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Video: Trump on Hurricane Maria

In this week’s fact-checking video, CNN’s Jake Tapper dissects the president’s false tweets about the death toll in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria.

President Donald Puerto Rico’s official estimate of 2,975 hurricane-related deaths, saying that 

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