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Life has been tumultuous in Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria in 2017,

but over the past few weeks things have been insane, and it all kind of culminated yesterday.

David Begno has been covering this movement in Puerto Rico for CBS,

and at times he's even found himself right in the middle of it.

We connected from his hotel in San Juan this morning, and he told me how it all got started.

Well, it all got started when these chats leaked, right?

So the Center for Investigative Reporting in Puerto Rico published 889 pages of chats in Spanish,

between the governor and 11 people who he's associated with, some of the rumor in his cabinet.

And it blew out.

Tonight more protesters on the streets of San Juan demanding Puerto Rico's governor resign.

I should the governor resign.

Because he isn't worthy of being the governor of Puerto Rico.

And it's laced with conversations that are homophobic, racist, misogynistic,

and just plain mean, just like me.

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