Rep. Peter King On NYPD Muslim Surveillance: 'There Is No Profiling'

WATCH: Rep. King Says NYPD Doesn't Racially Profile Muslims

Representative Peter King (R-NY) said Monday during an appearance on CNN's Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien that "there is no racial profiling" by the New York Police Department.

The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza asked King first what he thought of profiling as a practice, and then insinuated that perhaps King's staunch defense of everything NYPD is problematic.

House Democrats Thursday introduced a resolution calling on the NYPD to end programs that infiltrated mosques and spied on innocent muslims.

King responded to Lizza, "First of all, there is no profiling. And that's the absolute nonsense that people like you and others are propagating."

Lizza quickly defended his question. "I'm not propagating anything," he said. "I'm just telling you that there's been some very good questions raised about what the NYPD's doing. "

King replied, "I'm telling you there is no profiling. So, I want you to take that back.... You have no evidence of profiling at all. They use terms like profiling, spying, casually and cavalierly. And you don't know what you're talking about."

And when guest anchor Brooke Baldwin interjected that Lizza was just brining up some valid points, King responded emphatically, "They're not valid points!"

King and fellow New York Republican Rep. Bob Turner demanded Democrats apologize for the resolution Friday, issuing a statement that read, "We are utterly dumbfounded and shocked that after such a slanderous attack, the overwhelming majority of congressional Democrats and the entire Democratic leadership voted for the Holt amendment and against the NYPD. We believe the Democrats owe New York and the NYPD an explanation for their shameful surrender to political correctness."

This isn't the first time King--who chairs the House's Homeland Security Committee and who has held hearings on the radicalization of Islam in the US-- has defended the NYPD from criticism over its surveillance of muslim communities.

In March, when New Jersey Governor Chris Christie criticized the NYPD's operations in Newark, King responded, "It's really disturbing and disappointing to have someone like Chris Christie join on this politically correct bandwagon. I wish Chris Christie was more concerned about keeping people alive than he is about trying to score cheap political points."

Also in March, King joined the narrator of "The Third Jihad" at a rally held by muslims in defense of NYPD surveillance of muslims.

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