Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's January 8th and somehow we've made it to Friday.

I'm Nila Boodoo. We continue our coverage of this historic week.

China's doubling down on its anti-democracy efforts,

and understanding QAnon's role in Wednesday's insurrection.

Yesterday, President-elect Biden was among those who said that Wednesday's police response was much less aggressive than at last year's racial justice protests.

No one can tell me that have had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn't have been. They wouldn't have been treated

very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capital.

Meanwhile, calls for President Trump to be impeached or removed. capital. numerous officials in Trump world resigned.

Two of the most high profile include Education Secretary Betsy Devoss and Labor Secretary

Elaine Chow who said the Riot had deeply troubled her.

She's married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Will Wednesday's events change everything about American politics or will we look

back and realize nothing really changed? That's a pretty big question and whenever there are very big

questions I like to talk to Jim Bandahai. He's the CEO of Axios and one of its co-founders.

Good morning, Jim. Good morning. Big picture, can I ask you first just what your sense of this moment is?

Like do you see this as a Watergate moment that will be a clear demarcation line in American history?

Certainly something changed. I think there's a sub-segment of the Republican Party

that realized enough is enough. enough the question is is it enough for Republicans repudiate

with some lasting effect

both Donald Trump and the politics of Donald Trump and I think that's an open question because only hours after you had people storm into the U.S. Capitol and take it over

you still had 60% of House Republicans take the extraordinary

step of trying to invalidate the election of Joe Biden.

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