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Who?
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus
LISTEN: Laslo & Burchett
ICYMI — Select UAP Committee “being discussed…”
Ask a Pol asks:
What do you make of all this attention on UAPs / drones?
Key Burchett:
“It's funny, now everybody's coming to people like me and you going, ‘Hey, what do you think this is?’ I was getting calls from skeptics telling me, ‘Burchett, what the hell this is?’” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “And I said, ‘It's Chinese.’ I think it is.”
Can UAP Caucus leverage drone coverage?
Now, how do you at the start of the New Year take advantage of this? Because people are talking about it — it’s on CNN.
“I think we push the point. We say, ‘our government can't even tell us what these things are,’” Burchett says. “Even the ones that we think we know what they are, they don't know what they are. This shows you how inept they are and how we owe it to — how it behooves us to get with it and start looking into them.”
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“No shit,” Burchett tells us.
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tim Burchett
SCENE: After casting his last vote of 2024, Burchett’s slowly walking back to his office — joking with Texans and the press corps alike — with Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo alongside him getting him to reflect on the wins and losses for UAPs in the nation’s capital throughout 2024. And, of course, looking ahead for what’s to come in the New Year…
Tim Burchett: “You know there wouldn’t be a Texas if it wasn't for Tennessee.”
Burchett quips to a Texas colleague.
Matt Laslo: “What do you make of all this attention on UAPs / drones?”
TB: “Drones. I think it's the Chinese. I think they’re involved in it. I don't think they're UFOs.”
ML: “Yeah?”
TB: “I mean, they’re UFOs. I mean, you know, a bird flies in the air and you can't identify it, it's technically a UFO.”
ML: “Yeah.”
TB: “But I think that it's, I think the Chinese are monitoring it. If they're not directly, they're indirectly involved with it. They might be contracting with somebody not knowing they're Chinese or might be somebody more nefarious. I think our biggest fear, right now…”
ML: “Yeah?”
TB: “My biggest fear right now is that we — it's the Chicken Little thing, you say it so many times and then we don't pay attention, and then we've got drones dropping dirty bombs or a biological entity or something.”
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ML: “Yeah?”
TB: “I mean, how easy would it be for a submarine to come up off the coast of…”
Burchett looks in bushes on Capitol grounds.
TB: “Oh, wow. What's that? Is that a rabbit? Yeah, it’s a rabbit.”
ML: “That’s dinner. They call it dinner in the Midwest, sir.”
They laugh.
TB: “Yeah. That’s dinner where I come from.”
ML: “Did you — are you…? Like, what do you think of the terminology being used? Or does that not matter? Because it was interesting to me last week at the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] hearing, they didn't know what it was…”
ICYMI — Department of Homeland Security
TB: “Yeah.”
ML: “But the government still calls it a ‘drone’ — like it’s their comfort blankie.”
TB: “And just between me and you…”
Laslo drops his microphone.
ML: “Yeah.”
TB: “No, you’re fine to write this.”
ML: “Yeah, yeah.”
TB: “But I think it's funny now everybody's coming to people like me and you going, ‘Hey, what do you think this is?’ I was getting calls from skeptics telling me, ‘Burchett, what the hell this is?’ And I said, ‘It's Chinese.’ I think it is.”
ML: “Joe Rogan dropped me and Ask a Pol in his podcast this week.”
TB: “He did what?”
ML: “Joe Rogan dropped my name.”
TB: “No shit.”
ML: “Yeah, yeah, yeah — that’s what we do, man!”
TB: “Good for you, dude. He did that to me a while back, and I was like, ‘hell yeah. That was awesome.”’”
ML: “It’s my issue, brother.”
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TB: “Yeah it is. It's our issue.”
ML: “Yeah. So, like, looking back on this year, are you feeling positive with the issue? Like, you got two…”
Burchett speaks to a Capitol Police officer guarding a gate during the House vote.
TB: “Sir, I hope you have a merry Christmas.”
ML: “But you got two public UAP hearings, which are historic. Like, I know you're still down about the quality of em, but do you feel like — yeah, how was the year?”
TB: “You know what? This is gonna help our cause, I think.”
ML: “Yeah?”
TB: “More people are paying attention. They're asking questions. And I think it's gonna put more eyes in the sky.”
ML: “Yeah?”
Burchett to a group of Capitol Police officers at a guard booth.
TB: “Hey guys, appreciate y'all. If I don't see you, have Merry Christmas. I was hoping I was going home, but I'm not going home…”
ML: “But wait, so you guys were just in there voting on government shutdown.”
TB: “Yeah.”
ML: “We drop about a trillion bucks a year on our military, and we don't know what's in America's skies!?!”
TB: “I said that — I was on CNN this week, or one of em, or Fox, one of them…”
ML: “Yeah?”
TB: “I said, you drop a penny heads up on a pitcher's mound and a satellite can tell you what year that freaking penny is.”
ML: “Yeah.”
TB: “It's bogus. And to think that they don't know, they're not seeing these things. They don't know where they're going. They only can stay in the air like an hour or so. So it's not like they're flying all the way around the country.”
ML: “Yeah?”
TB: “But, and that stupid. Don’t quote me on this...”
ML: “Yeah.”
Audio silenced as they briefly go off-the-record.
ML: “Now, how do you at the start of the new year take advantage of this? Because it's, you know, people are talking about it. It’s on CNN.”
TB: “I think we push the point. We say, ‘our government can't even tell us what these things are, and now they're being… Even the ones that we think we know what they are, they don't know what they are. This shows you how inept they are and how we owe it to — how it behooves us to get with it and start looking into them.”
ML: “Instead of calling it a ‘Select UAP Committee,’ have you thought about calling it a ‘Select UAS Committee’ — unmanned aerial systems?”
TB: “What is it?”
ML: “Unmanned aerial systems, because then that broadens it.”
TB: “Yeah. We could say UAP and UAS.”
ML: “Yeah?”
Burchett passes a Members Only sign at the entrance to the Longworth House Office Building, so Laslo stops.
TB: “That’s a good idea. Alright, I’ll present it. I don’t know. Have a good one brother.”
ML: “Have a good one.”
Laslo repeats what Burchett said from a distance into his mic.
ML: “‘That's a good idea. I'll present. I don't know. Have a good one, brother.’ Not really what I was asking, sir, but que sera sera.”
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