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Who? Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Ask a Pol asks: Has there been any talk about the ‘war on drugs’ in relation to the border, specifically when it comes to the war on drugs destabilizing economies south of our border? Key Graham: “There’s some stuff in there about fentanyl in the border negotiations,” Graham told Ask a Pol . “There’s some fentanyl stuff.” LISTEN: Laslo & Graham Below find a rough tr...

WHO: Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — during a layover in Chicago Veteran journalist and Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo Ask a Pol subscribers !!! We’re seriously nothing without our braintrust of subscribers. Thank you, fam! WATCH: Laslo, Burlison & Ask a Pol subscribers Event sponsored by Ask a Pol subscribers! Video production, Colman Jones ; audio, Ask a Pol. WHEN: Friday — March 22, 2024 Digital door...

Who? Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — Chair, Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee LISTEN: Sen. Sherrod Brown Ask a Pol asked: How big of a priority is taking up the SAFER Banking Act in this Congress? Key Brown:  “ It’s a high priority,” Brown exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “ [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer wants to do it. I want to do it. [Ranking Republican Sen. Tim] Scott's not up...

Ask a Pol AUDIO IS 100% FREE! If you can’t access our raw interviews, try going directly to our site (Ask a Pol dot com). For. Free. Contact us if troubles persist. Who? Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) — Chair, US Senate Intelligence Committee LISTEN: Laslo & Warner Ask a Pol asks: We saw the Joint Chiefs of Staff letter from last May on UAPs. How big of a concern are they? Even [Sen. Tim] Kaine (D-VA) wa...

LISTEN: Laslo & Brown Who? Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — Chair of Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Ask a Pol asks: Are we gonna see movement on any of these big measures — like crypto, marijuana banking (SAFER Act), rail safety, fentanyl, et. — before November’s elections completely consume the US Capitol? Key Brown: “W e’ve got a House that’s still not moving on stuff that mat...

Ask a Pol audio is FREE — go directly to our site (AskaPol dot com) & LISTEN. FREE.   BACKGROUND: Who? Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) — Member of Senate Intelligence Committee LISTEN: Laslo & Heinrich Ask a Pol asks: In your classified briefings on UAPs, have you ever been shown ‘bodies’? Heinrich laughs   “You know I can’t discuss classified briefings,” Heinrich tells Ask a Pol . “But, can you say t...

PSA: Ask a Pol AUDIO IS 100% FREE! If you can’t access our raw interviews, try going directly to our site (Ask a Pol dot com). For. Free. Contact us if you still can’t access it. LISTEN: Laslo & Gillibrand Who? Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Ask a Pol asks Have you had time to check out that new, declassified AARO report yet? Key Gillibrand  “Haven’t read it yet,” Gillibrand tells Ask a Pol. “I re...

Who? Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) Ask a Pol asked: Is there going to be any legislative response to the Biden deepfake ? Key Hirono:  “We could all predict that this was going to happen,” Hirono tells Ask a Pol. “So I hope that that this would be a bipartisan effort to make sure that people are not lied to in this way. It’s really terrible.” Doesn’t election make it harder to pass a deepfake bill? “Si...

PSST: All Ask a Pol AUDIO IS 100% FREE! If you can’t access our raw interviews, try going directly to our site (Ask a Pol dot com). For. Free.  Contact us if you still can’t access it. Who? Sen. ( Coach ) Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) LISTEN: Laslo & Tuberville Ask a Pol asked: What’s your stance on marijuana? Key Tuberville:  “I think it probably might help some people, you know, medically,” Tuberville...

Ask a Pol AUDIO IS 💯 FREE – go directly to our site (Ask a Pol dot com) to listen or connect to your favorite podcast app. Who? Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) Ask a Pol ’s big ask Have you heard anything about DEA / Biden administration moving to reschedule marijuana ? “I do not want to comment on that.” Key Booker “I have heard a lot about it,” Booker tells Ask a Pol ’s Matt Laslo . Rumor’s it might be...

Who? Jack Reed (D-RI) — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Services Ask a Pol asked: “Are you expecting to see any action on your cryptocurrency bill with Sen. [Mark] Warner this year?” Key Reed:  “We’re trying to get cosponsors and develop possible support. But we don’t have any schedule yet or hearing.” Content posted at AskaPol.com is copyrighted. Use our original content to move the stor...

Who? Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) Ask a Pol asks: “I hear that the DEA might move to reschedule cannabis next month. Have you heard that?” Key Correa: “No, but I hope that you’re right. I hope that that’s right. They gotta reschedule it absolutely,” Correa told Ask a Pol. “For a hundred different reasons. From the public safety perspective, from the societal perspective — that this should not be a crimi...

