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>> good day, everyone. im alex witt here in new york at msnbc headquarters where its 1:00 in the east, 10:00 a.m. out west. heres whats happening. the s-word war of words. now one of the republicans from the white house daca meeting says the presidents right, senator durbins dead wrong. >> what we have going on here right now is a gross misrepresentation. im telling you, he did not use that word, george, and im telling you its a gross misrepresentation. how many times you want me to say that? >>...

This is when the military of course is the one who would first detect an incoming missile and who would send the alert to the civilian authorities there in hawaii. and there is several different military commands that do that. there is u.s. strategic command, u.s. northern command and u.s. pacific command who would be responsible for them directly alerting the officials, civilian officials there in hawaii and send the push out to all the residents. we dont know yet exactly what happened here. th...

Now inside that command center. essentially, what is supposed to happen in that room is there are two state warning officers on duty at any time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. if the telephone inside that room rings, its a very specific secure telephone, and u.s. pacific command is on the other line, they would get a message that would say this is u.s. pacific command, weve detected an inbound ballistic missile threat, you are the intended target. that is the only time ever that the alert t...

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All-clear? >> im not familiar, christi, with the processes within hawaii for sheltering in place. if all of those things are true, then its not a very good situation. this particular event yesterday was horrible and im sure very traumatic for anyone that lived on the island. but because it was a test that went awry and started from the wrong direction. usually, it is not the emergency management association that starts the warning. they, in fact, receive information from military sources that un...

>> lessons from the incident that left residents and visitors in the 50th state panicked with fear. plus at least one prominent paper says the president should bare some responsibility for the fallout from the false missile attack. at odds, a new dispute over what president trump said in a newspaper interview about kim jong-un. has he ever spoken to him? do they have a very good relationship? plus the latest from that report donald trumps personal lawyer paid a porn star to buy her silence. ...

Instilling fear in hawaii and receives that message. there were many minutes that passed before we got clarity whether or not that message was in fact factual that ballistic missile was headed towards hawaii. it was not. we spoke with the congressman from the second district in hawaii tull city gabbard who she called authorities and said it was not truth. sent out a tweet and trying to follow what it means for preparedness going forward. going to nbc news, the pentagon responsible for monitoring...

Sirens. there were 394 sirens across the state of hawaii that are supposed to sound in the event of a ballistic missile incoming, and the notification sounded from that center. there were no sirens sounded. it was only the text message. so it led to a lot of confusion, particularly on our part. and it was only after those very terrifies 38 minutes that they were able to get the word out again that this indeed was not a ballistic missile incoming. it was a big fat mistake. >> and i wanted to shar...

Everybody i hawaii think that there was this incoming ballistic missile. but the governor said thats not all that went wrong. him and his top officials identified a few problems in addition to the fact that the alert went out. it took the government 38 minutes to be able to issue a correction letting everybody know that this was not -- this was a false alarm. there was no missile, you know. the pacific command which the military division that is responsible for the pacific, including hawaii had ...

Immediately. >> reporter: just after 8:00 a.m. in hawaii, pandemonium in paradise. hysteria triggered by a false alarm. the terrifying message screamed across cell phones throughout the state. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii, seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. >> weve seen people starting to run. >> the hotel staff came and told my parents, seek shelter. you only have 12 minutes. >> um-hum. >> the mistake was part of an early warning system put into place amid rising tension...