Who?
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus
LISTEN: Laslo & Burchett
Ask a Pol asks:
How’d your UFO conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio go?
Key Burchett:
“Yeah, I talked to Rubio,” Rep. Tim Burchett exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “It was fine, but, you know, he’s not a Senator anymore...”
ICYMI — Ask a Pol broke news of Burchett-Rubio confab
Follow-up: Is Rubio part of the cover-up now?
Has Rubio looked into UAP from within the federal government?
“I believe he has,” Burchett says. “I do.”
Is he a part of the cover-up now or…?
“No,” Burchett says.
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Caught our ear:
“The more you dig, the more liars there are in this thing,” Burchett tells Ask a Pol.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tim Burchett (1-14-2026)
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo walks with Rep. Tim Burchett and an aide on a chilly winter eve as they make their way from the US Capitol steps to the Longworth House Office Building where they bypass a Capitol Police checkpoint by entering through a Members Only entrance that stops Laslo in his tracks...
Matt Laslo: “How’d your meeting with Rubio go?”*
*Burchett seems surprised Laslo knows about the meeting — even though Ask a Pol broke the news of it ahead of the holidays.
Rep. Tim Burchett: “Yeah, I talked to Rubio.”
Laslo: “How was that?”
Burchett: “Watch out.”
Laslo nears the street…
Burchett: “Watch out, dude.”
Laslo: “How was that?”
Burchett: “It was fine, but, you know, he’s not a Senator anymore.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Burchett: “He is Secretary of State, so, I mean, there’s — in fairness, in some of the conversations that he’s been misquoted in the past on some of this UFO stuff.”
Misquoted? Or is Secretary Rubio humming a new tune?
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Burchett: “But I’m just — again, the President’s got to come out with stuff…”
Laslo: “Has he looked around on it?”
Burchett: “…until the President does it…”
Laslo: “Has he looked around inside State [Department] — from his power* there?”
*sic — Laslo meant “perch.”
Laslo: “Has he…?”
Burchett: “Do what?”
Laslo: “Has Rubio looked into the issue from within the government?”
Burchett: “I believe he has. I do.”
Burchett and his aide are about to enter Members Only entrance to the Longworth House Office Building.
Burchett: “And…”
Laslo: “Is he a part of the cover-up now or…?”
Burchett: “No.”
Burchett stops and turns around to face Laslo.
Burchett: “No. I just — the more you dig, the more liars there are in this thing.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Burchett: “I just don’t trust anybody. I think a lot of people are lying just to get funding.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Door’s shutting in back of Burchett and aide.
Laslo: “I’ll be watchin’. Thank you.”
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