united states who have been committed to reconciliation for the past 70 years. 70 years later, those who fought each other so fiercely have become friends, bonded in spirit. and they have become entrusted in friendship, deep between us. the japan/u.s. alliance which came into the world has to be an alliance of hope for the world. so i appealed in the speech, one year has passed since then. this time, president obama for the first time as leader of the united states paid a visit to hiroshima, the city which suffered the atomic bomb here.

u.s. president -- of the atomic bombings and renewing his determination for a world free of nuclear weapons. this gives great hope to people all around the world who have never given up their hope for a world without nuclear weapons. i would like to give a whole hearted welcome to this historic visit which have been awaited not only by the people of hiroshima, but also by the japanese people. i express my sincere respect to the decision and courage of president obama. with his decision and courage, we are opening a new chapter to

the reconciliation of japan and the united states. and in our history of trust -- >> so here we're listening to the prime minister of japan talk about the long established trust and reconciliation between the two nations of the united states and japan. obviously, history in the making right here as we watch the prime minister stand beside the president. the president in his own remarks saying we need the courage to escape the logic of fear. and we must do differently to curb such suffering again. referencing the site of where he stands, in which 140,000 people, men, women and children were killed when atomic bomb was dropped in hiroshima. they stand in front of the ruins of the skeletal ruins of one of the buildings there which had been an arts hall and also in front of the pool, the reflecting pool, and the peace flame as they talk about the trust between the two countries. the prime minister making

remarks about his trip to the u.s. saying our relationship is bound in trust and friendship and it's an alliance of hope for the world. watching us with this is jack jacobs, and a recipient of the medal of honor. your feelings about what this means, what this demonstrates between these two nations to the world. >> well, it's really very complex. on the one hand, japan and its con tuition -- constitution foreswore defense really and had to rely on the united states and its nuclear deterrent. and on the other hand, the -- that area now in the pacific -- the pacific is extremely- -- extremely dangerous with china encroaching on other seaways and extending its reach into the pacific at a time when japan

itself is very much concerned about it. it has to rely on the united states and its nuclear deter rent. so these are complicated issues. i think there's a great deal of ambivalence on the part particularly of japan and on the parts of a lot of people inside japan. on the one hand, they don't want nuclear weapons. the threat of war is always there and everybody in the pacific remembers exactly what happened 70 and 80 years ago. and on the other hand, they need the might of the united states. the friendship. they use the might of the united states and its nuclear deterrent to prevent conflag race in -- conflagration in the area. you know, we didn't enter the war -- second world war until

the war in europe had already been going only for two years. >> right. >> and the war in the pacific had been going on for ten years before we ever entered it. so our participation in all of that, we were dragged kicking and screaming into the war and the aftermath is exactly what the worst of all possible things. it's interesting to listen to the president express what his personal desires are, of a world free of nuclear weapons and countries who are nice to one another. but the reality right now for not just japan, but all the countries in asia is a very strong china expanding in the region. >> and also we think about a nuclear armed north korea. i want to bring in gordon chang, an author and a columnist with

the daily beast. as we talk about that, and while they -- both men, the prime minister and the president, paint a grander picture of a more peaceful world, there is the reality of what is taking place in the pacific right now. and why japan might want to have a stronger military in reflection of only having their self-defense forces since 1947. >> in asia right now, the important point is reconciliation. especially among america's allies and friends. because many of them are being pressured by a very provocative china. not only japan, where the president of course is now, but also in his previous stop in vietnam. the most important line in the president's remarks i believe were we can tell our children a different story. and this is important because because this is not just the china issue, but there are animosities that go back to 71

years ago and the world war ii which have not been resolved and they have gotten worse over the last five or ten years so what the president is trying to do is put the region on a whole as something they can talk about in common and they can agree going forward. because if there is no reconciliation in asia, this is where history's next great war will start. >> well, the president talked about what it means to be standing right there, saying that the world was forever changed here. but today, the children of this city will go through their day in peace. he went on to say that's a precious thing and that's a future that we can choose. so we're watching the president shake hands with the japanese delegation members of the honored guests of the prime minister as well as the president. we saw the ambassador, caroline kennedy also on site. susan rice is there as well with president obama. we'll have much more coming up right here on msnbc. i'll see you in a little while on "way too early."

