Welcome to the Real Vision Daily Briefing. It's Wednesday, January 6th. Normally I do a Bogg Standard intro and I'd cut to

Nick Carreya but because of the remarkable events happening in the

nation's capital we're gonna do a breaking news segment and cut right to

Ed Harrison and Ash Bennington.

And thanks for joining us.

This word is getting really threadbare at this point,

but absolutely unprecedented day in Washington, D.C.

Congress, the position has been overrun. The last time this happened

was during the War of 1812, I believe 1814, as at this hour we should say, we're beginning

this coverage at about 5 p.m. Eastern time so there's

going to be a delay when this airs as of this hour as we record the balcony of the

House and the Senate appear to be occupied right now by a mob that has stormed those positions.

They're federal agents with guns drawn all over the Capitol. That is where we stand right now. Ed, what are your thoughts?

Yeah, so, you know, obviously I'm in D.C. in the D.C. area, I'm just outside DC four blocks out and to be honest my first

thought is about not letting my son outside because there's a curfew until

six but in terms of what we're talking about, what we're doing,

I can, is a what kind of impact does this have on the economy and the markets over the medium term over the long term and

what has happened in markets and in the economy now. You know. now that is reflective of what's actually happening from a political perspective.

Because I look at this political event as very significant in the history of the United States.

And the question is, are markets going to reflect that. Do markets reflect political events of this

significance? It's hard to say whether that's the case or not because we're talking about it in the flow but I mean the reason that you

and I are actually interposed into this Real Vision Daily Briefing is because we think that this particular

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