this weekend and mulvaney said they gave sumer a counter offer and it s less than the long touted 5 million. we were at 5 billion a couple days ago and the counteroffer we gave them yesterday was between those two numbers. but, 2.3 we moved off of the five and we hope they move up from 2.3. president trump says he wants the sort of steel slat barrier at the u.s. and mexico border. some say the president doesn t understand the situation on the ground. he doesn t get that the drugs are coming through tunnels, that they need high-security sensors, all of that, we are supporting. the things that are effectively support. broader negotiations? let s have them. democrats say they are getting mixed messages from the white house and hearing different things about with the president would accept or not accept in that, it s impossible to know where the white house stands right now. leland: more on the wall
melanie, you heard the report from mike on the senior administration official. what strikes you as most critical right now? i think it s very significant that the president is now shifting from calling this a wall to saying he would be open to something such as steel slat barrier. that is a term we ve heard him use over the past week increasingly. it s a clear recognition that semantics could be the key to unlocking the stalemate. of course, democrats don t want to give anything that s considered a wall. they want something for something like a fence or something that can be considered border security. but the president, his allies, are now trying to say that the steel slat barrier can count as the wall. yesterday trump at a signing for the criminal justice reform bill, it said the exact thing, this is giving him an out. he s saying the quiet thing out loud. it s a clear understanding he won t be able to get money for the wall if he s relying on democrats. that s what truck me m
and enter to win, visit geico.com/bestof. that s geico.com/bestof. whatever is agreed on for the border, there is little chance that the president will get anything close to what he s demanded and promised to voters during the campaign. i promise we will build the wall. who will pay for the wall? who will pay for the wall? who? it will be a great wall. mexico will pay for the wall. mexico is going to pay for the wall. mexico will pay for the wall. it s just not true and it never was. now it seems that he s calling for a steel slat barrier that in
the fox news anchors or rush limbaugh to let him know i ve stood up to them. that is ridiculous. that s not the way you run a country. so it is a mess. i want to put up the tweet. you ve seen it. those steel slats when the president is saying a design of a steel slat barrier which is his new word for the wall which is effective while at the same time beautiful. of course you are from texas. border state. what do you make of this when you look at this picture and these sharp impaling-like sticks steel slats, sorry. is this a twool ywall to you? i was the ranking member on the border security and have been on homeland security for any number of years and i ve been all through the border starting from san diego and all through the border states and i will tell you that the president doesn t really know what s going on. that type of fence, somewhat similar, is in san diego and we know a large number of individuals who are desperate
special to do the job. steel slats. i ve made my position very clear. any measure that funds the government must include border security. has to. worth reminding you yet again, because this is not a skit in a late-night comedy show, tonight the president after giving democrats a steel slat barrier wall to vote on, says it s all their fault if the government shuts down over there. it s up to the democrats. it s the democrat shutdown. amazing how he has no problem saying the complete opposite of something he said just a couple days ago. here he is one week ago about a shutdown over the wall. 20 times you have called for, i will shut down the government if i don t get my wall. none of us have said you ve said. you ve said.