Of course theres a big night, theres, congress their votes happening, and those fundraisers and other events. And [inaudible] pulled out from his car and they are searching for the people who did. Thats a very scary situation. Thank you very much for bringing us that latest update. And thats it for me and cnn prime time. Cnn with laura coates starts right now, . Laura thanks, abby. Good evening everyone. Im laura coates and i want you to stay with us for the Breaking News on this nine Year Old Girl. You know that im a mother, im a nineyearold girl. And this story is very personal to so many mothers and fathers, people, human beings across this country. When this little girl went missing on a camping trip just two days ago, when she was just riding her bike, she has been found safe tonight. Were gonna unpack all of it. Were gonna talk to our experts and give you everything we know now that this little girl is safe. That is all coming up. I have been waiting also to talk to you all day long about day one, of this trial, against donald trump. He showed up, the cameras were lead in sitting at the defendants table. A few feet away from him was the Attorney GeneralLetitia James who he has called racist and has condemned her for a very long time. A judge is also a few feet away from him, presiding over the entire trial and trump was actually late entering the courtroom because he was too busy insulting that judge in front of the cameras outside the courtroom. And mind you, trump did not have to show up to this. In the State Court Case in new york, to actually appear. You dont trucker trial where he was accused of Sexual Misconduct with e. Jean carroll, remember that . But this trial, one that could spell the end of this trumps, next one about his wealth and mind you a quarter of a billion yes, with a, be a quarter of a billion bucks, and believe he was in that courtroom. Was it the Campaign Trail that he was . On maybe a little bit of both. This to me send it a whole lot like what was going on at the courthouse was another stop on the Campaign Trail. Lisa side. This is politics. Now it has been very successful because they took me off the Campaign Trail, ive been sitting in the courthouse all day long. So being in iowa, new hampshire, South Carolina, or a lot of other places that i could be at. He did choose to be there all day. Along the better gun was today and there was no in the first place. And theres no guarantee that he will actually be there over the next day or maybe even 2 to 3 months if the judge expects the with or without him inside of that courtroom. We heard from a new York Attorney general today Letitia James insisting a trial is just about one thing my message is simple. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law. And its my responsibility and my duty, and my job to enforce it. Youve heard this phrase about being above the law. I won two as we dive deep into this conversation into yet another historic event today, for the president of the United States appearing in the courthouse for his own trial. Litigation attorney is caught bolden and also roger sabrina, Vice President of the heritage also cnn political analyst, laura lopez. A lot to unpack today. Ill begin with my lawyers, ill turn my shoulder to you for a second, laura. You know i love you. When you think about the consequences of today, the gravitas of whats going on, we have become accustomed i guess to have legal trouble. But this feels different, in fact, he was appearing for this trial. Scott, what do you make of the first day of this trial . A political clown shell. Tell me how you really feel about, it scott. I hope, we will probably disagree about things later. But he said his campaign or his criminal cases, his civil case on his civil cases are his campaign. Thats how he raises money. That was a political clown show. The attacks on the tissue james and my classmate in harvard law school, this judge, who had his fate of multiple millions of dollars in their hands, basically. They can negotiate a settlement on this, they probably, wont but with the tissue james, the court could ultimately theyre gonna give to the state of new york based on his finding a fraud. And the making of those two makes very little sense. But to a bench trial, another jury just seemed to be out of place, misplaced a few will inappropriate, but thats what you get with donald trump. When it comes to court. Because he doesnt have to be there. Remember, this was about the campaign, not about lucier 250 million. Of course the judge shut down some of the comments by trumps lawyers. And weve litigated some of these matters, it came back down, we hear for this the host binding of fraud. But one big argument has been, roger, look where the victims here . The banks are not saying that they got defrauded in some way, they got a lot of their money, if not all of it back. So the trump legal argument offensively has been whats the big deal . Its not a requirement, it is not gonna hold . Water theres a fundamental concept of. The no victim no crime. So where is the crime . Here one of the banks made 40 million an interest. President trump paid all his bills, he playing he never missed a payment. So its a political clown show. But the real leader is Letitia James, she is bringing the politically motivated campaign against donald trump. She said that she was gonna get donald trump as part of her political campaigning get but sticks. Theres no victim, he said that you dont even need an intent to defraud. And were talking about sophisticated banks, right . When you give us numbers, the judge said theres only 18 million. One of the most Famous Properties in america, only 18 million, or whatever the thought of it they thought it was fine to go forward with President Trump