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Nobody would understand calling the disaster response in puerto rico a success. nobody would understand that. an estimated 2,975 american citizens died there after hurricane maria. that is the most recent estimate, but the government still isn't sure exactly how many, and it's nearly a year later. some 3.4 million residents were left without power when maria struck. many of them had no power for weeks of deadly heat there. just days ago, the government accountability office released a report slamming fema's response in puerto rico, saying the agency was unprepared and failed to deploy enough q...

Rico a success. nobody would understand that. an estimated 2,975 american citizens died there after hurricane maria. that is the most recent estimate, but the government still isn't sure exactly how many, and it's nearly a year later. some 3.4 million residents were left without power when maria struck. many of them had no power for weeks of deadly heat there. just days ago, the government accountability office released a report slamming fema's response in puerto rico, saying the agency was unprepared and failed to deploy enough qualified staff. that is not successful by any measure. and this ...

>> you don't think that matters. >> i read the whole milken report before i came on from g.w. which is got the 2,975 deaths. >> right. that's the one that the puerto rico government commissioned but there are several out there. all very high. >> i just read it, and what it says is that those underreported deaths were due to a large extent because the state and local government was ill prepared in how to record and report deaths. this isn't some grand conspiracy by the trump administration. >> when it was 16 people, thank god we got so lucky here. it doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be wrong....

Happened, saying it wasn't a real catastrophe, like katrina. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on puerto rico. and that's fine. we've saved a lot of lives. if you look at the -- every death is a horror. but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overbearing. nobody's ever seen anything like this. and what is your -- what is your death co...

Of septembering mistakes. those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it and that's where we are today. trump was asked what did you learn from last year's storms, including hurricane maria, the unmitigated disaster in puerto rico. this was his answer. >> what did you take from what happened in puerto rico, and how will you you a ply the lessons you took from puerto rico? >> i think puerto rico was incredibly successful. >> wow. all right. the president has been invited and refuses to make his case to you on this show. he'd rather hang out with his fox family, but the obvious pushb...