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It was 3,000. >> chris, again -- >> 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 hav...

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 apply 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 pushback is you told us 16 died and then said it was 64. here is the closest sense of numbers we have. 2,975. the president u...

Holding the official death toll for maria at just 64, two weeks ago, following a study commissioned by the island's government, puerto rico finally raised the official death toll attributed to the storm to 2,975. that puts it almost exactly at the death toll of americans killed 17 years ago today in the attacks of 9/11. and tonight buzzfeed news reports that of more than 2,000 puerto ricans who applied to fema for funeral assistance for loved ones who died as a result of maria, fema approved just 75 of those more than 2,000 funeral assistance applications. in a letter to senator elizabeth warr...

2,975. that puts it almost exactly at the death toll of americans killed 17 years ago today in the attacks of 9/11. and tonight buzzfeed news reports that of more than 2,000 puerto ricans who applied to fema for funeral assistance for loved ones who died as a result of maria, fema approved just 75 of those more than 2,000 funeral assistance applications. in a letter to senator elizabeth warren, fema director brock long wrote, quote, as of july 30th, his agency had received 2,431 requests for funeral assistance for puerto ricans related to hurricane maria. fema approved just 75 of those request...

Proud of what has taken place. >> but now that number is officially 2,975 people. is that a real a catastrophe yet? well, imagine if this happened in wisconsin, missouri or delaware, and would 3.4 million americans be left to suffer for an entire year? so, no, mr. president, that is not success, and it is truly mind boggling that you would even say that. to rick santorum who said, blame it on that country, puerto rico. puerto rico is a u.s. territory. you do not need a passport to get there. and those people can vote. so no, it is not a separate country, and they are not our neighbor. they are...