mike huckabee: those are expensive. >> could i get your autograph? mike huckabee: sure. my father raise me to believe if you tell the truth you don't not remember what you said. i believe that is true. >> 2017. i don't know what you are thinking about vp, but -- mike huckabee: i have to get the first slot first. >> i am plugging for both of you. mike huckabee: that is not a bad idea. thank you. you must like to hunt. >> i am a storm chaser for the national weather service. i just happened to be driving by. mike huckabee: do you live here in iowa? >> i was in des moines. mike huckabee: how long if you been chasing storms? >> since i was 16. mike huckabee: we had some bad tornadoes. i was in two personally. terrible stuff. >> i am glad you're running. you are the only candidate that knows how to do that. mike huckabee: be careful when you're out there. >> on the next washington journal, represented that the overwrought of texas. a hearing on the v8 budget shortfall. then he talks about the shooting in tennessee. republican representative tom rice of south salina -- south c

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

he answered a question of mike huckabee. he could have brushed it off or responded directly to that but he spent four minutes talking about the republicans and what he sees as a lack of seriousness, what i'm hearing from some of the senior aides, almost he couldn't hold it in anymore. he really expressed this yesterday. he will be handing off the keys to the white house in 18 months and he doesn't feel like there are some people who are running for presidents who are taking it as seriously as he should. he made those comments knowing they would detract in the news coverage from the issues he wants to put forward here. i think that tells you something as well mica. today the big speech before the african union. >> we will be watching for that. eugene robinson, i want to ask you that the issues the president is addressing, where he is now, are extremely important to them. he did spend a great deal talking about the huckabee comments. >> yeah, he did. it was interesting that you know, he hasn't inserted himself in the president

, michael cohen, he defended huckabee's comments miking that comparison to the holocaust. i want to quickly get your reaction to our latest poll numbers and the cnn/orc poll. hillary clinton's unfavorability number right now is at 49% nationwide. 49% of the american public have an unfavorable opinion of hillary clinton. donald trump's unfavorable number nationwide is 59%. so they're not all that far apart. here here's the question for you as the chaur of the dnc and hillary clinton is the front-runner. why do almost half of the american people have an unfavorable opinion of hillary clinton? >> well wolf number one, not surprising that donald trump would defend mike huckabee's comments. donald trump is the king of outrageous comments and we'll see on august 6 the republican field busily trying to outrageous one another: as far as polls, you know we've had this conversation you and i, so many times. we're 18 months from election day. polls are going to show some candidates up some candidates down. what's important the that the candidates both sides of the aisle, get out and

i want to get back to mike huckabee's over the top critique of iran. many made comparisons to the holocaust but huckabee took it to a new low. >> 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. >> you know, i don't get it. the great thing is i have been there not many times but in israel they are open to debate. you can be at peace now with the crowd. you can have different points of view. disagree with the netanyahu approach without people accusing you of being a nazi. what is it about our culture? we can't discuss the middle east without these references? >> this is a special case for huckabee. he's appealing to what he thinks is a base at home. >> evangelical christians. >> absolutely. also the money people, too. >> in that trex, too. >> absolutely. he ends up being more pro israeli than the israelis. to your point they are having a debate about this. >> what do you think, mike? >> huckabee -- this does

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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,

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

this mike huckabee comment doesn't help things. >> i don't think mike huckabee is investigating the truth, he's not interested in the truth. >> of course not. >> that's the work character assassination i've heard in a long time. >> it doesn't help the investigation, let's put it that way. >> it doesn't help mike huckabee. >> he's become a joke. up next, the national football league upholds the suspension of tom brady. and brady ordered his cell phone destroyed so they couldn't look at it and look for text messages. this is looking bad for mr. brady. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain as it may cause an

>> that's between mike huckabee and the president. i come back to the fact this is a serious issue, that really demands serious debate and serious consideration. >> and very quickly before we move on ted cruz calling this iran nuclear deal a jihadist stimulus bill senator tom cotton compare john kerry to fontity pilate we all need to debate this civilly, but at the end of the day in congress most ly pressure voting to affirm there, but i think we're using language that they want to underscore. for instance the fact that there's going to be a tremendous amount of money that goes to iran that will go directly to the various terrorist organizations. it has, we know that's going to happen and people are upset about that. >> when you say the secretary of state was bamboozled what do you mean by that? >> i think they gave away the farm before they ever sat down to the table. they should have required that iran give up the financing of terrorists and give up their ambitions to produce another weapon. that means stopping enriching. both of th

