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Yesterday the president was in puerto rico where he made a promise that would go a long way to restoring the viability of life in puerto rico. it was a promise that no one on the island asked him to make but it turned out to be the single most important thing the president said about puerto rico. >> we have to look at their whole debt structure. you know, they owe a lot of money to your friends on wall street and we have to wipe that out. that's going to have to be -- you know, you can say good-bye to this. >> wiping out puerto rico's debt is the single most important thing the federal governm...

Quote, we have to work something out and look at the whole debt structure. the trump administration will send congress a $29 billion supplemental spending request. he knows a lot about debt. perhaps he can help puerto rico handle theirs. >> he is someone who was buried under debt in the 1990s. he had a personal bailout. he could be a very, very wise counsel for puerto rico, as it tries to restructure its debt. interesting. thanks, dave. russian-rinked facebook ads targeted michigan and wisconsin during the 2016 election. two states crucial to president trump's victory. facebook admits sellin...

Bizarre compareton to another disaster. >> i hate to tell you, puerto rico, you have thrown our budget out of whack. we saved a lot of lives. if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous, hundre s s and hundreds and hundreds of people who died, and you look here, what is your death count. 17? >> 16. >> 16 people, verified. versus in the thousands, you can be very proud. >> the san juan mayor called trump, of course, the miscommunicator in chief because of those remarks. the two have been at odds since the president tweeted about her poor leadership. the preside...

There in puerto rico. the president also raising the idea of wiping out puerto rico's debt. we are going to work something out, we have to look at their whole debt structure. the white house releasing no further details but as we've talked about many times the president very familiar with debt and how to recover from these bankruptcies. >> and that's the most precise he's been about it. he talked about the debt, he said something's got to be done. we've got to make some big decisions but that debt is owned by bankers, by hedge funds, by american citizens who have it in their pension funds, rig...

Puerto rico was adding to our -- our budget problems and then he said on fox news that he -- he was advocating for wiping out puerto rico's debt. listen to this. >> well, we're going to work something out. we have to look at their whole debt structure. you know, they owe a lot of money to your friends on wall street and we're going to have to wipe that out. that's going to have to be -- you can say good-bye to that. i don't know if it's goldman sachs but whoever it is, you have to wave good-bye to that. the debt was massive on the island. >> so that's really something. $74 billion in debt the ...