correspondent richard engel in ukraine. nbc correspondent keir simmons in moscow, and nbc white house reporter kristen welker. we saw a very public national security briefing from vladimir putin who's been pretty reclusive for the two years of covid, except for the big table, you know, meetings with lavrov and a few other people. so his team and the chairs that they had on the other side of the large room being called to speak by putin. what did we learn from that, you know, clearly staged national security meeting? >> andrea, reclusive is right. in fact, the advisers that were sitting in front of president putin today, few of them, the number we saw are really in his inner circle and what we saw today was putin wearing that familiar unreadable, adviser after adviser stood up to tell him whether he thought he should