not just huckabee. they're right there with him in the clown car. >>> john kerry's on capitol hill today defending the nuclear deal just as a new poll shows majority of americans actually want congress to reject it. >>> plus, president obama knows he's on a roll. he says if the u.s. constitution allowed it, he could win a third term. >>> the most desperate scramble for turf since the opening of the cherokee strip. >>> the country's closely split >>> the country's closely split on president obama and the job he's done as president. according to a new poll, 49% approve of him. 47% disapprove. but americans are asked if they're better off than three years ago, again 49% say yes, 38% say no. 12% say they're the same. that's a leader indicator of how voters are feeling. >>> you ever see it get this nasty this early? we have donald trump gobbling up the oxygen out there. huckabee says he'll be responsible for the second holocaust. and ted cruz is snuggling up to most of them. it's clown car tuesday. huckabee'

>> mike huckabee, nice to see you. mymike huckabee: i guess we don't have a choice. i cannot imagine. just our luck that the one guy on the show was a conservative clown. [laughter] [indiscernible] mike huckabee: that just proves i'm speaking to an intelligent group. that is good to hear. we just got back from ames, doing the family leaders of event. it went well. a big crowd. you were there? thank you. that is a great place. well, it is my opportunity to welcome you here today. >> he asked me to introduce him. i would invite the pastor from the monroe methodist church for the prayer. >> i am usually not the one i have to write my heart down on this piece of paper to say what is on my heart and on the hearts of all i think who live in this great nation. let us pray. oh myighty god, we thank you for your presence, wisdom, and love. we thank you for those who have served in our military to a sure our freedom that allows us to meet this day for the good of our country. our hearts are heavy for the unnecessary deaths of the marines in our borders. we reach out to the fam

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. >> what's huckabee's deal? >> he doesn't have a deal. >> the deal is to bomb iran. >> that doesn't work. >> once the deal goes down the doors open. big fight over how fast do we go to war? >> the deal won't go town. he'll have -- >> the president has the votes. >> he has the votes. >> 46 in the house? >> got it. >> do you know something i don't know? >> i do. >> report. 34 votes in the senate? >> i think he has the votes. both chambers. at least one. >> good monday for me. on the campaign trail there was push back to the huckabee comment. hillary clinton jumped into the argument. >> comments like these are offensive and they have no place in our political dialogue. i'm disappointed and i'm really offended personally. this steps over the line. it should be repudiated by every person of good faith and concern. >> jeb bush also went after huckabee and said he should tone down the rhetoric. >> i have been to israel, not as many times as mike huckabee, who i respect. but the use of that kind of language is just wron

that said, huckabee is right that rhetoric should be taken seriously. sometimes especially when it is the particular candor of the dictator. in 1939, as europe fell into war, hitler said that if the jews at the at the trait a world war it will mean the destruction of the european jury. and it did. so taking this rhetoric seriously matters. and for those of us, and i count myself as one of these who say, look, the deal is a terrible deal but iran is going to get a nuclear weapon or we better start thinking how to deter them, one of the problems is gauging the fanaticism of the antisemitism of their regime. as hitler demonstrated, he would sacrifice everything, including pushing back the russians on the eastern front to holocaust. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see what happens when one news anchor has an interesting explanation for success. >>> finally tonight, amazon became the most valuable retailer in the world beating out stores like wal-mart when television station ktvn reported the story, one anchor chimed in with some interesting theor

not only did he back mike huckabee? he roped jeb bush into the whole thing and ripped him on talking about tone. i mean does tone matter to republicans? >> tone matters. let me just defend john kerry for a moment. i'm reasonably sure he did not say they were set on blaming the jews if the agreement didn't pass. i'd like to see the exact quote before we go to down that road. >> i'll send you the quote. >> i would like that very much. donald trump has really been masterful. he's leading the polls and capitalizing on the anger that exists in one wing of the republican party and mike huckabee needs to outtrump trump in order to win. somebody has to win iowa. and if huckabee doesn't win iowa he's done. it's all or nothing for him. but he can't go after trump because if he does, then that is the fight between the two of them and they both lose. so it is fascinating to see what is going on. it is republican politics. and right now jeb bush has got to be watching laughing all the way to the bank. because in this sort of donny b

