Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) is speaking out on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson amid uproar over the cable host’s past derogatory comments about women.

“He’s never said anything like that to me or around me,” the congressman, who said he knows Carlson both personally and from his own on-air appearances, told CNN Monday. “I grew up with a single mother, I’m a dad of a little girl, and I’m very surprised to hear that.”

On Sunday, Media Matters for America published years’ worth of clips from Carlson’s interviews on radio program “Bubba the Love Sponge,” during which he spouted misogyny and called rape shield laws “totally unfair.”