mike huckabee is not an idiot. he saw it. he needs to get a bump in the polls and he took advantage of it. >> you know this is a problem, mika, about people losing their heads right now. >> yeah. >> that's what mitt romney did in the iowa debate and decided he was going to go as extreme as he could. he ended up getting 26% of the hispanic vote because of it. people needs to understand these words stay with them. >> and i'm worried how deep into the gutter it is. we have story slugs. these are the choices. trump agrees with huckabee. mark cuban praises trump. trump's lawyer apologizes for you can't rape your spouse comment. and it goes on. >> and kick out john boehner as house speaker. there's a lot of stuff. >> it's crazy, tom. i'm sorry. it is crazy town. >> donald trump's front-runner status is making him the target of media organizations. there say front page story about his "raw side" when under oath. the paper reviews trump's sworn testimony from a series of lawsuits dating back to 2007. "the times" writes that some clai

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

mike huckabee's not. ted cruz is not. jeb bush could be because he's a serious viable candidate and he's protecting himself in that way. now, does he wind up making himself unelectable in iowa and in the new hampshire primaries by preserving his long-term longevity? that's entirely possible. but if a republican candidate doesn't do that, then he might as well have the hillary clinton coronation right now. >> but shira, could this kind of talk hurt jeb wush, fbush for s what he said, even though it hurt him in the general election, could it hurt him in the primary? >> i don't think so, rev and here's why. the field is so large. 16 candidates, 5 superconservatives, it is so vast in terms of policy as well in the republican party that it kind of lets jeb bush be jeb bush in a way mitt romney couldn't afford in 2012 in the primary necessarily. so i don't think it will damage him as much as some people say because in many ways he can stake out his way with maybe some competition from other more mad rat republicans as well but

this mike huckabee comment doesn't help things. >> i don't think mike huckabee is investigating the truth, he's not interested in the truth. >> of course not. >> that's the work character assassination i've heard in a long time. >> it doesn't help the investigation, let's put it that way. >> it doesn't help mike huckabee. >> he's become a joke. up next the national football league upholds the suspension of tom brady. and brady ordered his cell phone destroyed so they couldn't look at it and look for text messages. this is looking bad for mr. brady. iran keeps their nuclear facilities. military sites can go uninspected. restrictions end after 10 years. then iran could build a nuclear weapon in two months. iran has violated 20 international agreements and is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. put your hand over your heart. is it beating? good! then my nutrition heart health mix is for you. it's a wholesome blend of peanuts, pecans and other delicious nuts specially mixed for people with hearts. planters. nutrition starts with nut. seriously? you're not at all concerned? about what now?

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

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

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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 week, 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

>> i agree. >> if there wasn't a deal they would be doing it. >> i think mike huckabee is wrong. this deal slows town their ability to develop a nuclear weapon. >> 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 man

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 getting as much traction as you would hope. all of these things, not just huckabee, 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. mark: he defended his position again on fox. we will see what happens. john: it wasn't just my cut to -- in mike huckabee's shenanigans that seemed to be annoying president obama today. he talked about the current inclination to dabble in the republican nomination contest. here is the president going after donald trump and

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

. >>> and mike huckabee, jobs, gay marriage and why he won't talk about trump and dealing with the media. >> nobody should be president if they're unwilling to answer the questions. media should say we're not going to cover any candidate that's so pretentious as to think can strip their campaign like it's a hollywood sitcom. >> my sit down with the former governor. >>> bill cosby admitted under oath that he pursued sex with numerous women using drugs in the process and paid two money to keep them happy. does this end the media debate once and for all? >>> campbell brown, former nbc anchor is holding a forum next month with presidential candidates. is this journalism or raw advocacy? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> a major media furor building this weekend against donald trump after the huffington post claimed that trump is such a side show they won't cover him in his public section but in entertainment along with the kardashians. and after john mccain said trump is firing up the crazies, trump at a forum yesterday mocked the senator's time as a prisoner of war in vietnam.

presidential candidate mike huckabee is refusing to back down by comparing the president's agreement to the holocaust. correspondent kevin cork is traveling with the president and reports tonight from ethiopia. >> reporter: at today's news conference president obama was expected to focus on counterterrorism but he turned his attention to comments made by republicans. >> 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: the comments to which the president referred were made by mike huckabee who said this. >> 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: the 2016 primaries quickly approaching, wading into political waters has become increasingly common for the president, but doing so while promoteing bilateral cooperation ethiopia was unexpected. >> the last time the world did not take seriously threats that someone was going to kill massive amounts of jews we ended up seei

