Burgum: "Well, we have video and eyewitness reports.' He conceded the Reflecting Pool "has gone for decades without vandalism." Wake up, Congress — demand the truth. We're supposed to believe swimsuit-clad vandals repeatedly slashed 350 feet of liner & slipped away unnoticed? No footprints?
"specific evidence do you have to back up that claim well we have the the actual cuts that were made into the industrial liner and in it and that's a you know been measured out so that's just the fact that that's what that's what there's a 350 foot gas. Well it's multiple gashes that add up to 350 feet across that and so and again some of this happened early on there was a where we've installed more cameras I mean we weren't expecting that we're going to have a small group of people that wanted to try to destroy effectively what is part of the Lincoln Memorial where there's plenty of cameras around the Lincoln statue and around the memorial the reflecting pool had gone for you know decades without vandalism but now we've got you know got cameras up and we've got more eyes on it and we'll let you know we have to that's part of the job of the National Park Service the US Park Police is to protect our monuments and and so we're we're in better shape now if anyone were to do something now we would have better video evidence of that but you don't but you don't have video evidence of people making those gashes well we do we do have video and we do have eyewitness reports and that's that's up to the courts now so that that process will go forward in the legal system how much more is this going to cost I think it's good it's going to be a small number because the majority of the work was related to the the labor and the materials for the liner and of course the new nano bubbler system which is taken care of won the battle against the algae which is something in a you know in a in a shallow pool in hot weather has been has been a historic challenge but now that's working fantastically if you down there today again as the fireworks get cleaned up from the incredible show we had last night spectacular event celebrating our 250th as the fences come down we clean that up anybody that's there and anybody that was there last week before the fireworks started being installed on either side of the the reflecting pool could see that it was the water was crystal clear so that parts been taken care of so again we are we are you know on to the next thing because this is all been done so well this check very thanks for your time this morning."
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Burgum: "Well, we have video and eyewitness reports.' He conceded the Reflecting Pool "has gone for decades without vandalism." Wake up, Congress — demand the truth. We're supposed to believe swimsuit-clad vandals repeatedly slashed 350 feet of liner & slipped away unnoticed? No footprints?
