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Who? Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-IL) Ask a Pol asks: “We’re not hearing much about cannabis these days… Ahead of November, should Biden — Democrats in the Senate are calling on the DEA to [reschedule]?” Key Garcia:  “Absolutely. It’s a get-out-the-vote rally cry,” Garcia exclusively told Ask a Pol . “Yeah. Hell yeah! With young people. Others, too — old f*****s too!” Caught our ear:   “It’s there to be se...

Who? Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) Ask a Pol asks: “Do you think we’ll see any Senate action on deepfakes ahead of the election now we’re in the midst?” Key Kaine:  “Pretty nervous about this,” Kaine told Ask a Pol . “Because of Biden robocall, the fake Biden robocall. I haven’t heard discussion of Senate action about it. But I think all of us paid a lot of attention to that, and we have members who’ve be...

Who? Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) Ask a Pol asked: “At the end of last year, Biden announced he was gonna pardon people for small amounts of marijuana possession. Just today — or yesterday — he announced that he’s not going to extend that to the military . Do you think he should extend that to the military?” Source: US Army Clarifies That Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Don’t Apply To Military Personnel ;...

Who? Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) — former Senate GOP Whip; running to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell as GOP Leader Ask a Pol asked: “What was your takeaway from all those AI briefings and forums?” Clutch Cornyn:  “I think there’s been a lot of hype,” Cornyn tells Ask a Pol . “I think it’s a good idea for us to understand it better, but I don’t think the scare tactics have been particularly useful.” Caug...

Who? Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) Ask a Pol asked: “What did you make of [SEC Chair Gary] Gensler’s move on crypto at the SEC?” Key Sherman:  “I think anything that adds more additional regulation to the space is a good idea,” Sherman told Ask a Pol , adding “The right time was five years ago, but it’ll do for now.” LISTEN: Laslo & Sherman Matt Laslo’ s a veteran congressional correspondent , new medi...

Who? Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) Ask a Pol asks: “We didn’t see anything with SAFER? Or do you think the DEA is the root to go?” Key Blumenauer:  “I think the DEA is the route,” Blumenauer exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “It’s more direct. The legislative process is very uncertain — more uncertain than ever — and the DEA strips it away, gets what we need in terms of tax and research.” Caught our ear...

Who? Rep. James Comer (R-KY) — House Oversight Committee Chair Ask a Pol asks: “It seems like [ Intel. Chair Mike Turner ]’s kinda goading the administration to declassify some of this stuff?” Clutch Comer:  “T hat’s part of the problem with these, with the whole mishandling of the classified documents for both Biden and Trump, there’s too many classified documents,” Comer exclusively tells Ask a...

Who: Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) — chair of Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, which UFO whistleblower David Grusch testified in front of July 27, 2023 Ask a Pol asked: “Do you have any follow up questions for David Grusch on the hearing you had last summer?” Grothman grumbles : “Oh, we may do something else, yeah,” Grothman tells Ask a Pol . “...

Who? Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) – House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ask a Pol asks: “Curious about your thoughts on this classified… what Turner said should be declassified.” Clutch Crenshaw:  “Yeah, I agree this should be declassified, and I can’t talk about it til it is,” Crenshaw exclusively told Ask a Pol . “There’s public interest in having that.” Content posted at AskaPol.com is...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) reacts to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s announcement on cryptocurrencies at the start of 2024. LISTEN: Laslo & Sen. Gillibrand  Matt Laslo covers tech politics for WIRED , lectures on technology’s impact on government at Johns Hopkins and is the founder of Ask a Pol — a new people-powered press corps. On social @MattLaslo // @Ask_a_Pol Ask a Pol — asking y...

Who? Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) — serves on both Senate Judiciary & Commerce Committees Ask a Pol asked: Is there any chatter or movement on your deepfake legislation ? Clutch Klobuchar:  ““Well, I hope so. I guess it’s gotten frontpage interest now. And this is what I said: hair on fire — we can’t wait until next year to get this done. This is just going to keep happening, and that’s why this bann...

Who? Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Ask a Pol asked: “What role do you think US drug policy plays in destabilizing the border?” Key Paul:  “Well, it does. I mean, there are drugs involved, but I don’t know if I have an easy answer. There’s no easy answer as to it, you know?”* * we never asked for an easy answer… LISTEN: Laslo & Rand Paul Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol ’s exclusive interview wit...