Who? Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Senate Intelligence Committee Ask a Pol asks: “Are you working with Schumer and his team on amending your guys’ UAP amendment from NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] last year?” Key Rounds: “Not a lot of activity on right now,” Rounds tells Ask a Pol. “The reality is that we’ll have to work with the House to find out what their concerns are and we’ll have to a...

Who? Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) Ask a Pol asked: Your new stablecoin measure with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, are you guys still waiting on the House? Key Lummis: “We’re still working. Umm, yeah, we’re not — I think we’re getting closer. And I know I say that about once a week,” Lummis exclusively told Ask a Pol . “We have been waiting for the House, but I’ve been told that the House now has coalesce...

Who? Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) Ask a Pol asks: “If the DEA moves, is that gonna imperil SAFE banking?” Key Daines:  “I don’t think so,” Daines exclusively tells Ask a Pol . Caught our ear: “I did not support the ballot initiative in Montana for legalizing recreational marijuana,” Daines says. “I believe strongly in SAFE Banking — it’s a public safety issue — but I don’t support legalizing cannabis...

Who? Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Ask a Pol asked: “I haven’t talked to you since the FEC [Federal Election Commission] moved on deepfakes — do you think it’ll solve it?” Key Klobuchar: “Well, that’s very helpful, but we should still pass the bill in the package of AI, if not somewhere else,” Klobuchar exclusively told Ask a Pol. LISTEN: Laslo & Klobuchar Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s...

Who? Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee Ask a Pol asked: Any update on your crypto bill with Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC)? Key Waters: “We gotta do something before the end of the year. We’re close,” Waters tells Ask a Pol . “I’m very optimistic, yes.” Caught our ear: “I insist that the Federal Reserve be in it like any other central b...

Who? Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) — Founder & Co-chair, Congressional Cannabis Caucus Ask a Pol asks: We heard the DEA might reschedule marijuana on April 15th. Have you heard that? Key Blumenauer:  “I think it should be April 20th,” Blumenauer tells Ask a Pol . Caught our ear: “There are lots of rumors,” Blumenauer says. “Lots of rumors.” Content posted at AskaPol.com is copyrighted. Use our origi...

Who? Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) Ask a Pol asked: How worried are you after seeing that Biden deepfake in the New Hampshire primary? Key Collins: “It’s exactly the kind of thing we’ve been worried about, is using the AI, it is remarkably easy to imitate voices or send out a video of someone who is running for office and appears to be doing something or saying something that is utterly fake. And I’m...

Who? Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) — candidate to replace Mitch McConnell as Senate GOP Leader Ask a Pol asks: “Any update on last year’s conversations on declassification?” Key Cornyn:  “That’s pretty monumental. We haven’t had classification reform in, I don’t know, quarter century or more,” Cornyn told Ask a Pol . “It’s gonna take a little while to be implemented. But we’ve done something pretty impo...

Who? Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) Ask a Pol asked: “Some of your colleague have called for a more sweeping, catch-all AI bill — is it better, from your standpoint, to do this committee by committee and small? Or?” Key Moran  “Well, I’d love to see committees do their work. And there’s wide jurisdiction here, with lots of consequences. And I think it’s a broad enough issue that if every committee did th...

Who? Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Ask a Pol asked: Have you dropped your new stablecoin measure with Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) yet? House holdup:  “No. We're waiting for the House to maybe reach consensus first,” Gillibrand exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “ So we're hoping that [Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine] Waters (D-CA) and [Financial Services Chair Patrick] McHenry (R-NC)...

Who? Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) Ask a Pol asks: “What do you make of Democrats pushing Biden and the DEA to deschedule on their own?” Key Harris:  “I just object to the fact that it’s done by changing the FDA rules that they have used to set the standard,” Harris exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “That’s a problem. That’s a real problem. “The FDA already has a credibility problem, now they brought politi...

Who? Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) Ask a Pol asks: “Kinda surprised to see you there, because you weren’t at the previous SCIF briefing. What made you — what put that one on your radar?” Key Khanna “The gist would be, I’m on Oversight [Committee]. There’s been a lot of interest in it from the media and my constituents, so I wanted to hear about it.” Caught our ear “I just ended up with more questions. Una...

Who? Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) Hawley’s asked So do you think there’s time this year for AI legislation? Key Hawley “Time? Yes. Willingness? No,” Hawley replies. “Tech companies, they always get their way here” “I don’t get it. I don’t understand why these companies, these tech companies, they always get their way here. It’s all the same people. It’s Microsoft. It’s Google. It’s Meta. And they alway...