People of hawaii went through yesterday. This was unacceptable that this happened but it really highlights the stark reality of the people of hawaii facing. Cnn newsroom starts now. Hello there. Im Martin Savidge in for fredricka whitfield. We begin with the argument over what the president did or did not say. The conflicting reports over use of vulgar language. A gross misrepresentation. Senator durbin has been very clear, senator graham has told others that the reports were basically accurate. Are you saying the president did not use the word so widely reported . Im telling you he did not youz the word. Im telling you it is a gross misrepresentation. I didnt hear that word either. So youre saying in that room you didnt hear any of this sort of lumping everybody together. I did not hear derogatory comments about individuals or persons, no. So this sentiment is totally phony, as well, that is attributed to him. I was in a meeting afterwards where those who presented to the president spoke about the meeting and they said those words were used before those words went public. So thats all i can tell you is i heard that account before the account even went public. The president is at his Florida Golf Club today and sweeting blasting democrats and declaring that a bipartisan deal on daca is probably dead. We begin with boris sanchez. What do we know about what the president is doing today . Reporter President Trump spent majority of his day so far at Trump National golf course. He returned to the estate just a little bit over an hour ago. As you noted he is further driving a wedge between democrats and republicans at a very tenue s time because the government is set to shut down in five days unless both parties come to an agreement over budgeting and funding. The issue at heart is the legal status of the dreamers, these 800,000 or so young adults that were brought to the United States illegally as children. While there was already some contentious disagreement between democrats and republicans on the issue the question of the president s comments on haitians and african nations further driving a wedge between the two parties based on what he allegedly said. We should note the president , as you said, was on twitter earlier today saying a deal on daca with democrats was possibly dead. He further tweeted i as president want people coming into our country who will help us become strong and great again. People coming in to a system based on merit. Americafirst. The head of the department of Homeland Security was on the sunday morning talk shows backing up the president she kept the possibility of a daca deal still open though she made the case for separating any kind of immigration issue from the question of funding the government which as we noted was set to shut down midnight on friday. Some democrats however are saying they simply will not discuss a budget deal unless daca is a part of that deal. Here they are speaking to the media earlier today. We need to fund our troops. We need to protect them and increase Homeland Security. These are Vital National security interests we need to fund. To tie it into a daca deal where the actual Expiration Date is in march is irresponsible. I for one would not vote for government funding until we get a deal on daca. The key thing to keep in mind here is that republicans are going to need democrats to pass any kind of budget deal so democrats are using that leverage to get something done on d. R. E. A. M. Ers and daca. Because of the urgency and limited amount of time that lawmakers have to get something done, some in the Republican Party have suggested just passing a continuing resolution, another bill to keep the government funded and then further move the can down the road on this argument as we have seen them do several times since acce september. Plenty to talk about here. Joining me to do just that josh rogen and back with me is cnn political analyst and Princeton University historian and professor. Josh, i will start with you and the president s tweet that daca is probably dead. Ritsther democrats fault. Is the president by just putting that out there hurting a chance of a bipartisan deal now . He is definitely not helping. All we have seen President Trump do is harm the ability of the lawmakers to come up with a bipartisan compromise that gives the president much of what he wants and allows the Daca Dreamers to stay in the country. That compromise rolled out on thursday. There is a deal on the table. It does accommodate what the president is saying he wants about the visa lottery and chain migration and gives a little bit of money for the wall or Border Security and fixes the daca problem for these 800,000 d. R. E. A. M. Ers. Why cant he just take that deal . It seems that they are pushing for a better deal and meanwhile the president is just creating controversy after controversy really throwing the entire process into chaos. Why he is doing that . Basically because he seems to lack the selfcontrol not to do it. I mean, the supporters might think there is a grand plan. You wrote a story for cnn. Com about the president s remarks and you say that its a mistake to dismiss trumps words as a distraction and to normalize the president s behavior would be absolutely reckless. So explain that a bit more. I think if you take these comments and put them in the context of the many, many, many comments he said on twitter, in public about immigration from the very start of his campaign you see exactly where he stands on a lot of these issues. The rhetoric of a president matters. We speak of it as a distraction from the real stuff, the legislation and the regulation but i think he has given legitimacy to a lot of arguments that come from nativist organizations and individuals about immigration that are damaging to hear from the president of the United States. I think that is part of why you have this back lash and the risk we have is that eventually this is normal. Can i ask you this especially from your historian perspective, you listen to white house tapes of previous administrations. Im going back to lbj and nixon. And you hear some really bad stuff. At the same time as they are trying to negotiate bills as l. B. J. Was trying to push forward civil rights there is a time a president has private conversations or no . There is. This wasnt a private conversation at least this meeting. The previous president s have said ho rent s things. We shouldnt use that as the measure. I do agree that what the president said was absolutely outrageous. I guess what im saying is that in trying to negotiate and work a deal it wasnt a totally open meeting, he is expressing something. It was a question, actually, to which he got a response and said here is why. I guess this whole idea, you are always having to be on your guard even when trying to negotiate . I think it is correct. I think it would be good to have some space for president s and legislators to negotiate as they did decades ago. The reality is that doesnt exist. For many reasons from social media to polarized washington environment where there is an incentive to report what has happened i dont think we are going back to that. I think president s will just have to deal with that. That is separate from the comment itself which fits a broader pattern we have heard from the president. Im with you. Josh, sorry, just had the opportunity to talk to a historian