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

go ahead, joe. >> you go back to 2008 with mike huckabee. one of the ways mike huckabee won without any organization in iowa he is went around with chuck norris. they would have events. they would have massive crowds. he would get those e-mail addresses. he would get cell phone numbers. and then they would use them even though mike huckabee had maybe, you know ten people working for him in the entire state of iowa to mitt romney who had thousands and thousands and thousands. a great point. large crowds quae e-mail addresses, cell phone numbers, all contacts you can use the last week to get your people out to vote on caucus night even -- well, i was going to see, even in july it matters. especially in july it matters. we're getting to the point pretty season where they say polls don't matter crowds don't matter in july august september, let me tell you something, these are the months when you win new hampshire primaries and you win iowa caucuses. this is when you start building your army. and we'll see if other candidates like kasich -- maybe

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presidential candidate mike huckabee is refusing to back down by comparing the president's agreement to the holocaust. correspondent kevin cork is traveling with the president and reports tonight from ethiopia. >> reporter: at today's news conference president obama was expected to focus on counterterrorism but he turned his attention to comments made by republicans. >> 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: the comments to which the president referred were made by mike huckabee who said this. >> 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: the 2016 primaries quickly approaching, wading into political waters has become increasingly common for the president, but doing so while promoteing bilateral cooperation ethiopia was unexpected. >> the last time the world did not take seriously threats that someone was going to kill massive amounts of jews we ended up seei

. >> 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:

>> i think mike huckabee speaks to principles he holds very deeply. i think the politics of it if you look at the polls, it doesn't make sense for mike huckabee to profess his believes on this but you have to remember that folks that are opponents of same-sex marriage oftentimes it's a deeply held religious belief, and they make that case on principle. sometimes to the detriment of the politics of it. there may be disagreements on it. paul and i, other americans have many agreements on this but i think that is something that those proponents of traditional marriage feel deeply about and oftentimes they don't care about the political benefits. >> i want to have the discussion with my wife. mike huckabee said marriages aren't about love and sentiment sentimentality sentimentality. they've had it all wrong! not about the love and romance. >> guys thank you. great to see you. >>> we head back to the scene of that shooting of a woman in san francisco taken down by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported before five times. are city and federal autho

i had to read what mike huckabee said about the iran deal a few times. have we had ret like this or reached a new low in terms of how candidates speak and willing to say here? >> you know, i would say mike huckabee's been saying controversial things for a long time and he is in the top tens in the polls. she is going to make the debate. i think what he said was less a reflection of a need to be in the debate and how opposed republicans are to this iran deal and how opposed and personally discouraged they are by president obama and less an example of desperation to be relevant and more of an example of, you know donald trump four years ago, we talk about him like a neutral figure, four years ago he said the sitting president was not born in the united states so the fact that he is the top of the poll shows we have a level of extremism in the party that's problematic and the president mentioned a 18 months the leave office an give the keys he said to someone when's able to lead and these comments are unbecoming of people becoming the president of the unite

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

governor mike huckabee. we look forward to hitting the road with you and the campaign trail and talking to you more. thanks so much for joining us and happy fourth to you and yours. >> thank you, jake. great to be with you. >> check this out. friday night in iowa, this packed house. the biggest single turnout for any candidate on either side so far in the hawkeye state. so reports of des moines register. and who were they there for? democratic contender bernie sanders and he is with us live next. i brought in some protein to help rearrange the fridge and get us energized! i'm new ensure active high protein. i help you recharge with nutritious energy and strength to keep you active. come on pear, it's only a half gallon. i'll take that. yeeeeeah! new ensure active high protein. 16 grams of protein and 23 vitamins and minerals. all in 160 calories. ensure. take life in. leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. get your first mo

mike huckabee and ted cruz. mr. obama giving the republicans an earful, he claimed that they lacked seriousness and the coram and honesty. there are a few politicians who do lack those qualities from time to time. we have to admit and that is why we are taking all of that up in the president's efforts to sell his nuclear deal tonight and also talking with mike leigh. also tonight new developments on the 2016 presidential campaign trail come including the rarest of political creatures and a populist. and that includes a few political advantages and new polls confirm that he is also leading in most of those recent polls. so when will the republican establishment began to acknowledge donald trump as the 2016 frontrunner? conservative commentator ann coulter and political analysts ed rollins among our guests. and turkey is complicating an already complicated middle east. unexpectedly launching raids against the kurds when the expectation had been that they would be fighting the islamic state. not only against the islami

