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Building, did you have any concerns about the structure? >> you wouldn't think. i know they were concerned that there were cracks in the parking lot and the columns. we saw them. the parking lot was often wet. there was often water there. i think they mentioned problems around the pool with the deck. but it's not something that the building is about to collapse. these are, like, repairs that needed to be done. i think there was a lot of problem with the board. they never agreed on spending to do structural repairs because it was expensive. and they kind of just dragged on for a while. but i me...

Sometimes that is just basically a crack where the slab fails with a crack where you have an underlying piece of steel that's corroding. if you have that kind of issue, which in our -- in our engineering lin go is called a spawl. when you have underlying corrosion with the steel rebar and you eject this epoxy in there, there's no way that the injection is going to repair the underlying corrosion. so that, along with a confluence of many other issues could be at stake here. >> so is there a way of knowing from what we're reading in these inspection reports that have been revealed how long the c...

Shameful. >> reporter: george mcgraw's organization, dig deep, is one of the only nonprofits dedicated entirely to domestic water infrastructure. helping the homeowners connect to a new system built by the public utility. >> what was the water situation when you were a kid in this house? >> we didn't have the problem. i don't know what happened all of a sudden. i guess the pipes started corroding, crumbling. >> reporter: elizabeth mason spent the whole pandemic without reliable clean water. soon she is going to get it. >> imagine for a moment that day when your pipes get turned on and you're a...

President accountable and really in many ways destroying the idea of three forms of coequals in government? i mean, this is deeper than donald trump. we're talking about how we govern. >> i think that's exactly it. we're getting at the very question of representative democracy, liberal democracy and the rule of law. i've said from the beginning that when we think about donald trump's presidency, it's really not always going to be about catastrophes. it's going to be about corrosion and the slow but steady corrosion of our constitutional norms, our moral norms, our expectations of what leaders ...

Will hold. i still remain very optimistic about that, certainly more optimistic than my wife, but i do believe that that will happen. what you're seeing right now, though, is not just -- not just the corroding of trust towards the presidency and damage on the presidency that's going to take years to replace, but also other cabinet agencies, other cabinet heads, other people who have always, always understood that their responsibility is to the american people first, and nen y then you see a clip like this of mike pompeo lying through his teeth to reporters on abc and then at the united nations...