Norm Eisen, one of President Donald Trump's top legal foes, said the president will be "returning to the scene of the crime" when he delivers a 2 p.m. speech at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Eisen, a veteran Democratic attorney who served as White House ethics czar under President Barack Obama and as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during Trump's first impeachment, made the remarks in a conversation with former CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane. The discussion first covered Eisen's preparations to file lawsuits the moment Republicans or the administration attempts to seize ballots, before turning to the president's planned address at the Reflecting Pool.

When Trump announced he would speak at the site, political analysts questioned why the president's closing message would be delivered at a location that has become a symbol of failure.

"It's a return to the scene of the crime. I mean, they talk about this compulsion. And in this case, the wrongdoing was the shocking corruption," Eisen said. "Think of it, Scott. Donald Trump was responsible for pushing a rushed, botched installation of the reflecting pool, wasting your and my money and all the taxpayers' money, as he does with all these D.C. projects. And then? He blames an innocent man, Davey Hearn, and we battered the government with more than seven motions, starting as soon as he was arraigned, proving his indictment, using their own evidence. Finally, we forced them to dismiss."

Trump alleged that Hearn, or someone else, took a knife and sliced a huge gash into the pool's liner. In reality, the installation itself left a large crack; there was never a gash.

The full cost of the Trump administration's Reflecting Pool renovation remains unknown, but it is many times higher than the figure first cited. On April 23, the initial estimate put the price at $1.5 million, with Trump saying the project would likely come in "under budget and ahead of schedule."

The pool was finally filled last week, well after the date it had been slated for completion — the July 4 weekend. By June, before a second round of fixes, costs had already climbed above $16 million — more than ten times the initial estimate — ABC News reported.

Eisen celebrated the outcome of the related legal battle, noting that they "argued and won before a judge dismissed with prejudice because it was a junk case." A dismissal with prejudice permanently ends a case, barring it from being refiled. He drew a comparison to Trump's "junk lists" given to California, which claimed there were 20,000 illegal voters.

"So you're seeing a compulsion. If I were giving the president advice, the last place I would tell him to go is the Reflecting Pool, which symbolizes the corruption to the American people," Eisen said.

"But fortunately, we have a dictator dunce," he quipped. "I don't know the trouble we'd be in if he were more competent. That's the crisis. It's a corruption crisis and a competence crisis that has caused a cost crisis. And that is how the American people understand democracy. It's a government that should work for them, not against them on cost, corruption and incompetence. And I think they're going to make this MAGA movement pay a very serious price for that. On election day, tomorrow."

The exchange took place during Stopping Trump Intervention in Elections — Live with Scott MacFarlane & Norm Eisen, a broadcast hosted by MacFarlane, which posed the question: What is the biggest threat from Trump ahead of tomorrow's election?