rand paul 6 marco rubio 6 and mike huckabee 5%. all of this has garnered president obama's attention. if there when you look at what's happened with mr. trump, when he has made some of the remarks that for example in 18 months turk over the keys. i want to make sure i'm turning over the keys to people who are serious about the world problems. >> what do you think about the shot mr. obama took against mr. trump? >> the emperor is kind enough to hand over the keys and the septor and the crown. that's not how it works. people would kick him out of office if they could. a lot of people are going to vote against president obama. that's why you are seeing so much excitement and robust enthusiasm. >> luke obama over in ethiopia and africa, why would even bother mentioning donald trump? >> because is he is a as far asistic blow hard. is he a person who cannot extricate himself from the political process. he thinks the entire thing revolves around him and always do. >> he doesn't have anything to do with the republican sweepstakes. would wo

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cohen, does donald trump agree with mike huckabee's comments offended? >> he is not offended by mike huckabee's statement. what he is sag toying to the am can people. without a strong world we don't have a strong world. we need to lead. we need to be humble. we need to be sincere. but what we need how to be is we need to be strong. >> do you believe, at this debate we are going to hear more specifics. i will give you an example. he repeatedly said the government of mexico is sending illegal immigrants across the border. i talked to him about that. he said at the border when asked, he had seen evidence of it. when asked if he had seen evidence. yes, i have. we will be showing you the evidence. he hasn't done that. >> anderson when they were setting up the cameras, actually caught people jumping over the fence. we know this is going on. we have 11 million illegal immigrants that are proven. >> that the mexican government themselves are not just not doing a good job stopping people but are actually sending people -- >> they're not stopping them. they're tel

talking about mike huckabee. he loves this, he can exploit this to push forward supporting this iran deal by saying look at these crazy republicans like mike huckabee who are saying these outrageous things. you must, you know agree with me on this iran deal. but i thought it was a little outrageous for him to do it, you got him, criticized tom cotton, the senator from arkansas and other iran deal critics in a country where there is not a lot of democratic values or certainly dissent, that is ethiopia. look, republicans, other folks, democrats critizing iran deal engaging in the democratic process. can forgive -- bill: not just democrats. ambassador from israel, ron dermer said are words that i would use or are not i think appropriate. >> he is diplomat. if i was as vice mike huckabee i wouldn't say these things but the outrage is not the high per below, but iran deal allows iran getting closer to nuclear weapons capability. they get billions and billions of dollars in economic money and activity out of this deal.

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today on "msnbc live," mike huckabee doubles down on his holocaust remarks. the 2016 republican candidate compared president obama's nuclear agreement to the genocide of jews during world war ii. saying it would march israel to quote, the door of the oven. in an interview with the "today" show he said he's gotten support for his response. >> the response from jewish people have been positive. holocaust survivors, children of holocaust survivors. last night in an event i was probably one of hour gentiles in the entire event. it was a jewish events. people were overwhelmingly supportive. >> we're hearing from people saying the opposite. >> huckabee has received no support from israel's ambassador who did not think the comment was appropriate, nor from some of huckabee's fellow republicans. on tuesday my colleague conducted an interview with jeb bush in spanish. and here's what the former florida governor said. >> nbc's peter alexander joins me live from washington,

john: it wasn't just mike huckabee that seemed to be annoying obama today. he talked about the current inclination to dabble in the republican nomination contest. here he is going after donald trump and a sitting senator. mr. obama: when you look at what has happened with mr. trump, when he has made some of the remarks that for example challenge the heroism of mr. mccain, that arises out of a culture where those kinds of outrageous attacks have become far too commonplace and get circulated nonstop. we have a sitting senator who also happens to be running for president suggest i'm the leading state sponsor of terrorism. these are leaders in the republican party. john: the senator who obama was alluding to there was ted cruz. he said the administration was a leading financier of terrorism. if obama keeps getting involved in the republican race, what is the effect of that on the whole contest? mark: it's good. he inspires the democratic party. as long as bill clinton is being quiet, it fills a vacuum. it appeals to some independence in a way that very few indep

