Missing during a Family Camping Trip has been found alive. The suspect left a note at the home of the young girls parents. Leaving critical piece of evidence behind, his own fingerprint. For a parent whose child goes missing, this is like getting your whole life back again. Former president donald j. Trump appearing by choice in a new york courtroom. Trumps choice to show up was personal as it was political. He is watching as his company is in a death spiral. Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. There is a lot going on. And so interesting that just a few miles from here, Trump Will Go instead of being elsewhere on the campaign trail, he will be here campaigning from the courtroom. I think thats the biggest thing. The legal and the political, they converged over and over again and clearly i think as Kaitlan Collins reported last night, sees this as a political moment in the courtroom. For sure. Plenty going on here and in washington as well where Kevin Mccarthy is dealing with his own set of struggles. Looks like almost assuredly he will need democrats to help save his job from conservative republican revolt. Overnight, congressman matt gaetz triggered historic vote to oust mccarthy. Its the first time this has happened in over a century. I have enough republicans where at this point next week, one of two things will happen. Kevin mccarthy wont be the speaker of the house or hell be the speaker of the house working at the pleasure of the democrats. Im at peace with either result because the American People deserve to know who governs them. Pivotal day ahead on capitol hill before the vote happens. Sources say mccarthy will try to have the measure killed. House democrats are getting ready to meet as they decide whether to help keep him in power. Mccarthy can only lose four republican votes. Five said they would vote to get rid of mccarthy. That means he needs to support of democrats to stay in power. At least 13 republicans who are undecided but open to voting mccarthy out. Lets bring in our Congressional CorrespondentLauren Fox Fantastic at math, sorting out all those numbers for us. Clear thing is, he needs democrats. Yeah. He absolutely needs democrats at this point. Thats why were sort of in this uncharted territory. Democrats are going to huddle Behind Closed Doors around 9 00 a. M. This morning on capitol hill. Their leadership telling them this could be an extended caucus meeting and opportunity to have a conversation among members. And theres an adversity of opinion about where democrats should go in this moment. You hear from some republican allies of mccarthy that if democrats care about this institution, that they will just vote to move on with this resolution. But, you hear from a lot of democrats theyre not going to be a cheap date on this. They believe they could get major extractions from the speaker, from republicans if they were to help him. There are Many Democrats who dont even want to lift a finger to do that. Arguing that this is a mess of mccarthys own making, that hes the one who allowed this rules package that any one Single Member could bring up this resolution to try and oust him. And that is exactly the moment that they have found themselves in. That is what Many Democrats are saying. So right now something to keep in mind is the reality that the republican conference is also divided on what should happen. Theyre going to be meeting Behind Closed Doors as well, not too far away from where the democrats are meeting. Also, you have some hardliners who arent being fans of Kevin Mccarthy but also weighing if this is the right moment to try to oust him. I talked to ralph normum. He said hes concerned if they go forward with this, the implication could be that they would not get to one Year Spending bills, bills that had been promised by the Republican Leadership and that in 45 days they could find themselves in a another Shutdown Showdown given the fact that they will have spent so much time dealing with this on the floor because republican, if mccarthy is ousted, you have a situation where who is the speaker. And who would actually have the 218 votes to rise and become the next speaker . That is something that a lot of hard liners, even people who want to oust Kevin MccarthyCannot Answer right now. Poppy. Lauren fox, shutdown, showdown say that five times fast. Lets hope we dont get there again. Thank you. Phil . Well, this morning a 9yearold girl is back in the arms of his loved ones after vanishing from a new York State Park over the weekend. Charlotte senas disappearance search included 400 people. The major break in the case was a ransom note left in her parents mailbox. Now a suspect, 47yearold Craig Nelson Ross is in custody. Cnns jean casarez joins us live. The pressure as the clock continued to tick, mounting, the breakthrough, though, its remarkable story. Reporter absolutely remarkable. You know, charlotte and her family were camping just up the road here. It was saturday. She was riding her bicycle with her friends. She wanted to make one more loop around. Her family said she could. She never returned. At 6 15 saturday evening, she was missing. Law enforcement immediately began to converge. They were going to search for her. They did search for her, but they also stood guard at the familys home at 4 20 yesterday morning, a man came to the familys home, deposited a letter in the mailbox. That turned out to be a ransom note. They needed a fingerprint. They worked all day to try to get a hit. And they did. At 2 15 yesterday afternoon, a 1999 dwi arrest by craig ross jr. , that led them to a resident where he lived behind his mothers house in a trailer. The s. W. A. T. Team stormed into that trailer at 6 30 last night. They got