As the US and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time in over a month, President Donald Trump posted about renovation projects in Washington, including the Reflecting Pool and the Kennedy Center.
Our reporter reflects on her months at the memorial, as it turned blue, then green, then peeling, amid the dead ducks and gawkers and National Guard.
Fox News has named Emily Compagno a permanent co-host of "The Five," filling a fourth chair that had cycled through rotating personalities since Jeanine Pirro's departure for a role in the Trump administration. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced the move on Monday, slotting Compagno into cable news's top-rated program ahead of a September […] The post Emily Compagno lands permanent seat on Fox News' 'The Five' appeared first on American Almanac .
Fox News has named Emily Compagno a permanent co-host of "The Five," filling a fourth chair that had cycled through rotating personalities since Jeanine Pirro's departure for a role in the Trump administration. Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced the move on Monday, slotting Compagno into cable news's top-rated program ahead of a September 8 start date. The appointment ends a stretch in which the network staffed the seat with a revolving door of fill-ins, and it puts a former criminal defense attorney and legal analyst at the table alongside Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, Jesse Watters, and the show's alternating liberal voices, Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr. "The Five" has held the title of most-watched cable news program for 19…Open
“She is losing spectacularly but she’s desperately trying to cling to her position as D.C. U.S. attorney,” says Glenn Kirschner on Jeanine Pirro attempting to resurrect her reflecting pool vandalism case. Kirschner, former federal prosecutor and host of the "Justice Matters" podcast, joins The Weekend to discuss this and much more.
Prosecutors argue the Reflecting Pool vandalism case against David Hearn should be dismissed without prejudice, which would leave the door open to re-charge him.
The power washers, leaf blowers and brooms are back in use within the drained basin.
In a Truth Social post, Trump showed an image of the Reflecting Pool, which connects the WWII Memorial and Lincoln Memorial, and insisted that claims the Reflecting Pool had not been vandalized were baseless.
Trump set out in late March to renovate the Reflecting Pool, which he described as “absolutely filthy” and vowed to make it “look gorgeous.” One of his changes was to paint the bottom of the pool “American flag blue.” By June 11, a National Park Service engineer’s saw that this bottom layer was peeling, a phenomenon that Trump blamed on vandalism. 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. CNN spoke to Hearn’s attorney, the CEO of the company in charge of the pool’s water quality and David Hearn through the saga. 0:00 David Hearn is indicted 0:35…
Lawyers for former Olympian David Hearn argue Trump is pushing a "false version" of events in the Reflecting Pool vandalism case.
AI:Lawyers representing former Olympian David Hearn have accused President Trump of promoting a false narrative regarding the recent vandalism at the World War II Memorial reflecting pool. The legal team contends that the administration's characterization of the incident and the subsequent response deviates from the actual facts of the case.Open
MS Now's Antonia Hylton reports on Trump's latest big renovation idea for the White House campus, which led expert and former GSA public buildings commissioner Dorothy Robyn to spell out exactly why it could end in a Reflecting Pool-level disaster.