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But boy, there are a lot of people relying on him and his government tonight, anderson. >> yeah, texas as well. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. now more on puerto rico, how the president sees it and how differently people there really see if people who, sad to say, who have seen far too much already. hurricane maria hit the commonwealth about a year ago. just recently, as jeff zeleny alluded to, the official death toll was raised from 64 to almost 3,000. and according to researchers from harva...

Who have seen far too much already. hurricane maria hit the commonwealth about a year ago. just recently, as jeff zeleny alluded to, the official death toll was raised from 64 to almost 3,000. and according to researchers from harvard and elsewhere who studied the death toll for months, the government in puerto rico made it difficult to get accurate mortality statistics. and even now in puerto rico, were seeing powerful reminders of all the things that turn a natural disaster into a worst man-ma...

His administration. >> you know, one of the things thats often overlooked in the reporting on this death toll is that the government of puerto rico, and the federal government, stuck with this artificially low death toll of 64 people, and they actually made it difficult for reporters and researchers to get accurate statistics to determine what the real death toll was. cnn sued to get mortality statistics from the government of puerto rico. harvard researchers said the government in puerto rico d...

Nation, or island country like puerto rico. >> frankly, the way these studies were done, they compared both harvard and local universities in puerto rico and in the final study that was done, they compared mortality statistics in the three-month period after the storm to what those mortality statistics would normally be and they came up with this range of the death toll. kirsten powers, senator santorum, max boot, thank you very much. appreciate it. president trumps son, donald trump jr., says...

Failure to respond to the suffering of our fellow citizens in puerto rico. >> you know, senator santorum, one of the things that the president early on said, and we played the that clip in the last segment is early on when he was down in puerto rico, he talked about this not being a real catastrophe on the scale of katrina. we now know, just if youre talking about death toll alone, it had a greater death toll than all the souls who lost their lives as a result of katrina. and yet the local gover...

Arrived at the death count. i mean, obviously, if it was over a period of months, i mean, a lot of factors can go into that, and maybe thats some of the questioning of that, i dont know. but all the things youve described are things that the federal government and the people -- the government of puerto rico should not be proud of. they should be transparent and they should try to get to the bottom of it. and i would think it would be in the interest to try to learn what you can to learn from wha...

You. you did not do a good job in puerto rico. if he thinks that 3,000 people dying on his watch is a good news story or is an unsung success, you know, nobodys going to be singing his praises because this was a despicable act of neglect on the part of his administration. >> you know, one of the things thats often overlooked in the reporting on this death toll is that the government of puerto rico and the federal government stuck with this artificially low death toll of 64 people and they actual...

Puerto rico, i assume, the federal government as well, they have downplayed this death toll from the beginning. i mean, there were people early on saying, you know, its not just 16 or 17, which the governor was saying to the president then, and then for most of the last year, its been an official death toll of 64. cnn literally sued in puerto rico to get access to mortality statistics a harvard team says that they werent given access to mortality statistics. they still came up with a death toll ...

Silence and complacency of the local government in puerto rico. and after the harvard study came out last wednesday, on friday the government of puerto rico said that the death tollas 1,197, which 20 times more than what they had said initially. >> the other startling thing is according to harvard researchers and others who did this survey -- and again its not a totally comprehensive survey. but they did go on the ground interviewing people going to a number of towns findut a sampling of what th...

Supply chain of aid. and the other thing was the silence and complacency of the local government of puerto rico. after the harvard study came out last wednesday, on friday the death toll was set to 1,297 which was 20 times more than what they had said. >> according to the harvard researchers and others that did this survey, and again, not a totally comprehensive survey, but they did go on the ground and interviewing people going to a number of towns to find out a sampling of what they believe th...