Police arrest hundreds in Brazil following attacks on the presidential palace and Congress.

We'll have the latest on the shocking unrest in how these riots were inspired by the January 6th insurrection.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Kevin McCarthy starts his term as Speaker of the House after a week of chaos and failed votes on the House floor.

We'll take a look at the significant concessions he made to secure the position he sought for many years.

And also ahead, the latest from President Joe Biden's first visit to the border since taking office

as he faces more pressure to address the humanitarian crisis there.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Monday, January 9th. I'm John

Flemere. Thanks for starting your day and week with us.

There is developing news this morning out of Brazil, where yesterday thousands of supporters

of the nation's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, breached multiple government buildings.

Video shows the moments that rioters stormed Brazil's presidential office building,

the nation's Congress, and the Supreme Court in the capital of Brasilia. The chaos comes one

week after the inauguration of President Lula de Silva, but falling on a day where there was no

official proceeding. The presidential election had already been certified, and neither

the nation's Congress nor its Supreme Court were in session at the time of the riots.

By 5 p.m. yesterday, riot police and security were able to retake the Supreme Court, and the

presidential palace was retaken about an hour later. The Washington Post reports a visibly angered Lula addressed

the nation yesterday evening, condemned the invaders as fascists, and blamed the Bolsonaro

for encouraging the attacks by repeatedly questioning the integrity of the electoral process.

This sure sounds familiar. The region's governor says more than 400 of the rioters have already been arrested.

Video shows that those detained being loaded into buses by police and driven away.

It was Brazil's January 6th on January 8th, and the similarities between the riots in Brazil

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