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But boy, there are a lot of people relying on him and his government tonight, anderson. >> yeah, texas as well. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. now more on puerto rico, how the president sees it and how differently people there really see if people who, sad to say, who have seen far too much already. hurricane maria hit the commonwealth about a year ago. just recently, as jeff zeleny alluded to, the official death toll was raised from 64 to almost 3,000. and according to researchers from harvard and elsewhere who studied the death toll for months, the government in puerto rico made it diffic...

Who have seen far too much already. hurricane maria hit the commonwealth about a year ago. just recently, as jeff zeleny alluded to, the official death toll was raised from 64 to almost 3,000. and according to researchers from harvard and elsewhere who studied the death toll for months, the government in puerto rico made it difficult to get accurate mortality statistics. and even now in puerto rico, we're seeing powerful reminders of all the things that turn a natural disaster into a worst man-made tragedy. in this case, this one iconic image. our bill moore joins us now from san juan with mor...

His administration. >> you know, one of the things that's often overlooked in the reporting on this death toll is that the government of puerto rico, and the federal government, stuck with this artificially low death toll of 64 people, and they actually made it difficult for reporters and researchers to get accurate statistics to determine what the real death toll was. cnn sued to get mortality statistics from the government of puerto rico. harvard researchers said the government in puerto rico didn't give them access to mortality statistics and numbers that would have helped them in determin...

Nation, or island country like puerto rico. >> frankly, the way these studies were done, they compared both harvard and local universities in puerto rico and in the final study that was done, they compared mortality statistics in the three-month period after the storm to what those mortality statistics would normally be and they came up with this range of the death toll. kirsten powers, senator santorum, max boot, thank you very much. appreciate it. president trump's son, donald trump jr., says he's not worried in the least about going to jail, as a result of the mueller investigation. comin...

Failure to respond to the suffering of our fellow citizens in puerto rico. >> you know, senator santorum, one of the things that the president early on said, and we played the that clip in the last segment is early on when he was down in puerto rico, he talked about this not being a real catastrophe on the scale of katrina. we now know, just if you're talking about death toll alone, it had a greater death toll than all the souls who lost their lives as a result of katrina. and yet the local government in puerto rico, i assume, the federal government as well, they have downplayed this death tol...