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Donald Trump has not been present this week for either of his sons' days in court.

Today, he was scheduled to travel to Dallas, Texas for a fundraising event with various state leaders.

Trump was at court last week for both days of Michael Cohen's testimony.

The former president is slated to take the witness stand next week, as is his daughter Ivanka.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

We're breaking for lunch after a couple of tense exchanges between the prosecutor and Eric Trump.

Andrew Amer continued to grill Eric on his knowledge of his father's financial statement.

Raising his voice, Eric responds: "We’re a major organisation. I’m fairly certain that we have financial statements”.

Just before the break, Amer can get a clear answer from Eric - that he understood his father had an annual financial statement in 2013 and that he was asked to assist with it.

Still, Eric claims: "I had no involvement, nor did I ever work on my father's statement of financial condition".

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New court sketches have been shared of Donald Trump Jr giving his second day of testimony.

Earlier today, he joked with the sketch artists, asking them to "make me look sexy".

Trump Jr has now left court and his younger brother, Eric, is giving testimony.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Prosecutors have been attempting to tie Eric to his father’s annual financial statements.

At issue is the Trump Seven Springs estate in Westchester, New York.

Prosecutors are sharing a 2013 email Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney sent to Eric Trump explaining that he was working on Donald Trump Sr’s annual financial statements.

McConney wanted clarity on the value of the Seven Springs property.

After previously denying he had anything to do with his father's statement of financial condition, Eric acknowledges that he was asked for assistance with a spreadsheet that contains previous years’ valuation of the property.

But, he adds: “It seems like the values have already been established… from the year before.”

“This pre-dated me,” he says. “He’s updating numbers that were already there pre my involvement.”

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Prosecutors' interactions with Eric Trump have so far proved more tense than with Donald Trump Jr.

Eric is more cautious in his answers, declining to answer yes or no on questions that prosecutors seem to view as obvious.

Several times, Andrew Amer of the attorney general's office tells Eric Trump: "That did not answer my question".

On at least one occasion, Judge Engoron agrees.

The lack of clarity from Eric means Amer is asking the same questions in several different ways, making for a potentially long afternoon in court.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

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The differences between Eric and Donald Trump Jr are notable.

Throughout his testimony, Trump Jr projected confidence and wasn't afraid to make jokes with the judge or legal teams.

However, he did grow more serious under questioning from the attorney general today.

Eric Trump is projecting a far more subdued air, quietly and directly answering questions without any humorous flourishes.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from New York City

Donald Trump Jr finished his testimony just before noon local time.

He then spoke to media in front of the New York City courthouse steps.

Asked if he was going to stay and listen to his brother Eric, he said: "I don't feel I need to be a part of, you know, the continued circus - it's gonna keep going."

"This is not my first rodeo at this point."

He also gave some thoughts on his own testimony, where he repeatedly told the court he trusted his accountants.

"You pay experts, millions of dollars to be experts, you sign off on what they give you," he said.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

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Prosecutors are now pressing Eric Trump about his involvement with statements of financial condition.

“People ask me questions all the time, but I never worked on the statement of financial condition," he says.

Andrew Amer, a senior lawyer on the attorney general’s team, continues to ask Eric Trump about the documents.

“I don’t believe I ever saw or worked on a statement of financial condition," he says again.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

Andrew Amer with the attorney general's office is trying to establish Eric Trump and his father's place in the Trump Organization's hierarchy.

Eric confirms that he was running the day-to-day operations of the Trump Organization along with his brother and, for a time, the now convicted CFO Allen Weisselberg.

Amer asks him if it's fair to view the Trump Organization hierarchy as a pyramid that had your father at the top?

Eric confirms it is.

At one point, Amer asks that if his father directed him to take a course of action, would he?

Eric tries to dodge by saying "I wouldn't sell Mar-a-Lago without asking my father".

But the prosecutor pushes him to answer.

“If my father directed me to take an action post him leaving the company, he's the owner of the company, yes I follow his (directions)," he said.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

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Trump's second eldest son Eric has just been sworn in.

Like Donald Jr, prosecutors begin with questions about Eric's background and involvement with the Trump Organization.

He became an executive vice president of the company sometime before 2014, he testifies.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

Eric Trump is now in the courtroom. He's seated at the defence table, having his picture taken by pool photographers.

