hour, and didn t really speak to reporters other than to say he was on the job. he is facing this critical question, what does president trump want to do about troops in syria and troops in afghanistan. the president now apparently slowing it down a bit, if you listen to lindsay graham over the weekend after he talked to the president, but shanahan is going to have to get the president to agree to a timetable that will keep u.s. troops safe as they with draw. mr. trump apparently surprised when he heard from commanders that no isis is not defeated in syria and u.s. troops still have work to do there. this is going to be perhaps job number one for shanahan, because he is going to have to show the military commanders that he understands what they are up against and that he is willing to talk to the president very plainly and very candidly about what he thinks needs to be done. general, i am not sure this
trying to put a montage together explaining how the president a went to a concrete border to blinds. we need 1,000 because we have natural barriers. it s going to be so big, it s going to be so powerful. it s going to be as beautiful as a wall can be. the wall, also called so that i give them a little bit of an out, steel slats. we don t use the word wall necessarily. we re looking at between 500 and 550. the problem is whatever you want to call it is what the sticking point is here, margaret. and in the 75,000 tweets he sent from the concrete office, he is still in favor of a concrete wall. he has not defined what it is
say for that southern border wall he might say it s a wall, whatever it is. steel slats, whether it s any number of other things. we ll have to see how that develops. it could be a wink, wink, nod, nod situations on both sides where they both declare victory and move on. leland: that normally happens in washington both sides declare victory when they agree to spend more of our money. this brings up an important point of what does this wall look like? we haven t heard that from the administration. we ve seen tweets from the president that have steel slats with spikes on top. talked about how it will be big and beautiful and do all these things. republicans in congress have told me it would be a lot easier to fight democrats on this if we actually had a plan that we are going to have a concrete wall from here to here. wealth we ll have a wall with slats. the problem is there are so many variables in terms of actually putting up a wall.
clearly, things have changed. they ve made comments about steel slats, fences, borders. to say this is silly semantics is not. his base will support this president because border security is important but what he really needs to do is sit down and have an honest conversation with the american people and say, hey, look, i have evolved on this issue. the situation on the ground has changed and i think we need to go more in the direction of steel slats or boots on the ground or technology or infrastructure and not this big, beautiful wall. and he will have a lot more negotiating power and also please his base. that s where he needs to realize that if he just communicated with the american people that the situation and details of what he campaigned on and where we are today has changed, i think he would have a lot more public support and that will go a long way to securing the
we actually need 1,000 because we have natural barriers. it s going to be so big. it s going to be so powerful. it s going to be as beautiful as a wall can be. the wall also called so that i give them a little bit of an out, steel slats. we don t use the word wall necessarily. it s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it. so we re looking at between 500 and 550. alice, can you tell us what the president wants on the border? i don t think he can tell you what he wants along the border. this is a signature campaign issue. this is what many people voted for him on. and the notion that mexico was going to pay for t the moment that we realized mexico was not going to pay for it, the total dynamics of this changed and his negotiating on this changed significantly as well.