letting us into your homes. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts now. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. in just a few moments we are going to get into what became a heated and sometimes significant day in the fraud trial of donald trump s organization. in fact, two of his adult children, executives, testified. you see don junior going in there. that s new today, and we have the update on what is a significant set of what is testimony that seems to hurt the trump org in that quarter million dollars fraud trial. when there s news off the middle east war we ll bring you that. we have updates off gaza. earlier the skyline filled with explosions and flares, signs of what we can make sense of, what seems to be the widening escalation that was discussed, and we have news on what the new york times is reporting israel is doing at this hour. the military there according to the new york times says they have encircled gaza city and they re fighting, quote, fac
stake through the heart of the trump business and brand. you can see him here entering the courtroom a few hours ago. he is the first member of the family to be called as a witness by state prosecutors, but he will not be the last. his brother eric is set to testify, as well as his sister ivanka, and his dad, the ex-president himself, who is scheduled to take the stand monday. donald trump jr. along with his brother eric trump have spent their entire careers at the trump organization. eric runs day-to-day business, and trump jr. is a trustee of the business entity that technically controls the entire trump org. because of their roles, they stand accused of committing fraud for years and years and years, involving those financial statements that have been submitted by the company. in his testimony so far, donald trump jr. has been asked about his grasp of accounting on that nbc news reports, quote, he said he was aware of what g-a-a-p is, quote, generally accepted accounting p
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Its something that i think the president and his lawyers know, the Special Counsel will be looking at. So interesting. Im really glad that you pointed out the similarity and language there, particularly since there are reports that the Special Counsel is looking at whether tweets can be used as obstruction of justice. Lets look at the trial. Whats happening in the manafort trial as we speak, shimon . Todays really been so two witnesses so far that have testified. One of them, i think, the important witness here, the fbi agent who entered manaforts home. They did a Search Warrant at his home in alexandria, virginia. Theyre talking about some of the documents that they found. And this really goes to the meat of the prosecutions case. These are documents about his loans, bank records, things they found with his name on it. Wire transfers. Goes to the meat, to the heart of the case and the evidence that the fbi has gathered and