Like his older brother, he's wearing a navy blue suit.

Eric Trump is more closely associated with his work running the Trump Organization than Donald Trump Jr, though they are co-leads.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

Donald Trump Jr was dismissed from the witness stand after Faherty said she had no more questions.

Trump's defense team said they had no plans to cross examine him at this time, and so Trump Jr appears done for the day.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

We're back from a short break and prosecutor Colleen Faherty is asking Donald Trump Jr about actions he took after he found out about the New York Attorney General's fraud investigation.

Asked whether he tried to look into the accuracy of financial statements after finding out about the probe, he says he doesn't recall, but he likely would have spoken to lawyers.

Asked if his accounting team performed their work as expected in preparing the documents, he says "I believe so", adding that he thinks the statements are "materially correct".

The attorney general's team also asks if the Trump Organization has made any changes in the wake of the investigation.

"There are prior policies and methodologies that have certainly been bolstered," he says.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

On his way out of court for a recess, Trump Jr stopped by the courtroom sketch artists to give his compliments for their work.

We were a bit too far away to hear what he said, but Law360 journalist Frank G. Runyeon, external spoke with court artist Jane Rosenberg (who sketched the image of Trump Jr below).

Rosenberg says Trump Jr asked artists to "make me look sexy".

We also reported that he apparently showed off an AI-generated image where he looked like “a superhero”. But it turns out that AI image was of Sam Bankman-Fried looking like a super hero.

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While the questions about documents continues, let's have a look at something that caught the eye of CBS journalists Graham Kates and Stefan Becket.

Kates, external shared a post showing Donald Trump Jr is sporting a personalised shirt today - with cuffs that have his initials: "DJT Jr".

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

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We've got a lot more documents to go through this morning.

Prosecutor Colleen Faherty brought in several thick stacks of documents to be entered into evidence.

She jokes to Donald Trump Junior that he doesn't have to read all of them.

"I greatly appreciate that," he says, eliciting some laughs from the courtroom.

Prosecutors continue to ask Trump Jr if he was responsible for the documents, and he continues to say he trusted his team to produce accurate financial statements.

Chloe Kim
Reporting from New York

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While the prosecutors continue to grill Donald Jr about financial documents, here's a quick update on Ivanka Trump's potential testimony.

Ivanka's lawyer Bennet Moskowitz filed an appeal on Wednesday in an attempt to stop her from testifying next week.

The appeal asked an appellate court to decide if Judge Engoron has jurisdiction to order her to testify, since she has not lived or worked in New York since 2017.

It also asks whether the trial subpoenas were properly served.

Unlike her brothers Eric and Donald Jr, Ivanka is not a co-defendant in this civil fraud case.

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

Over and over in response to Faherty's questions and evidence, Donald Trump Jr continues to return to the same argument: he had no specific knowledge of how the statements of financial condition or other key accounting documents at the crux of the case were prepared.

He says that he trusted his accountants, the Mazars firm, and other employees around him who had been hired to manage the Trump Organization's books.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Prosecutors are continuing to push the same line of questioning from yesterday, showing Donald Trump Jr various statements and asking him if he was responsible for preparing the documents he signed off on.

Trump's eldest son has continued to distance himself from the financial documents, arguing the company's accounting team was responsible.

"They have as much, if not more information and details than I ever would have had," he says.

Asked whether he ever took any steps to ensure that the information he was signing off on was accurate, Trump Jr says "I don't recall".

Kayla Epstein
Reporting from court

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Colleen Faherty of the New York attorney general's office is continuing to ask questions about a key episode in their lawsuit: Trump's inflation of the value and size of his famous penthouse on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Forbes Magazine caught on to the fact that Trump had exaggerated the size of his property by several thousand square feet. They eventually published a 2017 story, "Donald Trump has been lying about the size of his penthouse", external.

Faherty is now presenting Donald Trump Jr with emails that show him and other top Trump Organization figures being alerted to Forbes' fact-checking inquiries.

In an email reply, Trump Jr had responded "insane amount of stuff there".

Now on the stand, Trump Jr says that he can't recall being involved in the matter.

He said: "I don’t know that I would spend hundreds of questions worth of time on answering Forbes Magazine”.