here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, january 20th. i m john berman. brianna is on night duty this week. kasie hunt with me to mark one year into the biden presidency. what a day. the white house working the phones, twitter, email, trying to make clear the president did not somehow create a permission structure for russian leader vladimir putin to launch some kind of incursion into ukraine. his remarks raised immediately alarm in kiev. the president spoke in stunningly stark terms of what he sees as a likelihood of annen incursion. he said he would be willing to break up his signature domestic agenda bill, where he refused to say the next election would be legitimate, one where he confessed surprise in the lingering power of donald trump. but the most immediate concern