he is not the mike huckabee i think a lot of people perceive. i don't know that he's changed all that much. i think our perception of him is now changing. >> which is maybe a sort of existentially terrifying idea. that everybody is sort of existing in this world on their own accord. senator rand paul pushed back on the trumpification. and this is what he said. >> i'm drawing the line about self immolation. >> none of us are going to set ourselves on fire. also the man who set the tax code on fire last week and attacked wit a chain saw. >> this is what you get. we're talking about this for no reason first of all. he succeeded. he just won the game. >> no trump has won the game. >> trump has won. >> huckabee. to the extent we're talking about something that makes no sense whatsoever and we ask the questions of the other candidates to respond to the ridiculousness of the first candidate and -- i'm sorry. >> rand paul -- nobody said rand paul with which device would you destroy the u.s. tax code. that sort of appeared on rand paul, on a youtube chan

and several of huckabee's g.o.p. presidential opponents. >> i certainly don't use language like that i tell people why i'm against the iran deal because it's a bad deal. >> reporter: but huckabee says iran has threatened to wipe israel off the map with another holocaust. >> i will not apologize or recant because the word holocaust was invoked by the iranian government. >> reporter: president obama and some others have suggested governor huckabee is just trying to get attention in a crowded field of republicans running for the white house. this morning huckabee rejected that claim. >> if i was going to make noise about this, don't you think i'd have a better forum than a weekend satellite radio show that i didn't think that many people would even be listening to. >> reporter: huckabee has used the controversy and fund raising e-mails to supporters. craig boswell, cbs news, washington. >>> the antidefamation league, a group that fights antisemitism says while they are weary of the iran nuclear day, governor huckabee's

that said, huckabee is right that rhetoric should be taken seriously. sometimes especially when it is the particular candor of the dictator. in 1939, as europe fell into war, hitler said that if the jews at the at the trait a world war it will mean the destruction of the european jury. and it did. so taking this rhetoric seriously matters. and for those of us, and i count myself as one of these who say, look, the deal is a terrible deal but iran is going to get a nuclear weapon or we better start thinking how to deter them, one of the problems is gauging the fanaticism of the antisemitism of their regime. as hitler demonstrated, he would sacrifice everything, including pushing back the russians on the eastern front to continue with the holocaust. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see what happens when one news anchor has an interesting explanation for success. i'm gonna crack like nobody's watching and eat like i skipped lunch. why? because red lobster's crabfest is back. and i'm diving into so much crab so many ways. like crab lover's dream wi

. >> ted cruz also defended huckabee. and he went on to accuse the president of, quote, gutter politics for criticizing him. we'll have to see if huckabee's strategy helps him in the polls. but he insists this had nothing to do with getting the spotlight off trump. >> answer the critics, governor, who say that you and some other republican candidates are doing and saying anything right now simply to be heard over the roar of donald trump. is there some truth to that? >> no, there's not. and i'll tell you why. if i was going to make noise about this, don't you think i'd have a better forum than a weekend satellite radio show that i didn't even thing that many people would be listening to? >> joining me now, dana milbank. is governor huckabee trying to outtrump donald trump and can that even possibly be done? >> there's no way to trump trump, reverend. and it's not clear whether huckabee in his own mind things that that's what he's doing. but this is what needs to be done by all the guys in the race because donald trump has

huckabee has crossed a serious line here. every republican candidate should stand up, condemn this and ask him to retract it. >> now there are lots of folks who oppose the deal. in the argue mentation against the deal, much of it has been about israel. much of it is about israel's security and a nation created in the wake of the holocaust has a specific and earned fear of this kind of threat. as someone who was ambassador to israel for four years what's your understanding of the back and forth? >> chris, i experienced twiets in my career -- once before i became ambassador and once during my tenure the real expression of israeli concern when its security and well-being was threaten. the fwul of war of 1991 when iraq fired dozens of scud missiles at israel. israel had done nothing. again the concern that iraq in 2003 would react to the american invasion by launching perhaps weapons of mass destruction. it's fair for the israelis to be concerned, particularly about iran. they are a country that's called for israel's destruction.

