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I think you should be worried because the president continues to spread conspiracy theories, even about hurricanes. he does this to evade responsibility, to deflect blame and to keep his fans fired up. but we in the press corps have to keep calling it out. we can't get immune to this. obviously, his worst theory this week was about puerto rico. suggesting the death toll in the wake of hurricane maria was inflated by democrats to make him look bad. death toll denialism. i really never thought i'd see the day. while news outlets try to explain where that 2,975 total came from, about how the stud...

Excess of deaths and it was a robust scientific process. so much so, that we've decided to establish what their number was, 2,975, as the official death toll count. it is robust. i reject the notion that this is somehow a conspiracy or that it's not true. it is the most scientifically accurate estimate that we have from what happened here in puerto rico. >> last night, as another huge hurricane was barrelling down, the people of puerto rico have one of the most corrupt governments in our country, that's a quote from lou dobbs. you are the government in puerto rico. do you take that personally?...

2975 people in hawaii -- americans died. what we look for -- >> in puerto rico. >> in puerto rico. what we have -- what we look for in a president is someone who represents us. who is able to channel our pain and frustration when we are feeling hurt and vulnerable. 2975 americans on the island of hawaii -- loftd the-- lost thei lives and many loved ones are still grieving over the loss and still dealing with the fact that their island, their home is still devastated and they have been abandoned by their country. this president has shown no sense of shame in what happened to them or also -- or ...

He's doing everything right, and people will die in those two states because of that. >> you know, i mean, if anything, first of all, the 2,975, that's probably a conservative estimate. if anything, the government has, you know, stuck to an artificially low death toll of 64 people for really this past year, and it's only -- and in fact, according to the researchers from harvard, they said that the government made it difficult for them to even get access to mortality statistics and made their survey all the more difficult. the government of puerto rico did support this gw study, and the governo...

>> not only that, anderson, there's one data point that the president wants to call fema a bunch of liars. he cannot deny, fema received in the past month 2,471 applications for funeral assistance. so at least they have to acknowledge 2,471 deaths. now, to add insult to injury, in this unsung success fantasy book that the president is trying to write, fema only approved 75 of those applications for funeral assistance. and the 2,471 that people applied for. he doesn't want to believe the 2,975 from george washington university, and he doesn't want to believe the more than 3,000 from harvard uni...