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Ask a Pol asks: Do you have any idea what the mysterious craft were that reportedly surveilled Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base? Key Cassidy: “No, I don’t,” Sen. Bill Cassidy exclusively tells Ask a pol UAP . “I don’t. Do you feel like the Pentagon has a grasp on what intruded the airspace? “I don’t know,” Cassidy says. “Let me check on that. I mean, it’s important for me to know. I’ll try and...

Who? Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Senate Intel & Armed Services Committees SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches Sen. Mike Rounds walking through the US Capitol’s basement alone, so he proceeds to join the Senator as he rides one of the Senate’s underground trams from the Capitol to the Senate Office Buildings across the street. Matt Laslo: “Talking about one of your colleagues in the House — Rep. Bu...

Who? Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Oversight Committee & Secrets Task Force Ask a Pol asks: The annual NDAA — or National Defense Authorization Act — season’s coming soon. Do you think there might be more support for something like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mike Rounds’ UAP Disclosure Act this time around? Key Burlison: “I do,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP....

Who? Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — House Oversight Committee and Secrets Task Force Ask a Pol asks: Has Trump’s UAP announcement changed things on Capitol Hill — and inside the intelligence community? Key Burlison: “[President Donald Trump’s] Truth, or tweet, if you will, has actually had an impact. I’ve seen a dedicated — like a lot of energy dedicated to this topic that has not been dedicated befo...

Who? Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) — Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Ask a Pol asks: What do you make of Trump’s announcement that he’s going to open up the UFO files? Key Himes: “God bless him — takes some pressure off of me,” Rep. Jim Himes exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP . Caught our ear: “Every time I say this, I get in so much trouble,” Himes tells us. "I woul...

Who? Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Member, Congressional UAP Caucus & Oversight Committee Ask a Pol asks: Is there a group now above AARO when it comes to UAP disclosure? And has FBI Director Kash Patel opened up files for the UAP caucus? Key Burlison: “I want as many agencies investigating this topic as possible,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “We need AARO, we need the FBI. W...

Who? Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus Ask a Pol asks: What’s up with aliens.gov? Key Burchett: “President says he’s going to put it out, so he hasn’t lied to me yet,” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. Caught our ear: “I hope they don’t get to him and make him pull back,” Burchett tells us. Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol UAP’s exclusive inte...

Who? Rep. Eric Burlison (R‑MO) — Member, Congressional UAP Caucus & Oversight Committee Ask a Pol asks: So what’s up with the White House securing aliens.gov ? Key Burlison: “I have no idea. I have no idea,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP . “I thought it was an interesting pick.” Caught our ear: “It could have something to do with illegal aliens,” Burlison tells us of aliens.go...

Who? Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Armed Services & Intelligence Committees Ask a Pol asks: What do you make of President Donald Trump calling UFO " extremely interesting and important ” as he publicly directed Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon and other federal agencies to release their UAP files? Key Rounds: “I haven’t heard anything since then either, so I’m curious to see how they approach it...

Who? Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Member, Congressional UAP Caucus Ask a Pol UAP asks: Will President Donald Trump’s call to publicly release UFO files have any real-world impact? Key Burlison: “I’ve already talked to people in the Intel community, and it’s given them a green light to do the things that they’ve always wanted to do on this,” Rep. Eric Burlison exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP . “I th...

Who? Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus; Member, Oversight Committee Ask a Pol asks: Since President Donald Trump called for UFO disclosure, have you reached out to anyone in the administration? Key Burchett: “Yeah, I talked to the President about it,” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol . How’d that go? “Very positive,” Burchett says. “I told him we need to kn...

Who? Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) — Chair, House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets; Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus Ask a Pol asks: Since President Donald Trump’s Have there been efforts by the administration to intimidate you or other Secrets Task Force members regarding your UAP investigations? Key Luna: “No, in fact, if anything, I think there’s been actually open conver...

