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Howard Lutnick: “What's the cost now? Like between 10 and $15 million.”

Featuring: Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce | National

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Howard Lutnick on Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool controversy

Published | Video Starts at 00:41

Remember, it's only two feet deep, and when he drained it, it had 11 truckloads of garbage in it. Let's make it beautiful. And I thought it was brilliant. So What's the cost now? Like between 10 and $15 million. Instead of three or $400 million instead of it taking two or three years to build, he does it in weeks. I think the President's objectives with the reflective pool are actually brilliant, if you it at all. (00:41–00:46)

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Asserts the current cost of the pool project is between $10 and $15 million.

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