Good Wednesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer, and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Walmart.

And I'm Jake Sherman. We're in day 19 of the government shutdown, and here's where things stand.

Democrats don't want a wall. Republicans do. Both agree there's something bad going out of the border.

They don't agree what it is, and they don't agree what the solution is.

We knew this before the networks gave up 30 minutes of their airtime last night. And here's what you saw.

Three coastal politicians reiterating their well-known positions about the current standoff.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the wall was ineffective and unnecessary.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said women and

children at the border are not a security threat. They're quote, a humanitarian challenge.

President Donald Trump called the situation a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis

of the soul. The president said he wants $5.7 billion for a physical barrier. At the request of Democrats, it will be a

steel barrier rather than a concrete wall. That's not exactly the case. A phrase we didn't hear

last night, national emergency. This was not an address about a foreign conflict, but the president

framed the situation at the southern border as war.

Trump said, how much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?

A tipster told us at the Trump Hotel, BLT stake, turn off the music, and carry the Trump speech live.

New York Times goes behind the scenes looking at Trump's doubts about his new strategy on the border wall.

He told TV acres at an off-the-record lunch that he did not want to go to Texas Thursday, and the trip was just basically a photo op.

His aides, he said, Bill Shined Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, say it's worth going.

NBC's Lester Holt said last night he was trying to figure out who the intended audience was. Chuck Todd said it was congressional Republicans.

Here's what the White House should be worried about. As this standoff drags on and on and on,

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