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

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 don't know yet exactly what happened here. the military is trying to figure that out as well as hawaiian officials as we heard from jacob there ...

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, it's 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, we've detected an inbound ballistic missile threat, you are the intended target. that is the only time ever that the alert that went out is supposed to go out. never in terms of a drill. in fact, the message itself said th...

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All-clear? >> i'm not familiar, christi, with the processes within hawaii for sheltering in place. if all of those things are true, then it's not a very good situation. this particular event yesterday was horrible and i'm 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 understand that if a missile is coming in or not. so it would actually begin with the notification ...