him in custody. Charlotte was found in a cabinet. She was taken to a hospital in albany for safety precautions. Shes been reunited with her family, the governor says. Now we are waiting. Shortly, we believe, criminal charges to be filed. Phil . Jean , thank you. Lets bring in john, this is what we were all pay preying for and hoping for. But the fact that they found her really quickly it says a lot. It does. It says they rushed into this literally with every possible resource they could bring in terms of technology, investigators, help from the fbi, everything that they could bring to bear because they know theres a Clock Ticking on cases like this. The longer they go, especially in the first two days the wor the outcome could be. The ransom note seemed to be the big break. But the governor was talking about multiple different elements that kind of led them to this point. What else was at play here . What else were they looking at . Well, thats where were going to learn a little more about today because we have to start with, you know, that ransom note and some things the state police said on the first day which is were looking at this as a targeted kidnapping. Meaning, who is craig ross, 47 years old, record for minor arrests, not a master criminal. Why charlotte . Why that park . Why that time . Why this family . And the answer may be he was just waiting for the right moment and the right opportunity with a child that was by herself, not with a group of other children, a lack of witnesses. Or the answer could be based on early hint we got from police that this might be targeted that theres a connection to that family. So, theyve got to peel back not just with the charlottes family but also through the suspects information, was there any connection . Did they ever Work Together . Is it possible they knew each other . And i think well learn whether or not that was the case later today when they have their other press conference. The governor identified him as 47yearold Craig Nelson Ross jr. We heard from jean. Do we know anything about his history . He appears to have an aggravated harassment arrest. He has a driving while under the influence arrest in saratoga. These are old arrests, though. But strangely, poppy, in that way, he fits the profile of a child abductor. You know, 30 something percent of them have no criminal record, which actually makes them harder to trace. And 40 something odd percent that do, these are generally not other kidnappings and you know sexual assaults of children. Its generally a mixed bag of minor offenses. They have a real diversity in Criminal Background. In this case, you know, you talk about luck. His Criminal Background was a stroke of luck because when they got that ransom note and they ran that print and they had to do it twice because the first one didnt catch, thats what in the afis system, automated fingerprint system for new york state, matches a partial to a person, thats the record that clicked. How often do we see Ransom Note Type cases in Child Abduction . I feel like you see them all the time in the movies but dont see a lot of these stories at least publicly from a Law Enforcement perspective . Is this regular . Thats a really interesting question because you dont see a lot of that. I mean, when you look at Child Abductions by Child Predators who are usually child sexual predators, you know, that mean age is mostly female, almost 100 and the average age is 11 years old. So with a 9yearold girl in this case were in that ballpark. Kidnapped for ransom is not for sexual predators. The money the money is the motive. And thats a different kind of criminal. And thats a different kind of kidnapping. I ran a lot of kidnappings, particularly in los angeles. And the ransom drop was always the opportunity and the worst moment of the case because you had to decide, do we do the ransom drop and let the person go and attempt to follow them, maybe to lead us back to the victim . But if you give them enough room so that they dont detect the tail, and you lose them, you lose the money, you lose the suspect, you lose your trail to the victim. So, you have to make a real decision whether to jump in. In this case they were able to get ahead of that by a clue left on the note. And bring Charlotte Sena home. Fascinating. Thanks so much, john. Appreciate it. Well, former President Trump says hell be back in court today and in just a few hours the president s son, hunter biden, will also be walking into a courtroom for his arraignment on three felony gun charges. Calls grow for San Francisco to ban driverless vehicles after a woman was seriously injured in an accident involving one overnight. Just under three hours president bidens son hunter will be in a delaware courtroom for an arraignment on three felony gun charges. Hes accused of lying after he said he wasnt addicted to drugs when he bought a firearm in 2018. Hes expected to plead not guilty. Cnns evan perez is live outside the federal courthouse in wilmington. Evan, the plea deal fell apart dramatically. Theres a Special Counsel investigation. Theres this. Walk through where we are right now. Reporter well, phil, the president s son is going to walk into this courthouse in just a couple hours. You could see people standing in line right there behind me to get a seat inside the courtroom. Look, this is something thats never happened, right . The son of the president is going to come in here. Hes going to plead not guilty to these three counts and will be processed by the federal officers inside the courthouse there and then probably release on his own recog any sense. Hes facing these three counts as a result of the fact that this plea deal that was hammered out and was supposed to get ironed