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People working together. 16 versus literally thousands of people. you can be very proud. everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what's taken place in puerto rico. >> so in addition to throwing towels and saying you've thrown our budget out of whack and it's not a real catastrophe like katrina, the president also said there were just 16 deaths from the storm. since then the puerto rican government slowly revooised tha number and in december they announced there were 64 deaths. then yesterday they officially reviesed the number to 2,975. that includes thos...

They didn't run fast enough. no, it is your fault, mr. president. you should -- shame on yourself and your administration. you left us here to die because you were more concerned about the political spin than about the human reality that we were dying. and now that number, 2,975, will follow him wherever he goes for the rest of his life. >> one of the interesting things that happened at the time, as you know because we were talking to you on the ground in puerto rico, we had a number of reporters there at nbc and msnbc, but brock long from fema kept on saying and he said it to stephanie and me...

That's all he had to say. but he's incapable of doing that. anything that comes out of the president's month that does not begin with "i am sorry that those people died," even as a simple act of being in tune with what we're feeling is totally neglectful and totally off the grid. i mean, the man does not have a clue. >> joining us now, jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com, and david corn is back with us. and jason johnson, we saw it with john mccain, and now we've seen it with 2,975 people as the mayor put it. he cannot even say "i'm sorry." >> when you have to be shamed into lowerin...

Hit puerto rico right now, we would be in a worse circumstance than we were before. but i don't know why is it so difficult to understand that this is about people. this is not about politics. this is not about positioning the u.s. response as a good news story. this is about people who died. this is a 2,975 people that died because of the neglect of the trump administration. >> mayor, thanks for joining us. we are sorry that everything you said, which we knew to be true then, has turned out to be true, 2,975 deaths from hurricane maria in puerto rico. mayor carmen cruz of san juan, puerto ric...

Today and the white house yesterday just recant their self accolades about how well they did, it just means that he just doesn't get it, isn't capable of getting it. we died because bureaucracy and inefficiency took hold of things. we died because many in the political class in puerto rico decided to dance to donald trump's tune rather than doing what everybody ought to do, which is tell the truth, no matter how mighty the person you're telling the truth seems. these are 2,975 people that will no longer see the light of day. these are parents, children, grandchildren, grandparents. people whos...