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Trump says Reflecting Pool cameras installed, threatens jail for…

Prosecutors Trump appointed have told a court the pool's lining was ruined by a botched installation, not vandals; the cameras are rolling regardless.

On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Vera Bullock on The Bonk-o-Meter
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Photo: Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorToday the president says security cameras are now installed at the Reflecting Pool, and future vandals will go to jail.

  2. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentHere's the part he left out.

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentFederal prosecutors appointed by Trump have told a court the pool's lining was ruined by a botched installation, not by vandals.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the cameras are for the vandals.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentRight. According to his own prosecutors, the pool was ruined by the people who were paid to fix it.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe post also attached a sixty-five second video that didn't appear to show the vandalism he described, according to the report.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLet me finish. He said the pool is seventy percent filled and looking good, so by pageant rules that's a strong semifinalist.

  8. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentHe also wrote that it always leaked since nineteen twenty-two. Then who exactly are we jailing?

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLater this half hour, a child's grave and something that was meant to pay for something. Now, the meter.

  10. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe meter says Pretty Bonkers. The cameras will finally catch the contractors, on video, in the act of fixing it.

  11. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWe're back same time tomorrow, and the pool will be at eighty percent.

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  1. Reflecting Pool liner failed in 85 places after flawed renovation · The Washington Post
  2. CBS News faces $20M defamation lawsuit after misidentifying Maryland… · Fox News
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