variety, ali, and it s been going on for several years. and one thing americans have to understand is it s not just a foreign n policy issue, it s th fact this trend is interconnected. you don t get this many nationalist authoritarian leadersna in this many places absent there being some connectivity. you ve got vladimir putin in russia. you ve got xi jinping in china. narendra modi in india, bolsanaro in brazil, duterte in the philippines. these are very different places, and i could list five or ten more countries at least. ukraine is the most acute manifestation of that. when you have the leader, the kind of vanguard of this autocratic trend in vladimir putin literally trying to extinguish a solveren democracy that is a part of europe, that is both about the expansionest agenda of russia that could threatenss nato countries in europe, but also about putin
lula da silva taking power. and it was nine days before this happened bolsonaro s supporters storming government buildings in the capital, brasilia. bolsonaro condemned the attack and denied encouraging the rioters. that was then this is now. there was tight security at brasilia airport as mr bolsonaro arrived. some supporters had gathered. this is one of them. translation: we ve been waiting for this moment. for a long time. we ve been looking forward to it since january the 1st. he needed this time in the us for himself in a place far away. as a patriot and as a brazilian, i supported his departure. mr bolsonaro would leave by a side exit at the airport. but did wave to supporters as he arrived at his liberal party headquarters, and he got the warm welcome you d expect. in fact, the party is saying they expect mr bolsonaro to lead the opposition to lula, though mr bolsanaro himself has played that idea down. we ll see. and aside from politics, mr bolsanaro returns to a range of l
more than 1,000 people arrested yesterday, unlike our own capitole attack on january 6 i which almost no one was arrested until well after it was all over and most of the attackers had gone home. brazil s case, they got more than 1,000 people in custody today. and also many brazil s case, they launched this a week after the transferhe of power happene not before the transfer of power happened with the trump supportersed in d.c. because the new president of brazil has already been sworn in and bolsanaro is an expresident, that has applications for the former president and whether he ll be heldfo responsible for what his followers just did. bolsanaro is in florida right now. since the day he left office, he s been staying weird at a mcmansion near disney world which he rented from a mixed martial arts fighter. okay. the state department spent today
fending off requests from t reporters about whatin exactly bolsanaro is doing here. he is here to avoid prosecution on the investigations he is facing in brazil? the state department is saying what kind of visa is he on? what charges will efface? and brazil asked the united states to extradite him to face trial there. we re also learning that even more weirdly the official in the brazilian government who is the security chief specifically responsible for security in brazil, in their national capitol, he was also in florida at the time the attack on the capitol happened this weekend. he has since been fired from the brazilian government as of today. what was he doing in florida when the attack took place? why is he still there now? so we ve got a lot going on in the news right now.
attackers inside on the day of theda planned assault. now this month, it s brazil. where trump right-wing lost his bid for re-election in october. the time frame is almost exactly the same from when trump lost re-election in early november 2020 and then his supporters attacked the u.s. capitol the first week of january. he lost re-election the last day of october and now his supporters have attacked the national capitol the first week of january as well. bolsanaro said in advance of the presidential election that the election wasen rigged. the only way he could lose is through fraud. like trump, bolsanaro said he would only accept the election if he won. like trump, bolsanaro then lost and then he refused to concede. he also refused to go to his successor s inauguration just like trump did. when bolsanaro supporters