what about what mike huckabee said? >> oh, i think the american people get every opportunity to evaluate all of the candidates that are running on our side. i think the democrats will get a chance to evaluate all the candidates running on their side. we have 40 plus days left before congress is going to be asked to make the biggest vote at least in my time in congress. this goes to the very security for every american whether we can trust the iranians to have drafted a deal for verification the iranians are believed to have done testing for nuclear triggers and we don't know what is in those agreements. the administration has said nothing to see here. don't worry about this. and yet secretary kerry could not strike the deal with the iranians over the inspections and so he turned it over to a u.n. agency to do it and said i don't even need to see the agreement. that is dangerous. it's irresponsible. and we all need to see what's in those agreements. >> congressman, let me pose to you something that general clapper said,

huckabee. mr. huckabee: thank you, frank. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen please welcome back our family leadership summit, former governor rick perry. [applause] >> thank you. >> i normally don't like to be on the left. >> he doesn't like sitting down. >> as an idol like sitting on the left. [laughter] >> all of the questions i had for aired for you are now gone. if there was to be an investment in three different professions, i like to get an idea which professions they would invest in the most. who would have the response ability of teaching our children. read and write in act properly. the second would be our nurses who help us stay well and get us well if we are sick. the third would be our veterans who defend this country. [applause] i'm sorry, parents are not getting a tax break tonight. who would use teachers, applaud. -- choose teachers, applaud. [applause] who would choose nurses, applaud. [applause] and who would choose veterans? [applause] what is your reaction to that? mr. perry: i would like to add my voice t

huckabee, standing by his words, put out a video late today doubling down. did he go too far for his own good? john: yes. the comments have been, even though some republicans don't want to say it, a lot of that have crossed a respectable line and people are against it. it is outrageous on some level but what bothers me most is that it's a hypocritical thing coming from huckabee, who as recently as 2008 was giving speeches about diplomatic approaches to and run, about containing iran, about pursuing a policy barack obama has pursued. mark: mike huckabee often says extreme things that get repudiated and denounced. but they don't often hurt him. i don't know if this will hurt him. given that they put out the video, my senses he thinks it's going to help them. being attacked by hillary clinton and barack obama, he thinks is a good thing. john: i just don't understand how -- it seems the obvious calculation is going on for a lot of these candidates, in the wake of trump and trump's strength in iowa demonstrated this past weekend, a guy like mike huckabee not gett

ted cruz rick santorum, mike huckabee huckabee ben carson scott walker. the problem is it's hard to outtrump trump. if you're treating for voters attracted to someone who is saying the most un-pc things it's hard to go past donald trump. you've got to question whether it makes sense to even attempt to do that as a candidate. >> david, the last time mike huckabee was running for president, you and i remember in 2007-2008, he sounded when it came to iran a bit more diplomatic. i want to play a little clip. this is back in 2007. >> another way to contain iran is through diplomacy. while never taking the military option off the table. we have to be as diplomatically aggressive as we have been militarily aggressive since 9/11. >> what he says diplomacy's the way to go without taking the military option off the table that's what the president of the united states says as well. >> right. but now he has a specific deal to critique. and you're right, back then the president of the united states was george w. bush so he was navigating different political waters bac

president obama and mike huckabee exchange words yesterday. in to apologies after the former arkansas go arkansas governor and presidential candidate said this. the president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he's so naive that he would trust the iranians and march the israelis to the door of the oven. >> in particular to comments from mr. huckabee are i think part of just a general pattern we've seen that is -- would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. when you get rhetoric like this it may be gets attention and maybe this is just an effort to push mr. trump out of the headlines. but it's not the kind of leadership that is needed if for america right now. >> the last time the world did not take seriously threats that someone was going to kill massive amounts of jews, we ended up seeing 6 million jews murdered. we didn't take it seriously. the iranian government -- not talking about a blogger -- talking about the iranian government that said it will be easier to take the jews out because they're concentrated

let's start with mike huckabee. do you think there was overwhelmingly favorable response he got from his comments? are they appropriate? >> i have no idea what kind of response he's gotten. i thought what the minister of israel said is correct. no one will march israelis to the gas chamber. israel will defend itself. the larger point here is that clearly governor huckabee is expressing his great opposition to this iran deal and i think that no question the overwhelming majority of israelis and it looks like majority of americans oppose. >> but so do you think he has a point, the words are okay resonating that way and he says -- >> listen. i think getting out there and parsing these things it is not what i would have said. and i think that the criticisms are the criticisms. i think it's inappropriate to mention the holocaust in any context other than when discussing historical tragedy. >> okay. he says that he'll use the same words if he were president. so let's turn now to the rest of the gop field starting with don

