Who?
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) — Chair, Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets; Co-chair, Congressional UAP Caucus
LISTEN: Laslo & Luna
Ask a Pol asks:
After last week’s public UAP hearing, where does your UFO investigation go from here, military contractors?
Key Luna:
“As a result of the nature of our investigations, we're not going to be dropping any leaks into whatever else we're doing,” Secrets Task Force Chair Anna Paulina Luna exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP. “But we're making progress.”
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Caught our ear:
“You'll have to see our notices,” Secrets Task Force Chair Luna tells Ask a Pol UAP — the only UAP news outlet in Washington.
Below find two rough transcripts of Ask a Pol’s interviews with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Chair Anna Paulina Luna (9-17-2025)
SCENE: Secrets Task Force Chair Anna Paulina Luna exits the Capitol at a leisurely pace before Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches up with her.
The UAP Caucus Co-chair proceeds to rib Laslo for coming down with the flu ahead of last week’s long-awaited public UAP hearing.*
*Open letter to Chairwoman Luna.
Madam Chair,
Apologies for missing your hearing.
Provide a bucket and I’ll publicly puke every 20 minutes live on C-SPAN. Would be fitting soundtrack for this charade of a 119th Congress.
Sincerely,
PS — Why do you publicly shame sick people? Public health hazard. Full stop.
And what’s up with you and peer pressure? Didn’t work in high school (ask me about running away when I was 15, hopping Greyhounds from Chicago to Santa Cruz, CA), and those burnouts knew more than most in Congress!
But in this swamp, why would I move with the pack? Whether the vaunted political class you now inhabit or the media industrial complex. When DC zigs, I zag.
PPS — I have strict attendance rules for my university students:
1) Attendance is mandatory.
2) If you feel a throat scratch coming on you’re not allowed in my classroom.
Work gets the majority of my time; not my health, ma’am.
SCENE cont’d: While passing a gaggle of network cameras, producers and correspondents, Luna slows down to greet them, “Hey guys!”
No one had a question for the congresswoman. After an awkward pause, Luna speeds up again, dismissing Ask a Pol subscriber’s questions as she flees. She then links up with one of her young aides as they exit the security barrier around the Capitol and head to the House Office Buildings across the street.
The Chairwoman — of the Task Force mandated to eradicate government secrets — announces a new post-public UAP hearing rule:
After Luna repeatedly bats away simple hearing questions, her staffer physically inserts himself between the congresswoman and Laslo, a 19-year veteran congressional reporter.
Prof. Laslo ends the games and pulls out his phone. Once he’s recording the fleeing dynamic duo, Luna tenses up and changes her tune. relents and offers a simple answer to an Ask a Pol subscriber’s question.
— transcript starts here —
Matt Laslo: “How are you ma’am? How do you think last week’s hearing went?”
Anna Paulina Luna: “How do you think it went? You said it wasn't going to be good.”
ML: “I didn’t say anything!”
APL: “I heard you didn’t show up.”
ML: “I was sick as a dog…”
Luna all but rolls her eyes at Laslo.
APL: “Hmm…”
ML: “…y’all didn’t want to be near me. Where do you guys go from here?”
APL: “You'll have to see our notices.”
Luna slows down and cheerily greets cable reporters.
APL: “Hey, guys!”
Surprised Reporter I: “Oh, hi.”
Surprised Reporter II: “Hey.”
Luna’s a step ahead of Laslo as they descend the stairs and squeeze through a gaggle of reporters.
ML: “But, like, does the investigation go to military contractors?”
APL: “We're not — as a result of the nature of our investigations, we're not going to be dropping any leaks into whatever else we're doing. But we're making progress.”
ML: “Do you think the interrogatories are gonna wake up a couple agencies?”
Luna’s frustrated when Ask a Pol proves conversant on the details of the interrogatories — like that they were sent to only “a couple agencies” — which she now wants kept secret.
ICYMI — Ask a Pol’s latest interrogatory scoop
Luna’s aide senses her mood change and tries to cut Laslo — who reflexively flashes his press pass — off from his boss.
Luna aide: “Okay. That’s perfectly fine. Just wanted to check it. No worries.”
Ask a Pol was never worried.
APL: “We'll let you know our next moves publicly here soon.”
ML: “But, like…”
APL: “Yeah, let’s go...”
ML: “…without…”
Aide: “We have to go.”
APL: “Yeah.”
Aide: “We have to rush. I'm sorry.”
Luna’s aide abruptly gets between the congresswoman and Ask a Pol.
ML: “Cool, cool.”
Laslo immediately puts his hands up — in part so his mic would stay trained on the Chairwoman, not her mumbling staffer — while also taking a step back to avoid contact with the overly aggressive aide.
ML: “Do your thing, man.”
Laslo’s fumbling for his phone while keeping apace with the congresswoman, even as he’s establishing distance between himself and the nervous young aide.
APL: “Thank you.”
ML: “I'm still asking your boss questions.”
Laslo laughs keeping more than a safe distance away from the aide.
ML: “Y'all have to run?”
Once Laslo starts recording video — phone in one hand; mic and notebook in the other — Secrets Task Force Chair Luna speeds up and refuses to make eye contact.
ML: “What were you saying, Madam Chair? You guys aren't going to be talking a lot?”
Aide: “We have to go.”
Luna and her aide speed up as they approach a Capitol Police security barrier.
ML: “Yeah.”
As they quickly approach a security barrier, Laslo decides to hang back and stay on Capitol grounds so as to not (further) fluster anyone. But he doesn’t let Luna and aide think he’s done…
ML: “No?”
APL: “We'll be publicly releasing all the information that we’re doing shortly.”
ML: “Yeah?”
An officer moves the gate to let Luna and her aide exit.
ML: “Thank you! Have a good one.”
Laslo heads back to the Capitol.
