Who?
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) — Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI)
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Ask a Pol asks:
What do you make of President Donald Trump’s promise to open up the federal government’s UFO files?
Key Himes:
“Every time I say this, I get in so much trouble, but look, I would love the public to see what I’ve seen,” Rep. Jim Himes exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP.
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Caught our ear:
“God bless him — takes some pressure off of me,” Himes tells us.
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol‘s exclusive interview with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Jim Himes
SCENE: After voting on the House floor, HPSCI Ranking Member Jim Himes walks past a gaggle of congressional reporters and jokes with Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo about UFO.
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So Laslo stops him and gets his reaction to the administration securing aliens.gov coupled with President Donald Trump’s promise to disclose the federal government’s UFO files.
Rep. Jim Himes: “We discovered the aliens…”
Laslo laughs.
Himes: “…turns out they were crypto bros, and we’ve got them in formaldehyde at Area not 51, Area 52.”
Matt Laslo: “Wait — what’d you make of [President Donald] Trump’s announcement, though, that he’s going to open up the files? Now they got [aliens.gov]?”
Himes: “Good. God bless him. Takes some pressure off of me.”
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ML: “Do you think there’s going to be no there, there?”
Himes: “You know, every time I say this I get in so much trouble...”
ML: “Yeah?”
Laslo laughs.
Himes: “…but look, I would love the public to see what I’ve seen.”
Himes laughs.
ML: “Oh, yeah?”
Himes walks back onto the House floor.
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