Fox Host Calls Out Huck’s Holocaust Remarks: ‘You May Not Go There!’ (VIDEO)

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Fox host Geraldo Rivera exploded at presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Monday for comparing President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran to the Holocaust.

“As a Jew… it was inappropriate. There are some places you cannot go,” Rivera said during Huckabee’s interview on the Fox News show “The Five.” “You cannot compare the slaughter of six million Jews to anything other except maybe the slaughter of the Armenians or something else in history. You cannot compare it to a negotiation over a deal like this, Governor.”

Huckabee said on Saturday in an interview with Breitbart News that Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”

“You have offended many, many people in the Jewish community. … It is inappropriate to compare the Holocaust to anything,” Rivera said. “And if you start using as a sloppy rhetorical phrase, you’re gonna get in trouble.”

Huckabee was also criticized for his comments Monday by fellow presidential hopefuls, including Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.

“This was the systematic attempt by an industrialized nation to wipe out a race of people. That is different. That is unique,” Rivera said. “You may not go there! And I’m begging you to apologize and retract that.”

“I will not apologize, and I will not recant because the word ‘holocaust’ was invoked by the Iranian government,” Huckabee said. “They used that very word.”

Watch the interaction below:

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