Mazie Hirono actually said...

"You talked about the importance of precedence."

"Your view is that Native Hawaiians do not deserve protections as indigenous people under the Constitution."

"I think that my colleagues from Alaska should be deeply troubled by your views."

"They do not have their own government. They do not have their own elected leaders. They do not live on reservations or in territorial enclaves. They do not even live together in Hawaii."