about ten minutes after the alert was sent out, hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard confirming it was fake. hello, everybody, i'm kelly wright. >> i'm laura ingel. hawaii has been beefing up security measures. the state tested its warning sirens last year for the first time since the cold war. kelly: and we are joined now on the phone by foreign affairs journalist gordon chang, author of the book nuclear showdown u north korea takes over the world. gordon, good of you to join us today but a very bad and time for people that received warning on cell phones to take shelter, what do you make of this. >> this is a real concern. the reason is first of all the warning system obviously failed and the question that people are going to have to ask is whether it was hacked, if it was hacked but it hack bid foreign power. there are all sorts of issues that we are going to have to deal with. but this highlight the fact that the north koreans at this particular time can actually land a missile in the united states, the one thing they haven't been able to do is master heat shielding and guidance ne

congress gabbard said it. but the real issue north korean capability which will in a couple of years be able to threaten all of the continent ental united states. so it has to be reviteized. >> who is supposed to give the notification? i talked about missile tests in the past, go to the news agency to see what happens here. i take what you are seeing about how people reacted there and i wonder if people were looking at iphones seeing ambiguous warning, didn't know where it came from. odd noise as you said. is this supposed to come from the military? is the u.s. military supposed to it be the outfit, place where we get notice there has been a missile fired like this pure potato he hadly was? >> by the way, the warning was not ambiguous. first time i've heard it on an iphone saines tornados in virginia. and there was a horrendous racket on the iphone followed by a scrolling tape that said, this is no test, inbound missile, and stated it was coming from pacific command. so one would hope, and i'm sure there is an

thankfully false alarm in hawaii and thankfully that congress woman tulsi gabbard grot the information and alerted constituents and were able to calm down 35 minutes after the initial alert went out. all kinds of investigation now to try to figure out whether somebody pressed the button, whether there was a hacking, exactly what led to this, but a tough way to start your day in hawaii, imagine folks on vacation or people who live there who are living under the threat of north korea, hearing those sirens first thing this morning. gillian: you know, that will be the million dollar question now going forward is the investigation into what exactly went wrong. i don't know if we still have lucas with us but maybe we can ask him, lucas, do you have a sense of what the procedure is of taking this forward, how they can rectify the situation or prevent it from happening in the future? >> although it's not a u.s. military system, hawaii's emergency management system, this is a lot like amber alert

so tulsi gabbard probably found out quicker than we did, 10 or 15 minutes from the u.s. military and ha wthat was comint of the region, u.s. command, put out they had no indication of any kind of missile that was inbound or launched. so i'm sure there are a lot of people trying to figure out what happened here. but the people i've spoken with in the military no one can tell me defin tvly that they actually gave any kind of alert to the civilian authorities to send out. so that's one of the pieces of the puzzle that we don't have answered. we don't have put together yet. is how is it that someone got the word to send out the push alert. because as of now i have no cages th indication that came from the u.s. military. >> still a lot of confusion. public information officer on hawaii telling us on a difficult line there was some mistake from the button that shouldn't have been pushed. of course something different from the white house. federal communications chairman is looking over this, fcc seeing how the push alert would have been sent out. covering the pentagon, we'll c

hawaii democratic congresswoman actual tulsi gabbard has an ideo prevent it from happening again. i've been calling on president trump to sit across the table with kim jong-un to work out the differences so we can build a pathway towards denuclearization. we need to get to the underlying issue. what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat? kennedy: there is any chance of a one upon one final word for our viewers sit-down? for a one upon one sit-down. >> it's absolutely naive. if this could have been done, it would have been done by president obama. he right in 2010. and it didn't work then. so that's why we had this program of strategic patience because they knew they couldn't talk to kim as much as they wanted to. clinton wanted to talk to kim. especially at the ends of his second term. the problem is the kills think they don't need to talk to us. if we do what gabbard wants which is to talk without preconditions, we'll be behind the ball because we are not holding them to the promises they made in the bush administration. i do think it's naive. i agree with her

