Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard joined CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday morning to talk about the false alarm that went out to more than a million Hawaiians on Saturday that a ballistic missile attack was inbound. She said that whatever problem allowed such a mistake to be made must be fixed immediately, but she also spoke about the bigger picture of <i>why</i> Hawaii faces a nuclear threat from North Korea: <blockquote>TULSI GABBARD: I've been talking about the seriousness of this threat for years, since I've come here to Congress. And I've been calling on President Trump to directly negotiate with North Korea, to sit across the table from Kim Jong-un, work out the differences so that we can build a pathway towards denuclearization, to remove this threat. There are a few things that have to happen in order for those negotiations to be successful. First of all, they have to happen without preconditions. And this has been a learned lesson from the decades of failed leadership that the people of Hawaii are paying the price for now, where they set these unrealistic preconditions. For example, saying North Korea, we're only going to talk to you if you first get rid of your nuclear weapons. What would be the point of having a conversation if they get rid of their nuclear weapons? There would be nothing to talk about at that point. But the second issue is understanding why North Korea has developed and is holding on so tightly to these nuclear weapons. Because they see it as the only deterrent against the U.S. coming in and overthrowing their regime there. So that exists as a result, again, of our decades-long regime change world policies around the world, that North Korea is now in a position where Kim Jong-un is saying, no way, I'm not going to give up these nuclear weapons. Because he doesn't see that credible message coming from the United States that we don't -- we're not interested in overthrowing your government. We're interested in removing this nuclear threat from our country in the world.</BLOCKQUOTE>