“The whole time we were there, of course, we had security with us,” he said in an interview on the Family Research Council’s radio show “Washington Watch.” “But there was no restrictions on travel, we never felt threatened one bit, unless you’re threatened by the merchants in the Old City trying to get you to come in their shops! In fact, I can say that we felt safer in Israel than we would in certain parts of New York City or Chicago.”

“Yeah, or Baltimore, I would think, as well,” added host Tony Perkins.