out in july, late july just fell apart spectacularly. Right before the judge when the judge asked simple questions about exactly what this plea deal covered. Now, that was a Diversion Agreement under which for 24 months hunter biden just had to abide by not using drugs, not buying any firearms and then this would have been over with. Now hes facing three counts related to when he bought a firearm back in 2018. He owned it for just a few days. And according to the indictment, he lied on the form that you fill out when you buy that firearm. He was addicted to drugs. He has written about this fact that hes addicted. He was addicted to drugs at the time. And, as a result, federal the federal law says that was a federal violation. Now, we anticipate that this is not the its not over after this because we know the Special Counsel is still investigating hunter biden over his taxes. It is possible theyll bring charges in either washington or Southern California where he lives. So this might just be the beginning of what well see with hunter biden and the special investigation thats been going on for five years, phil. Historic first for the child of a president with many more potential steps to come. Evan perez outside the court steps in delaware. Thank you. This morning day two of the 250 million Civil Fraud Trial against donald trump gets under way. And trump waste nod time going after the judge in the case. Listen. Its a judge that should be disbarred. This is a judge that should be out of office. This is a judge that some people say could be charged criminally for what hes doing. Hes interfering with an election. And its a disgrace. Not sure what the bases in fact for those allegations are. But joining us now retired u. S. District judge in the Southern District of new york. Judge, very good to have you. Appreciate your time. Theres that. Right . Hes also gone after the Attorney General. I want to go to the substance of what happened in the courtroom yesterday. The testimony we heard and the bases for the prosecutors arguments here. What is your assessment . Well, yesterday we heard an accountant who had worked with macers. He was testifying about tractions that occurred in 2011. The statute of limitations says were not interested in anything until 2014. But whats at issue here is not the traction but the actual false statement about it. So the false statement is made in 2014 even though its about an event that occurred in 2011. So it actually made sense for the Attorney General to put in that evidence because the background of the statement is the transaction. But its the statement thats at issue. The judge did question, though, is the ag going to take this argument further. The Trump Legal Team thinks thats a strong point for them. I dont think its a strong point for them. I think the judge said i hope this wont go on forever. I dont want to hear much more of this. Ive already said what the statute is. I understand that. But she has to prove her case. And to prove her case she has to first give the background of the transaction and then the false statement about the transaction and the statement was made after 2014. One of the defenses we heard from trumps attorneys yesterday aligned with what we heard leading up to this moment which is this is how everybody does it. This is the way things work. Which you can put that aside for a second. Alina defended the valuation saying this value is what someone is willing to pay. The Trump Properties are mona lisa properties. Its not fraud. Its real estate. Thats the market. Whatever a person is willing to pay sets the market. But that defense in this specific case, does it have validity . No, it has no validity because its speculative. A willing buyer is someone who is making an offer or about to make an offer or has discussed an offer. Its not whats in the mind of ms. Habba or former President Trump. They might believe that a buyer will turn up who will pay hundreds of millions. But they have no evidence of that. So you cant just speculate. But then can i ask you what because this is an issue we had David Shohen On who represented trump in one of his impeachment trials. His point is, to your argument, if you flip it, the judge didnt have a bases for an 18 million valuation or the ag didnt have bases for 18 million valuation on maralago, do you know what im saying . Yes and no. I read the judges opinion and there were actual valuations made on most of these properties. There were documents by appraisers, by accountants. There were documents that gave numbers. For all these things. The 18 million was from the palm beach assessors. Your argument is before he was president and now it would be worth more if you have a president s property. Thats right. Im sure they would be worth more but not 2,300 more which is one of the percentages in this charge. Can i ask about the attacks going into the courtroom, coming out of the courtroom. Sure. To some degree were all numb to it from the former president at this point. But in your experience, as you watch that happen, what comes to mind . It comes to mind that this person has a habit and has always had a habit of attacking judges. He had that habit before he was elected president , while he was president and after hes been president. Thats his m. O. To say this judge cant be fair. This judge is indian decent, a racist, a democrat. He finds something to say about every judge unless its a judge that he knows or feels is on his side because he appointed that judge. Then he says thats a wonderful judge. So when Aileen Cannon got one of his cases he said shes a great jumg. Of course she had been a judge less than two years. But thats his m. O. I would be remiss to let you go without asking about hunt