this year, we bring in the best of the washington bureau-- chief foreign correspondent laura logan; congressional correspondent nancy cordes; investigative correspondent cheryl atkinson; and from hawaii, where he is covering the president, chief white house correspondent chip reed. we'll kick around this year's top stories and what to expect in the new year. then, i'll have some holiday verse about the day after christmas. but first, the correspondents' report on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again, where we had hoped this morning that there are national security correspondent, david martin, would be with us. but of all things, david had a kidney stone last night. but as they say in the bible, all things have passed. and david is feeling much better right now than did he about six hours ago. so we wish him the best. hope to see him in the new year. you might notice one thing in those tapes of the old correspondents roundtable-- there wer