next elections would be legitimate. the most immediate concern for the white house this morning is clearly ukraine. and the president s comments come at a tipping point in that region as russia nearly completes its buildup of forces along the ukrainian border, an invasion biden suggests is all but inevitable. russia will be held accountable if it invades. it s one thing if it is a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do or not do, et cetera. but if they actually do with their what they re capable of doing with force amassed on the border, it will be a force for russia. my guess is he will move in. he thats to do something. less than an hour later, the white house trying to clean up the remarks saying in a statement, president biden has been clear with the russian president. if any russian military forces move across the ukrainian border, that s a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the united states
and figure out what and who is behind these mysterious attacks. kylie, this is very interesting and i know it s going to raise a lot of eye brows and a nlot of new qu questions. thank you so much for your reporting. new day continues right now. b good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, january 20th. i m john bedrrman. briana is working nights this week. casey hunt here in the chair to mark the one-year anniversary with the biden presidency. good to be here. the white house is trying to make clear the president did not somehow give permission for v vladimir putin to launch a minor incursion into ukraine. his remarks at his one-year news conference raised alarm of what he sees as a likelihood of a russian invasion. and that was in addition to other major developments in the news conference, one where for the first time he said bhe woul be willing to break pup his domestic agenda bill. refused to say the next el e
they are officially space tourists after being on board blue origin with jeff bezos and his flight company. the rocket portion of the spacecraft touching down softly in a scene me science fiction than fact. the remarkable reality? it s a commercial flight to outer space. shatner overcome with emotion and deeply moved by that experience. it was like you go through the blue, and then you re into black. it s galloaxys but what you sees black. down there is light and it s the difference. to have this, you have done something whatever those other guys are doing, they re not getting it. what you have given me is the most profound experience. i m so filled with emotion about what just happened. i just it s extraordinary. extraordinary. i hope i never recover from this, i hope i can maintain what i feel now. i don t want to lose it. it s so so much larger than life. it has nothing to do with the little green men, it has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the sudden
Could constitute an attack. now, just a remind what havana syndrome is. this is whaen u.s. diplomat, spies and military personnel around the globe have exp experienced symptoms of vertigo, nausea, sometimes piercing directional noise and traumatic brain injury. we are hearing in the findings, in the response to these initial findings not great responses from those who have come out and talked about the awful symptoms that they have experienced. we are hearing from the lawyer of one of those officials mark zaid saying in response quote, too bad this is contradicted by classified info. couia won t share. now couia director bill burns i saying the work here is not done. these are interim findings and there are about two dozen cases that are still unexplained. those are the ones that they are going to be digging into. there may be others, but those are the ones that they are going to be still looking at to try
After more than a dozen u.s. staffers in colombia and their families reported symptoms in recent weeks. cnn s kylie atwood joins us at the state department. kylie, this comes just days before secretary of state antony blinken is set to visit colombia. what are you learning? reporter: yeah, ana, that makes this more significant, the fact that the secretary of state is planning to visit colombia, while there are more than a dozen of these u.s. officials and their family members who in recent weeks have reported symptoms consistent with havana syndrome. and just to remind our viewersw, as you were saying there, what havana syndrome. it is a mysterious illness. the u.s. government still doesn t know what is causing it or who is causing it. but it leads to nausea, headaches, and in some instances, it leads to memory loss and traumatic brain injury. this is a really, really detrimental and scary thing that s happening to u.s. officials around the world. the reason it s called havana syndro