Who?
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) — Oversight and Armed Services Committees
LISTEN: Laslo & Mace
Ask a Pol asks:
Do you have any takeaway from last week’s UAP hearing?*
*interview conducted week after public UAP hearing conducted September 9, 2025 — and the 119th Congress has basically been frozen in place since then, because the House jammed the Senate with their government funding bill before Speaker Mike Johnson gaveled the chamber into an impromptu extended vacation.
Key Mace:
“Hopefully it’s us, right? But it might not be,” Rep. Nancy Mace exclusively told Ask a Pol. “What do you do? What do you take away from that — from a guy who’s so believable, who’s scared to death testifying for his first time before Congress telling you it’s not us and it’s not a foreign entity, you know? So how do you swallow that pill, right? He was scared. He was nervous.”
Caught our ear:
“Let’s get real,” Mace told us. “It’s going to be very hard to get anything more than a hearing at this juncture.”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Nancy Mace (9-15-2025)
SCENE: Before the US House of Representatives gave itself an unprecedented extra month off due to government shutdown — and some say Jeffrey Epstein… — politics, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo caught up with Rep. Nancy Mace as she was walking from the US Capitol back to her office across the street.
Matt Laslo: “Any takeaway from last week’s UAP hearing?”
Nancy Mace: “From the hearing? Gosh, this was like.”
ML: “I know I was sick as a dog, so I’m catching up.”
NM: “We had the guy with the equilateral triangle, um, and then we had George Knapp — gonna start jogging my memory.”
ML: “Yeah, yeah, and then Rep. Eric Burlison showed that new video.”
NM: “Burlison — what was that?”
ML: “Like a hell — it looked like a Hellfire missile hit an object and the object, but the object kept going but parts of it…”
NM: “And then it like came back together.”
ML: “Or just the other pieces floated with it. I don’t know. I do not know what I saw, ma’am.”
NM: “And everyone, you know, it’s always, ‘hey, get in a SCIF,’ you know, and that’s just…”
ML: “How frustrating is that?”
NM: “It’s very frustrating and it’s annoying and…”
ML: “But you’re now on Armed Services [Committee].”
NM: “I am on Armed Services.”
ML: “But that’s new. Are you able to maybe bridge that divide?”
NM: “Potentially on Armed Services. Potentially. Um. Right now. [Secrets Chair] Anna Paulina Luna’s disclosure committee’s handling it. It’s fine there.”
ML: “Yeah?”
NM: “And once that committee ends, it could be something that we could do in House Armed Services or on Oversight [Committees]. Um, you know, as well. But I mean, what is it?”
ML: “I know.”
NM: “And hopefully it’s us, right?”
ML: “Right?”
NM: “But it might not be. So I don’t — what do you do? What do you take away from that? From a guy who’s so believable, who’s scared to death testifying for his first time before Congress…”
ML: “Right?”
NM: “…telling you it’s not us and it’s not a foreign entity, you know? So how do you swallow that pill, right? He was scared. He was nervous.”
ML: “Did that at least, like, make the question front and center?”
NM: “Um, yeah.”
ML: “Or more front and center for Congress? Like, you guys haven’t even circled back on drone invasions over Jersey, etc.”
NM: “I mean, let’s get real. We’re — nobody, I mean, it’s going to be very hard to get anything more than a hearing at this juncture.”
ML: “Yeah?”
NM: “We haven’t even gotten a text copy of the CR [Continuing Resolution]* yet.”
*Once House members finally got that CR language to, basically, keep the government funded at last year’s levels, House Republicans passed it the week of September 19th and haven’t been back to Washington since.
ML: “But in the NDAA, there’s some UAP language?”
NM: “Is there?”
ML: “Maybe?”
NM: “I have 30-something amendments in the NDAA, so I have a lot. Uh, but that would be good if they stay in there. Will the Senate keep them in there? I support it all. I support all disclosure.”
Let us know what to ask Congress next!
ML: “Well, the Senate actually put them in this time.”
NM: “Oh, they did?”
ML: “It’s [Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer’s Disclosure Act.”
NM: “That’s why I didn’t have it on my radar. Okay.”
ML: “But we’ll see. I think in the past it’s got stripped out.”
NM: “Before it got watered down? It got stripped down, right, in the past?”
ML: “It always does. Yeah. But part of the speculation is it was always [former HPSCI Chair Mike] Turner. So without Turner people are watching like, ‘oh does it get through?”
NM: “But Turner’s on — Turner’s on HASC [House Armed Services Committee], right?”
ML: “But he used to be the HPSCI [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] chair.”
NM: “Yeah, that’s true.”
ML: “And then he got kicked off.”
NM: “Yeah I know.”
ML: “A lot’s happened between now and then, ma’am.”
Mace starts crossing street, Laslo stays back.
NM: “I’ll have to check.”
ML: “I know. I’ll be watchin.”
