Hey everyone. It is 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Elisee Menendez in

for Nicole Wallace. You know, it is not every day that a former president of the United States

is in a courthouse, much less as a defendant in a case that threatens to bring down the entire

brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place.

Today, Donald Trump was back in court in the $250 million

dollar civil fraud trial in New York.

Both before walking in and during a break, lashed out as he so often has at the

judge at the trial at the New York Attorney General who brought the lawsuit.

It was his usual list of grievances so we are not going to play them for you here.

But he did not mention Judge Angoron's clerk, who has been a frequent target of his,

recognizing that he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff.

Inside the courtroom, accounting expert Eli Bartov took the stand.

He testified that in his expert opinion, the attorney general's claims of a years-long pattern of

fraud of manipulating the values of Trump's real estate assets were baseless.

Quoose, there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said.

Donald Trump was reportedly visibly pleased.

But there were moments of tension.

ABC News reports as accounting expert Eli Bartov was testifying about Trump's use of

disclaimers in his financial statements, State Attorney Kevin Wallace

interjected saying this is pure speculation from someone they hired to say

whatever it is they want.

Still in the witness box, Bartov began yelling at Wallace about the comment as Trump sat watching

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