offensive and they have no place in our political dialogue. >> reporter: as well as president obama. >> you know 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. >> fellow republican jeb bush also urged the former arkansas governor to tone it down. >> the use of that kind of language, is just wrong. this is not the way we are going to win elections and solve problems. >> late today, huckabee remained defiant. >> i will not apologize or recant. the word holocaust was invoked by the iranian guchlt theyovernment. they used that word. >> so there is some strong backlash against huckabee's comments anybody standing up for him? >> interestingly one of his gop rivals rick santorum said mike huckaby was right. it was clear iran wants to wipe israel out. then he went on to continue defending him today. this gives you an idea of how