Dana Bash presses Rep. Jordan on dropped reflecting pool charges

I want to play something that the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told me about the reflecting pool.Let's watch.

It didn't peel off.There was vandalism.There was box cutters.There have been seven arrests.There was people literally trying to destroy part of a monument.

You're 100 % sure that what happened with the liner was vandalism.You can prove it.

Oh, yeah, absolutely can.And as we drain it, we've got all the photographs.

As you well know, the U .S.attorney here in D .C., Jeanine Pirro, says that vandalism did not damage the pool, but it was a hasty and botched contract renovation that did.They dropped their case, a criminal case that they had against a former Olympian, David Hearn.

Given what he's gone through, should he be eligible for money from the anti -weaponization fund?

Well, that'd be up to the board.I mean, if this thing is formed, remember, I don't make the decision.

It's up to them.

What I do know is Peter Strzok got $1 .2 million.

He was trying to undermine President Trump's election campaign.You have an opinion that he shouldn't have got it.

What about David Hearn?Well, that'll be up to the board.I don't know all the facts.This story just broke.I don't know all the facts, why they did, why the Justice Department dropped the case.

They were trying to send a man. who was innocent to jail based on lies about vandalism.He was accused of crimes that he did not commit.As chair of the Judiciary Committee, does that bother you?

I have if that's the if those are the facts, of course, but I don't know that those are the facts.We have not seen all that.What I do know is what I talked about, Mark.What I do know what happened in the Garland Biden Justice Department is FBI whistleblowers.

I'm asking you about.

No, I'm not.I'm not turning back.Well, I'm telling you things I know about.

I don't know all the facts with this case, but with those cases, I should learn all the facts.I am whistleblowers.I do want to talk to you again once you get all the facts, because this seems like sure if you want the weaponization fund.This is seems like.weaponization against somebody, never mind that he was an Olympian.