there. Today New York Times reporting mitt romney texted a friend saying he is running for the senate in utah to replace retiring senator hatch. Romney has been pretty critical of the president. Im wondering how might a senator romney impact trump . I know a lot of people in the party especially people who have been especially upset are looking towards mitt romney to be a leader who stands up for what we used to know as traditional Republican Values as well as on things such as Foreign Policy and national security. Because of his sheer relationships and large and well known set become a counter weight to the president in the Republican Party and the senate. That is the scenario that ooirng i think a lot of people are looking for. Bob corker, jeff flake, we hope that senator john mccain will be with us for a long time. In the coming years it seems that this sort of Republican Party that we knew before 2016 lacks a standard bearer and the hope at least among the people who believe that the Republican Party can head in that direction is that mitt romney would take up that role. I think we are a long way before we get in there. First he has to run and get elected. Interesting point. Next weekend, by the way, is the oneyear anniversary of the president s inauguration. While a 2020 election is still far away today former Virginia Governor was on state of the union and hinted that he might run against trump. Are you going to challenge him in 2020 . 36 governors will take a big lead. I am doing a project on redistricting. We will see what happens after that. Could you imagine if that ever happened you would have to sell tickets to me. That would be enjoyable. But youre focussed on that but thinking about a debate with President Trump. I think everybody sits around and dreams about a debate with President Trump. Get the truth out there and let the facts speak for themselves. Im not going to qualify this as you throwing your hat in the ring. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your being here. You think that this is the beginning of where the dems can have a crowded field in 2020 like how the republicans did . Mid terms are at least in recent years the moment you see people throw their hat into the ring. I wouldnt be surprised if more people start to at least speculate that they might be in the mix. It will depend on the mid terms. If democrats retake control of one or both chambers you will see a lot of democrats jumping in because they are going to sense that this president is vulnerable to losing in 2020. That is when everyone starts to raise their hand and say im in. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hawaii, that state still is reeling. 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The Honolulu Star advertiser calling out with the headline oopz, wrong button. Lets discuss all of this with hawaii state representative. First off, yesterday thank you for joining us. Good to see you in person. Yesterday was all on the telephone when we spoke. I know you are looking for answers as many people are wanding to know how this possibly could have happened. You gave yesterday a very moving and very personal account of what you and your family were going through. How are you today . Theyre fine today. It was very hectic yesterday. Trying to take the day off today and take the kids to the beach and relax. I think it is easy for people to say it was a mistake so when confronted with your own almost mortality it is shocking to you and young people. So lets get to the business at hand. Have you learned why it took so long to send out a correction notification . They are saying that the reason it took so long is that they didnt have one drafted. To think that the system we have in place couldnt go out in error is a lack of planning. Certainly we need to ensure that there are measures in place to recall. One of the really concerning things are how seriously people take the system. I will suggest that if there is ever another alert that goes out we will have to send a confirmation notice that this is really happening because people will be waiting for a second notice to see that it is another false alarm. 38 minutes to come up with the right words to say its not a real attack. Is that what we are supposed to believe . It is completely unacceptable. We have to do better. Having this hoops headline is not only embarrassing but dangerous. We are looking people didnt die yesterday. There were people who acted a little panicked more than they should have, but were lucky nobody was injured and credit to the people of hawaii who largely kept their cool and endured and are very resilient. The governor i believe said simply a matter of a person hitting the wrong button. Have you learned more details other than that . I havent heard more details on that. But i think we all in this information know there are a lot of areas in our personal lives where we need two step verification to access banking accounts. The fact that we didnt have Something Like that about an alert about an incoming Ballistic Missile is not okay. We are going to be holding a hearing this coming week to get to the bottom of what happened second by second analysis of what happened, why did it happen and really have a larger discussion about what prepar preparedness needs to look like. Is it up to you as representatives to come up with the plan to make sure it doesnt happen like that again . Well, we are not the experts. We write the laws and we are here to represent the people and ask the questions on their behalf. We need to make sure that our state has the resources to hire the right experts to have resiliency and redundancy in the plans. I see my job as to not only hold them accountable for when things go wrong but make sure they have the tools they need to make sure things go right next time. Has this changed anything in hawaii . Whether it is vunerability of where you are out in the pacific . Just the whole feeling in hawaii. Anything change as a result of this . You know, peoples nerves are still pretty raw. So thats a question that i think a lot of people are asking right now. You know, im just glad i was home with my family. A lot of people werent and i can imagine if i was on the highway i probably wouldnt have been driving the speed limit either. I thank god that i was home with my kids and my family. One thing that it does help people realize is what is their plan going to be because the people who didnt take this seriously before are going to take it seriously now, figure out where emergency supplies are for me and my family. I realize my kids werent clear where the emergency supplies and food was. So were working on that personal family plan this weekend. We appreciate the fact that yesterday you spoke to us and we appreciate again you appeared with us. Thank you very much. As people in hawaii were in the state of chaos, what was going on behind the scenes in washington . Cnn military and diplomatic analyst john kirby joins me now. He is also former Pentagon Press sa secretary. What was going on behind the scenes at the pentagon . I suspect the real activity was at the Pacific Command out there in honolulu because it is doubtful that the pentagon would have been made aware of the alert right away. I talked to somebody yesterday and he was out enjoying the weather and was made aware of the alert immediately, called the Operations Center