and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> yep, that's about the best he could do for comedic reaction. good morning, everybody. welcome to ""morning joe."" with us on set we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle mark halperin. nicole wallace is here. richard haase, in washington pulitzer prize winner and analyst eugene robinson. joe an assignment, back tomorrow. we have a couple of things to begin this morning. look at the new poll of republican primary voters in new hampshire. donald trump has the lead. 24% choose trump, doubling the 12% who picked former florida governor jeb bush. the pollsters find trump's quick rise takes votes from nearly all of his opoevenlts it appears to hurt chris christie ted cruz and scott walker the most. the poll has an ohio governor john kasich moving up into 3rd tied with walker. i don't know if that's wishful thinking on my part. that's kind of hopeful. right, halperin? >> i think kasich will be 2nd in the poll by labor day. >> on it why? what is it? whatt the ridiculous zany stuff that he's saying getting him into the top of the pack. >> he spent $2 million on tv ads at a time no one else was. >> those ads must be vitriolic. >> he has senator sununu helping him. if hess goes into 2nd it means jeb bush and chris christie counting on new hampshire, the governor of ohio who is a formidable candidate. >> it's a really solid spot he has had up there. >> great in front of the camera, performing great. >> he is the same on the spot as she in the supermarket in nashua, new hampshire. he's the same person. he's very good retail and very good on tv. >> hey, he'll never make it. this comes as the merit poll saw a spike in the poll with caseic placing 4th. huh. so just out this morning, bloomberg is reporting donald trump's total worth may be close to one-third of what he has said. >> are you kidding? >> that's what they're reporting. we can claim he is worth at least $10 billion. but an analysis done by bloomberg billionaire's index puts the number closer to $2.9 billion t. analysis reports, for instance his golf and resort properties are worth about $570 million. trump has said previously they are worth about 2 billion. according to bloomberg, he did not disclose his methodology. >> it's hard to put an exact price on a golf course him some of us would say it's priceless. >> that's where you put it. the category for richard haase. the reporting a knowledges there may be at assets it doesn't include, like 11 entities on his disclosure report that have no values or income and doesn't attach a value to his brand. are they right? what are they saying? he's exaggerating, they think, maybe? >> well, there are some missing answers. you know he may be worth closer to or more than this mouse, because there are some things my colleagues couldn't get. >> this is leak the crowd effort. if are you a right or you are wrong what is bloomberg say something. >> he has billions of dollars is there that's not the question. >> he puts a lot of value if his brand and he errs i think on the side of saying this combrand is worth more than some independent analysts say. but he's still quite rich. >> yes, he is. >> it doesn't patz. >> you don't know what something is worth until you sell it. the mark will tell you. >> listen. he's a gazillion nair whether he is lying or not. >> is he lying? is that what bloomberg is say something. >> this is only a lasting ding on him if lying and fabricating about. and his life becomes a record. >> we're saying an appraisal of some of the properties done independently is different than what he appraises things at. >> which is sort of consistent with him describing himself as, you know he says the mexicans love me the blacks love me. is there any reality? this becomes a part of the inescapable trumpism. as it attachs itself to other things we learn to be true about him. so to the degree that everything he says is sort of his own version of who is in the parallel. >> it sounds like bloomberg has their own version. >> why this report is interesting is because his wealth and financial success and his truth telling are big parts of the question that has sustained his appeal. >> it doesn't sound like you have his truth telling or lack thereof completely failed. >> there is no way to completely nail it down. as richard said again, it's hard to value assets until they are put on the market. >> it does not matter. >> genes help me out here. >> mike barnacle is right $3 billion is a lot of money. at least if my book. you know i wish i had 3 million dollars. i think, you know he is and i actually think that bloomberg answers a fundamental question. there are people who have argued that donald trump's net worth is in the low hundreds of dollars, if that. bloomberg says he is a billionaire alt least maybe not capitalized $10 billion. maybe it's capitalized. $3 you know what is his brand worth? i have no idea. >> it's as rigorous as he can do. >> without real answers. >> this gives him the opportunity at some point today to say bloomberg is stupid. they make these computers that nobody uses. >> actually. >> here's mine. >> there is something far more important that i think we ned to talk about which i'm surprised certain candidates have chosen not to. we will move to former arkansas governor and republican presidential candidate mike huckabee's harsh comments on the fallout from the iran nuclear deal which continue to impact the presidential race. >> this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. he's so naive that he would trust the iranians and he would take the israelis and basically march them to the door of the oven. >> particular comments of mr. huckabee are i think part of just a general pattern that we have seen that is -- would be considered ridiculous if it weren't so sad when you get rhetoric like this. maybe it gets attention and maybe is an effort to push mr. trump out of the headlines. but it's not the kind of leadership that is needed by perk right now. >> do you stand by your comments? >> absolutely. absolutely i do. 