What Glenn Greenwald Get's Wrong About Brazil

Journalist Brian Mier joins Sam Seder to discuss the attempted coup of January 8th in Brazil and what Glenn Greenwald gets wrong about how the government there works.

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I mean we have both the U.S. and Russia if I understand this who is willing to provide some measure of security for the inauguration. It ended up like you say hundreds of thousands of people came out. Would have been much harder to pull off something as they did on January 8th. But why was the theory behind the assault when nobody was in the buildings? like what if somebody's paying homeless people to do this there's obviously this is not a spontaneous just sort of outpouring of angst and you know the election's Integrity concerns. I mean I have some questions too as to what Bolsonaro's role was. I just remember like in the week or two before January 8th we were looking at a video of like what's this dude walking around Orlando for? Like in like a VR headset you know games. He's playing games with a VR headset. He's like walking around in a gated community. He's getting filmed in a grocery store. I mean it really felt to me at the time like it just seemed incredibly strange. This is not the behavior of somebody who just lost something and wants to be like why does he want to be seen this way? And on January 8th I had an alternate Theory as to why you want to be seen that way. Because he wanted to be clear like I wasn't there. you know and I don't know that speculation on my part. But I just thought it was really weird beforehand like this is not the behavior of someone who lost an election and is mad about it. and they're going grocery shopping. and like I don't know I found that strange. so two-part: question like one why when it was completely empty like what was supposedly going to happen? Do you think they were hoping that would happen at that moment? and to what extent is their evidence that Bolsonaro was aware of what was going to happen presumably if he's aware of it he may be involved somewhat in the planning. If he was aware of it while he was president and didn't do anything he's guilty of a felony administrative Omission right? But first of all that stuff of him walking around like he was eating KFC on the day of the event. I think that was all staged. it was all coached by the Bannon-type people. these operatives you know. make him look like a simple man. it's a kind of fascist thing they do these days I guess. I mean he's a multi-millionaire and but I think the plan as we're we know it now is partly because the federal police found a written plan in the house of bolsonaro's former Justice Minister who was in Orlando on the 8th. you know he had been appointed to be Justice minister of Brasilia after Lula took over by the very right-wing governor of Brazilia. and he got the position this immediately flew up to Orlando Florida too.