what happened here in the united states on january 6th two years ago. and what happened was that earlier a group of supporters of former president bolsonaro managed to breach the barriers established by authorities at the congressional building in brasilia, the captual of brazil. it seems to be at this point a situation where there were so many people they were able to outnumber the police that were there, and we are getting reports that people were able to get all the way into the congressional building and that the few public employees that were there were being threatened if they tried to stop those people from getting in there. we re looking at these images coming to us from brasilia right now. what s going on? well, the congress is not in session. so there aren t any members of congress that are presently in danger. the president of brazil, the current president, the new
brazil is a polarized and deeply divided country. bolsonaro instead of attending the swearing in ceremony, decided to leave the country and travel to florida where he currently is. jim? rafael, one thing that we should note to our viewers in addition to just the visual parallels that exist between what s taking place today in brazil and what took place in the united states on january 6th, 2021, bolsonaro is sort of been whipping up these thoughts among his supporters that the election was stolen from him, that there s a criminal in the white house. he s even been advised by trump allies and aides, people like steve bannon have been advising bolsonaro. it s really no surprise it has led to this kind of instability and violence. reporter: yeah, if you remember, jim, when he was in office, he used to be called the trump of the tropics and for good reason. he was known to call to his
president, is in sao paulo state, so he s not anywhere near this place. but we also understand, fred, and this is also very concerning, that protesters have also breached the building of brazil s supreme court, so it s not only the congressional building but also the supreme court. meanwhile, the former president, the man that these protesters are supporting, is here in the united states, fred, in florida. he left the country, as a matter of fact, before his successor took office. and he is in florida right now. we do not know who these protesters are answering to or who organized this protest, but again, it looks very, very close to what happened in the united states on january 6th two years ago. it s striking. has the new president, president lula da silva, said anything.
screens right now, and we ve been playing some of these screens images earlier today, one of these pro-bolsonaro supporters was sitting at a desk inside the capitol in brasilia, in brazil and looked like a scene right out of january 6th. what are your thoughts as this is taking place today? well, bolsonaro was an authoritarian leader. and i stand with the democratic-elected leadership in brazil. and he basically used the trump play book to inspire domestic terrorists to try to take over the government. and you re right. it looks a lot like january 6th in the united states. and right now bolsonaro is in florida. he s actually very close to donald trump. he should be extradited to brazil. in fact, it was reported that he was under investigation for corruption and fled brazil to the united states. so we were talking about asylum seekers and immigration earlier, republicans make a big deal and try to scare people about bad people in those groups, coming
we were also looking at images where you see some of these protesters destroying one of the main halls at the supreme court building. so this is definitely getting worse. you see there, the mounted police that have showed up, and the reality was that this started because there were so many people there protesting and so few police that they were just outnumbered, and that s what happened. but when it started it was not at this level of violence, and now it s getting worse and worse. those images we re looking at now, thesis people are inside the congressional building, looking closer and closer to what we experienced here in the united states two years ago on january 6th, fred. yeah, sad to say, images are just too familiar, sadly, to people here in the united states and around the world who witnessed on january 6th just two years ago in the united states on the capitol, and then you have this image of that individual who is in what