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. we're not talking about a bloger here. we're talking the iranian government has repeatedly said it's going to be easier to take the jews out they're all concentrated in israel. we won't have to go around the toward find them. three times i have stood at that oven dorm i know exactly what it looks like. >> so israel's ambassador to the united states ron dermer a stauven opponent of the iran deal he would never use those words or question the president's sincerity. presidential candidates have begun to weigh if. senator ted cruz said huckabee quote is exactly right to highlight the threat that the obama nuclear deal poses to the nation of israel. it is a sad day, he says when the president of the united states cannot or will not see the truth. i say this is a sad day, actually. rick santorum also offered his support. >> iran is very clear that they want to destroy the state of israel, wipe out the jews in israel. we are a little shocked they are getting the pushback that it is. i think it is clear that this is iraq's intent. >> at least two others of his candidates did not share his opinion. >> i have been to israel about as many times as mr. huck a combee, whom i respect, but the use of that kind of language and it's just wrong. this is not the way we're going to win elections. that's not how we're going to solve problems. so it's an unfortunate remark. i'm not sure he felt the same. having said that this is a bad deal. i can see why people are angry about it. >> cards like mr. trump, huckabee or anybody else i will let them speak for themselves. i certainly don't speak like that. it's a bad deal. it's flat out a bad deal. >> i'm disappointed and i'm really offended personally. i know governor huckabee. i have a cordial relationship with him. he served as to the governor of arkansas but i find this kind of inflammatory rhetoric totally unacceptable. one can disagree with the particulars of the agreement to put a lid on the nuclear weapons program of iran and that is fair game. but this steps over the line. >> governor huckabee issued this response to clinton soon after. he says quote, how many times will eastern's leaders calm for israel's afilelation before hillary wakes up to this existential threat. home murdered israelis will it take for hillary to express as much outrage at iran as she did at my defense of israel? so then there is this wrinkle to the story. sam stein of the huffington post duck up that in 28 huckabee actually called for intense diplomacy, economic sanctions with iran and said that quote we might be able to live with the contained iran vowing iran wouldn't get nuclear weapons on his watch. but he paid it clear iran could be brought to the table. so let's go around the table. i'm sorry. i think mike huckabee might be two people. describe them richard haase. >> let me make an argument that there ought to be a moratorium on the holocaust by definition is a unique historical atrocity. no one should be able to make comparisons to it. and secondly in the iran debate you also need a moratorium on references to appeasement, again, a unique historical diplomatic moment. there is ground for being seriously critical to the iran agreement. i am critical. we feed a serious debate. after september, either way, pass or fail this is going to become a major feature of american foreign policy and national security. we feed a serious debate about it. >> nicole, why is it so tough for the republican candidates to do what he did to trump for his comments. i think we could put them on scales and huckabees would drop to scale on his side. >> well, these are the two leading republican candidates that did exactly the right thing. i am very proud to be a republican in support of this field. george bush and scott walker said something the president would say when someone in their own party lets the rhetoric cross the line. the substance of what he is saying. these israeli leaders are horrified by the deal. the language is obscure, otherwise a vital point. his language is unfortunate. i thought jeb bush and scott walker handled it perfectly, extending the language. >> you see the lemings rushing to casticate him as a cancer. >> i don't think mike huckabee is a cancer. this comment crossed the line. i don't think mike huck a intee viewed by the grass roots republicans as the same cancer to conservatism as donald trump is. >> i'm wondering after thinking about it for days you think about what huckabee said. >> well, we had a pretty strong reaction on the set. i think the candidates denouncing trump are cowards that won't denounce this are cowards. that's a hard thing to say. >> he didn't go there. >> come on guys listen to what he said. my initial reaction yesterday, i have to say, i was completely shocked. i hadn't seen the comments. so i saw them in real time. i was completely shocked. take a look. >> republican presidential candidate mike huckabee is facing criticism for apparently comparing the nuclear deal with iran to the holocaust. former arkansas governor said in part this this president's foreign policy is the most feckless in american history. it is so naive that he would trust the iranians. by doing so he will take the israelis and march them oh god, okay. into the door of the oven. i had heard about the parallel to the holocaust. i had not read it until this moment and i am horrified. >> it went on from there, because so many people were astounded all day yesterday, i was approached by people on the street about this story. really really upset. these appalling remarks by a president for candidate to be sure this is not a defuns yax of barak obama's or john kerry's negotiating skills. it wasn't a comparison to apasadenament. make no mistake, mike huckabee likened president obama and john kerry cutting on agreement to adolph hitler's systematic murder machine, lumping them with war criminals and their extermination plans for millions of people. this is how the reaction went on later in the show as the weight of those comments sank in. >> if you have been to auschwitz, if you have been toberkeinow. you see the piles of class ifs, the piles of hair the piles of shoes and clothes and every bit of their humanity that had to be stripped away handed over as they went and then comburned to their death among other things it's really not a good comment to say. it's a deal breaker. it should be over for him. >> the fact