president, a terrifying and very familiar scene out of brazil. supporters of former brazilian president jair bolsonaro who attacked the countries congress over the result of their presidential election, they ve been climbing on top of its roof, breaking the glass and a windows and crowds of demonstrators also gathered outside at the supreme court and the presidential palace. where is bolsonaro right now? he is thousands of miles away soaking it up in orlando, florida. he has yet to comment on these riots back home. let s bring in ap result news director david miller. david, the images we ve seen today, they look a lot like january the 6th 2021 here in d.c.. what went on there today? what is the latest? they look a lot like january 6th. we ve been warning that this, or something like this, it could happen for a long time, jair bolsonaro sowed doubts about the election results for a long period, the voting system was susceptible to fraud and many of supporters came to believe
good to be with you. i m katy tur. for the united states, it was january 6th. for brazil, it was january 8th, yesterday, two days, two years, and two days after violent insurrectionists stormed the u.s. capitol, violent insurrectionists did the same to the capitol of brazil s government rioters fueled by the same thing as rioters were here, a former president who spread lies about fraud and refused to concede when he lost. supporters of jair bolsonaro protested for months after the october election which went to desilva and the baseless claim that he lost because of faulty electronic voting machine, they blocked roads and highways, and demanded military intervention, to keep bolsonaro in power. then, on sunday, a week after bolsonaro refused to be present, to peacefully transfer power, during the new president s inauguration, roughly 3,000 people stormed the government complex in brazilia, they broke into the national congress building, the office of the president, and the co
on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
Talk about the special focus on cities and this weeks is this week. I love it and you guys love it. There is so much great work here. Why the focus on cities . Megan cities are a microcosm of the demographic changes that are happening. We see this entrenchment at the National Political level and not just in the u. S. , but in countries around the world, cities are becoming the petri dish for innovation, the driving force of this reurbanization for many areas. Or coming back to dilapidated areas. Connected megacities, you see that in various areas. These hotbeds of innovation. Also some of the Biggest Challenges that we are confronting environmentally as well. We want to dive deeper look at these ideas and look at the Success Stories and some places that are struggling to deal with change and use this issue to bring that out. Oliver i will play devils advocate because cities will always be progressive hotbeds the place where ideas and forward thinking is or is it more so now with global
Talk about the special focus on cities and this weeks is this week. I love it and you guys love it. There is so much great work here. Why the focus on cities . Megan cities are a microcosm of the demographic changes that are happening. We see this entrenchment at the National Political level and not just in the u. S. , but in countries around the world, cities are becoming the petri dish for innovation, the driving force of this reurbanization for many areas. Or coming back to dilapidated areas. Connected megacities, you see that in various areas. These hotbeds of innovation. Also some of the Biggest Challenges that we are confronting environmentally as well. We want to dive deeper look at these ideas and look at the Success Stories and some places that are struggling to deal with change and use this issue to bring that out. Oliver i will play devils advocate because cities will always be progressive hotbeds the place where ideas and forward thinking is or is it more so now with global