news out of brazil. more than 400 people have been arrested in connection with the storming of the country s congress and government buildings according to the federal district governor. the attack comes a week after lula da silva, the winner of last year s presidential election was sworn into office. i am joined now by google chakra, international affairs analyst from global tv, that is the largest network and brazil. thanks for joining us. can you bring us up to speed on what is the latest that is taking place there in brazil at this moment? what are you hearing? hi amen. thanks for having me. first of all. there will be a federal intervention in brazil. the security of brazil, the brazilian capital, now, is in the hands of the brazilian federal government, it s not under the brazilian government anymore, and as you said that 400 people were arrested, there
fraudulent, and not really worth having, and not a good way to choose leaders. so when the party and the institutions get together in the service of propaganda and corruption points like that, that s what a strongman needs. that s how you transform age democracy into an autocracy. i will take both of your stark warnings and michaels optimism with me into election week. michael beschloss, ruth ben-ghiat, thank you as always. that s all the time i have tonight. i m alicia menendez, i m gonna hand it over now to my colleague, ayman wilkie dean. hi amen. a, alicia, i was going to, saying a better person than i am if you go into this week with a little bit of optimism. i just saw this post from blake masters in arizona, posting a picture of himself with a rifle. i ve seen that photo. locked and loaded with four days to go. i borrowed my optimism from michael bachelor, so he may