Conway calls the clash over a silly semantic argument

Counselor at the White House Kellyanne Conway Kellyanne Elizabeth ConwaySwalwell: We are "less safe" with Mattis leaving George Conway: "Volumes that say Mattis did not congratulate Trump on his resignation, Trump stops following Ann Coulter on Twitter after "The joke of the presidency" said that MORE had opened the debate Sunday . President Trump Donald John Trump Five Challenges Wait for Mattis's Successor, Meeting with Trump's Choice, to Take Over the Border Like "Eighth Angry Student Tweeting" MORE proposed Wall the US-Mexican border is a "ridiculous semantic argument" after the outgoing chief of staff John Kelly John Francis KellyMORE said the administration does not demand a concrete structure .

"It's a silly semantic argument because people who just want to say" wall, wall, wall "want it to be a four-letter word and it's not being respected Conway said Conway in" Fox News Sunday. "

" To say that "wall" or "no wall" is always to be deceptive and to close one's eyes on it's a border crisis, "she added.

Conway's comments came a few hours after the Los Angeles Times published an interview with Kelly in which he stated that the administration had abandoned the concept of a solid concrete wall along the way. the US-Mexican border. [19659008] "To be honest, it's not a wall," Kelly told The Times.

Trump's desire to create a wall along the US-Mexico border has resulted in a government closure that has lasted for more than a week. The president asked for $ 5 billion in funding for the structure, which the Democrats rejected.

Trump recently modified his message on the wall, attempting to argue that the structure could be called "fence" and that it would be "artistically crafted" steel battens instead of concrete.

Conway said Sunday that she believed Trump had already "compromised" on her funding requests for the border wall, and called her $ 5 billion worth of "modest" investments.

The president said he was waiting for the Democrats to negotiate with him, but Mr Conway did not say Sunday whether the president had asked the Democratic leaders to start talks.