MULVANEY: My guess is, this boils down to some of the semantic difficulties we had with Leader Schumer just yesterday, okay? Mr. Schumer kept saying, ‘You don’t have money for a wall now. You don’t have money for a wall now.’ And we’re showing pictures of what we’re building on the border with the money that we received last year. It’s a very similar style to what the president wants to build in the future.

It’s the steel — what they call a bollard fence. It’s a 30-foot-high steel barrier. And our understanding is, that that’s not a wall in the law. Right now, the law actually limits our use of concrete, for example, on the border. And we’re like, that’s fine. That’s completely fine. So I’m not really sure ...

TAPPER: You don't know what president it was, though?

MULVANEY: No, I don't know what the presidents mean when they said they weren't supporting a wall. I know that George Bush was president in 2006 when they signed the Secure Fence Act, which is what we're using right now to build the wall.

TAPPER: But which one told him? Which president said —

MULVANEY: I have no idea.

TAPPER: You don't know?

MULVANEY: No, I have not asked the question — I have not asked the president that question.