tonight on three 60, can the president get away with murder? that question in the chilling answer got a court today is the former president makes a case for presidential immunity and raises the specter of criminal impunity. also tonight, the grandmother who bought the election lie, does she still believe it going into her first night of a five year sentence? and later, meet the man who has found a airliners missing door plug in his own back yard. his find could help find experts find out what severely damaged airlines flight. that nothing a president doesn t office can be criminally prosecuted unless he or she is first impeached by the house and convicted by the senate that s what his attorney, john sauer told a three judge panel of the d. c. circuit court of appeals today. and what s more, in a remarkable exchange with one of them, judge florence pan he conceded that the principle would apply even if a president ordered a hit on a political opponent. i asked you, yes or
president that refuses to concede that he lost the election. and he did lose that election. before today, trump s lawyers were absolutely what s the word -e eadamant. that the president had immunity for his conduct while in office. they wouldn t budge on this point. at first they wouldn t budge. right out of the gate, from questioning of one of the judges, they were forced to make a powerful confession, that of course, there is not absolute immunity, meaning you can never charge a former president for action taken while in office, if it was criminal or otherwise. they could you can. you can prosecute under certain circumstances. and they only admitted that, after the judge gave him a whole string of hypotheticals that can really only have one legitimate, truthful answer. could a president who ordered s.e.a.l. team 6, be subject to prosecution? if he were impeached and convicted first. the answer is no? my answer is qualified yes. a qualified what? a qualified y
ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, can a president get away with murder? that question and the chilling answer in court today as the former president makes a case for presidential immunity and raises the spector of criminal impunity. also tonight the grandmother that bought the election lie. does she still believe it going into her first night? and the man that found an airliner s missing door plug in his own backyard. his find could help investigators find out what severely damaged the flight. thanks for joining us. we begin with the former president s striking claim in court today that nothing a president does in office can be criminally prosecuted unless he or she is first impeached by the house and convicted by the senate. that s what his attorney said to the d.c. court of appeals today. the judge conceded that the principal would apply even if a president ordered a hit on a political opponent. yes or no question, could a president that ordered seal team six to
reportedly killed by a ukrainian missile strike. outfront obtaining new video from the front lines in ukraine. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, former president trump about to be arrested for the second time in ten weeks. he s preparing to be formally placed under arrest and processed tomorrow at the federal courthouse in miami. of course, trump is the former president in american history to face federal charges. there are 37 counts in the indictment including willful retention of national defense information and trying to thwart the government s attempts to retrieve and find the documents themselves. now, if you combine it just to give you a sense of the magnitude of what we re looking at here, the charges would carry a total maximum of 400 years in prison. this is important for everyone to understand how very serious these charges are. trump is expected to spend the night tonight at his golf club in miami. and tomorrow he ll make
hello everybody, i m jesse watters. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. the five. the race hustlers are doubling down to defend the poster child, gay stepping down as president of harvard after 50 examples of plagiarism and her congressional testimony on antisemitism. she has expelled students for plagiarism but not if you re copy cat claudine. he has an army of journalists crying racism. check out headlines, how the right toppled harvard president. new conservative weapon against college plagiarism and conservative see gay s resignation as victory and liberal pundits are going to bat for gay. what happened to claudine gay was mob pressure. there is open pressure on black progress black history. claw dean gay is now the latest casualty of that. i don t think it s fair to say all her critics. only added to their theirs to dethrone her. what they didn t mention was the first ivy league head to roll and other president sally cornbluff is fearing for