Who?
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) — Majority Leader, US House of Representatives
LISTEN: Laslo & Scalise
ICYMI — “whole conversation changed” from SCIF brief
Ask a Pol asks:
Rep. Eric Burlison says you had a classified UAP briefing recently — was it eye-opening?
Key Scalise:
“We had a classified briefing that some of us went to,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “Obviously, you can’t talk about what was discussed at the briefing.”
Was it eye-opening?
“Well, you know, whenever you go to a briefing like that, there’s some things you see that are eye-opening,” Scalise says. “And that’s about as far as I’ll go.”
Caught our ear:
Was the information you learned in the classified SCIF briefing unsettling?
“Well, no,” Scalise tells us. “I’m just going to leave it at that.”
What should we ask Congress next?
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Steve Scalise (4-28-2026)
SCENE: As some tourists click pictures, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and his security detail are walking through the historic Old House Chamber on their way to the Leader’s office when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches the No. 2 House Republican for a rare exclusive on the recent classified UAP briefing he attended.
Rep. Steve Scalise: “Hey!”
Matt Laslo: “Hey, how are you, sir?”
Scalise: “Good.”
Laslo: “Hey, what’s this we hear from Congressman Burlison that you were in a UFO / UAP briefing — that you had asked to be in?”
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Scalise: “Well, we had a classified briefing that some of us went to.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Scalise: “Obviously, you can’t talk about what was discussed at the briefing.”
Laslo: “Was it eye-opening for you?”
Scalise: “Well, you know, whenever you go to a briefing like that, there’s some things you see that are eye-opening — and that’s about as far as I’ll go.”
Laslo: “Was it unsettling?”
Scalise: “Well, no. I’m just going to leave it at that.”
Laslo: “Would you — the information you got, would you be okay with the American people getting that same information?”
Scalise: “Obviously, you know, you don’t know certain things. There some things you can kind of get some idea of what’s going on. Some things you still don’t know all the answers.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Scalise: “I’ll just leave it at that.”
Laslo: “Did it feel like foreign adversaries or extraterrestrial?”
Scalise: “You can’t discuss what happens in a classified briefing.”
Laslo: “I gotta try! Thank you, sir.”
Scalise and his security detail head to his office.
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