about what are we going to do with vladimir putin, how are we going to confront him. he is having to do that in the context of people being demoralized by what happens in afghanistan and then you have people like tucker carlson on the right that are trying to get republican candidates to say, no, we're not going to be supportive of providing any assistance to ukraine. focus on america, not on russia, not on ukraine. >> it is a busy world out there. jim, thank you very much. thank you to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. a giant winter storm is heading for the east coast, but i saw this one tweet from nbc news that wasn't super helpful. it said, new york city could see between 2 inches and 20 inches of snow this weekend. thanks a lot. >> yeah, i know. >> pretty big range right there. i don't know who is making these predictions. the cdc? >> bill karins has tremendous