Who? Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) — former US Interior Secretary; Armed Services Committee Ask a Pol asks: When you were Interior Secretary, did you ever see evidence of unidentified objects — and what do you make of the Pentagon’s laser operation over El Paso? Key Zinke: “I never saw any evidence of anything that was from not from Earth,” Rep. Zinke exclusively tells Ask a Pol . Caught our ear: “An adm...

Who? Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) — Vice-chair, Senate Intelligence Committee Since killing our paywall, Ask a Pol’s down 25% of revenue from last year. Ask a Pol asks: What ever happened to your and Texas US Sen. John Cornyn’s bipartisan effort to address overclassification? Key Warner: “I forgot about that. We put in legislation. We have a bill ,” Sen. Mark Warner exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “ All o...

Who? Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) Ask a Pol asked: So you — New Jersey residents (AskaARCHIVES: Guess we got NJ’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill on the record on the UAP swarms over her state), Senator Cory Booker and local officials back home — never got answers on the “drones” over Jersey, but now we’ve got lasers shooting “drones” out of the sky in El Paso? Key Kim: “I don’t know what is going on right n...

Who? Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) — Member, Senate Intelligence Committee Ask a Pol asks: Are you satisfied with what you’ve been told by the Trump administration about this week’s El Paso airport fiasco — with the FAA initially shuttering it for 10 days, before reopening it mere hours later — and reports the Pentagon deployed new anti-”drone” laser technology ? Key Cornyn: “I’d like to get more inform...

Who? Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Member, Armed Services & Intelligence Committee Ask a Pol asks: In the new Age of Disclosure documentary, you talk about “eminent domain,” which is included in your UAP Disclosure Act with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer . Why are military contractors exempt from FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] because they’re so woven into the contemporary Pentagon? Key Round...

Who? Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) — Ranking Member, US House Oversight Committee Ask a Pol asks: Any update on your whistleblower protection bill — are we going to see that move at all? Key Garcia: “I think we will, actually,” Rep. Robert Garcia exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP . “That’s something that’s actually going to have some bipartisan support, and so, yeah, we’re working on that too. “So actua...

Who? Rep. André Carson (D-IN) — Member, House Intelligence Committee A sk a Pol asks: You had some interesting comments about USO — Unidentified Submerged Objects — in the new Age of Disclosure documentary. What do you know about the underwater stuff? Key Carson: “There are a lot of theories out there that have yet to be explored, you know?” Rep. André Carson exclusively told Ask a Pol UAP . Yeah,...

Ask a Pol's Matt Laslo's exclusive interview with UAP Caucus Co-chair Tim Burchett after the congressman's UFO meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Who? Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus Ask a Pol asks: How’d your UFO conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio go? Key Burchett: “Yeah, I talked to Rubio,” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP ....

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism  Who? Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) — Member, Senate Armed Services Ask a Pol asks: Around this time last year, you and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice-chair Mark Warner (D-VA) had a classified briefing on the “drone swarms” that shut down Langley Air Force Base] in 2023. Learn anything new since that briefing? Key Kaine: “We don’t know any more,” Sen. Tim K...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) — Member, UAP Caucus, House Armed Services and Oversight Committees Ask a Pol asks: Did you watch the new UAP documentary? Would you want to have Rubio in a second hearing? Key Mace: “I want to get in a SCIF with Rubio. That’s what I want to do. I want to get in a classified setting with R...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) — Member, UAP Caucus & Secrets Task Force Ask a Pol asks: Did you hear back from any of those interrogatories? Key Burlison: “We’re doing it right now, like I’m having my team do a reassessment of like where we, what we’ve accomplished, where we’re at, what things are left to do or what...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — Member, Armed Services & Intelligence Committees Ask a Pol asks: Rep. Eric Burlison told Ask a Pol Senate Appropriations staff killed your UAP Disclosure Act — or UAPDA — with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Then we asked Appropriations Chair Susan Collins , and she said she’d nev...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) — Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee Ask a Pol asks: Congressman Burleson said appropriation staffers in the Senate opposed it in the NDAA. [Do you know about the UAPDA?] Key Collins: “Never heard of it,” Sen. Susan Collins tells Ask a Pol UAP when asked about the UAPDA — the Uniden...