from washington tonight. thank you as always for being with us. university of destruction. that s the focus of tonight s angle not colleges and universities raising money work to appeal to the donors, to the alums and the perspective students by talking about their mission and their core values. for me, they re our commitments to excellence, to opportunity, and to impact. those three together are really the ones that propel us into the future. laura: a commitment to excellence? literally, no one who saw her testify last week, who has watched what happened at harvard over the past 20 plus years can say that excellence conveys objective merit and we all see that the best often loses out to the mediocre and harvard at elsewhere because the best isn t diverse enough. internally to our own community, i see my role as being the person who is always looking beyond the horizon to what s coming but also what can be. and then figuring out how to ready the campus and the campus co
court has agreed to fast track consideration of a case testing whether former president donald trump has immunity from some of the criminal charges against him. the man in charge of prosecuting the former president on charges of election interference asked the nation s top court today to step in and now the highest court in the land has responded. correspondent david spunt has details tonight. good evening, david. bret, good evening. they certainly did. just moments ago the justices instructed the former president s attorneys to weigh in by next wednesday, december 20th. the supreme court is a body of nine that tries to remain apolitical but those justices are now being asked to enter the nerve center of the 2024 presidential election. special counsel jack smith has made an emergency plea to the justices asking them to rule on whether donald trump is immune from prosecution. smith petitioned the court earlier this afternoon asking for a quick decision. the federal judge ove