On Wednesday morning Congressional UAP Caucus co-chairs Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Tim Burchett (R-TN) met along with caucus member Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) to discuss how to best advance their ongoing investigation. After two classified SCIF briefings exploring the allegations made by UFO whistleblower David Grusch that frustrated members of the UAP Caucus , Luna says the trio decided it’...

Who? Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) — House Majority Whip Ask a Pol asked: “What’d you make of the SEC’s announcement on crypto?” Key Emmer : “It's about time. It was so intellectually inconsistent…” Clutch Emmer:  “It's amazing to me. What happened to Gary Gensler ?” LISTEN: Laslo & Emmer on crypto FULL RAW political chat w/ Laslo and press corps Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s interview with...

Who? Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) — Senate Majority Whip (ie #2 Senate Democrat) Ask a Pol ’s ask : “Now that we’ve seen deepfakes deployed — you know, using Biden’s voice — in New Hampshire, do you think Congress is going to be able to address that ahead of November?” Key (and only…) Quote:  “Gotta ask Amy Klobuchar. I think she’s got some proposals on that, deepfakes.” Interview helped inform this fe...

Who? Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Ask a Pol ’s ask : Matt Laslo ’s always juggling numerous commissions that sometimes overlap in odd ways. This brief exchange with Cramer is meandering; a conversation, really. Laslo starts asking about the New Hampshire primary before he zeroes in on the Biden deepfake in NH , which then evolves into an AI conversation where Cramer uses crypto as a revealing example…...

Who? Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) — Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ask a Pol asked: “What role do you think US drug policy plays in destabilizing Latin American and South America?” Clutch Coons : “I think the amount of weapons coming from the United States into Mexico and Central America is significantly destabilizing. A bipartisan group that I traveled with to Mexico City heard that directly from...

Don’t miss this week’s live Ask a Pol Live with Lawmakers Q & A with Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — a freshman member of Congress who’s become an unofficial leader on the Congressional UAP Caucus. FULL INTERVIEW — Live w/ lawmakers: Laslo, Ask a Pol community Q & A with Rep. Burlison Ask a Pol’s live Discord Thursday Jan. 18, 2024. Video: An original Colman Jones production. Original video production...

In tonight’s live Ask a Pol Q & A , Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) dropped the news that House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) was not inside the David Grusch briefing in the SCIF last week, even as he left the area at the same time as members of the Congressional UAP Caucus. “I didn’t see him come in,” Burlison told Ask a Pol subscribers live on Discord in response to host Matt Laslo’s first que...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacts to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs. LISTEN: Laslo & Warren Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), slightly edited for clarity. TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Matt Laslo : “Hey, how are you ma’am?” Elizabeth Warren : “How you doing? Just f...

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) reacts to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent approval of 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs. LISTEN: Laslo & Lummis Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), slightly edited for clarity. TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) SCENE : We hop on an elevator in the US Capitol with Lummis as she heads to the Senate...

Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown (D-OH) says the SAFER Banking Act has been held up because of Republican infighting in the House of Representatives and GOP opposition in the Senate. “There’s so little time, because of the chaos in the House has meant we’ve got to do Ukraine, we gotta do Israel, we’ve got to keep the government open, we got to do [appropriations],” Brown exclusively tells Ask a...

THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT TURNER WAS NOT IN THE GRUSCH BRIEIFING, EVEN AS HE WAS IN THE SCIF (updated on 1-18-2024). House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — or HPSCI — Chair Mike Turner has not been a public player in Congress’ ongoing UAP — did NOT attend last Friday’s classified SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) briefing. As the SCIF doors open and Turner...

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) and other members of the Congressional UAP Caucus investigating UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s allegations are slated, once again, to enter a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) this Friday, Jan. 12th. UAP Caucus Problem: They’re still being left in the dark. So, even as Burlison’s desperately hoping the Inspector General (IG) allows House lawmakers to r...

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive — and short! — interview with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on UFO whistleblower David Grusch, slightly edited for clarity. Our 100th exclusive with 100 US senators. We need a nap. If you want more sizzling exclusives in 2024, SUBSCRIBE TODAY! LISTEN: Laslo & Bob Menendez TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Bob Menendez (7-26-2023) Asked Menendez about Grusch the day...