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Okay, multiple people, including a former US Olympian, have now been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the newly renovated reflecting pool in the nation's capital. Kevin Kork joins us now from the White House with all the latest on this. Kevin, good morning. Yeah, frankly, this is, and good morning to all of you, this is a sad story because all Americans, I don't care about your political stripes, enjoy the reflecting pool. But as Charlie points out, we're talking about someone who's gone from competing and Olympic sized swimming pools to being accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool along the mall. And of course, he ends up in cuffs and apparently he's not the only one. We're speaking of a former Olympian, canoeist, 67 year old David Hearn, three time Olympian, by the way, said he was cycling by the monument on Friday. He noticed a piece of the pools under liner floating in the water, but authorities, they didn't buy his story at all. And now they're accusing him of being one of several individuals of trying to sabotage the project with a pair of arrests being made so far. In fact, the president said as much and opposed untrue social announcing, quote, many additional people have been arrested, having to do with the disgraceful vandalism of our beautiful reflecting pool. What these terrible vandals have done is a true affront to both presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly. They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the pool. Finally, he adds this. We are very proud of what we have done with this magnificent structure, and we'll get it repaired quickly to an equal level of beauty. Now, the pool, which had been restored to a beautiful cerulean as part of the American 250 celebration, spent years mired in an algae covered state until the big cleanup. But suddenly we started reading reports of a new algae bloom forming. And the peeling lower coating, critics said it was a shoddy job done by the contractors. Turns out that's not true at all. And now we know why. Now, the cleanup of this $14 million project is ongoing, even at this very hour. But given the fact that the Fourth of July is right around the corner, to get it ready, they're going to have to work around the clock, guys. All right. Really incredible. Some people just need to get a life. They need to get a hobby. They need to find something better to do. All right. Thanks, Kevin.

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