he's second to huckabee in terms of favorability ratings there. so relative to the field, in this republican field he's doing okay. you're right, when you take it to the general, he's got problems there in matchups against hillary clinton doesn't do so well. >> 80% of democrats, independents certainly don't like him and those are the kind of swing voters that will be so crucial in a general. >> exactly. that's why we see theage da with the republican establishment over the trump candidacy. although he's running strong and tapping into a vein of support inside the republican nomination race, he has a lot of work to do as a general election candidate. he's losing to hillary clinton in the matchups. 59% of the overall public see him as unfavorable. that is not the -- those are not the numbers of success for a general election candidate. >> guys, we'll continue to dissect these numbers alot to assess. david chalchalian, nia-malika henderson, thank you very much. >>> the new poll numbers don't look good for the john. there's also troubling numbers in t

is governor huckabee crossing a line here? he is still not apologizing tonight. >> i think there's widespread concern about this iran agreement or proposal rather. i'm not here to decide what comments are in or out. that's for each candidate. if the governor stands by hem, that's his call. our job at the rnc is not to get in the middle of policy discussions. >> but in a political debate more broadly, is it ever appropriate to evoke the holocaust? what does the rnc think about that sean? >> i think governor huckabee was referring to comments that the ayatollah made about what they wanted -- what iran wants to do to israel. that is a fact. the ayatollah has used that word and used it with respect to what iran wants to do with israel. and i think it's up to governor huckabee to talk about what he exactly meant on that. >> you say it's not your position to decide what comments are right, what comments are wrong, what comments are in what comments are out. as chairman reince said earlier you're not in the job of calling balls and s

when you hear comments like the ones made by huckabee and even others governor huckabee again, you move away from legitimate concerns and you find yourself in the weird erie world of -- >> i want to do something i rarely do which is ask sam stein about this. he wrote a good piece about pointing out that mike huckabee is a hypocrite on this issue himself given things he said in 2008. sthanlt right isn't that right, sam? >> thank you. i appreciate. that in 2008 mike huckabee was obviously running for the first time and then he took to foreign affairs magazine and laid out a international world view that you could probably say really closely aligns with exactly what the president pursued in iran. he said we should pursue dialogue and containment. the leadership in iran is not the leadership in al qaeda. you could apply an international sanctions regime to get them to the table and you could exchange that for -- exchange sanctions relief for some sort of containment of the nuclear program. now you fast forward seven years, that is the deal that the president got. there are things that they

rank you -- thank you, esther huckabee. -- mr. huckabee. mr. huckabee: thank you, frank.

i was not embarrassed for huckabee. i am embarrassed there is an audience for ventriliquism. >> we per formed in the theater. it is called the terry fador theater. he has his own theater and he sells out six nights a week. >> i am impressed. >> it is hard to bag on him because he is headlining that theater and i am shopping at old navy. >> i know. how do you pick on a huge headliner. >> i am in a really glass house, extra glass. his cher sounds like a constipated truck driver. that i was bothered by. >> you sound like a constipated truck driver. >> that is a different job. i don't think it hurts huckabee. >> it is less offensive than the shenanigans hilly -- hillary tried to pull off. >> she would have them go away. isn't that true? someone like huckabee, he will get credit for this. hillary is not game to do anything. she never would have done this in the first place, right? and i think we are going in a new direction. take a guy not running like mitt romney. mitt romney boxed. these things don't hurt a candidate the w

huckabee, standing by his words, put out a video late today doubling down. did he go too far for his own good? john: yes. even though some republicans don't want to say it, it may have crossed the line and may have gone too far. it is outrageous on some level but what bothers me most is that it's a hypocritical thing coming from huckabee, who as recently as 2008 was giving speeches about diplomatic approaches to iran and pursuing the policy barack obama has done. mark: he often says things they get repudiated and denounced. given that they put out the video, my senses he thinks it's going to help them. the controversy, being attacked by hillary clinton and barack obama, he thinks is a good thing. john: it seems the obvious calculation going on in the wake of trump and trump's strength in iowa demonstrated this past weekend, a guy like mike huckabee not getting as much traction as you would hope. a lot of things have happened over the last 72 hours, it all seems like an active desperation and i don't see how desperation is a good look. [bell] mark: he defende

mike huckabee. saying that the former arkansas governor is trying to one up donald trump in terms of outrageous rhetoric saying huckabee's remarks about the iran deal in the president's words would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. >> it started when governor huckabee invoked the holocaust while criticizing the nuclear agreement. this is what he said. >> this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he's so naive he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> to the door of the oven. here now to respond to these comments is michael salberg with the anti-defamation league. your organization put out a statement after mike huckabee said what he said saying it's completely out of line and unacceptable. why? >> references to the holocaust, trying to score rhetorical points at the moment in time when the american people need to hear about the details of the iran deal and understand it, all of those fa