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joining us now is the hawaii congresswoman, tulsi gabbard, a member of the foreign affairs committee. i quickly want to get your reaction to what is so widely reported about what the president said to the lawmakers. >> growing up in hawaii we learn about and i believe in what's called the aloha spirit and what that means is showing respect to others no matter their race or religion or what country they come from or how much money or education they have or anything else. unfortunately his comments fly directly in the face of that aloha spirit and the values our country stands on. it's important for us as we look at this and the path forward to remember that our nation for generations has been shining light on the hill for so many immigrants. people who sought to come here sometimes risking their lives to seek that opportunity and be in a country of freedom and opportunity not only for themselves, but their families and have the true sense of appreciation of what that means. coming from countries, they don't have the freedoms. >> the words were incredibly ugly, but do you believe the pr

kelsey gabbard of hawaii calls it unacceptable, she wants president trump to do more to quell tensions with the north. >> the people of hawaii are paying the price for decades of failed leadership in this country to prevent us from getting to this point where we are dealing with this threat today. setting unrealistic preconditions. i've been calling for president trump to sit across the table from kim jong un without preconditions. work out the differences, figure out a way to build this pathway towards denuclearization. >> harris: president trump is sounding optimistic, watch. >> people are on edge but maybe eventually we will solve the problem so they will have to be so on edge. we are going to see what happens with north korea. we have great talks, the olympics you know about, a lot of things can happen. >> harris: i am joined by lee selden of new york, a member of the foreign affairs committee. great to have you, congressman. first of all i want to get the lay of the land. have we never tested a system like that in hawaii? don't we do normal drills and alerts like this? >> sure and

but you just played tulsi gabbard and what she said on television. she and brian schatz, the senator from hawaii, have done a lot, i think, to say that a lot of systems broke down here. and they did a lot yesterday. they snapped into action after this first happened to say on twitter, this is a false alarm. everyone remain calm. i think those two younger leaders from that state have done a lot, and we need to hear more from the trump administration about this. >> yeah, and to that end, i just want to say, i have been getting texted from a friend of mine, karen, who lives in hawaii. she said people are so something mad that trump has never addressed this, instead, today, talking about wolff's book and fake news. is there anything the president could do to have gotten out and be part of this conversation and calmed the concerns of the citizens in the 50th state? >> you said the operative word there, anything. he didn't do anything. he was, as we know, on the golf course yesterday. and has been doing the regular tweeting that he normally does, and didn'

tulsi gabbard sent tweets there was no missile threat.not the main issue. >> what makes me angry is, yes, that this false alarm went out and we have to fix that in hawaii, but really we've got to get to the underlying issue here of why are the people of hawaii and this country facing a nuclear threat coming from north korea today and what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat? >> officials say it took so long to cancel the false alarm because they had no template for that. an omission that's now been fixed. a manager on duty will also have to confirm any future alerts. president trump calls it a state issue. the white house says he was briefed, although he did not mention the issue for more than a day while tweeting on other topics. barbara starr reports the pentagon is about to issue its nuclear posture review, a draft leaked shows senior defense officials not only want to modernize the aging u.s. arsenal, they want to add new ways of waging nuclear war as russia, china and other adversaries bolster their own arsenals

celsea gabbard is a congresswoman from the state of hawaii.ng to us. what is going on? >> well, the people of hawaii just got a taste of the stark reality of what we face here with a potential nuclear strike on hawaii. every single cell phone in hawaii just got this text message saying that a ballistic missile is incoming, take shelter, this is not a drill. so you can only imagine what kicked in where people start questioning. over 1 million people in my state of hawaii are being faced with the reality that they've got 15 minutes to find a place to take shelter. where do they find shelter to protect them and their families from a nuclear attack. it's crazy. >> how did it happen? >> we're still waiting on the details. the officials that i've spoken to said it was an inadvertent message essentially sent out as a mistake. the reality -- and we'll get to the bottom of that but the reality and what i hope people across this country and the leaders of this country here is that this is a real threat facing hawaii. people got this message on their pho

