everything will turn out all right in the end, but hope is a verb with your sleeves rolled up as david orr says who's from overland college. you have something invested in the outcome, and this is exciting, but it does mean we have to work. we can't sit back and expect everything to get better unless we're willing to work towards that end. and there are hundreds and thousands of people all over the world who are working nonstop to save us from ourselves. nonprofits of every size, organizations that are working on the most challenging issues of our day, people that are working on climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, world hunger and human rights. now, just knowing that is inspiring. and there was another time in history that should be hugely inspiring to us, and that's when it was thought of as a ridiculous goal when ten men went into a print shop in london in 1787, and they had decided that the slave trade was immoral. and in one man's lifetime those ten men changed the whole culture of slave trade. they wanted to end the slave trade in england, and you can read this story if you

house correspondent chip reid, our point man on terrorism bob orr, congressional correspondent nancy cordes, national security correspondent david martin, and our chief legal correspondent jan crawford to talk about the new terrorist threat, president obama's first year, the future of health care legislation and the nation's economy. i'll have some final thoughts as usual but first the correspondents the table. on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. all things are as they were then except we no longer allow smoking in the studio. chip reid is with the president out in hawaii. the rest of our correspondents are around the table with us here in the studio. we want to say especially a welcome to jan crawford who you saw a lot of on "face the nation" back when she was the legal correspondent for the chicago tribune. she's back with us, back where she belongs. her blog crossroads is already up on the cbs website. we expect to see a lot of you, jan, right here. >