and after two years of repeated calls for members of both parties, president biden visits the southern border for the first time since taking office. plus teams and fans across the nfl honor buffalo bills safety damar hamlin. wait till you see what his team did. you are in the cnn newsroom. a relatively peaceful protest followed by an assault on the halls of congress. sound familiar? this is not january 6th two years ago in washington, d.c. it s happening in brazilia, the capital of brazil today. devout supporters of the former president breached security barriers this afternoon and spent hours vandalizing brazil s congress and supreme court and the presidential palace. reporter: over the last few hours we have seen protesters breaking windows and doors, vandalizing offices and clashing with police and government employees as they storm government buildings in brazilia the capital of brazil. protesters not only stormed the congressional building but the palace which is br
the great capitol on the hill has been the home of congress since the year 1800. here the congress of the united states assembles to make the nation s laws. congress approved the 19th amendment which provided for the voting rights of women. speaker gillette of the house signed the bill december 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. serving their country and the cause of freedom to help other nations strengthen their independence and cure the social chaos in which communism has always thrived. it is wrong, deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow americans the right to vote in this country. [ applause ] in the eyes of many in the world, this every four years ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle. members of congress, the president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] the issue of health care. i am not the first president to take up this cause, but i am determined to be the last. [ cheers and applause ] together we will
Direction i need him to run. Ill never forget that grip. He says, senator, were in danger, you have to come with me. And because of leader schumers position, he needed to go to different locations than Everybody Else did. We are walking briskly through a hall. And there are two gentlemen right by the stairwell. One baldheaded gentleman. Another one, long, black hair with a punisher shirt. We immediately aboutface. I grab the leader. We run out the door at full speed. I was within 20 feet of these insurrectionists. I heard second hand that someone pointed at me and said, theres the big jew, lets get him. We had a plan set. I ran to the elevator, i hit the button. We get up there, we pop out the door, boom, theres our vehicle, cars running. Heres our avenue out of here, we have made it. We start making our way to the secure location. I ask my colleagues to rejection this objection, to respect the will of the voters in the state of arizona the debate continues. Then i start noticing some
neither house of congress in brazil is currently in session. and brazil s new president, we should note, is not at the palace. but there s still lots to follow in all of this. let s go straight to cnn s rafael romo, who is following this. rafael, of course, viewers here in the united states and around the world can see the parallels between what is taking place in brazil and what took place on this country on january 6th of 2021. what more can you tell us? reporter: that s right, jim. this started a few hours ago as a peaceful protest in front of the army s headquarters in brasilia, the capital of brazil. numerous protesters started marching towards the area where government buildings for all three branchs of government are located. at one point, protesters stormed the building that houses the brazilian congress before other groups did the same at the palace, the seat of the executive power, the presidential building. and also, the supreme court brazilian president da silva
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