i want to get straight to democratic congresswoman, tulsy gabbard of hawaii. she's also a veteran and a member of the house armed services committee. so first, how are people in hawaii doing? that must have been unbelievably traumatic. >> i think traumatic understates the experience that the people of hawaii went through yesterday. getting that alert that went out to over a million cell phones, all across the state, not to speak of the visitors who were there who got that same alert, saying an incoming missile is headed your way, take shelter, this is not a drill. hawaii has just started a few months ago, these monthly nuclear attack sirens as a test. and telling people, hey, you've got -- you hear this siren, you've got 15 minutes to seek shelter. so, when the people of hawaii got this message yesterday, they're literally going through this feeling of, i've got minutes to find my loved ones, to say my last good-byes. to figure out where could i possibly find shelter that would protect them from a nuclear attack. and not having an answer to those questions, th

about ten minutes after the alert was sent out, hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard confirming it washello, everybody, i'm kelly wright. >> i'm laura ingel. hawaii has been

what tulsi gabbard said over the weekend. >> what makes me angry is just a false alarm when out and weave to fix that in hawaii, but we've got to get to the underlying issue of why you're the people of hawaii in this country facing a nuclear threat from north korea today and what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat? >> don bolton, fox news contributor. your reaction to that. moments after the alert went out, before we knew it was a false alert, tulsi gabbard said demanding peace come in that president trump sue for peace was a classic appeasement sentence. >> she also said the reason north korea was seeking nuclear weapons was because of our record of overthrowing regimes in that kim jong un and his predecessors one of these which is a badly misinformed and irresponsible understanding of history. the north korea nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs began in the early 1990s or late may 1880s perhaps well before any of that it happened. but i think it is important for everybody to understand, this failure in hawaii with a state failure. it was a bad mistak

but this was not real. 12 minutes after tusli gabbard said this is a false alarm. norrad with assets in place to detect a missile approaching saw the state had not corrected the alert so clarified saying the message was sent in error. but hawaiian officials didn't send out that correction message statewide for 38 minutes. >> this should not have happened. >> reporter: the governor says this was a result of human error. >> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working and an employee pushed the wrong button. >> reporter: but tonight many are asking why did it take so long for a correction to go out? >> we need to work on the response time. if anything like this happens, the cancellation got to go right away. >> reporter: definitely some very big questions right now and stephanie joins us from the pentagon. stephanie, those warning systems are controlled by federal agent skis but tonight the blame is being blaised squarely on hawaii. >> reporter: absolutely, cecilia. the state's warning system is a

. >> reporter: congresswoman tulsi gabbard sent her own tweet telling people it was a false alarm. the explanation for the errant message? someone hit the wrong button, not once, but twice. vern miyagi is administrator for the state's emergency management agency. >> i accept responsibility for this. this is my team. we made a mistake. >> they took responsibility but there has to be action. >> reporter: hawaii's governor says the employee who claims to have pushed the wrong button feels terrible about what happened. the governor doesn't want anymore practicing of the emergency alert system until a full investigation is done and when it is complete, the governor wants two people to now be involved in pressing that button. elaine. >> quijano: david begnaud, david, thank you. next saturday marks one year since president trump took office. a new cbs news poll out today shows 35 percent of americans think the country overall is better off now than it was a year ago. 43 percent say things are worse. 21 percent say things are about the same. the president is spending the holiday weekend at

. >> sreenivasan: democratic representative tulsi gabbard was the first public official to report the false alarm on twitter, and used it as a reminder of the danger her state faces from north korea. >> this was unacceptable that this happened. but it really highlights the stark reality the people of hawaii are facing. >> sreenivasan: iran's president, hassan rouhani ridiculed president trump for trying and failing to kill off the iranian nuclear deal. in a speech today, rouhani called out president trump's efforts to overturn the agreement. >> ( translated ): he hasn't succeeded so far. this shows the deal is solid, and it means a victory for international commitments, it means a victory for law over dictatorship. >> sreenivasan: rouhani's remarks come days after the u.s. targeted 14 high ranking iranian individuals and entities with new sanctions in response to the handling of weeks of often violent protests there. also in iran, the government is claiming that it released hundreds of people arrested during those protests, but it's still unclear how many remain behind bars. a prosecu

