Who?
Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) — Chair, House Oversight Subcommittee on Military & Foreign Affairs
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How do you think the April 29th hearing went?
ICYMI — Timmons chaired April 29 Oversight hearing
Key Timmons:
“It was great. You know, we got a problem,” Rep. William Timmons exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “The shortest version: we have a problem.”
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Caught our ear:
“This is a sufficiently important issue that we're gonna have conversations about this,” Timmons tells us. “There’ll probably be a follow-up hearing next year.”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. William Timmons (R-SC), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. William Timmons (4-30-2025)
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo finds Rep. William Timmons walking to the Capitol the day after he chaired the April 29th hearing…
Matt Laslo: “How do you think that hearing went this week? On the…”
William Timmons: “On the drones?”
ML: “Yeah. I heard…”
WT: “It was great. You know, we got a problem.”
ML: “Yeah?”
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WT: “The shortest version: we have a problem.”
ML: “Isn’t it staggering — like, I think you brought it up — watching Chinese New Year?”
WT: “The Chinese New Year was terrifying. It was awesome, but it was terrifying.”
ML: “Like, if you point that at one of our ships and boom.”
WT: “Well, I mean, look, if they're all kamikaze drones and they're autonomous…”
ML: “That's what we're seeing in Ukraine!”
WT: “Well, I mean Ukraine, I think, is a little part of it.”
WT: “Yeah?”
WT: “But, like, you could literally train those drones to only kill people that look like me.”
ML: “Yeah, right?”
WT: “You can say, you know, avoid asians.”
ML: “I've seen Olympus Has Fallen.”
Laslo laughs; Timmons doens’t.
WT: “Well, it’s not that, you know…”
ML: “No. It’s reality now.”
WT: “There's so little that, I mean, you know, you can just put some, the equivalent of a really small grenade…”
ML: “Yeah?”
WT: “…and just kamikaze drones. You know how much those cost? A thousands bucks?”
ML: “Right?”
WT: “So you get a million of those. Like, woah.”
ML: “Do you want — like, without the FAA there, it kind of felt just a little bit limp.”
WT: “Yeah. We were sad that we couldn't get them in.”
ML: “Yeah?”
WT: “We're sending them a list tonight 30 questions, so we're gonna get some. I don't think that's the end.”
ML: “Yeah?”
WT: “I mean, I think that this is a sufficiently important issue that we're gonna have conversations about this. I mean, there’ll probably be a follow-up hearing next year.”
ML: “Yeah? I will be watchin.”
Timmons walking away from laslo towards elevator.
ML: “As always, preciate ya.”
This is because they have no answers. What the Committee wants to say is " we have uknown UAPs navigating over our most sensitive military bases and we don't know where there from or what they want. This shows extreme weakness. I think the little fellows,green men, are just playing around. They are often frisky.
Jack
Well, by next year there probably won’t even be an FAA anymore, so it won’t be possible to blame them for the “drones”