in february, of 2021, joe biden had been president for less than a month. the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand, a high crime is a felony and misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much overtime. after he s out of office, you go and arrest him. so there is no opportunity where the president of the united states can run rampant in january at the end of his term and just go away scot-free. the department of just
the guns, kit is greater. think about those kids practicing the speeches at home, heartbreaking pleas for change from what is now known as the lockdown generation takes us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. for all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, see you at the end of tomorrow. the end of tomorrow the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand
probably showing him in new hampshire is that seven point lead is probably accurate more accurate than the 20 point lead so. he needs to create a little distance, particularly if they wind up for iowa and swing into new hampshire. he wants momentum for him and a little bit of drag for her. the internal polling is always the towel when you see candidates start to do and react and respond a certain way to their opponents, particularly when they have a lead and i ve got it all, wait a minute, hold up, you know what? okay so we re gonna push our little i bet you more than anything i am reminded of barack obama, that his most infamous birther attempt, and the fact that it went from barack obama to barack hussein obama. i feel like it was a matter of time, time your watches to the moment when honestly that s the next tail.
particularly when they have a lead and i ve got it all, wait a minute, hold up, you know what? okay so we re gonna push our little i bet you more than anything i am reminded of barack obama, that his most infamous birther attempt, and the fact that it went from barack obama to barack hussein obama. i feel like it was a matter of time, time your watches to the moment when honestly that s the next tail. i think it s in the double indignation that he is being challenged, potentially, but by a person of color, the daughter of immigrants, a woman, that adds to the venom, i think. i think it adds to the vendôme that nikki haley has not leaned into her heritage in the primary campaign. she s nikki, not nimrod on the campaign. trail i a lot of brown folks behind or talking about how she was a child of immigrants in what she brings to the primary. but i do think, a little bit it is the internal polling. the question i always have, when candidates decide to attack another candidate, b