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Accountability, adopting a merit-based system rewards skills and qualities that include education, fluency and/or job skills. as a prosecutor tasked with protecting our security, i know some of our cases have involved exploitation of vulnerabilities in our system. the attorney general is committed to restoring law and order in our immigration system so that we can address and work to eliminate the vulnerabilities that can be exploited by those seeking to undermine our policy. those are my brief ...

Important to go further. as far as with the border wall, for example, weve had people had say were for a border wall or against the border wall. i think our entire country will be served if we can move further along on this debate than what it means. no one is proposing a 30-foot wall on the mountains of rio grande. some areas have a wall and others need to get fixed so lets address those vulnerabilities. changes to the visa lottery. i dont believe it is enough to pass congress as far as me pers...

National security analyst samantha vinagret. did this false alarm reveal or expose any vulnerabilities? >> i think it definitely did. this was an unfortunate but timely reminder that the threat from north korea is real. this is not a game. thats why we have warning systems, thats why were doing military drills, thats why we are looking at allocation of resources like forces on the korean peninsula. this isnt a game, we know that north korea has both the will and the capability to strike hawaii. ...

How important accurate information is and getting it out there quickly. >> right. that did not happen yesterday. david, i watched as this all happened and people were notified even though it was erroneous and they were notified quickly that they were told a real threat. there is nothing they realized to do after that. in other words, there are no bomb shelters to go to and no civil defense plan that had been clearly outlined to them. they had been told it is incoming and they had no idea what to...

Lifting up the country, not bringing it down. >> i appreciate both of your inputs. its good to have a civil conversation on this. thank you. >> coming up, a false alarm over an incoming missile. it terrorizes hawaii. >> when we got the alarm, we were terrified. we were on the 36th floor of our hotel. we didnt know what to do. >> it begs the question, how in the world did it happen? what vulnerabilities did this possibly expose? thats all up next.

Counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. you saw the mayhem this mistake caused in hawaii. from a national security standpoint, what vulnerabilities did this false alarm expose? >> its not a vulnerability related specifically to hawaii but the united states will experience in the coming years. let me give you a simple bottom line. if you look at traditional nuclear powers that have the ability to reach the united states, russia and china, we may not like them but we have a understanding how they oper...

That state, local and federal officials all work together to spot vulnerabilities in these systems. the sec and log makers on both sides of the ill see what happened in hawaii, the false alarm, the time it took to corrected is unacceptable. not only because the panic that caused the potential harm because the public trust in the emergency alert system. >> is really the case of a single employee could hit the wrong button and send out this kind of alert that system needs to be redesigned. >> thos...

Would be investigating the false alarm. today the chairman says based on what theyve seen so far, quote, it appears that the government of hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert. the chairman went on to say that moving forward with the investigation will focus on what steps need to be taken to ensure that message like this doesnt happen again and state, local and federal officials have to work together to spot vulnerabi...

The expense of what, in the past has been influence for washington. thats the sense in which it is a contest between washington and moscow. >> reporter: senator cardin, always a vociferous critic of president trump, blisters the president and his team in this new report, for, as he puts it, turning a blind eye to the russian threat. >> never before has a u.s. president so clearly ignored such a grave threat and a growing threat to u.s. national security. >> now, tonight, a white house official p...

Vulnerabilities that do exist that we should be dealing with and money should be used to ensure that our border patrol is able to focus on their own job. that where we have a backlog of cases ever, and you have maybe judges and other courtrooms and other parts of the country capable of being able to help reduce a backlog, wherever that exists. that is helpful. technology. i mean, i saw it -- when i was stationed at huachuca, this was over a decade ago, which is right on the border with mexico, t...