. >>> mike huckabee refuses to back down from comments made comparing nuclear deal to holocaust. >>> the father who took the rap for his son's hit and run. >>> and this discovered on the florida coast. that and more on this tuesday. >>> hello everybody. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for waking up with us today. a gut wrenching estimate. four or five days that is how long a coast guard says someone could survive floating in the open water. not what family members of these boys want to hear on day four. >> in the desperate search for two missing teens, a discovery grim and hopeful. the capsized boat. no sign of perry and his best friend austin. >> it's terrifying to know your child is out there and if they need help you can't reach out your hand and give them the help they need. >> the two set out with 25 gallons of fuel believed to be headed to the the bahamas 44 miles away. this squall may have caught the marryiners off guard. >> he's so strong willed. >> the capsized boat was 67 miles offshore and 1070 from where it departed. it was caught in the gulf stream, the constant current flowing

if it weren't so sad. >> and huckabee doubled down. he went on to say what's ridiculous and sad is that the president does not take iran's threats seriously. the stakes are too high for irresponsible rhetoric. joining me tonight on a rapid response panel. congressman, would this spoil or motivate any kind of debate in congress, what huckabee is saying? is he characterizing something that maybe some behind closed doors are saying in congress about this iranian deal? >> i don't think so. while there is a lot of opposition to the accord, i don't know anybody in congress is using language that is so out outlandish and reprehensible. i think the question we need to ask is we vote this down then what? then iran is free to build a bomb. and they could do so in three months. so make 10 15 20 years is a whole lot better. these are questions we need to ask in a cool way not with the rhetoric that huckabee is tossing around. is it a lack of attention? because huckabee wrote an article about dealing with iran in 2008. in fact he advocated for dipl

former arkansas governor mike huckabee compared the new iran nuclear deal to the holocaust and huckabee now refusing to back down or apologize. here's abc's tom llamas. >> reporter: mike huckabee doubling down on his criticism of president obama's iran deal after comparing it to the holocaust. >> he's so naive, he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> his comments bringing a rare scolding from the president. >> in 18 months i'm turning over the keys. i want to make sure i'm turning over the keys to somebody serious. >> reporter: huckabee not backing down. >> three times i've been to auschwitz. when i talked about the oven door, i have stood at that door. i know exactly what it looks like >> reporter: the president accusing republican candidates of using overheated language to try and steal attention from donald trump. seen here firing up crowds in iowa this weekend. >> i want to grab that corn like you've never seen. so rich, so beautiful. >> reporter: other candidates now looking to create their own viral moments. s

this morning, huckabee rejected that claim. >> if i was going to make noise, don't you think i would have better forum than weekends satellite radio show that i didn't think that many people would even be listening to? >> huckabee has used the controversy and fundraising emails to supporters. >> craig boswell, cbs news. >> in an hour, wisconsin governor and gop presidential candidate, scott walker, will be sampling philly cheese steak, making campaign stop this afternoon at pat's and geno's in south philly. walker has been chris-crossing the country since launching his presidential campaign three weeks ago. >>> meanwhile, president obama is headed back to the u.s. after wrapping up his five-day trip to africa. the president delivered a speech to the african union delegation in ethiopia. he pledged continued us support in the fight against terrorism. and, called on leaders to create new opportunities for the next generation. >> the most powerful antidote, to ways of doing things; this new generation of african youth, history shows that the nation's that do best are the ones that inves

. >> what mike huckabee said over the weekend. i want to get to that let me play that for viewers. >> he is so naive he would trust the iranians and would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. trish: blake, the president says what mike huckabee was just a political move. >> yeah, he was asked about this earlier today, the president is traveling in ethiopia. was asked specifically about that question. he said, it would be ridiculous if it weren't so sad and, that led him to basically go off on the, most of the gop field. mike huckabee's campaign reacted to the president's reaction from earlier today. here is little bit what they said. i will put it up on the screen to quote. what is ridiculous and sad is that president obama does not take iran's repeated threats seriously. he went on to say i will stand with our ally israel to prevent the terrorists in tehran from achieving their own stated goal of another holocaust that is the statement from the huckabee campaign. they did not back down at all. trish:

