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After arriving back in the white house in florida, an official release this short statement. the president has been briefed on the state of hawaii's emergency management exercise. this was purely a state exercise. the pacific command this statement came out from commander david. u.s. has detected no missile threat to hawaii. earlier message was sent in error. there will send out a correction message as soon as possible. this was the alert that first went out this morning. it is 7:00 a.m. hawaii time as people are getting their coffee. seek shelter this is not a drill.

Some reporting yesterday that the white house when this happened was scrambling, the staff, the teams were scrambling with what to do, that they didn't know how to respond to this. john kelly when he was the head of the department of homeland security didn't get the opportunity to conduct the drills necessary to sort of teach the senior staff to respond to an emergency. when he left his team never did the drills. they were literally unsure of how to handle the situation. does that comport with your reporting? >> yes. they actually came out with a statement that turned out to be incorrect. they...

Morning as the federal government begins accepting renewal requests from dreamers. jeff bennet is live in west palm beach, florida. what we have heard from the president this morning, the white house weighing in minimally yesterday about what happened in hawaii. >> the president said nothing, david, about what happened in hawaii. he uses his twitter account to weigh in on a number of things. he has not weighed in yet about what happened in hawaii, and we have no other statement beyond what the white house said yesterday other than it was a state exercise. the white house seems very elect tant ...

Weapons, and its delivery capability, no matter what we say or do. so public discourse is not going to have the very big impact on the actuality of north korean nuclear development and delivery capability. however, like i said, if you're on the wrong end of a thermonuclear device, it doesn't much matter who the president of the united states is, it's not going to be very good for you. >> and colonel, the white house statement pointed out that the false alarm was triggered during a state exercise. but officials in hawaii say it was human error made during a shift change when a worker pressed th...

To reassure this country. that's what is truly shocking. >> yeah. he is having a little bit of an audio issue. we'll get to him in a moment. did they handle this in a way that calling it a state exercise before they meant a state controlled exercise? >> something doesn't wash here. it's very clear that this was a panic mode. it was not an exercise of any kind. you do not have an exercise and say this is not a drill. i'm surprised we did not hear anything more on the military side. there should have been more coordination, even the military on the ground to rectify this situation at a much fast...