00:03:52.840But first, before we get, we have so much to get to today.
00:03:55.580Because for this Friend Friday, I want to bring on my friend and my congressman, Congressman Andy Ogles, who is typically making friends all across Washington, D.C., all across the various communities, especially that lean left.
00:04:13.460My friend, Mr. Ogles has just called on the mosques in America to condemn the recent spate of terror attacks that we've seen.
00:04:24.900Apparently, not one of these 3,000 mosques has come out and condemned them.
00:04:28.800And he is proposing what critics are calling and supporters are calling a Muslim ban on immigration.
00:04:35.880Here to explain himself, amid all the criticism, Andy Ogles.
00:05:06.980Like you said, in the last three weeks, we've had four terror attacks on U.S. soil.
00:05:12.260We have the shooting in Virginia, the shooting in Texas, the car attack in Michigan, and then the attempted bomb throwings in New York.
00:05:20.800We have roughly 3,000 mosques in the United States of America.
00:05:24.280And not a single mosque to date has condemned the violence or disavowed the attackers.
00:05:31.120So they want to claim to the religion of peace, but yet they're afraid to condemn violence.
00:05:36.820And so my letter, an open letter on official letterhead, is to call on the mosques, to call on the imams, to stand by the rhetoric that you're a religion of peace and condemn the violence.
00:05:47.880Say this is not acceptable in the United States.
00:05:50.460Quite frankly, it's not acceptable globally.
00:05:52.720And they need to disavow, disavow the attackers.
00:05:57.260When you see the headlines about this, it's right-wing, hardliner, conservative Andy Ogles, you know, making this provocative statement.
00:06:06.780Then I read your letter, and I was actually shocked.
00:06:09.960First of all, we've become so used to these kinds of attacks.
00:06:19.060I said, oh, right, that's the one in Michigan and the one in Austin and the one in New York, of course.
00:06:24.360And there are 3,000 mosques in this country.
00:06:27.680We have seen Islam spreading and spreading, so much so that on the 25th anniversary of 9-11, you now have a Muslim mayor of New York who's celebrating all sorts of Muslim stuff, who's kind of dissing the Christians in New York, not showing up to the installation of the archbishop.
00:06:41.820But we could go on and on about Mr. Mamdani and Mamdana's standard.
00:08:30.800For all the noise they're making attacking me, the silence of the Muslim community and the silence of the mosques speaks louder than anything that I might say or put on social media.
00:08:42.520Okay, now, beyond the letter, the other thing you're getting in trouble for right now is, according to the headlines, I don't know, I haven't read the bill, you want to ban Muslims from coming to America.
00:08:52.460And this is a violation of the Establishment Clause and the First Amendment.
00:09:18.520So what we're focusing on are the countries that do not have proper vetting.
00:09:24.020So, for example, yes, Syria, Iraq, those countries in that part of the world, but also in South and Central America, you have countries like Venezuela.
00:09:35.700So we had Iran was funding and sending Hezbollah terrorists from their part of the world to Venezuela.
00:09:45.080Venezuela was giving them fake IDs and then sending them to our southern border, where then those Hezbollah terrorists were claiming asylum in the United States.
00:09:54.940And so this is the pipeline that we're seeing coming from the terrorists in the Middle East to South and Central America, coming to our southern border, claiming asylum.
00:10:04.240And keep in mind, I'm chairman of the Cyber Subcommittee for Homeland Security.
00:10:08.200I get briefings that most members of Congress don't get.
00:10:10.900And what I can tell you is I'm utterly shocked that we haven't had a mass terror attack on U.S. soil right now.
00:10:16.400I'm shocked that it hasn't happened, because we have terrorists, not just some run-of-the-mill, you know, I'm not going to say what I was going to say, but run-of-the-mill person.
00:10:28.720These are trained terrorists that have come into this country under fake IDs, and we have no idea who or where they are.
00:10:37.440This is why I have to do and be so bold.
00:10:41.140And so for me to block a country like a Venezuela, like a Syria, like an Iraq that isn't vetting people who literally are emptying their prisons and sending terrorists our way, no, sir.
00:10:51.420And again, I was on a media interview, and the journalist was, you know, trying to get me in a gotcha moment.
00:10:56.540And she says, well, you know, the founding fathers and, you know, the originalists.
00:11:30.400You know, Barack Obama some years ago said that Islam has been a part of America since the very beginning, which is technically true because in the earliest days of our country, we fought the Barbary War.
00:13:31.920I think the vast majority of Americans obviously agree with you on this.
00:13:35.340And speaking of what the vast majority of Americans are talking about, Andy, I assume you don't have many public thoughts on The Bachelorette.
00:13:44.160So I will mercifully let you off the hook before we get to that.
00:13:47.860Thank you very much, though, for everything you're doing in Washington, D.C., for this district and for our country.
00:13:53.380And most importantly, for coming on this show.