Discussion on UAP Declassification Efforts

I'm the chair of the task force on declassification of federal secrets on

House oversight and, um, for the UAP stuff specifically,

and that's kind of how we initially connected.

You, you got all the great issues.

I do. And you know what's funny is, um, when we first got the task force,

a lot of people were like, "Are you sure they're not trying to set

you up to fail?"

And I said, "Well, even if they did try to set me up to fail,

they chose the wrong

time," because with all the declass coming out of the White House, it made the task

force, you know, they were trying to paint it as kooky,

to one of the hottest task

force in Congress right now. And so our hearings when we do them,

there is a lot of

interest, I think, and I always tell people we're asking the

questions that people

wanna ask but are too embarrassed or afraid of being judged for asking.

And we've had a lot of great wins as a result of it.

Yeah. It's so interesting 'cause,

you know, during the transition I was living in Palm Beach

and this group, um, approached me to talk

about UAPs.

Oh, really?

Yeah. And they... It was a very high level NASA

scientist and then a bunch of

Navy SEALs and Green Berets who had been on recovery teams.

Crash retrieval programs.

To g- right.

Mm-hmm.

And, you know, they-- Some of the stuff they talked about

was crazy, about

how they were actually had figured out how to call some of the,

uh, ships in and, and, you know,

um, and then, uh, were under orders to

destroy them and recover them.

Um, but, um,

I thought, you know, they wanted me to go public on that, and

I just thought I already got so many counts against me on- ...

conspiracy theories and this, the last-

Well, you know, so there's, you know, I think in just like in any, any field of

study, right? Like you can... People will say a lot,

but can you prove it?

What is the actual data prove or can you actually bring forward tangible

evidence?

And what's been cool is, you know, we've pushed a massive declass

effort, and having the president on board with

these declassification efforts is

incredibly important. And, and this does tie into also kind of,

I guess, like

the food industrial complex is what I'll, I'll call it.

Um, but, you know, specifically on these topics, we...

Our job is not to tell you what to believe,

it's just to present you with evidence

and ensure that there's transparency.

Yeah. Absolutely.

It's a phenomenal concept

Yeah.

For the federal government, I guess.

But I, I've had briefings once I got in there,

and it's pretty...

A lot of this stuff is really, really crazy