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Did he know this was coming?*

Nadler showed a two-decade-old video of Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is now one of the senators deciding Trump’s fate, but at the time was a House manager in Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. Let’s cut to the tape:

“I think that’s what they meant by ‘high crimes,'” Graham said in 1999. “Doesn’t even have to be a crime. It’s just when you start using your office, and you’re acting in a way that hurts people. You committed a high crime.”

  Mother Jones

Nadler played a Dershowitz clip from 1998, when the House was considering Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

“It certainly doesn’t have to be a crime. If you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of President and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don’t need a technical crime,” Dershowitz said then.

  TPM

That's gonna be good warm up for Dershowitz, who it is reported is going to present an argument saying just the opposite in a couple of days.

Nadler also presented a 2018 memo written by Barr, before he was appointed by Trump, that referenced impeachment while arguing against criminally indicting a President.

Barr wrote that the fact that the President “is answerable for any abuses of discretion and is ultimately subject to the judgment of Congress through the impeachment process means that the president is not the judge in his own cause.”

“In other words, Attorney General Barr, who believes, along with the [Justice Department] Office of Legal Counsel, that a president may not be indicted, believes that that’s okay, we don’t need that safeguard against a president who would commit abuses of power. It’s okay, because he can be impeached,” Nadler said.

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Nadler also pointed to an op-ed written by law professor Jonathan Turley, as well as Turley’s testimony in front of Congress last year. Turley, a favorite on Fox News, was the Republicans’ witness at one of the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings, where he argued that the House had not gathered enough evidence to prove the Trump conduct it alleged.

“The use of military aid for a quid pro quo to investigate one’s political opponent, if proven, can be an impeachable offense,” Turley said in written testimony Nadler displayed on the screen.

Nadler also read what Turley had to say in a recent op-ed about Trump’s current legal arguments.

“It is an argument that is as politically unwise as it is constitutionally shortsighted,” Turley said in the op-ed.

Of course Nadler is taking the chance that somebody's going to play a clip of himself during the Clinton impeachment trial saying the opposite of what he's saying now.  But I say, go for it.  There are some videos of McConnell to be used, too.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

*UPDATE:  "He was the only senator not in his seat when that clip was played...the senators get these little pamphlets that have some of the slides on it..."