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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 ge ....
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 com ....
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential ....
how long had you ve been in the air? before the big east? 100 seconds. this is cactus 15 39. hit birds, we lost them both engines reporter: the powerless plane, and inflame, had an audience of alarmed new yorkers who flooded the emergency lines. i m witnessing an airplane, it s going down where? where? i m in the bronx, it s turning into the corridor reporter: in a hangar near jfk, nypd s elite scuba team took in the radio traffic pieced together the calls like a bread crumb trail. i want to point, the bronx to, you start to develop a picture, wherever it is, is turning west towards the hudson river. reporter: captain sully sullenberger was indeed eyeing the white and smooth rather. it turns out we did not have ....
Quick thinking that everyone survived what could have been a truly tragic accident. my dear friend craig melvin sat down with captain sully sullenberger, as he reunited with some of the first responders. we took off the north and made a left turn. reporter: flying in a nypd helicopter, captain sully sullenberger as a bird s-eye view of where he took off 15 years ago, before his plane u. s. airways flight 15 49 a flock of birds. how long had you ve been in the air? before the big east? 100 seconds. this is cactus 15 39. hit birds, we lost them both engines reporter: the powerless plane, and inflame, had an audience of alarmed new yorkers who flooded the emergency lines. i m witnessing an airplane, it s going down where? ....