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huckabee has compared abortions to the holocaust before. the guy has a background in broadcasting both on fox and on the radio. so he has an ability to use a very colorful language. it served him well when he won the iowa caucus in 2008. >> you've seen our most recent cnn orc polls. donald trump is at the top. how far can donald trump go with his rhetoric before he truly starts to pay a price in support? >> well, he hasn't said anything yet that would alienate the people who are supporting him in these polls, which are angry, fed up conservatives who are sick of washington and sick of the republican leadership to say nothing of the democrats. so to go after zsh what about veterans? >> he went after john mccain. i understand that his language was -- >> yeah. >> -- not language i would ever think of using. he went after john mccain who was considered to be an establishment figure and when they see the entire republican party apparatus in the media leap to john mccain's defense, they don't get into the quibble over what donald trump was saying

other hand, looking at huckabee huckabee's remarks is summer of donald trump every republican is trying to stand out and whether it's mike huckabee with this comment or lindsey graham destroying a cell phone or rand paul taking a chain saw to the tax code the way to stand out is to do something like this. >> not only stand but there's a fund raising e-mail going around using the fact that the president responded to him to try to draw in campaign dollars. >> and so this is to mike huckabee huckabee's advantage to say president obama's picking a fight with me and then republicans by and large opposed to president obama. this helps him, helps him raise money and boost his poll numbers perhaps to be able to get into this first fox debate ten days from now. on the other hand president obama saying the comments that he did allows him and democrats to make the argument that the republican party's just on the fringes and saying incendiary things and it comes with a recent pew found the republican party's favorability rating declining over the first half of the year and the democrats say it's th

why shoot at huckabee here? i don't think that comment is going to lose him republican supporter who is believe there's an existential threat with this deal. >> let's talk donald trump for a second. mavericks owner, mark cuban, fellow billionaire, they do not like each other. he said this. i have to honestly say, he is probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long type. i don't care what his positions are. i don't care if he says the wrong thing. he says what's on his mind. he gives honest answers. this is more important than anything candidates have done in years. what do you think about this assessment? >> i think cuban is a brand guy. he understands how to build a brand. donald trump, i wrote a piece yesterday about schooling other republicans and media types about brand development. whatever you think about trump, he's showing a lot of other guys apprentices. they're the apprentices. he's showing them how to build a brand. i don't know if trump is in the race for the long haul or not, but what we s

does mike huckabee get any traction or support for these comments here? >> i'm going to invoke the godwin's law which says when one invokes the holocaust, one side is probably losing the debate. huckabee is playing with ted cruz in the battle on the senate floor, you have all these republican candidates trying to out-trump donald trump and trying to gain traction. whether it's iran taking a chain saw to the tax code lindsey graham trying to destroy his cell phone, and now mike huckabee invoking the oven of the holocaust, the only way that you are currently being able to break through in the summer of donald trump is by outtrumping trump. >> let's talk about senator cruz and his comments yesterday. he's not backing down. let me play what he said reacting to some of the criticism coming from orren hatch and others in the party. >> my saying so may be uncomfortable but it is a simple fact entirely consistent with decorum and no member of this body has disputed that promise was made and that promise was broken. >> so he's called the senate majority leader a p

and mike huckabee in moments. why did "new york times" rain on the parade of certificate reason -- of serena william' parade on her >>> donald trump told m donald trump told me he understated the net worth and said he is worth more over $10 billion to be exact. and over 14 years of apprentice, nbc paid him $213 million. that touched off a bizarre and heated argument between two msnbc hosts who had experiences as a producer on "west wing." >> here it s. >> if you see what his salary is from nbc from yesterday --. >> total lie. total lie. it is a lie. let me explain. donald trump --. >> let me tell you you are so out of bounds. donald trump makes $1 million on one of the most --. [ talking simultaneously ] >> this has been a declining show with two good show not going and declining ever since. >> you are rambling and ranting. [ talking simultaneously ] >> that got ugly. you would think this was an argument about iranian nucleares but it was a shot at his 10:00 p.m. show and on twitter "no to morning joe," try to res

