*Trump's border wall may be shorter than first advertised

*Trump's border wall may be shorter than first advertised*

Trump met with several lawmakers for a bipartisan meeting on immigration reform on Tuesday, where he said natural barriers, like mountains, already on the border, could make a wall there unnecessary. "We don't need a wall where you have rivers and mountains and everything else protecting it," the President said. "But we do need a wall for a fairly good portion."

Following the meeting Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, reiterated Trump's specifics about not needing a wall across the entirety of the US' southern border. "A lot of people have envisioned a 2,000-mile, you know, structure, and frankly a lot of what the President said during the campaign lent itself to that kind of vision," Flake told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead."

"The President noted that there are rivers, there are mountains that prohibit any kind of wall, the need for any kind of wall. There won't be a 2,000-mile wall," Flake added. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, also said Trump "backed off any kind of description that he's looking for any sea to shining sea fence or wall." "What he agreed to is, it's not a 2,000-mile wall itself, but he very certainly said there has to be a wall as a part of it," Lankford said.