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