courthouse. and it is friday night, so you know what that means? our friday night cap is here. breaking down all of the biggest stories of the week. then, it has been nearly 15 years since the miracle on the hudson. i sat down with captain sully sullenberger as the 11th hour gets underway on this jam-packed friday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle, our nightcap is just ahead and we are going to talk about all of the big events from this week but first we will stick with today. because the former president is now in the deepest legal danger potentially of his life, and he may be planning to question whether those classified documents that he took to mar-a-lago actually damage national security. that is according to the new york times, which says that question could be a central to trump s defense. he s also waiting to hear whether his claim of presidential immunity from prosecution will actually fly with a panel of appeals court judges, and we could get that
is just ahead and we are going to talk about all of the big events from this week but first we will stick with today. because the former president is now in the deepest legal danger potentially of his life, and he may be planning to question whether those classified documents that he took to mar-a-lago actually damage national security. that is according to the new york times, which says that question could be a central to trump s defense. he s also waiting to hear whether his claim of presidential immunity from prosecution will actually fly with a panel of appeals court judges, and we could get that decision at any time. but politico today is pointing out, trump seems to be trying a new legal strategy to help supporters immunity claim. he is now saying that when he pressured mike pence, and other state officials to overturn the 2020 results, the election was quote, long over. of course i was entitled as president of the united states and commander in chief to the community
mvp other week to a, golden globes. for her work in the upper, which is terrific. she was also in last year s bottle, which is a fun movie. it s great to have another celebrity who is not a walberg and from massachusetts. it s an amazing show. jamie lee curtis is unbelievably great in it. terrific show. steve? before i say this, would you sign an affidavit for somebody that you like? i will name bill belichick. i don t like him. as a giants fan, i don t like him. he was a giants coach, he left, but look, he s had a storied career in the nfl. you gotta take your hat off to what a great cure it was. and then there is the question, maybe this is success, it affects men more than women, it s when you hang up at the, i don t think men hang around longer than what men seem to
but charles, for the average person out there, do i have this right? trump s immunity claim is basically not that he is innocent of any of these things he s charged with, but as long as he s not impeached, or convicted, he s allowed to do criminal stuff? isn t that what he is saying? that is exactly correct, stephanie. that is where i think that his attorneys made an incredible mistake. by trying to make this an issue of separation of powers, you created a space where you want this president to do basically anything that he wants when he s in office, then you leave it up to a political question as to whether congress will actually impeach or remove him. and then, i think when that came out during the hearing on tuesday, the judge asked him about using seal team six to assassinate a political rival. and what the implications of that would be. these attorneys have not paid
hang around with. you see the athletes in the ring, and on the field, and now, we are pushing the prime here. we see quarterbacks at 48 years old in fenced age the gray, but it s always a question monica stanza, leave it on a high note. come back next year. that s right, yeah. it is a question, but i guess i take my off as an opponent of his to a storied career. all right, nobody likes my mvp, but my mvp thank you, stephanie. my mvp is definitely worthy. nobody likes who i have chosen, but i have chosen the irs, this week, specifically, because theythey collected half a billion dollars from millionaires who had not paid the taxes that they owed our government. now, the irs said it was thanks to the additional money that they got from the inflation reduction act. remember, they got all that money, so the upgraded equipment, hired new agents and increased enforcement of tax laws that were already on the