as he paid on his bills. You have an issue in part of understanding what the actual statute because it does not require that they be the victim in match, thats one of the issues. But one of the larger issues weve all talked about Victimless Crimes. What about prostitution . Whos the victim . We talked about we talked about drug cases as well. We have laws in the books that are so called victimless were on people who arent able to have the same tax, perhaps evasion, or Insurance Benefits et cetera. What do you say to that . We have socalled Victimless Crimes but we dont take that off the books. This is what we know for certain, if it had not been donald trump running for president leading in the polls, there would not be prosecution right now. Do we know that for certain . There is no these investigations, criminal and civil, our ongoing before donald trump entered the race in november 2020. You are publicly known, if you. Will donald trump entered the race while the investigations were going on to prevent them to run for office and to halt them or stymie them thinking because he was a candidate that they would not go forward with these criminal investigations. But we make that argument that you just made where i defend people who are committing mortgage fraud, who have not failed on their mortgage. Theyve been paid. But theres not one federal law, not one state law that requires a victim to get a Victim Statement invited criminal cases. But nowhere in any book, anyway says that if you violate these laws, if you do persistent and repeated fraud, what do you do with that . You dont need a victim, you need social compliance, you need legal compliance. Because a mix is better as a society. Thats not the argument. I want to bring laura, here i want to hear your opinion on this too. Because theres been a lot of discussions about this being political. Trump himself has caused it a political witch. And he cited in there, he called a, victor, largely to, when he said he believes this is a political Witch Hunt Led by laetitia james. There were moments, it was hard to imagine whether it was the Campaign Moment or a criminal civil trial moment. How do you see it . The former president s argument, since hes launched his campaign, has been that everything is a prosecution against him and that he is the ultimate victim, whether its this case, whether its the other investigations he calls every single indictment that hes faced, persecution, and thats been his entire campaign argument. He runs on that. Hes running on that right now. And he it made very well right that all the way to the gop nomination because it appears that it does work for him in the primary. But but there are a lot of dates in between. That including the trials and things happening, hes got a long way to the days away. It might help them in the primary, but in the general election thats where it could break down. Because of the fact that there are swing voters that i talked to in Battleground States who say that they dont think they could vote for, him not just because of the indictments of because as what they see as threats to democracy, and the campaign that hes running. So i think theres republican strategists but ive talked to that if say if hes indicted in just one of these sorry, if hes convicted in just one of these cases, that they think hell definitely lose the election if its him against biden. What she found whatever she couldnt throw against him. Had he not been running for president everyone you that he was going to run for president , by that i dont buy that for a moment so according to the campaign that you see in new york only see it in georgia cnbc in florida. You see with higher at a time to ride, and they are going after him because they are afraid hell get back in the white house. Let the people decide and vote. You do not use the Justice System and corrupt it to do in and run around the democratic process. Part of the issue, as you can imagine, is the bald assertions that you are making. The idea that you are not certain that there is any evidence to support several the fact that you have raised. If they were going to have a coordination between laetitia james, and of Fulton County d. A. Fani willis, there have already been as you know in new york as a point you raised. Bands wind the pursue crows criminal charges chose not to hes been heavily criticized. Your pointer well taken about of all of this. But i as a prosecutor need some meat on the bone, everyones got roger moreira. Not mean this laura. I want to thank you for all youve done as well. I also want to someone whos knows a lot about donald trump s finances, wrote the definitive guide on trumps net worth this year. Bring me the Meat On The Bone Dan we are talking a lot about what is happening here, and whether charges would have been brought before he was running for reelection. There is a lot of questions, as you know, about the crux of his entire campaign which is that he is a wealthy, savvy billionaire. To supporters that is exactly what he is. To his opponents he is a fraud, who is not worth half as much as the claims. What is the truth here. Based on the reporting that is . You can be both. You can be a billionaire every wildly lying about what you are. This case is ultimately a mass question. If you go through his assets, and you value what they are worth do those values make sense . You can argue about what the price per square foot is for, example in a particular property. What you cannot talk about is how many square feet exist in that property. There are in places where trump has been aggressive, and in other places where he just made stuff up. Unfortunately for the former president the prosecutors have all of the backup mass that trump was using to get to his numbers. It