{"id":370625,"date":"2026-08-16T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/reflecting-pool-interviews-ceo-olympian-attorney-react-to-the-saga\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:00:09","slug":"reflecting-pool-interviews-ceo-olympian-attorney-react-to-the-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/reflecting-pool-interviews-ceo-olympian-attorney-react-to-the-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting Pool interviews: CEO, olympian &amp; attorney react to the saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/96PYCyjXvdw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Reflecting Pool interviews: CEO, olympian &amp; attorney react to the saga\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/96PYCyjXvdw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Trump set out in late March to renovate the Reflecting Pool, which he described as \u201cabsolutely filthy\u201d and vowed to make it \u201clook gorgeous.\u201d One of his changes was to paint the bottom of the pool \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d By June 11, a National Park Service engineer\u2019s saw that this bottom layer was peeling, a phenomenon that Trump blamed on vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, was arrested and indicted when he reached into the Reflecting Pool. The case was later dismissed after the Justice Department admitted that the $14 million renovation was flawed.<\/p>\n<p>CNN spoke to Hearn\u2019s attorney, the CEO of the company in charge of the pool\u2019s water quality and David Hearn through the saga.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 David Hearn is indicted<br \/>\n0:35 Hearn\u2019s attorney speaks out after the indictment<br \/>\n5:27 \u2018We\u2019ve never done a pool\u2019: CEO in charge of Trump\u2019s reflecting pool<br \/>\n8:01 Olympian David Hearn tells his story to Kaitlan Collins<br \/>\n13:43 How the charges affected Hearn<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#News #reflectingpool #trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump set out in late March to renovate the Reflecting Pool, which he described as \u201cabsolutely filthy\u201d and vowed to make it \u201clook gorgeous.\u201d One of his changes was to paint the bottom of the pool \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d By June 11, a National Park Service engineer\u2019s saw that this bottom layer was peeling, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":370626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-370625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reflecting Pool interviews: CEO, olympian &amp; attorney react to the saga | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Reflecting Pool interviews: CEO, olympian &amp; attorney react to the saga for free, here on News ISC. 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