so john c. calhoun was monroe secretary of war. so this is the the first quotation you're seeing is monroe's water department essentially giving jackson orders to go to florida and calhoun's wording is that you may be prepared to concentrate your forces into adopt the necessary measures bolding mine to terminate a conflict which it has ever been the desire of the president from considerations of humanity to avoid but which is now made necessary by their settled hostilities there being the seminal indians. and so this is this can be distilled into please go and basically take care of the situation with the seminoles. as aaron pointed out from further, you know older associ. nations with wanting to acquire and grow you at the united states territory, you know, there's there's been a lot of previous conversations where monroe doesn't necessarily have to spell things out. so then monroe sent jackson a follow-up letter two days later. who telling him you know, this is not a time for you to think of repose great interests are an issue an

would walk through this city square we would have something sharp to scrape away at the statue of john c. calhoun to show we didn't accept the statue. student protest nszs '60s and '70s that would paint messages on kvtd statues, et cetera. but i think in that period there is more of a focus on adding new statues, like let's increase the representation in monuments. and there was a hopefulness of -- of that by adding countermonuments you could change the way that the public space operated. but i think in the last few years we've been realizing some of the monuments to continue to have -- to encourage harmful behavior to solidify people in their hatred and adding new monuments is not enough. we have to address the ones that we have. >> i see. so i think, you know people watching the takedowns on tv probably remember the most dynamic eye grabbing images, the images of mobs yanking them done with ropes and throwing them in rivers. you point out 80% of the monuments were moved by public officials. did that figure surprise you? what to what extent do you think it's significant that public officials. >>

we'd walk through this city square we'd have something sharp to scrape away at this statue of john c calhoun or whoever to to show that we weren't accepting the statue or very interesting student protests in the 60s and 70s that also would paint messages etc. and i think that in that period there's a much more of a focus on adding new statues like let's increase the representation in monuments. and there was a hopefulness of that that by adding counter monuments. you could change the the way that public space operated, but i think in the last few years, we've been realizing that these monuments some of these monuments continue to have to encourage harmful behavior to solidify people in their hatreds and adding new monuments is not enough we have to address the ones that we have. i say so i think you know people who watch some of these takedowns on tv. probably remember, you know the most sort of dynamic eye-grabbing images which were sort of like these images of mobs yanking them down with ropes and throwing them into rivers, but you point out that that some 80% of the monuments were removed

let's always keep john c. calhoun and his tate right's theories in the past. >> there you have it.k which is one minute and we turn to new accusations about stealing the election. mia wiley returns when we back in a minute. wiley returns when k in a minute. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. >>> we're back with news and a revelation from a long time trump ally. republican congressman mo brooks was so in on the stop the steal rally that he spoke on january 6th and then he crossed trump whether he said to move on. and now he was asked to overthrow the election which he doesn't have the power to do and which could violate the constitution and also violate criminal law. trump was demanded this as recently as within the last six months. >> did he directly tell to you fight to decertify the election, the 2020 election. >> i did not use the word recertify,