plus senior investigative correspondent kathy and chief national affairs and justice correspondent jeff pegesegood morning. good to have you here on the holiday. david, i want to start with you because at this point last year, the world was watching vladimir putin build up his military forces around ukraine and wondering what he was going to do next. and then he did the unthinkable. what is happening on the ground? how is the cold affecting the combat now? >> right now the fighting has died down except in the center, but the important thing on the battlefield is whether when the ground freezes solid, ukraine can take back enough territory or russia lose enough territory so that both sides conclude, this is the best we can do and start negotiating. whether that happens remains to be seen. you know, it sounds counterintuitive, but the ukrainians have not yet demonstrated the ability to conduct offensive operations. all these russian russians outrun their supply lines, bog down, pull back, and then the ukrainians rush in. whether ukraine can now, with american weapons, dislodge them over these wi