right now, we take you over to "first look" with my colleague, betty nguyen. >> thank you so much for that. of course we'll have much more on the president's historic trip to japan. but right now, into some politics right here in this country. donald trump is now officially the republican nominee for president after racking up new unbound delegates in north dakota, colorado and pennsylvania. armed with his party's delegates, trump unleashed attacks on hillary clinton while laying out the general election pitch in an energy speech yesterday, but word of a debate between trump and bernie sanders that is making news. nbc's hallie jackson has more. >> boy oh, boy. >> reporter: with his presidential bid already making history, donald trump's ready to make more. >> i would love to debate bernie. he's a dream. >> reporter: the business man hoping to make a deal with democrat bernie sanders for an unpress dent -- unprecedented one-on-one debate if they can raise $10 million for women's health charities. online fund-raisers are popping up.

sanders eager to do it in the biggest stadium possible. >> it's important that somebody hold him to task for his outrageously bigoted remarks. >> reporter: it would be the first of its kind in modern political history. a presumptive nominee up against the other party's likely losing candidate. but just like it's in sander's interest to soak up in debate spotlight it's in his interest to keep sanders relevant. >> there's no risk to trump debating bernie sanders because trump has never delivered a stellar debate performance yet his poll numbers seem to tick up. >> reporter: trump opening up the door to debate senator elizabeth warren. she once identified herself as part native american. trump's nickname for her, pocahontas, prompted this exchange with native american writer. >> who, pocahontas? >> is that offensive? >> look, she is -- >> very offensive! >> oh. >> sorry. sorry about that. pocahontas.

is that what you said? elizabeth warren. >> reporter: yet another controversial moment for the candidate who didn't back down from his temporary proposed muslim ban. a stance that's alienated allies as president obama overseas takes trump to task. >> they are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements. but they're rattled by it. >> now the president's comments came as a global poll made up of citizens from germany, mexico and japan say trump's political view are having a bad impact for the global economy. 74% say trump's politics have had a negative effect on their view of america and a whopping 78% say trump's political views make the world less safe. so jumping off those poll numbers, hillary clinton is now slamming trump as a quote urgent threat. speaking to msnbc, she cast doubt on whether a trump/sanders debate will really happen.

>> i know they have gone back and forth on this and they seem to be, you know, saying it's some kind of joke. trump doesn't sound very serious. >> but clinton remains in damage control after that scathing inspector general report accused her of breaking policies. andrea mitchell has details. >> reporter: with the firestorms over clinton's e-mail server growing, clinton said what she did was allowed. >> the use of personal e-mail was a practice by other secretary of states. >> reporter: but the report said she did break the rules not preserving her e-mails. not asking for permission to exclusively use a private server which would have been refused. >> the difference here is nobody else had a private server in the basement of their home. >> reporter: as for her e-mails, saying she didn't want the personal being accessible -- phoning in to chuck todd -- >> what were you worried about with the personal being

accessible, accessible by who? >> nobody wants their personal e-mails made public. you know, that is i think a very common if not unanimous feeling among people. >> reporter: but it's another investigation that would be far more important to clinton. the ongoing fbi investigation. reportedly at issue was there any mishandling of classified information on her home server? the fbi confiscated the private server and a thumb drive with e-mails last august. clinton's close aides cheryl mills and huma abedin have been interviewed by the fbi. all these revelations are fodder for donald trump. >> probably illegal, we have to find out what the fbi says about it. but certainly it was bad judgment. >> reporter: clinton trying to get the focus back on trump. >> donald trump is an urgent threat to our rights and to our country. >> what she needs to do more than anything to try to fix her problem on the question of honesty and trustworthiness is to get the whole thing behind her. let's get down to business

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well, welcome back to "first look." extreme weather continued yesterday. this was the big tornado near bryant, texas. two dozen homes were damaged by it. while other in woodlands, texas, this brave driver -- i could use different adjectives we'll be nice. ended up more like a river or a big old lake as extreme flooding really plagued the region. look at that. a lot of vehicles got stranded. overnight, things had gotten worse instead of better. let me take you into areas just outside of houston.

