intelligence of similar sort of plot directed against russia forces in muldova. they believe likely to be blamed on ukraine. this is coming at the end of a week of frantic diplomacy, aimed at getting russia to dial down on the ukraine. they have 120,000 troops on the borders with ukraine. it issued a series of ultimatums without any official deadline, saying time is running out in response to demands that among other things they have a written undertaking nato would never be allowed, sorry, that ukraine would not be allowed to join nato, an undertaking nato won t give. that s where they stand amidst the latest attacks on the cyber sphere in ukraine with 70 government websites shutdown yesterday, boris. it is getting worse, the situation there.
mike: jackie, thank you very much. we re just learning that president trump will remain at the white house for christmas then the first lady and son barren are due to come back so they can spend christmas together, another impact of the shutdown. president trump blaming the democrats for the shutdown yesterday, but he had a different last week. take a listen. there s a very good it won t get passed. it is up to the democrats. it is really the democrats shutdown, because we have done our anything, when nancy pelosi said you will never get the votes in the house. we got them. ly take the mantle. i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i m not going to blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, it didn t work. i will take the mantle of shutting down. mike: let s bring in editor-in-chief of the firewall, david hawkings. great to have you. nice to be here. mike: the senate is gone till thursday, with mcconnell saying