00:02president trump says he's taking on another major renovation in washington the reflecting pool at
00:08the lincoln memorial on the national mall he says the project is already underway with plans to coat
00:14the pool which he described as leaking like a sieve with an industrial grade finish in a color
00:20he calls american flag blue trump told reporters thursday the idea came after a visit from a friend
00:26from germany who called the pool filthy dirty the president says he and interior secretary doug
00:32bergam went to see it themselves and decided upgrades were needed he said one proposal would
00:37have removed the granite and replaced it with stone a three-year project costing about 300 million
00:43dollars but trump says he found a cheaper option and i said no there's a better way of doing it
00:49i said what we're going to do is i'm going to call all three of these people that have worked
00:55for me
00:55in the past doing swimming pools that's all they can do is a swimming pool and i said give me
01:01a good
01:01price we can do it for maybe a million and a half to two million dollars as opposed to 300
01:09million
01:09dollars the landmark known for historic moments like this one martin luther king jr's i have a dream
01:16speech stretches more than 2 000 feet and was built in 1922 trump says crews have already cleaned and
01:23re-grouted the original granite he says once finished the new coating could last 40 to 50 years without leaks
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