here's houston and here's brenneman, texas. we can estimate how much rain has fallen in the last 12 hours. this is 12 inches plus. we have had some reports of as much as 15 or 16 inches of rain in this region. there's a flash flooding emergency. so you get flash flood warnings which means flash flooding is happening. there's water going into homes, roads are shut down. people can't leave their houses. you're told to stay in place. that's what's happening near brenneman, texas. a bad situation as you start your friday. that is continuing because we have the areas from san marcos to woodlands under the flash flood emergency. also the flash flood watch just continued for the region. that will go until 5:00 p.m. this evening. but the worst of it is happening throughout the area. additional one to three inches is possible. isolated up to six inches. but as far as houston goes, the heaviest rains are north of the city. and they're ending up towards

the livingston area. then finally, we have this tropical threat headed for the southeast. hurricane hunters are expected to go into this today. if it does get a name, it could be subtropical or tropical, it would be bonnie. our computer models do take that towards the carolina coastline saturday night and sunday. so that would mean rip current threats on the beaches through the holiday weekend. >> that's not good. >> not like a devastating storm with wind and stuff like that. >> then brennan, texas, that's where blue bell ice cream is made and then you have flooding. not good. early this morning in japan a terrifying sight. smoke billowed from the jet. all the passengers and crew quickly evacuated. it was doused with foam. no injuries reported. investigators are still looking into the cause of that engine fire. moments ago, history in the making. president obama's wreath laying and moving comments to the people of hiroshima and the world. vo: across america,

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fell. we force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. >> that was president obama giving a speech during his historic wreath laying at hiroshima. jonathan allen joins me now from washington. he is head of community and content for side wire and a columnist for roll call. >> good morning. >> listening to the president there really making poignant remarks, it's really in contrast what he's trying to do over there in japan, trying to talk about the past but also move toward a future free of the use of nuclear weapons and at the same time, donald trump say he won't rule out the use of nuclear weapons so that's sending two opposing messages. >> well, president obama said that in the meeting of g7 leaders in japan other world leaders told him they were rattled by the prospect of a donald trump presidency.

you know, look, donald trump would not rule out the use of nuclear weapons. i don't think any american president would. i don't think that's inconsistent necessarily with the view of the american presidents. when you talk about war as a last resort, nuclear war is the last last resort. president obama has made nuclear nonproliferation a centerpiece of his personal policy agenda over the course of his career, dating back to the senate. i think what he said today in japan was remarkable in terms of calling on people's better angels saying you'll never have a world without nuclear weapons unless you pursue it. that's a choice for the peoples of the world. i thought it was an interesting moment from him. >> very quickly, now that trump as this secured the republican nomination do you think the gop establishment will get behind him? >> i think the vast majority of it will. house speaker paul ryan remains a little build reluctant to do so.

but i think most are uniting behind trump. >> are the democrats really starting to get angry at bernie sanders and his talk of a debate with donald trump? is that something that's kind of stirring things up? >> yes, that's good for donald trump, it's good for bernie sanders and it's terrible for the democratic party. and members of congress are saying that they'd like bernie sanders to tone it down a little bit and, you know, stop hurting the party's chances of winning in november. >> do you think it will happen though? >> you know, i don't know. i have been surprised by so many things this campaign cycle. i do know this. bernie sanders won't show up for the debate if it's sponsored by goldman sachs or the other big banks. >> that is a really good point there. indeed, he wants it to happen before the california primary because that can mean a lot more him. so we'll see. all right, jonathan, as always, thanks for joining us. we do appreciate it. i'm betty nguyen. don't go anywhere because "way too early" starts right now. intelligent safety shield technologies. whoa!

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those who died they are like us. ordinary people understand this i think. the world was forever changed here. but today the children of this city will go through their day in peace. what a precious thing that is. it's worth protecting. and then extending to every

child. that is the future we can choose. >> breaking news from overseas, president obama is now the first sitting president to visit hiroshima, japan. the city where the u.s. dropped the world's first atomic bomb 70 years ago. his message of peace to the japanese people and the world. and back here at home, it is official. donald trump seals the deal for the republican convention this summer earning the delegates needed to claim his party's presidential nomination. now he is discussing his plan to win it all. and the outsider takeover as trump says his people have talked to bernie sanders' people about their open debate. some democrats aren't happy about this. we'll have hillary clinton's response. good to have you with us. it's 5:30 a.m. on the east coast, 2:30 out west. this is "way too early."