against bolsonaro and joins me tonight from rio. jack, can you just give us a little context, it s a striking thing to hear, crimes against humanity recommended. who wrote the report? how did it come about? and who s voting on it? what happens now? sure. it absolutely is extraordinary. i mean this is a pretty unprecedented time we re living in and this is one example of it. so this is a report that comes out of a six-month investigation that was leading the nightly news throughout much of the summer here in brazil. there were a lot of eyes on this investigation and it was a special senate panel convened specifically to investigate the handling of the pandemic. and so there were 11 voting members on this panel. from the beginning there were seven of them who opposed the president and they really controlled things. the vote last night came down along those political lines, where seven of the senators who essentially opposed the president voted for this nearly 1300-page report and four
commission to get to the bottom of how trump and everyone, all of the public health people allowed a pandemic to spiral so far out of control. now it looks like brazil might actually be approaching something like that. a brazilian senate panel has now recommended to has voted to recommend charging the sitting president of brazil, who s up for re-election, with crimes against humanity over his handling of the virus. they also recommended charges of inciting an epidemic as well as charlatanism for promoting hydroxychloroquine. shortly after they recommended those charges, he was endorsed for re-election by none other than donald trump. quote, brazil is lucky to have a man such as jair bolsonaro working for them. he is a great president and will never let the people of his great country down. jack covers brazil for the new york times where he s reported on the recommended charges