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'National embarrassment' - Nicolle RIPS Trump over his unrelenting fixation on Reflecting Pool · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: You're telling me, even if it proves to be true
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  Speaker 1: that damaging aligning in the reflecting pool is something that
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  Speaker 1: Pierro wants to prosecute to the full extent of the
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  Speaker 1: law if it's proven true. And yet they're releasing people
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  Speaker 1: who pled guilty to assaulting a police officer. What freaking
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  Speaker 1: parallel universe?
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  Speaker 2: Did I just wake up?
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  Speaker 1: In?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you what I'd like to think a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: million dollar membrane could stand a pocket knife.
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  Speaker 4: Where's that? Tom Tillis? Then? Welcome to Earth one? There
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  Speaker 4: he was? That was Republican Senator Tom Tillis on the
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  Speaker 4: national embarrassment of incompetence, failure, hypocrisy, and deflection that Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump has focused the world's attention on with the debacle
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  Speaker 4: that is his utterances and his handling the renovation of
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  Speaker 4: the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his rushed renovation and his
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  Speaker 4: fourteen million dollar pool liner last three weeks. As for
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  Speaker 4: Trump's lame excuses so called vandalism, about any evidence, and
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  Speaker 4: then now six arrests again without any evidence of vandalism.
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  Speaker 4: There is brand new reporting that we brought you yesterday
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  Speaker 4: from the New York Times that reports the internal government
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  Speaker 4: document show the Trump administration knows and has known that
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  Speaker 4: there is zero indication that any of the problems that
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  Speaker 4: the Reflecting Pool have been caused intentionally, But no Trump's
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  Speaker 4: lies about vandals are still out there because he needs
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  Speaker 4: some sort of explanation, even if it's untrue as to
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  Speaker 4: why his liner was seen floating on the surface in
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  Speaker 4: chunks mixed in with the algae that returned, which Trump
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  Speaker 4: also blamed on algae vandals. I want to bring in
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  Speaker 4: our reporter Ariel Hickson, who joins US now from the
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  Speaker 4: Reflecting Pool. John is still with us. Ariel. Something that
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  Speaker 4: Amanda Carpenter reported having been down on the mall with
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  Speaker 4: out of town visitors is that the security presence was
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  Speaker 4: on mistakable.
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  Speaker 3: What can you tell us about that, Nicole. I think
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  Speaker 3: that is quite accurate. I'm looking at right now, and
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  Speaker 3: the amount of National guardsmen I have seen patrol this
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  Speaker 3: pool has been quite striking because they are walking up
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  Speaker 3: and down the area. They're kind of making sure that
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  Speaker 3: tourists are not getting too close to the water. That's
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  Speaker 3: something I have noticed. They appear to be friendly to
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  Speaker 3: a certain degree, but if someone gets really close to
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  Speaker 3: the water with their phones, they appear to approach them
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  Speaker 3: at times and kind of ask them what they're doing. Now,
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  Speaker 3: something else that I have noticed is that there have
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  Speaker 3: been security cameras installed around the pool. If you want
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  Speaker 3: to take a look right over in the corner, there's
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of them, I say, at least six or
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  Speaker 3: seven around surrounding the pool to get a better idea
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  Speaker 3: of what's been happening around the area, especially as the
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  Speaker 3: President has had those claims regarding quote unquote vandals without evidence.
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  Speaker 3: So what we can see right now is that the
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  Speaker 3: President is quite serious about this. He is threatening to
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  Speaker 3: put people who potentially tamper with the pool in jail,
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  Speaker 3: but once again he had no evidence that that is
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  Speaker 3: actually happening. And that is very much changing the scope
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  Speaker 3: in the field of the reflecting pool right ahead of
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  Speaker 3: America to fifty In July fourth.
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  Speaker 4: Hylman, the security cameras are not going to catch any
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  Speaker 4: vandalism because we know from the Trump administration that there
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been any. Again, this is from the New York
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  Speaker 4: Times quote they have no evidence for razor blade claims.
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  Speaker 4: While a June ninth report by the US Park Police
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  Speaker 4: described the cuts as razor blade slashes, made along a
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  Speaker 4: twenty foot long stretch of the foam. The administration has
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  Speaker 4: yet to present evidence supporting that assertion. Neither the Interior
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  Speaker 4: Department nor the White House would provide charging document, citations,
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  Speaker 4: or the names of anyone arrested. They did share the
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  Speaker 4: part police incident report, which said any suspect or suspects
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  Speaker 4: were unknown. The report also did not mention any damage
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  Speaker 4: to the pool's blue sealant, nor did it describe any
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  Speaker 4: vandals jumping fertilizer. So I don't know. Maybe the cameras
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  Speaker 4: will get Marco Rubio and JD. Vans in wet suits
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  Speaker 4: with paint brushes painting the bottom of the thing, but
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  Speaker 4: they're not going to find any vandals because Trump's own
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  Speaker 4: administration doesn't assert that there are any.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole, don't don't underestimate the power of AI, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the artificial intelligence can generate all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of strange images, you know, I don't. I say
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  Speaker 2: this somewhat mockingly but also in somewhat anticipatorily that we
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  Speaker 2: are going to see at some point, you know, images
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  Speaker 2: on Donald Trump's true social feed that will show, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a gang of marauding Antifa terrorists who have jumped into
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  Speaker 2: the pool in the Darke night and run their their
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  Speaker 2: razor blades or their samurai swords or something along the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of it, or or or Jim Comey. I you know,
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  Speaker 2: this could easily be added to the comby indictment, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like Jim come You know, Jim Comy is well known
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  Speaker 2: to to do a lot of work in his wetsuit.
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  Speaker 2: You know, after he gets all done with the seashells
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  Speaker 2: by the seashore, he dives into the reflecting pool with
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  Speaker 2: a dagger between his teeth and and slices open the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's all so ridiculous, ideas common I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I don't want to give any ideas.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sort of trying to imagine where this is going.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's just ludicrous. I've been told that,
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  Speaker 2: I've been told that there's that that that finally the
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  Speaker 2: pool may be getting slightly reflecting pool might be getting
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  Speaker 2: slightly blue again. So you know, Donald Trump may not
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  Speaker 2: have made America great again, but it's possible that enough
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  Speaker 2: peroxide and chlorine is going to start to m r
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  Speaker 2: p BA I guess instead of m A G A
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  Speaker 2: make the reflecting pool blue again. Maybe that could be
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  Speaker 2: something that Republican candidates could run on.
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  Speaker 4: This only if the ducks don't die. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 4: every reaction has a reaction and will stay on top
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  Speaker 4: of the story. Harry Elson, thank you for joining us, helemn,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for spending the hour with me.