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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, that's 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 is right that to build confidence again, you are going to have to not only do an investigation but ...

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 we're receiving alerts on social media about this fake alert in hawaii, then you have to imagine some of our hal l allies are seeing it. south korea, china. did the presid...

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 hawaii's emergency management exercise, this was purely a state exercise. they are not responding to many of our questions here specifically how the president responded to news that this false alarm wa...

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 ballistic missile threat to hawaii. earlier message was sent in error. the state of hawaii will send out a ...

This as a hook to kind of hammer him on something else? >> it's interesting it's 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, it's 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, such all-time high level of tension. arthel: in that statement we had from white house, white hou...