couple of times. Well have to see how this all plays out tomorrow. Its unclear if he will show up tomorrow. But, of course, we will be here to give you the very latest. This trial is expected for three months. And with me now, awardwinning Investigative Journalist for propublica, and npr. Also now the cohost of the Podcast Trump Inc and we dont talk about leonard. And ryan goodman. And jack odonnell, the former president and Chief Operating Officer of the Trump Plaza Hotel and casino. So, andrea, let me just start with you because you were in the room. You saw trump when he walked out, and that kind of glare to the Attorney General, and he avoided eye contact when he was actually in the room. But in the sketch you see them all together, this judge Letitia James, trump, his children. What was it like in that room . Well, that was what really struck me is this sort of International Drama thats been playing out, big but still small courtroom where everybody is feet from them other, trump from Letitia James, eric trump is there. And trump, when he walks in, has to walk right by james when he walks out, thats when the glare was just as he was about to get to the door, he turned around and gave her once of his very intense stares. I happened to be sitting right behind so i could see. But also this very tight new york story. It was almost like, wow, this new York Business story has become a national drama. And just to hear about the fraud and i would say one of the more earcatchin earcatching anecdotes, when trump was caught lying about the value of his triplex. Trump tower. Forbes called him out. They realized they had to stop claiming that once forbes published the story, but they didnt want the net worth to go down. So according to the documents that the Attorney General showed sort of a preview of today, what happened is that trump and his family and his employees scrambled to find other assets that they could boost the values up, Seven Springs golf course and 40 Wall Street say they were worth more so it looked like their total financial assets. Which is amazing because he wants it to go up. And then what was striking was that his defense was, well, i mean, in real estate, you get whatever you can for a property, and its sort of like thats what trump is in trouble for. Let me ask you about that, ryan. Because trump made his arguments outside of court today. And one of them was exactly what andrea just referred to. Let me play it how he said it. We have a clause in the contract, its like a buyer beware clause. It says, when you take a look at the Financial Statement, dont believe anything you read. This is up front. Some people call it a worthless clause because it makes the statement, and anything you read in the statement worthless. All right. The judge last week in a ruling, has already ruled that he did indeed commit fraud, said you cant call it a worthless statement, thats bogus. But it seems like the heart of this is going to come down to that very issue, that its all subjective, that, who knows. If Deutsche Bank didnt say anything about it and were fine with it, so what. Is there a there there . So, in the opinion last week, the judge works through this particular argument. He says reliance on the worthless statement is worthless. He relies on New York State Law and says you can not use a disclaimer for a misrepresentation of facts that are peculiarly within the knowledge of the so if you know its a lie, it cant be done. Thats right. And there is another New York State Law that says does not matter about the sophistication of the parties. Meaning even if the banks are supposed to know better, that doesnt get you out of trouble, its still a false statement in your document. The disclaimer doesnt say what trump says it says. In fact, the judge says this disclaimer doesnt use the word disregard. It doesnt say worthless, it doesnt say that they should ignore it, it doesnt say its useless. The judge says the statement is made in good faith. And thats the whole question here, or was it intentional. When they got called out by forbes for the triplex, and then you literally see it all written in pen along the side of everything. As you looked through that and you see the pen marks and the asset value suddenly goes up for things like 40 Wall Street. Does any of that surprise you . Our viewers have seen you talk about how you saw him do this in instances that arent even reflected in this case. Well, erin, of course, no, its not a surprise. I think its a pattern for his entire career where he has inflated his value in his businesses, in his own personal finances to benefit himself. The example that i gave you last week was we inflated, he asked me to inflate a budget by 30 million so that he could secure a loan, you know, to bail himself out actually. And so, no, theres no surprise here. And today was classic trump, quite frankly, it was attack, it was, im the victim. And political theater. Everything today was trump. Were you surprised, jack, by the fact that he was there . Obviously, completely by choice. Erin, i was absolutely not surprised at all. This was to greaten an opportunity for him to show that hes not afraid. And i think that was the intent. And i think it was also it was politics. He wanted to show his people that he was going to be there and fight. Now, do i think hes going to show up every day . No, i dont. I think its probably a oneday thing. Hes made his statement today. But i was not surprised at all that he was there today. , and andrea, one thing on that front, as brynn was talking about and you saw yourself, hes leaning in, hes interacting with his lawyers all day. This is something that this is deeply personal to him. Oddly in a way that the Election Interference case and the classified documents case are not. This is the mythology that he was new yorks greatest real estate mogul. In fact i think one of his lawyers said that today. And one of the things thats so interesting is i wrote a book called american oligarchs. Hundreds of people spoke to me but said very quietly its not really the way it appears. That was splayed out for everybody to see in the courtroom. It is not the way it appears. Thats what trump is really defending himself against is not only the money, 250 million, a lot of money, but also the puncturing of that myth that hes created. The entire myth of the man is, im really rich, i know what thats what it is. If theres anything that defines the soul of the guy, this is it. We look at these long list of Defense Witnesses. What about him . Hes on both lists. Does he testify . Its hard. Its a hard choice. If he does testify, then he might get himself in a lot of trouble. He could get himself in trouble through perjury because hes going to say im innocent, and it looks like the judge doesnt agree with that and will conclude that he did do these things. Because hes already said that he did those things. This is kind of the damages portion of the trial, not the guilt or innocence part of the trial. Hes already given his full deposition. There are all other implications and pitfalls. If he does testify as a Defense Witness and other crossexamination, the Attorney General could bring up a bunch of other things that he does not want to answer, like, your record, mr. Trump, of voracity and truthfulness when it comes to making false statements to courts and the election, when it comes to making false statements to federal agencies about documents that you had at your estate. Also other things to impeach the witness, i think thats one of the risks. On the other hand, if he pleads the fifth, then hes in even worse trouble. And if theres any case in which he wants to testify again, its this one. But he wants to testify to the public. Which he can go out and call people racist and corrupt and everything else. Thank you very much. I appreciate it, andrea, ryan, thank you very much, jack. And, next, im going to speak to Apprentice Contestant who served in the Trump White House. Shes been to trumps homes. So did she have any idea that trump was inflating his wealth . Plus, Breaking News. Republican congressman matt gaetz making a major move to try and oust the House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy. Hes doing it formally. It is something that has not been done officially in more than a hundred years. Police in new york just announcing they have found the 9yearold girl who went missing while on vacation with her family, and now were learning of a suspect. We have all the details just coming in ahead. And that Breaking News. Matt gaetz, the republican congressman has filed that motion to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker of the house. The first time that this has happened in more than a hundred years. Lets listen to matt gaetz speaking to reporters right now. As i said in my remarks earlier on the floor today, raredless of how you feel about ukraine or border money, these two things should not be lumped together. They deserve their own dignity and their own vote. And the people are tired of seeing the ways of washington that Jam Everything together in order to really frustrate actual legislators. If you succeed, mccarthys almost certainly going to put himself up as a candidate for speaker again. And that may mean theres no one who can get 218 votes. Are you prepared to get to that possibility . I would think that if it took Kevin Mccarthy 15 rounds to become speaker and after eight months of a failed speake