Welcome to the beat, I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melber.

So an unprecedented spectacle in New York today, former president Donald Trump back in court

facing a judge as his civil fraud trial begins.

This New York State Supreme Court trial is the first of many cases looming over Trump's

election bid, and the judge last week already found him liable for massive fraud.

New York Attorney General Atisha James accusing Trump of years of overinflating his net worth

and misrepresenting his company's assets.

Donald Trump and the other defendants have committed persistent and repeated fraud.

Last week we proved that in our motion for summary judgment.

Today we will prove our other claims.

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.

Trump sat inside the courtroom for hours, flanked by his lawyers as prosecutors explained

in detail the alleged acts of fraud, saying Trump, quote, overvalued his statements from

812 million to 2.2 billion dollars that he knew that they were false and used them to

obtain benefits he was not entitled to.

The opening statement featured never before seen deposition video, including Trump's

own.

Can you meet your obligation here of presenting the information to counter it in accordance

with Gap?

Was Alan Weiselberg responsible for that?

I would say yes.

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