around the world. max foster is on world assignment today. just ahead on cnn newsroom what happened on sunday shows that brazil is clearly a deeply divided and polarized country. this was a crowd whipped into a frenzy by a leader that refused to accept an election result. the president spechbding the day with border patrol agents and elected officials. this is the reality on the ground right now. we re anticipating some very intense weather coming in. trees down, degree in the roadways, flooding, and we ve seen people lose their lives. it is monday, january 9th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 6:00 a.m. in the brazilian capital where hundreds of supporters of the president have been arrested after storming key government buildings including congress. the protest drawing comparisons to the january 6th riots at the u.s. capitol. hours ago the president surveyed the damage from sunday s unrest which also took place from the supreme court and the presidential palace
life. evacuations ordered in california as the state faces destructive waves of massive storms. hundreds of thousands without power. and the terrifying lightning strike in houston. rob marciano standing by. for the first time since taking office, president biden at the u.s./mexico border where he faces fierce criticism. biden s new security plan, who gets to stay in the u.s. and who will be turned away. migrants tell us they feel like they re stuck in limbo. mireya is in el paso tonight. chilling video. a restaurant customer shoots and kills a robbery suspect. what we learned about the suspect s weapon. tonight, police are looking to speak with that shooter. he s now the speaker, but can kevin mccarthy keep house republicans in line after scenes like this? one member lunging at another, and that late-night phone call from former president trump. the investigations ahead from the biden family to the fbi. the urgent search for a mother of three in massachusetts. why
laughter is a wonderful place to go for forgetting your troubles and woes. sitcoms are an escape. the more dire the circumstances, the more you need sitcoms to forget about your troubles. we re going to the good place in a freaking gold balloon! shotgun! that s what we had. that s what helped me escape being poor. [ applause ] everything single one of you is a good person. when i m feeling kind of hopeless and sad, i get to laugh and lose myself and remember life s not that bad. you re in the good place! the beautiful thing about the sitcom, is that it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships, but then it s a scary thing. what does the future hold? air force general curtis lemay suggested we bomb north v
laura: decline in biden s america. a pregnant woman brutally beaten by a mob. another woman came to me, dragged me by my hair. i started screaming, she pepper sprayed me in the face. laura: dumb criminals caught on camera. dumb robbers right here. putting holes in the wall. mind-boggling, a fire hydrant would be stole, of all things to steal. laura: and disney is back with latest release. this is gayest star wars. are you excited about that? laura: biden declines, america declines, the focus of tonight s angle. joe biden is in france for 80th anniversary of d-day. when he s overseas, we as americans collectively hold our breath, hoping when he gives his speech on democracy, he does not embarrass us by speaking like he does back home. fall, that fall, he decided to look, i shouldn t get into this, probably. america is strongest when we lead by example of power and by the power of our example. you can clap for that. laura: we can t want, any of us, vis
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about it. The president of the United States is the chief Law Enforcement officer. That is what he is. And yesterday, he has been accused as a coconspirator of a federal crime, maybe multiple. So, please, let that sit in. Midwin what is your take here . My take is this is consistent with donald trump. We have seen him react this way to a varietydifferent thinks
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