democrat joaquin castro is the co-chairperson of a congressional caucus seeking closer ties with japanvisit to tokyo where he met prime minister abe. in an interview with nhk, castro spoke about china's new aggressiveness in the asia-pacific region. he said the u.s. should hold up its commitment to the security of japan and territorial sovereignty should be respected. he referred to the ongoing debate on the new security bills. >> the united states supports japan's move towards affirmative defense and stronger defense. and we believe that work together we can make sure that this region is safe and secure. >> the congressional caucus on japan was established last year. it consists mainly of about 70 members of the house of representatives. >>> the head of the panel choosing a new plan for tokyo's main stadium for the 2020 olympic games says realistic limits on costs must be set. shuzo murakami chairs the japan sport council screening committee. he spoke after meeting with toshiaki endo, the minister in charge of the tokyo olympic and paralympic games. >> translator: cost is the major co

congressman joaquin castro. thanks so much and have a great afternoon. >>> another developing story that we're following this hour for you, there is more trouble for hillary clinton over her use of a personal e-mail server. a federal judge is now indicating he believes she broke the rules. in a hearing yesterday over clinton's long-time adviser huma aberdeen, said, quote, we wouldn't be here today if the employee had followed government policy. also this morning, a new reuters report is saying her e-mails should have been classified from the start. this is over the state department's assertion that she did not receive classified information into her private account. kristin welker at marthas vineyard where hillary clinton is vacationing. what else have we learned from this reuters report? >> that headline from the report, i'll just read you a snippet. it says, some of clinton's report is filled with a type of information the u.s. government and the department's own regulations automatically deems classified. thi

. >> bernie sanders just moments ago responding to criticism from wa joaquin castro saying that he hasot reached out enough to the latino. on the republican side, a poll just released shows donald trump and ben carson are tied in iowa. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, nbc contributor and ann gearen, political correspondent for the "washington post." welcome both. what do you make of this new monmouth poll, chris cillizza, shaping up to be quite a race. >> it jibes with the do min register bloomberg poll over the weekend. donald trump and ben carson at the moment are the class of the republican field in iowa and bad news for anyone who has held elected office before. we've seen people like karcarly fiorina move up. anyone has ever been elected to anything before while we see scott walker who theoretically strength in this race is that he won three elections in four years. jeb bush, marco rubio trending downward. iowa republicans at least at the moment want to send a very clear message that the establishment represented by donald trump or ben carson or cakarlcarly fiori

meanwhile this morning, democratic congressman joaquin castro appeared on msnbc.wrong way on immigration. >> it's not only hurting the republican party what donald trump has done, it's hurting the country. unfortunately what you see with the other leading candidates for the republican nomination is they're following him down that rabbit hole. >> a short time ago, bush's campaign tweeted this about trump. quote, his massive inconsistencies aside, donald trump's immigration plan is not conservative and does not reflect our nation's values. nbc news is in mobile where that massive rally is going to be happening tonight. set the stage for us one more time. at this point, have we gotten any response from the trump campaign from what we just read there from the bush campaign? >> reporter: no response on that yet, but earlier when we spoke, there was some music. they were gearing up in the background here, doing some mike checks. seems that music has now been replaced with the music of thunder. we might get a little bit of a downpour here, which could give us a little bi

joaquin castro of texas. >> thank you, chairman. thank you, gentlemen for your work and diplomacy on behalf of the nation. i want to imagine for a moment another scenario. a scenario we don't take a deal, we walk away from it and there is military action against iran. can you imagine for me for a moment, what would the fallout be from a destabilized iran? we've seen other nations, libya, iraq egypt where there have been destabilized regimes, secular leaders who have been replaced by fundamentalists and terrorism that has now been franchised almost across the world. . what would happen if iran was destabilized in the same way? >> you know, congressman it's very hard for me to get into this speculative game here. there's too much talk about military option and this and that when we have in front of us a plan that accomplishes the task of preventing iran from achieving a nuclear weapon, which they say they don't want to do anyway, and have made very strong affirments about their commitment not to do. it seems to be focused on the desta

joaquin castro of texas. >> thank you, chairman. thank you, gentlemen for your work and diplomacy on behalf of the nation. i want to imagine for a moment another scenario. a scenario we don't take a deal, we walk away from it and there is military action against iran. can you imagine for me for a moment, what would the fallout be from a destabilized iran? we've seen other nations, libya, iraq egypt where there have been destabilized regimes, secular leaders who have been replaced by fundamentalists and terrorism that has now been franchised almost across the world. . what would happen if iran was destabilized in the same way? >> you know, congressman it's very hard for me to get into this speculative game here. there's too much talk about military option and this and that when we have in front of us a plan that accomplishes the task of preventing iran from achieving a nuclear weapon, which they say they don't want to do anyway, and have made very strong affirments about their commitment not to do. it seems to be focused on the desta