TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tim Burchett (5-21-26)

SCENE: After casting his last vote ahead of Congress’s Memorial Day recess, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo walks with UAP Caucus Co-Chair Tim Burchett as he heads back to his office across the street from the Capitol.

Matt Laslo: “Have other members been talking to you about it? Like, has this made it a little more mainstream?”

Rep. Tim Burchett: “Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Thanks to y’all, people like yourself, it’s been great.”

Laslo: “Now, what’s next? Do you guys know what you want for a hearing next?”

Burchett: “We’ve had enough hearings. We just need disclosure.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Burchett: “We need disclosure.”

Laslo: “How much are you talking to the White House?”

Burchett: “Do what?”

Laslo: “How much are you talking to the White House or agencies on this?”

Burchett: “Every day, pretty much here this week.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Burchett: “You know.”

Laslo: “But they’re feeling stymied?”

Burchett: “Yeah.”

Laslo: “People that want to get it out?”

Burchett: “And it is the ‘deep state.’ I think they realize what we’ve encountered.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Burchett: “And it is so deep. Like, I told the President, it’s like layers of the onion.”

Laslo: “Why not finally do a hearing on the underwater stuff?”

Burchett: “You got one guy that’ll come in and talk about it, we need more than that.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Burchett: “We’re getting diminishing returns on those hearings. I think what we did with the hearing, the first one, was we lit the fuse.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Burchett: “People said, ‘wow, there is something going on. These are legitimate people. These are heroes.’”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Burchett: “These aren’t like some Tim Burchett’s of the world that just pull something out of the hat. They are the real deal.”

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