is pretty easy to go through it asset by asset and see that he was just making a lot of stuff up. We had a guest on the panel today, roger was talking about this objective evaluation of the dollar as well. This is part of it part of the rhetoric that is been. That the judge found maralago is only worth 80 million, 27 million. But his lawyers say its worth over a billion. They talk about the brand cachet of it being owned by donald trump. But in your article you say it is worth 300 and 25 million. I mean i dont have property like this, but how can there be such a wide range for how much a property is actually worth . Maralago is the hardest property in Donald Trumps portfolio to value. I can tell you its not worth 18 million and i can tell you its not worth a billion dollars. If you talk to people who study that market, the president ial real estate in the club business, they will tell you widely varying figures. Anywhere from 100 or 200 million, to maybe 700 million. That is a huge, huge gap. We look at the financials are another trades in the neighborhood. There are retractions against his property cant subdivided into a bunch of houses, that sort of thing. Ultimately thats how we come up with 325 million. If you told me it sold for 200 million i would not be shocked, to be told me its all about for 500 million i would also not be shocked. There are so much variability in this particular assets. To the Attorney General to get aggressive position, and to be clear the judge did not take that position, the judge merely said that this is what the county value that. And this is what trumps people are valuing it at, and there is a huge discrepancy. And i think this is one of the weak points of the a. G. s case, won the place for her matt got a little too aggressive. I can imagine many people dont have comps of maralago to figure out how much of his work, what you are reporting broke down net his net worth. A new york City Real Estate makes up the second biggest pocket, so how much are we talking that he stands to lose if he is actually barred from doing business in New York State . His assets would be sold, and one of the Big Questions here is what with the process before selling those assets. One asset in particular to keep an eye on is 40 wall street. This is a building in downtown new york, it does have a pretty significant loan against it. It also has a big problem, which is, it is technically elise hold. In which means donald trump does not own the land, but he won the right he asked to pay to the owners of the land, which is a german family. Skyrocket ten years for now. It basically makes that property it ticking time bomb, if he were trying to sell that anyway and investor might look at this is sort of a fire sale. If he has to sell that under duress from the new York Attorney general then it is an extreme fire sale, and could end up in trouble on that loan. The important thing to remember about Donald Trumps finances that he does have a significant amount of cash is that he does. His best defense is about 425 million, thats roughly the amount of cash even if they forced him to pay a quarter of a billion dollars, sure it will be painful, and it will limit his ability to borrow against buildings in the future, and figure out what to do with expiring loans on office buildings. But he can handle that hit. Dan alexander, this is rich people problems now, thank you so much. Thank you. Coming up a frantic search in New York State, a nine Year Old Girl who went missing while on a camping trip on her family, just two days ago she has been found safe. The governor releasing new details that Breaking News next. Our Breaking News, a nine Year Old Girl who vanished his two days ago a campaign with her family in upstate new york, she has been found safe. Please say that Charlotte Sena is in good health, and i suspect the 47 year old man, is now in custody. Here is governor kathy hochul on the moment the case started to break, early this morning. For 20 a. M. Car pulls up to a mailbox. Something is left. We state police immediately go to the mailbox, and identify what is a ransom note that had been left behind for charlotte. State Police Worked diligently, trying to find a match for a fingerprint, first one tried was not successful, second one was. To identify any other appearance in the New York State database that would match. They hit came at 2 30 in the afternoon, there had been a dwi in 1999 in the city of saratoga. A fingerprint was found that matched what was found on the ransom note. What is that isnt that unbelievable. According to the governor, the suspect is believed to have personally delivered the ransom note to the home of this little girls parents. Unabridged and cnns chief Law Enforcement analyst john miller, and also here with us is National Security analyst juliette im so glad the two of you are here. We are all parents, and thinking about just how horrible this story could have turned out. How we have all been accustomed unfortunately to seeing stories like this in the news, and praying for an outcome of our safe return of a child. Here we have it today. But the facts of this case john, unbelievable annette ransom note hand delivered to the mailbox at 4 00 this morning. They were fingerprints on that note and helped provide the suspect. Just tell me about the turn of events, and that very crucial keeps of evidence. When state police are watching the house, they see the note delivered, the first question is why didnt they stop the car . This is not terribly uncommon. Which is people like network news people, and others are leaving messages for the family. Wellwishers are leaving cards. But when they looked at that piece of mail, and sent it to the state police lab, they fumed it looking for a print as