and mike huckabee is standing by as well. our correspondents and guests have full coverage. our position correspondent barbara starr is joining us. tell us what you have learned. >> good evening, the pentagon announcing a short time ago, the leader of the so-called khorasan group, a violent offshoot of al qaeda was killed july 8th in northern syria, this has been someone they had been looking for for a long time he was one of the few al qaeda operatives that had advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks so many years ago, he's said to be responsible, involved in october 2002 in a terrorist attack in kuwait that was against some u.s. marines and a french cargo ship. this announcement today is about what they call a targeted attack that means u.s. intelligence the u.s. military when they launch that drone strike against him, they knew he was inside that vehicle, that means there was pretty good intelligence. they don't just launch. how did they know what was happening in northern syria, where there are no u.s. assets on the ground in northern syria. >> it comes as the coalition i

mike huckabee accusing him of marching israel to the door of the oven. >> the particular comments of mr. huckabee are i think part of just a general pattern that we have seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad. when you get rhetoric like this maybe it gets attention and maybe this is just never pushed mr. trump out of the headlines. but it's not the kind of leadership that is needed for america right now. >> mike huckabee not backing down. the former arkansas governor reissued the warning that the deal with iran could lead to israel's demise. >> three times i have been to auschwitz. i have stood at the oven door. i know what it looks like. 1.1 million people killed. for 6,000 years, jews have been hunted and killed all over this earth. when someone in the government says they will kill them i think we should take that seriously. >> donald trump did not pass the opportunity to pass his view that the nuclear deal and president are bad for america. >> he's probably the worst president in the history of our country. he's a very divisive person which is why he brings

look, 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 wrong. this is not the way we are going to win elections. that's not how we are going to solve problems. >> mr. bush is not so much criticizing the point mr. huckabee was making as his language and tone. that's important. while huckabee may have crossed the line with the explicitness of imagery the actual comparison is squarely within the conceptual main stream of the republican party and the conservative movement. >> this is the worst deal since the munich deal of 1938. >> this deal, whatever the final details turn out to be is an american munich. >> this is the equivalent of giving adolph hitler weapons of mass destruction. >> what is it about this president? he's the neville chamberlain of our time. >> please. >> quite frankly one of the big es foreign policy mistakes i have seen in my lifetime. i think it rivals neville chamberlain's discussions with hitler. >> that doesn't fully illustrate the danger. >> joining me now former u.s. amba

one former arkansas governor mike huckabee. the other bernie sanders, vermont senator. he's getting a lot of attention and big crowds on the campaign trail, rising in the polls. let's bring in the host of "state of the union," cnn's jake tapper. jake, good morning to you. i'm sure trump is going to be one of the topics you're discussing with mike huckabee. >> it's one of the topics that all republicans are talking about these days because obviously there are two competing dynamics here. one is there is a big section of the republican electorate that is legitimately upset about illegal immigration. legitimately upset about that murder in san francisco last week, by an illegal immigrant who had been deported several times. of an american, a young woman. and this is an issue that they do want to talk about. the donald trump touches on. on the other hand some of the language that he uses is alienating, especially, to latino voters, and republicans have been trying to make inroads with latino voters for several years now. so there are two competing interests at stake here. w

he responded to mike huckabee in part of that conversation. here it is. >> bush also discussed donald trump, the man who seems to be his chief rival. a new poll shows trump leading bush in new hampshire by 12 points. with the first gop debate just nine days away, bush is not holding back when it comes to the controversial comment on mexican immigrants crossing the border illegally. >> with me now is political correspondent kasie hunt. good morning. >> jose good morning. nice to see you. >> likewise. are we at the point where jeb bush is taking trump seriously now, at least the trump effect? >> i think we are at the point where bush and all the other candidates in the republican field are taking trump seriously. and anybody who doesn't does so at their own peril. he is impacting this race in incredibly unpredictable ways but there's just no denying he's a force. when i talk to republicans who are thinking about how to prepare their candidates for this upcoming debate next week if you think about how it might normally go, you have scott walker w

liz: and suddenly mike huckabee jumps in and now we're all talking about mike huckabee. but joe, in what world should pursuing a diplomatic strategy, at least an effort, whether misguided, according to people, be equated with a nazi leader, gassing six million jews? that suddenly becomes very, very much a hot button discussion. >> no, there's no reason to do that. actually there is one reason, and that's part of what we're talking about. the reality is in, look, in a field this size, talking with a lot of decorum and not bringing attention to yourself doesn't work. you've got to somehow, particularly with trump now, stand out. and one of the ways to stand out is to say something inflammatory unfortunately. the problem with that is the more you have candidates out there saying inflammatory things or things that are sparked to get attention, as ron points out, it starts to hurt the entire group of 16 candidates. liz: joe, brings the oxygen out of room for the democrats, too. let me tell you something, i was in new hampshire, camp visiting day, the kid's camp. i took the lo