Mike Huckabee Appearance on CNN's The Lead With Jake Tapper

I mean that major Republican presidential candidates have only six days rising up in the polls to merit a golden ticket guarantee one

the White House hopefuls are upping the rat hearing on media jockey for Klay attacking pivot thrusting and parrying and sitting down with news anchors to

get their messages out in their numbers that includes former Arkansas governor my cock and governor Mike Huckabee joins

us now governor great to see you again thanks for joining us I want to ask you about the comments you made some Jewish groups taking

issue with the language you use to denounce the proposed nuclear deal with Iran saying you said it would quote take the Israelis and March to

the door of the oven %HESITATION stark reference that ok are the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal center %HESITATION

while calling you a strong support of Israel also said that your language was very harsh over the top and said he would advise you that

no president of the United States should be compared in anyway Adolf Hitler what what's your response wasn't comparing the president to Adolf

Iranian threats to destroy Israel and when they use words say we develop the missiles that will deliver Israel

to a Holocaust say that they want to bring death to America when they say that they want to be able to destroy Israel and all the Jews by having

them in one place and that Israel is a one bomb country those aren't my words those are there were where's the words of

a governor and I think the last time that we did not take seriously when people were making threats against

the Jewish people it was a disastrous consequence we cannot stand by and let that happen again but

the the words you're talking about the horrific threats from Iran at leaders they're not new %HESITATION

and it in two thousand eight now you wrote an article in which you discussed foreign policy towards Iran and you said quite we

I look parents in the I don't slain wife but their son's or daughter's life at risk I want to do everything possible to avoid conflict

with Iran is that not the same philosophy guiding president Obama now is exactly the same philosophy that I hold today the diplomacy doesn't mean that you're going to surrender we

got nothing out of this I read the whole deal heck we got nothing the hostages are still there we freed up a hundred and fifty billion dollars for them to buy conventional arms which we did not receive %HESITATION

they're going to finance terrorism now through a monsoon has a lot a level that they never had the funds to do over

Missy mains that you go in and you might give up something but by gosh you get something I'm not sure what we got other than we simply delayed the inevitable and

that is the Iranians having a nuclear device which they have already said they can't wait to have so that they can wipe

Israel off the face of the man and even as we negotiate with them they're chanting death to America I still consider that very smart diplomacy if

that's smart diplomacy we need to get smarter than I secretary of state Kerry I might respond there is

something that the U. S. and the international community got out of the deal they got inspections they got an opportunity to monitor %HESITATION

and prevent the building of a bomb you respond that well if you believe that the Iranians are truly going to give access and in