keeps our democracy in place. and thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. 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 a misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much over time. 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
will hear it there either, but you could ask. the more mr. trump does these things, the more he stretches out the time line, it puts the government at a disadvantageous. i still think this case could be tried. i think it s a remote possibility but i think they can get it done. i want to bring for folks who have not followed closely the hearing that unfolded today. judge karen henderson, one of it three appeals court judges had ties to say about tangentially the scope of presidential duties. let s take a listen to what she i think it s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws. what she s getting at here is basically the scope of what is official duties for the president. it feels like that s actually a
border adjust our taxes. 160 countries currently border adjust their taxes. we re in the company of countries like somalia, afghanistan, iran. what that means is you tax based on, if it was consumed in your country, not if it s made in your country. what america does, we tax people based on whether it s produced in america. and so that means we do not tax our imports, and we tax our exports. and we re putting american-made products at a huge disadvantageous. there is a built-in bias in our tax code to outsource manufacturing and reimport into this country. that s not good for american jobs, that s not good for american manufacturing, that s not good for american economic growth. all we re suggesting is, let s equalize the tax treatment. let s be fair to ourselves and let s treat ourselves like every other country is treating them. when we make something just wait. when we make something in america, let s put them on a level playing field with