approved the relocation to the new york historical society. now, the controversy comes during nationwide calls to remove statues on public property that have connections to slavely. five slavery. five members of thety council wrote a letter to mayor de blasio in 2020 demanding the statue come down. a former new york assemblyman, charles barrett, telling our david lee miller he thinks the statue should not only be removed, it should be done away with for good. i think it should be destroyed, and i think it should go into the history books and tell the truth about what he did that people think is good and what we did that was bad. put it in the history books. tell the truth about the history but not a statue. reporter: and, of course, there are still others who say the statue should stay. those proponents say despite thomas jefferson being a slave other than, he was still a founding father and president and that he remains a part of