TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mike Rounds (3-10-2026)

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo runs into Sen. Mike Rounds and his team right after exiting the Capitol, so he turns around and heads back through security WHILE interviewing the Senator… 

Mike Rounds: “How you doing?”

Matt Laslo: “I haven’t seen you since the President’s announcement. Were you…?”

MR: “Which?”

ML: “On UFO…”

MR: “Oh.” 

ML: “…open everything up.”

MR: “Yeah, I haven’t heard anything since then either, so I’m curious to see how they approach it.”

ML: “Are you guys going to be…?”

MR: “But it’s a step in the right direction.”

ML: “Are you going to be dropping your UAP Disclosure Act?”

ML: “Good question. I mean, NDAA’s coming up again. That would be the appropriate place, so…”

Rounds walks past Capitol Police security checkpoint that stops Laslo. 

ML: “Is…?”

MR: “But I have not talked to Senator Schumer about it.”

ML: “No?”

MR: “So…”

Laslo’s mic is running as he steps through metal detector. 

ML: “Still early?”

Rounds is facing the elevators as he rushes to vote on the 2nd floor to cast his vote. 

MR: “Yeah. We’re getting to that time of the year, though.”

ML: “Yeah?”

Rounds nods in affirmative as he enters elevator. 

ML: “Have a good one.”

Laslo turns around and starts exiting Capitol. 

Capital Police officer to Laslo: “Soldier.”

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