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The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

‘They’re attempting to argue no harm no foul’: Clues of Trump’s defense in classified docs case

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

Politics, Washington, Congress, News, Ms Now, President, Versant Media, Policy, Msnbc, Versant, Government, Senate

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times reports new filings that Donald Trump’s lawyers are planning to question if the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago damaged national security. Then our Nightcap roundtable weigh in on the state of the GOP primary race and share their MVPs of the week. Then a sit down with the man behind the Airways Flight 1549 emergency landing in the Hudson River 15 years ago. Jon Allen, Katie Benner, Charles Coleman Jr, Steve Liesman, Molly Jong-Fast, Josh Gondelman, Katie Phang, and Capt. Sully Sullenberger join.

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0:00.0

Tonight, defendant Donald Trump, changing his tune on the 2020 election as he spent the week

0:06.3

campaigning from the courthouse.

0:08.6

And it is Friday night, so you know what that means.

0:11.2

Our Friday Nightcap is here, breaking down all the biggest stories of the week.

0:15.4

Then it has been nearly 15 years since the miracle on the Hudson.

0:20.0

I sit down with Captain Sully Sullenberger as the 11th hour gets underway on this jam-packed Friday night.

0:27.0

Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule. Our nightcap is just ahead and we are

0:35.1

going to talk about all the big events from this week. But first we've got to

0:39.5

stick with today because the former president is now in the deepest legal danger potentially

0:46.0

of his life and he may be planning to question whether those classified documents

0:50.8

he took to Maralago actually damage national security.

0:54.4

That is according to the New York Times which says that question could be

0:58.4

central to Trump's defense. He's also waiting to hear whether his claim of presidential immunity from prosecution

1:05.0

will actually fly with a panel of appeals court judges and we could get that decision

1:09.8

at any time. But Politico today is pointing out Trump seems to be trying a new

1:15.0

legal strategy to help support his immunity claim. He is now saying that when

1:19.7

he pressured Mike Pence and other state officials to overturn the 2020 results.

1:24.7

The election was quote long over.

1:28.9

Of course I was entitled as president of the United States and commander-in-chief to immunity.

1:34.6

I'm entitled to immunity. Every president has immunity, especially one that did the job I did.

1:40.0

I did a great job and I wasn't working for myself. I was working for the country. I wasn't

1:45.7

campaigning. The election was long over. Wasn't campaigning. I was looking for a voter fraud something that I have to do under my mandate I have to

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