Acting United States Attorney General, before we get into the weeds on legal issues, we will make it interesting. I want to discuss history with you. History is lost on prosecutors, on the debate shows. It is lost among lawyers, talk about january 6. It was an insurrection. No, it wasnt. We had contentious president ial elections in the past, i mean really contentious, some almost lead to civil wars, one did in 1800, Thomas Jefferson and his chosen president ial pick aaron burr tied for first place. Back then ballots were separate. It was 73 to 73 electors. Due to a communication error, or aaron burr lead conspiracy, he was disloyal to jefferson, jefferson was running against adams at the time but he got 65 el Electoral College on votes, they had over 30 votes back and forth, house was to choose the next president , hamilton had great power, he disliked jefferson. But he hated aaron burr. So finally what happens is hamilton, he was the first treasury he turned tide by lobbying his fell
hayes. so commission picks the president, hayes, and had less popular vote ethey threw the 20 electoral cl college vote remaining to haze, and the republicans said, met at a hotel in washington in february of 1877 and worked out a compromise, democrat would accept hayes victory provided hayes removed all federal troops and the south, and compromise consolidatedded democrat control of region, ending reof co reconstruction, reversing gains that f african-american made in post civil war effort, they did that and undermined efforts by the taken by grant to send i u.s. army