>> i have got a lot of belief in congresswoman gabbard. somebody who is independent that can come in and look at it and say show me what you were doing. try to recreate it. and hold somebody accountable. you can't just say it's a mistake and pat them on the back and let them keep doing their job. judge jeanine: if there is a consequence yen, there should ba con question -- there should bea consequence for the 38 minutes it took to figure it out. >> supposedly they were doing a drill than was a shift change. who is in charge? what if there was a missile attack coming in. it should be a wake-up call for hawaii and for emergency management across the country. it could be an quake and a lot of things. judge jeanine: the information we got this week is devin nunes made it clear he believes the dossier, the fake, make believe dossier paid for by the dnc and hoik's campaign was part of the application for the fisa warrant and there are suggests real clear abuse of government surveillance by the fbi and justice department. >> the dossier was a bog

you just heard gabbard. she said the president isn't taking the threat from north korea seriously. is he? >> it's another dumb statement by politically motivated democrat. what could she possibly think the talking point for such a meeting would be? when she refers to failed leadership, the problem started when the clinton administration had direct conversation with the north koreans and then gave them the food and money to allow them to develop this nuclear program. the only people with economic leverage against the north koreans are the south koreans, the chinese, and to some extent, the russians. those have to engage in the conversation. there's going to be a conversation between the south koreans and north koreans. the south korean president gives president trump full credit for having catalyzed that meeting. let me discussed the broader issue. you will see in 2018 a constant flow of dumb political statements by the democrats attacking everything the president says without ever coming up with substance or ideas or policies. i suggest people with this in the column of another eff

the hawaii congress one and gabbard says she hopes the false alarm will help the trump administration step up peace talks with north korea. >> i have been calling on president trump to sit across the table from kim jong-un without preconditions. there is so much at stake. the people of hawaii recognized this yesterday, experienced it personally. the leaders of this country need to experience that same visceral understanding of how lives are at stake. eric: joining me is former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. and chairman of the gates stone institute in new york. should the president take it congresswoman's advice and sit across the table from kim jong-un? >> of course not. here is what goes into this negotiation. maybe the congresswoman knows what the compromise position. but north korea is not going to voluntarily give you have that capability. i think what this mistake in hawaii really shows is we have gotten complacent over several decades about the threat of nuclear weapons. if you are a baby boomer you remember doing duck and cover at school. but there is a millenn

rachel: representative gabbard is not the only one blaming trump. hollywood jumped in.ere are only two explanations and only two, okay? number one for hollywood, either they are really this stupid and they believe that trump had something to do with this or secondly, they are lying because they have tds trump derangement system to destroy business model large swath of movies never see their movies because of comments like this. pete: comments immediately going to the president. i go back to tulsi gabbard it took her five words to get to trump's name. iraq war veteran. usually thoughtful. we want peace. to get to peace we have to have socialer minded people to have policies that actually work to. points the finger at president trump as dan bongino said is a butt dial mistake alert. leland: that was pretty funnely, actually. why go right there. this is a complicated policy that deserves a solution. leland: why go there? if you want to talk about north korea and who is to blame, you go back to the clinton administration. you go back to a failed nuclear deal there. pete: 19

congresswoman tulsi gabbard is angry. >> where they can take shelter from a nuclear bomb coming their? one thing that i have been calling for for a long time is direct talks to actually happen between the united states and north korea, between president trump and kim jong un. kelly: president trump talking to reporters saying they would be working with hawaii and also was asked about north korea? >> we will see what happens with north korea. we have great talks going on, the olympics you know about, a lot of things can happen. kelly: as for the false alert, governor david says the worker who hit the wrong button prompting the chilling alert has been reassigned pending an investigation. fcc says there were not enough safeguards in place to prevent the mistake which emergency management system acknowledges in hawaii, state lawmakers announced they will hold a hearing this friday. heather. heather: lots of question on how this happened, thank you so much, kelly, we will talk more about that. hawaii's missile warning mishap raising red flag over protocols to be triggered like this in the

hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard did not shy away from explaining the severity of the situation. she spoke to cnn earlier. >> this is not just about what happened to hawaii. i hope that people across the country, that leaders here in washington are paying attention to what people went through and what the consequences of that can be. we are facing a very direct nuclear threat from north korea. we have to get to the issue of why are the people of hawaii in this country facing a nuclear threat coming from north korea today and what is this president doing urgently to eliminate that threat? i have been calling on president trump to directly negotiate with north korea, to sit across the table from kim jong un and work out the differences so we can build a pathway to denuclearization to remove this threat. >> we have people with some answers. the global affairs analyst, thank you both for joining me. >> good to be here. >> first off, david, it staggers my mind. i was on the air when this happened. how does something like this happen? >> the technology. it was extraordinary that they c

within minutes after the initial panic, hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard tweeted debunking the threat down. ( laughter ) you know who was weirdly silent about it on twitter? donald trump. and this was made for him. it's literally fake news! ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) also, i've got to say -- "sad!" ( laughter ) but he finally got around to addressing the situation yesterday. >> well, that was a state thing but we're going to now get involved with them. >> stephen: which prompted this message to be blasted around hawaii. "alert: people of hawaii. donald trump wants to get involved. seek shelter. this is not a drill!" ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) we'll be right back with john lithgow. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) hello, aloe. kelp is on the way! with herbal essences bio:renew made with active antioxidants that work from the inside out... to help animate lifeless hair. let life in with herbal essences bio:renew. you're more than just a bathroom disease.. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our

juan, i feel tulsi gabbard made the leap to north korea a very political leap. it had nothing to do with north korea. he's got a focus on the incompetents. you don't jump and blame trump for his relationship with north korea. that's absurd. >> juan: i don't think it's absurd. that's where the threat comes from. >> greg: the threat was there incompetence. >> juan: the threat is that north korea's 4500 miles from hawaii. so everybody wants to deal with the source of the threat. you can talk about if this was badly managed, and i agree with jesse 100%. if you knew in 5 minutes it was a false alarm, why did it take you 32 mack 40 minutes to tell the public. you like anything to defend trump. >> greg: this is huge. >> juan: what you see is that trump didn't take it seriously so you should be screaming at trump. he never responded. one of the complaints from the people you loathe, jamie lee curtis, montel williams, all those people are saying crickets. nothing from the president of the united states. >> greg: you want them to respond emotionally? >> juan: i think he s

. >> martha: with regard to the first comment, here's representative kelsie gabbard making the point you disagreed with. >> this is not just about what happened to hawaii. this is where i hope that people across the country, that leaders here in washington are paying attention to what people went through and what the consequences of that can be. so we are facing a very direct nuclear threat from north korea. >> yeah. she went on to argue that we were responsible for north ko a korea's nuclear program. the program began after seven years when she was born in the late 80s or early 1990s. you know, this is the kind of irresponsible and ill informed commentary that really makes it very hard to alert people to the real dangers and the important decisions that have to be made to prevent states like north korea and iran from getting nuclear weapons. >> martha: what about "the new york times" assessment that general mattis is not in the same camp with others potentially including president, that want to have -- he wants to have obviously all the options ready, but he prefers a diplomatic pat

congresswoman tulsi gabbard the first public official to clear the air in a tweet. >> i knew the priority was to get the message out to people. i knew, like me and my family, people were panicked. >> reporter: that wasn't until 38 agonizing minutes after the initial warning. officials finally retracting the threat with a state-wide public civil emergency message. >> there is no missile threat or danger to the state of hawaii. false alarm. >> there's no question there has been an epic failure of both processes and leadership. >> reporter: the governor explaining how this totally unacceptable mistake was a result of human error. >> it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working. and, an employee pushed the wrong button. >> reporter: an almost end-of-the-world experience with thousands of tourists in a paradise. including these honeymooning newly weds. >> the hyatt staff will instruct you to the lower levels of the hotel. >> reporter: and as you can imagine, everyone from all levels of government is now investigating how a

hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard tweeting out hawaii there is a false alarm. incoming missile to hawaii. i have confirmed with officials there is no incoming missile. president trump received a briefing on the situation in hawaii. a white house official stressing the error happened on a state level, not federal. hawaii's governor also confirming the mistake saying someone pushed the wrong button which led to all of the confusion. >> obviously there was a breakdown in procedure that allowed the false alarm to occur. it's regrettable and we will be looking at all of the policies and procedures that occur at the change of shifts and other times that may be vulnerable to make sure that this event does not happen again. arthel: bryan llenas is live from our new york city newsroom with more on this. >> for the better part of half hour there are some folks in hawaii that thought they were going to die in a missile attack. i mean that is literally what we're talking about here. that alert came out at 8:07 hawaii time. this alert reading quote, ballistic missile threat

they have a hawaii congressman, tulsi gabbard, who literally is tryinger to blame president tru, if the dog bites, the bee stings, you're feeling sad, it's trump's fault. take a look. >> this is the reality that people in hawaii are facing, there is a nuclear threat coming from north korea, it could come at any time. this is a a reality that our country faces and why our leaders, why donald trump needs to take action, negotiate with north korea, get rid of this nuclear threat so that this is not something that people of hawaii and my home state of this country have to live with, this could have been a real threat coming in and we better take this seriously. we've got to resolve the situation and get rid of this nuclear threat, achieve peace, so that this is not something that we have to live with as a new reality. >> sean: can you see that, cnn? more fake news. by the way, the hollywood left, they are also blaming the president. this iss insane. jim carrey tweeted out an image of a mushroom cloud and wrote... calm down. jamie lee curtis tweeted this... okay.. hehe didn't. now pretty unb

. >> it seems that the first word that anybody got was not real, a false alarm, a tweet by tulsi gabbardw is that an acceptable way to go about that? >> no, it's not. our first word, a cousin of ours is in the air force. we got word from him and a cyberexpert, my sister-in-law, that it was a false alarm. we pushed that message out, too. 38 minutes is when the department of emergency management got that out and it's not okay. i'd like to talk about what the president said, saying he wanted to offer this support. you know, we're in this situation in part because of his inflammatory rhetoric. you had scaramucchi talking about style and content. his style is married to his content. it's disdain and enemies alike. and his content is offensive. if he knew remotely about diplomacy, people would not be so frightened. but because of the style of leadership that we have, we have to plan for these things. and we lack the resources to have, obviously, the proper experts in charge to put these systems in place. and now, we end up in this kind of situation. now, i'm not saying that this false alarm is

david: why congressman tulsi gabbard blaming the united states for north korea's nuclear arsenal, chargebc host george stephanopoulos off-guard. we have lieutenant-general mcinerney. general, we are responsible for north korea's nuclear arsenal and you say what? >> i'm stunned that she could say that david. all these years they have not had nuclear weapons and have we taken since the end of korean war any action against them, even though when they shot down a super cony and all the rest of isn't is she clueless? where has she been for last 25 years initially clinton, bush, obama enabled the north koreans to develop this nuclear capability? we funded them money because they said they wouldn't. they lied to us. david: they sure did. they had other reasons. it was not just us. what do you think happened on saturday? you used to be involved with our nuclear arsenal so far as the air was involved in the triad. what happened? >> well, they made a mistake. it is that simple but let's take the best lesson out of it. let's make sure we have credible deterrents there. let's not focus on a person h

brian: the congresswoman tulsi gabbard had to put it on facebook.how could she not have access to government agencies or a state agency to pull this down? >> well, so the state emergency management authority is in charge of putting those alerts into fema's system which then distributes it to the wireless carriers that served hawaii. and so part of the issue that we're looking at is are there any steps that we need to take of federal, state officials working together to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again because i think the last thing we want is for our elected officials, citizens, everybody, to be scrambling thinking there really have a missile coming to hawaii or any other kind of emergency. steve: well, probably because the message said this is not a test. >> exactly. steve: this scared a lot of people. so the state employee has been reassigned not a drill -- that's what it said at the bottom this is not a drill. the state employee has been assigned to another position this person made honest mistake. not going to be fired. i

