diplomacy, you might call it. we saw the dml. it s the most unassuming border on effort. it s a slightly raised piece of concrete, very easy to step over it as we saw with kim jong un around president moon say in. what it represented up until a year ago, you could not step over that border. if you did, you would likely be shot by the either the north or the south korean side. it could very well have been a steel barricade. the famous incident of a north korean soldier defecting. shot at by his own comrades and barely surviving. that was just a few meters from where we are now. we expect president trump to you re looking south
welcome back to breaking news. let s take you back to the white house where we are standing by with news on what was supposed to be state of the union next tuesday. what has the president said? that s right. president trump just allowed reporters into a room with a meeting with conservative leaders saying in response to nancy pelosi that she doesn t want to hear the truth. he called it also a very negative part of history. he is in many ways right about the historic nature of this. it will be a pretty historic occasion. he also nodded to the idea that we have been talking about for several days now that there are alternative options. hang on, here is the president. we are doing a great job at the border considering we don t have the tools. we have to have a wall. we have to have a barricade of some kind, a steel barricade. it is already designed.
problem. i ll see you tuesday night. nancy pelosi said she wouldn t allow the house of representatives to consider this current resolution to use the chamber. so now it s pretty starkly political, shep. shepard: here s what s about to happen. this had been previously scheduled. the president with leaders from conservative side of things. they were going to do it on the schedule today for the white house. i d said they will have discussions on the closing of the government and it said closed press. the president said open press and here it is. interesting, right? thanks very much. thanks for being here. a lot of friends in the room. great friends. mr. vice president, thank you. secretary nielson, thanks very much. we re doing a great job at the border considering we don t have the tools. they tonight give us the tools to work with. meaning they have to have a wall. we have to have a barricade of some kind, a steel barricade. it s already designed.
agents and officials, i asked them straight out, do we need a border fence? they said absolutely yes, as part of a package. it s not the entire solution, but it is certainly part of the package and in the past, as you and others have said before, democrats have been willing to fund border fences. what s the difference now? we re talking about $5 billion. that is 1/10 of 1% of the entire budget. i think it s a vital part of the compromise. something just happened in arizona a group of 376 central americans the ap number, came and dug under the barrier. i saw that. the fence, it s not a fence, it s a steel barricade, slots that go up. your thoughts on that as you see our own griff jenkins with another caravan. not only do we need a border fence, but we need other immigration reform. closing up these loopholes cause our laws right now are
the president will head to the border on thursday. it s likely that he will go visit somewhere in the rio grande sector of texas. that s an area where physical barriers, there are some south of mcallen, texas. just above reynosa, the mexican city there. but they are very small, just a few miles of steel barricade. it s not an area where a big, tall fence would really work because there is a lot of private landowners who are against the rio grande. they won t want a wall built there on their property, to cut them off from access to the river. the president making more clear in a letter to the appropriations committee chairman in the senate, richard shelby, exactly what he s looking for. the president asking in the letter for a request for $5.7 billion for construction of a steel barrier for the southwest border, a physical barrier wall creates an enduring capability that helps field personnel stop, slow down, and/or contain the illegal entries. the requested fund construction of a tota