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Between criticizing the island's infrastructure management and praising his own response to hurricane maria. last week he went further calling into question the death toll from the storm which according to george washington university study stands at nearly 3,000. we'll speak with puerto rico's governor in just a moment. but first let's bring in the dean of the milkin school of public health at george washington university dr. lynn goldman. she's co-author of the study that led to the revision of the official death toll from hurricane maria. i want to read again for our audience president trum...

Peop people. then they hired george washington. this wasn't done with previous hurricanes because other jurisdictions know how many other people killed. 50 times last original number. no way twries president. he blamed democrats for the death toll. let me just specific a little bit and let you answer directly the president's tweet. but the term excess deaths. 2975 excess deaths. what does that term mean exactly >> what that really means is that compared to a normal year when there was no hurricane we would have expected that 2975 people would lost their lives between september of 2017 and febr...

Multiple tweets. he said over many months it went to 64 people and then like magic 3,000 people killed. believe it or not, mr. long, the white house put out a five page backgrounder citing other death toll numbers that were less than the one that the governor of puerto rico accepted. 2,970 people died from the impact from hurricane maria according to to the puerto rican government. does fema accept that number? >> the numbers are all over the place. fema doesn't count deaths. and if you take what's going on with florence, the deaths that are verified by the local county corners, are the ones t...