. >> hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard. >> it took 38 minutes before it went out. >> he was far away from his wife and children. >> felt like i could do something but felt helpless. i was sitting there kind of bawling my eyes out. >> reporter: in the aftermath people in hawaii were confronted with this question. what would you do if this was the real thing. >> a wakeup call. hey, wait a minute. i don't know what to do. our opportunity is to get the information to the people. >> reporter: you know, it took 38 minutes to correct the first tweet because what they actually had to do, they had to get an i.t. guy at home to compose a message, get a template in the system and send a new alert out that says, hey, guys, false alarm. now the template exists. he said, i don't want you practicing anymore and when you do, i want two people to be involved in every test. >> amazing. thank you, david. >>> the immigration debate in congress is stalled after president trump's reported ruse of a vulgarity to describe haiti, el salvador, and some african nations. last night the president denied he's a r

. >> reporter: hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard was one of the first to correct the error on twitter. >> 36 minutes of terror before this message went out saying sorry, false alarm. >> i don't usually panic. >> reporter: noah tom was far from his wife and children when the alert was issued. >> i felt totally helpless. i'm sitting there just kind of balling my eyes out. >> reporter: in the aftermath, people across hawaii were confronted with this question. what would you do if this was the real thing? >> wake-up call. say, hey, wait a minute, i don't know what to do. our opportunity right now is to reach out and get that information through to people. >> reporter: you know, it took 38 minutes to correct the first tweet because what they actually had to do is get an i.t. guy at home to compose a message, then put a template in the system, then get a new alert out saying hey, guys, false alarm. now that template actually exists. it's ready to go. it's not going to take 38 minutes. for the time being, though, the government says i don't want you guys practicing this anymore and when you

gabbard: too often when we think of human trafficking as a tragedy, we think it goes on in someone else's country, in some other place other than our home. most people are surprised to learn that thousands of men, women, and children right here in the united states are enslaved by human trafficking every year. in my home state of hawaii, an estimated 1,500 to 2,500 victims are impacted each year with girls as young as 10 and 11 years old recruited and kidnapped from malls, beaches, and schools. as we work to confront and stop perpetrators of human trafficking, we also need to change the way that we treat survivors of this heinous crime. because even after the horrors that these individuals go through of rape, physical abuse, kidnapping and so much more, these survivors are too often charged as criminals themselves, thrown in jail and shackled with a criminal record that follows them wherever they go. we need to end this cycle of criminalization and give survivors an opportunity to heal and move on with their lives by passing the trafficking survivors relief act. as human trafficking aware

gabbard: a prom that exists to allow our government to surveil foreigners on foreign soil, but which has also allowed our government to collect, search nd communications of everyday americans without a warrant. and with blatant disregard for our fourth search communications amendment constitutional rights. we have a very important responsibility here in congress a balance between national security, keeping the american people safe, while also protecting our actually protected freedoms. i urge my colleagues to vote for our bipartisan u.s.a. rights amendment today which maintains necessary authorities to keep the american people safe while also simultaneously protecting our civil liberties. unfortunately, opponents of this u.s.a. rights amendment are pushing fear tactics and misinformation. don't fall for it. let us make this critical choice. vote to keep our country safe. vote to uphold our constitutional rights that so many have fought and died to protect. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i request unanimous

gabbard: hawaii has long enjoyed a special relationship with japan and has been shaping r history and collective story. i recogni three special leaders, stephanie, mildred and tom, three members of the japanese cultural society of maui who have been dedicating the heritage in the county. these three leaders have gone above and beyond working to strengthen ties between hawaii and japan. they create sister city relationships, organize cross cultural and educational opportunities, cultivate the stories of the first japanese immigrants to hawaii and so much more. in recognition of their many contributions and legacies, they have been selected for awards from the japanese cultural society of maui. thank you for your service to the people of hawaii. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, bruised and battered christian mccaul's wife reporting that her husband w