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Tweeting out this is a false alarm. it does not really add up that they were not able to confirm it faster but again, thats where we had the investigation now looking into. i want to ask you kimberley of some messages we were hearing from a white house official saying this was a state exercise and there is no indication that this was an exercise, white house is not saying when or where the president was briefed. is this unusual of disconnect? >> because it shows false all along the chain. julia ...

Management exercise. this was purely a state exercise. they later clarified and said that it was a state controlled exercise meaning that it was under the purview of officials within hawaii and not any federal agency. the white house though not answering key questions, specifically when was the president briefed, when he found out whether or not he contacted anyone at the pentagon or his national security council, further if were receiving alerts on social media about this fake alert in hawaii, ...

Sanchez, he is in florida following the president down there. boris, what are you hearing from white house officials? >> literally just moments ago, we got a response from the white house to the questions about what the president was doing when this false alarm alert was set out. the white house responding to our request for comments writing, quote, the president has been briefed on the state of hawaiis emergency management exercise, this was purely a state exercise. they are not responding to m...

First news broke. we have not received a statement from a white house official. we have not received a tweet directly from the president on this issue. but let me read this. the president has been briefed on the state hawaii as emergency management exercise. this was purely a state exercise. emphasizing this was not a federal controlled issue. this was a state-controlled issue. and the united states pacific command, that commander also sent out a statement this morning for us detected no ballist...

This as a hook to kind of hammer him on something else? >> its interesting its really hard to say whether they will be able to do that, but i mean, we see with the statement the white house put out today from the president, its clear that they had very minimal information on this, and i think lawmakers might want to know why the white house was so brief on what happened with really something that is getting more attention now than maybe a couple years ago because the situation with north korea, ...

John peterson who is in hawaii says that in reaction to receiving this incredible message on his phone, under he says quote - under mattresses in the bathtub with my wife, baby and in-laws. please lord, let this bomb threat not be real. another person tweeted jillian, sheltered in place in our bathroom with our pets. but i was sobbing the whole time trying to get east coast family on the phone. we have a tweet also from brian who is a senator in hawaii. again, false alarm. what happened today is...

They are stable states. north korea is stable but it could be unstable. there are a lot of disturbing signs out of pyongyang. our military doesnt talk to his military. thats a problem for us. we need to discuss this with the north koreans. i hope the south koreans instill that sense of deterrence. i think we have to impose a lot of costs on china before they come to the table. >> gordon chang, thank you very much, always a pleasure to talk to you and get your take on these. thank you very much, ...

White house official, the president has been briefed on the state of hawaiis emergency management exercise, this was purely a state exercise. lets bring in jonathan, former communications director at the u.s. mission to do un. jonathan, what do you make of that? >> its oo early to make judgment calls, we have to really figure out whats groining on here because speculation can cause a lot of disruption and confusion and we need to really, really get to the bottom. this is not a trivial matter. yo...

On the state employees emergency exercise. adding this was purely a state exercise. >> is bringing phil keating q is live from mar-a-lago where the president is this weekend. >> the president was still at his golf club wrapping up down the street about 4 and a half hours of golfing this morning. afterwards now he is back in mar-a-lago, the word came out that this false alarm came from the state of hawaii emergency operations center. we now have a statement for a white house official. this is not...

Emergency management exercise. this was purely a state exercise. and pacific command responsible for the pacific region this statement from the commander -- has detected no ballistic missile threat to hawaii. earlier message was sents -- sent in error. the state of hawaii will send a correction message as soon as possible. this was the original alert, 8:07 a.m. hawaii time. quote ballistic missile threat in bound to hawaii. seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. again, it took 38 minutes f...