>>> a staff writer for the hill, 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...