that he's doubling down he should be doubled over. truth be told i real le like mike huckabee. he has been a friend of the show many years. he sat at the table. she smart, witty, charming. i don't agree with everything he has to say. i love she a man of deep religious convictions or so i thought. a former southern baptist preacher. we will talk about how he blessed me on the show for my sins on one of his visits. it was so much fun. he was fun. frankly, i don't see mike huckabee in these comments i see a candidate desperate to get on the debate stage and doing anything, anything to make that happen. people of good faith have strong opinions about the iran deal. many have had tough questions about the eastern deal including joe on the set. the anti-defamation leak ambassador dermer many others. but many who strongly oppose the deal were displaced by his comments. in 1933 think about this europe's jewish population was over 9 million. 12 years lateer the nazi death machine had killed nearly two out of three alongside hundreds of thousands of others who they choked with gas, tortured starved, shot or burned. all deaths that took a place away from the battlefields of world war ii. the forced palm beachs continued until may 7th fine 45 the day before the nazis surrendered to the allies. when mike huckabee says president obama is figuratively marching israelis to the oven door i hope he remembers they were actually marched to the oven door. tear intent was to wipe out an entire race. the comparison is certainly unfit for a preacher or a presidential candidate and it is not the mike huckabee we know not even close. i'm surprised, really at how different the reaction from the republican field has been given their obsession with donald trump, given their fear from donald trump. their collective desire to wipe him off the face of the earth. how about actually saying the right thing? just say the right thing. it should be easy. this should be an easy one. huckabee should apologize, even though at this point it would be empty since he has doubled down and his fellow republicans should have the guts to do and say the right thing and they don't. we'll be right back. res up free wi-fi, with a network that's now up 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from the boston globe. the city's mayor marty walsh is pulling his city out of the u.s. olympic committee's 2024 bid process. the proposal experienced significant opposition from boston residents and walsh says he refuses to let the city absorb any budget overruns. the u.s. olympic committee ceo says leaders still believe boston could host the great olympics. bid leaders are focusing on los angeles, which they feel can be a strong contender against likely bids from paris and rome. barnacle. i like boston. >> well, actually it was a good move by mayor marty walsh because everyone knew it was in the water the u.s. olympic committee was going to take the bid certainly by labor day, so preemptive strike on the right side actually. >> the streets aren't big enough? >> no. >> it's a great sport city. >> the marathon would have to be shorter. >> i like your mayor. i was driving the city last month. there was a triathlon. i had all this road rage i can see it would be very controversial. i'm the city's actual residents. >> you can have it in los angeles, nobody would know the difference. >> okay. moving on. >> today, arizona republic the arizona cardinals have hired what is believed to be the first female coaching position a koeveng intern through training camp in the pre-season. she has played women's football at several levels and became the first female to play a fawn kicking position in the men's pro league. she was a member of the texas revolution in 2014 and even has a ph.d. in psychology which you will certainly feed. >> yes she will. the nfl has hired several incredible women over the past year. their cmo, wow, i'm hoping we have her own and also i think they have a new health expert looking at injuries along the way, we will have on the show. >> brigham young hospital. >> they're really amazing. yeah. >> i have renewed hope. i really do, after meeting some of these women. reuters, if anyone deserves a nobel prize, fifa president seth blatter, according to russian president vladimir putin, oh my god, he said in an interview i think mr. blatter or the heads of big international sporting federations of the olympic games deserve special recognition. if there is anywith under that deserves the nobel prize, it is those people. >> that's recommendation possible. >> blatter will step down as fifa president in february met with putin in saturday. he says he fully supports russia, of course holding the 20s 18 world cup. to deal seen there, no huh-uh. barnacle. >> new york post raising hell the port authority of new york and new jersey is going to knock down and rebuild, wait for it laguardia airport in new york city. >> god. >> new york governor andrew cuomo planned to modernize through a public partnership. four terminals will be fogged down unfortunately, not before friday when i go back on the shuttle. plans call for construction to end next year. it will create 8,000 jobs. the airport will be made operational during construction t. runway layout will remain the same. >> it will not be $1 over budget. >> or one day late. how long will this take? >> well how long does it take to take off at laguardia? >> oh. >> the airport will remain operational the entire time. >> the guardian. yesterday, president obama had a memorable visit as ethiopia's national palace with lucie, a 3.2-year-old fossil. lucie is the most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor ever found t. senior cure kurator says everyone, is connected. >> every single person here several billion individuals, including donald trump, are connected through there ancestry. >> i don't know what that says. >> did that just happen? donald trump made it to either i don't want twra. >> an international icon. >> there is globalization. >> even donald trump. >> and a hair insult right there as well. >> it's amazing. >> okay. joining us now from nbc news senior white house correspondent christensen, chris, what is the president doing today? >> well today, i don't know we will hear