who mike huckabee always has been. >> and to what extent jean cummings, is huckabee competing in the trump primary, trying to get some space, some attention, especially in advance of the debate? >> absolutely. he's not going to back down because he's now been in the news cycle for two days. he hasn't been in the news cycle for two months up until this point. >> as he said himself to matt lauer today, he said, you know, i said it on weekend radio show on sirius radio, well, and matt said yeah now you're here on the "today" show. >> exactly. we may see here of this because they're all still jockeying to get on to that debate stage. many of them are on the bubble. huckabee's numbers in the national polls may spike now because people are talking about him. and give him an opportunity to get on to a much bigger stage with all of the other dominant players. >> and remember, chris as you know so well, he won iowa by eight points back in '08. >> and as i noted in that piece you referenced andrea 60% of the electorate in the iowa caucus identified as evangelical christman cristhristian christ

mike huckabee compared the iran nuclear deal to the holocaust. and so far he hasn't apologized. ktvu's ken pritchett here now with how gaining attention may be key in a crowded field. >> donald trump did it. made seemingly campaign sinking statements, and is now at the top of the polls. huckabee's words may not have been calculated, but he is getting notice at a key moment in the campaign. >> if mike huckabee wanted attention, he got it. >> he's so naive he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> reporter: that reference to the holocaust caught the president's attention on his trip to africa. >> the particular comments of mr. huckabee are, i think part of just a general pattern that we've seen that is, would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. >> reporter: usf professor of politics james taylor says huckabee's statement was powerful and inflammatory. >> using the analogy of the horror of a million jews dying at auschwitz to criticize the president's foreign policy i think is really morally problemati

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the and it went beyond just what mike huckabee said. let's listen to this. >> in fact it's been interesting when you look at what's happened with mr. trump, when he'd made some of the remarks that for example challenge the heroism of mr. mccain, somebody who endured torture. and conducted himself with exemplary patriotism. the republican party is shocked, and yet that arises out of a culture where, you know those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated non-stop through the internet and talk radio and news outlets. and i recognize when outrageous statements are made like that about me a lot of the same people who are outraged when they're made about mr. mccain were pretty quiet. >> jonathan that's a point you made last woke what the president say the right there. >> they weren't just silent. they were kissing up to donald trump. they were going and visiting donald trump in his office and begging him for contributions. in mitt romney's case they were holding a press conference with donald trump, talk

let's unpack what mike huckabee said. in saying this is marching them to the voekjoke -- enjoking language of the holocaust holocaust. he really haven't even heard language like that from prime minister netanyahu. there's very strong feelings about this iran deal. and you know pros and cons on each side about the strength of the deal and whether it really curbs iran's nuclear ambition. and israel has called you know iran an ex-sten shall threat. but i've never heard them say president obama and the administration would be causing another holocaust if that deal went through. >> do you see this in any way impacts all that is being considered particularly as it pertains to members of congress? >> i don't think so. clearly, there's a lot of republican rejection and opposition to this deal. and even on the democratic side. but i think that you know the problem here is that everyone is kind of tieing this to israel and, you know, certainly the presidential candidates are trying to outbid each other for who's more pro israel. ev

huckabee defended his word >> you are not backing down? >> the response from jewish people has been overwhelmingly positive, from holocaust survivors, from the children of holocaust survivors. >> as president of the united states would you use the word march the israelis to the door of the oven? >> yes, i would. i will tell you why. i have been to auschwitz three times. i have stood at the very place. >> what huckabee may have missed both u.s. jewish groups have condemned his remarks. "usa today" spoke with israeli ambassador, ron dermer, former operative and ally of benjamin netanyahu who agrees substantively with huckabee in opposition to the deal. >> i don't think it's appropriate. we don't impugn the motives of the people who are doing this deal i think it's important to conduct the debate. >> while huckabee's language may be extreme, the analogy to nazis and the holocaust is mainstream in republican rhetoric about the deal. >> this is the equivalent of giving adolf hitler weapons of mass destruction. >> i think it rivals neville chamb

huckabee is not alone. rand paul has come out against this deal and rand paul in 2007 said it would be okay if iran got a nuclear weapon. you can use traditional containment. you have seen a shift in the republican party on two reasons. they brought out the voices in the republican party even though isis has little to do with iran policy. if obama is for something, the truth of the matter is republicans are against it. >> we take what you just laid out and add on top of that the trump factor of this billionaire who came out saying direct personal insults to his republican competitors has only helped him in the polls and other republicans want to fill the airwaves. we will see them go head to head august 4th. how much do you expect that to change things when candidates standoff and have to give substantive answers? >> when you have 16 candidates in the field, these are governors and senators aside from donald trump who didn't work his way up. you have a qualified field. frankly there is more experience in th