Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Thursday, January 6th. I'm Naila Pudu. Here's

what you need to know today. Why the era of easy money is probably over. Plus, Tesla

opens a showroom in a controversial region of China. But first, today's one big thing.

Axios is a land of train on the anniversary of the capital insurrection.

Exactly a year ago today, when rioters stormed the U.S. capital, Axios Congressional

reporter Alina Treen was in the heart of it in the Senate chamber. And then at some

point, someone shouted, shots fired, move away from the doors, and everyone screamed

and moved toward the center of the room. No one knew what was going on. That was Alina

speaking to us last year, just hours after the insurrection. And today, on the one-year

anniversary, she's back to reflect on her experience. Hi, Alina. Thanks for sharing

with us today. Yes, of course. Hi, Naila. So you were in the heart of it. You were in

the Senate chamber. Did you realize what was happening as it was happening? I didn't.

This is something I've reflected on a lot in the past year is I actually think the people

who are watching it on TV, watching it from the outside, had a lot more visibility into

what was happening than those of us who were in the room that day. It wasn't until I

had gone to what we still call the undisclosed location on the Capitol complex with senators

that I was able to realize. I was receiving calls from families, directly crying, calls

from people I hadn't even heard from in many years, asking if I was OK and starting to

watch on social media and network clips of what was happening. And that's when I really

realized, oh, wow, this is a much bigger deal than I had previously thought.

And then what was it like covering the impeachment and all of these other congressional investigations

that have gone into detail of the day? That for me is when the reality of it really sunk

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