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Arrived at the death count. i mean, obviously, if it was over a period of months, i mean, a lot of factors can go into that, and maybe that's some of the questioning of that, i don't know. but all the things you've described are things that the federal government and the people -- the government of puerto rico should not be proud of. they should be transparent and they should try to get to the bottom of it. and i would think it would be in the interest to try to learn what you can to learn from what you can do in the future to find out what the consequences of these things on an island nation,...

You. you did not do a good job in puerto rico. if he thinks that 3,000 people dying on his watch is a good news story or is an unsung success, you know, nobody's going to be singing his praises because this was a despicable act of neglect on the part of 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 th...

Puerto rico, i assume, the federal government as well, they have downplayed this death toll from the beginning. i mean, there were people early on saying, you know, it's not just 16 or 17, which the governor was saying to the president then, and then for most of the last year, it's been an official death toll of 64. cnn literally sued in puerto rico to get access to mortality statistics a harvard team says that they weren't given access to mortality statistics. they still came up with a death toll in the thousands. and now, finally, this last counting, which was done with the aid of -- with th...

Silence and complacency of the local government in puerto rico. and after the harvard study came out last wednesday, on friday the government of puerto rico said that the death tollas 1,197, which 20 times more than what they had said initially. >> the other startling thing is according to harvard researchers and others who did this survey -- and again it's not a totally comprehensive survey. but they did go on the ground interviewing people going to a number of towns findut a sampling of what they believe the death toll is. they say that the local ment i not cooperate with them, did not give ...

Supply chain of aid. and the other thing was the silence and complacency of the local government of puerto rico. after the harvard study came out last wednesday, on friday the death toll was set to 1,297 which was 20 times more than what they had said. >> according to the harvard researchers and others that did this survey, and again, not a totally comprehensive survey, but they did go on the ground and interviewing people going to a number of towns to find out a sampling of what they believe the death toll is, they say the local government in puerto rico did not cooperate with them, and did n...