Who?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — Chair, Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities / Chair, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
LISTEN: Laslo & Gillibrand
Ask a Pol asks:
Have you had a chance to look at that Wall Street Journal article on the Air Force?
Key Gillibrand:
“No,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “I read the first quarter of it, but I didn’t finish it so I’ll read the rest and give you a comment.”
Wall Street Journal article (unpaywalled via MSN):
Caught our ear:
Have you had any meetings with AARO — the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — this year?
“Not yet. We were waiting for a new head,” Gillibrand tells us.
They’ve got him now.
“Oh, I’ll meet with him right away,” Gillibrand says of AARO Director Jon Kosloski, who testified before her Armed Services subcommittee in November.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (6-18-2025)
SCENE: Ahead of a vote, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo’s staking out the first floor Carriage Entrance of the US Senate when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and two aides come around the corner…
Matt Laslo: “Have you had a chance to look at that Wall Street Journal article on the Air Force?”
Kirsten Gillibrand: “No.”
ML: “Check it out.”
KG: “Will you send it to him, please?”
ML: “Yeah.”
Aide: “I’ve read it. It was a long piece.”
ML: “Yeah — deep dive.”
Aide: “I’ll tell you all about it.”
KG: “About, about the UAPs?”
ML: “Yeah — the Air Force program.”
KG: “I read the first quarter of it, but I didn’t finish it so I’ll read...”
Aide: “I read the whole thing...”
KG: “…I’ll read the rest and give you a comment.”
ML: “Have you had any meetings with AARO [All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office] this year?”
KG: “Not yet. We were waiting for a new head, so…”
ICYMI — AARO Director Jon Kosloski testified before Gillibrand last fall
ML: “They’ve got him now.”
KG: “Oh, I’ll meet with him right away.”
ML: “Yeah?”
KG: “Thank you for the heads up.”
ML: “Cool. Cool.”
The senator and her aides start to walk away.
ML: “‘Preciate y’all.”
Logan Johnson contributed to this report.
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