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RACHEL: FOX NEWS ALERT THIS
MORNING.
FOUR HOSTAGES ARE SAFE AT HOME
AFTER AN ARMED MAN ENTERED THEIR
SYNAGOGUE DURING PRAYER SERVICES
YESTERDAY, HOLDING THEM HOSTAGE
FOR MORE THAN 11 HOURS, RANTING
ABOUT A JAILED TERRORIST.
THE GUNMAN NOW DEAD AFTER THE
FBI STORMED THE SYNAGOGUE.
THAT SYNAGOGUE IS LOCATED IN OUR
NEXT GUEST’S DISTRICT,
CONGRESSWOMAN BETH VAN DUYNE
JOINS US NOW.
WITH THE LATEST, CONGRESSWOMAN,
SO GREAT TO HAVE YOU THIS
MORNING.
I’M SURE YOU AND EVERYONE IN
COLEY VERY, TEXAS --
COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS, ARE RELIEVED
AFTER WHAT HAPPENED AND EVERYONE
IS SAFE.
WHAT IS THE LATEST YOUR HEARING
RIGHT NOW.
>> THIS INTERVIEW COULD HAVE
BEEN A LOT ROUGHER THIS MORNING.
WE’RE THANKFUL OUR PRAYERS WERE
ANSWERED.
A LOT OF MIRACLES HAPPENED
YESTERDAY.
FIRST OF ALL ONLY HAD FOUR
PEOPLE IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
THE NIGHT BEFORE THEY HAD 40 AND
50.
TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY,
WINDCHILL WAS 22.
THAT MIGHT HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO
DO WITH IT.
THE FACT IT WAS ALSO LIVE
STREAMED GAVE THE POLICE A
LITTLE HEAD’S UP WHAT WAS GOING
ON.
WHICH HAD FAST ACTING MEMBERS OF
OUR COMMUNITY THAT CALLED THE
POLICE WHEN THEY WERE WATCHING
IT ON THEIR LIVE STREAM.
SO A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENED BUT
WE, YOU KNOW, I REACHED OUT TO
THE MAYOR.
WE WERE AT CITY HALL LAST NIGHT
GETTING AN UPDATE FROM THE FBI
MOMENTS BEFORE THIS HAPPENED,
BEFORE THE HOSTAGES WERE SAVED.
WE’RE LOOKING AT LOTS OF
QUESTION THIS MORNING.
DID THIS MAN ACT ALONE?
WHO, WHERE DOES HE COME FROM?
IS THIS A GROUP EFFORT?
WE UNDERSTAND HIS MOTIVATION WAS
TO GET A CRIMINAL RELEASED FROM
A A PRISON 23 MILES AWAY FROM
THAT SYNAGOGUE BUT IS THAT HIS
ONLY MOTIVATION?
THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF
QUESTIONS TO ASK TODAY, I WANT TO THANK THE COLLEYVILLE POLICE
TO THANK THE COLLEYVILLE POLICE
DEPARTMENT, TEXAS DPF, FBI TEAM
FROM JUAN TICK COY.
THEY WERE FAST ACTING.
IT TOOK 11 HOURS.
I CAN’T IMAGINE THE STRESS AND
FAMILY OF THAT, FOUR HOSTAGES
THAT WERE THERE BUT THE END
RESULT WAS PEACEFUL FOR THOSE
FOUR HOSTAGES GETTING RETURNED
SAFE AND SOUND TO THEIR FAMILY.
RACHEL: YEAH.
ABSOLUTELY.
GREAT POLICE WORK INVOLVED ON
THE LOCAL LEVEL, ON THE FBI
LEVEL.
I LOVE HOW THE LOCAL POLICE IN
TEXAS SAID WE ALSO ACTIVATED
PRAYER CHANNELS AND NETWORKS WE
KNOW.
JUST LOVED TEXAS.
THE FBI BY THE WAY -- THE FBI
SEEMED TO --
>> [INAUDIBLE].
RACHEL: YEAH, THE FBI SEEMED TO
DISMISS ANTI-SEMITISM AS A
MOTIVE AND THAT SEEMS A LITTLE
EARLY TO ME, A LITTLE
INTERESTING SINCE WE KNOW THAT
ANTI-SEMITISM IS UP ABOUT 40%
RIGHT NOW, ATTACKS ARE UP 40% IN
THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
SO I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY WERE CONFUSED
ABOUT THAT?
>> I DON’T THINK ANYTHING HAS
BEEN CUT-OUT JUST YET.
I STILL THINK THEY’RE LOOKING AT
ALL OF THOSE, ALL OF THOSE
MOTIVATIONS BUT YOU’RE RIGHT,
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
THE FACT THAT ANTI-SEMITISM,
VIOLENCE AND ATTACKS ARE
ABSOLUTELY UP, MATE CRIMES ARE
UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT
CONSIDERING JEWS MAKE UP 2% OF
THE POPULATION, YET NEARLY 60%
OF ALL HATE CRIMES ARE
ANTI-SEMITIC THERE IS SOMETHING
GOING ON.
THEY SPIKED LAST YEAR IN MAY
AFTER THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE
CONFLICT.
QUITE HONESTLY THE RHETORIC FROM
THE FAR LEFT, THE PROGRESSIVE
SQUAD IS NOT HELPING.
WE’RE MAKING SURE THAT THE
INVESTIGATIONS ARE HAPPENING,
FINDING OUT MOTIVATION, HOW FAR
THIS IS RANGING AND ADDRESSING
THAT BUT YOUR CONCERN, THE
JEWISH COMMUNITY’S CONCERN IS
DEFINITELY MY CONCERN.
RACHEL: YEAH.
ALSO AFTER AFGHANISTAN WE KNOW
THAT TERROR EXPERTS SAID WE
SHOULD BE LOOKING OUT FOR MORE
TERROR, TERRORISM IN OUR COUNTRY
AS THEY WERE VERY EMBOLDENED
WHEN THE TALIBAN TOOK OVER, WHEN
WE BASICALLY HANDED OVER ALL OF
OUR WEAPONS TO THEM AS WELL.
SO ANYWAY, CONGRESSWOMAN, SO
GREAT HEARING FROM YOU.
WE’RE PRAYING FOR THE COMMUNITY