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As a matter of national security. we've seen administration officials increasingly use the word crisis to describe what's going on at the southern border, and we've seen them use some misleading statistics to build their case as trump considers declaring a national emergency to get funding for his border wall, bypass congress if he's unable to do it legislatively. brianna, the speech tonight also comes two days before the president goes to the southern border, a trip he'll most likely use as a platform to reinforce tonight's message. >> sara westwood at the white house, appreciate that. the tr...

Very little progress. >> now, as the shutdown gets closer to becoming the third longest in history, a white house official says the president may decide to declare a national emergency to get border wall funding. live from the white house now. white house reporter sarah westwood. they are saying that he may be more inclined now, as he sees these meetings not being very fruitful or productive, to go ahead and declare a national emergency. has the president, do we know, given any time line as to how long he is willing to wait before he tries to do that? >> reporter: well, the president has said ...

Citd --continue to be obstinate. see potential for the most compromise? >> you know come you might think infrastructure would yet. but we had a couple of years >> he mass the right to do it and he should do it. where there was an opportunity if he clearly has the right for the white house to cooperate under the law to do it and that's what it takes to get it with democrats as well as republicans on capitol hill on done, let's do it. eric: it would be appealed and infrastructure and very little challenged. >> i would try to do it happened. you're unlikely to see any big legislatively. cooperati...

From leaders and from it the president in the situation room yesterday with democrats reiterating their demands while talks continue and the president saying he'd be willing to keep the government parlgtially shuttered until he gets funding for the border wall. and won't have the principals this time around. the president is reprising it demands for the $5.6 billion they passed in one of the last acts before the shutdown. and trump is showing increasing flexibility also as to what might qualify as a wall, suggesting he might not need the concrete wall he ran on in 2016 and he's now saying he's...

>> reporter: good morning. what we heard yesterday emerging from the meeting in the situation room is two very different messages from democratic congressional leaders and from the president. he word democrats say they wanted -- we had word democrats say they wanted to reopen the government while the discussions continue. and the president saying he wanted to keep the government partially shuttered indefinitely. he's inflexible on his demand for border funding even as he's increased flexible about what might actually constitute a wall, whether that's a fence, whether that's steel slats, nobody...