Who?
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — lead GOP negotiator with Majority Leader Schumer on their UAP amendment to NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act)
Ask a Pol asks:
“Has there been any talk about your guys UAP amendment yet in the NDAA?”
Key Rounds:
“Nothing at this stage of the game, just because we're so early in the process,” Rounds tells Ask a Pol. “So it’s a matter of priorities right now and putting it in the proper sequence, but we have an interest in perusing some things yet.”
Caught our ear: Read new AARO report?
“I have made arrangements to get the complete version, so that I can read it,” Rounds tells Ask a Pol. “I'm gonna wait and read the classified one.”
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mike Rounds
SCENE: Rounds just finished an interview inside the Capitol. As he’s exiting, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo greets him and proceeds to walk out to his waiting car with him and his staffer.
Matt Laslo: “How you doing, sir?”
Mike Rounds: “Good. How you doing?”
ML: “Livin’ in the dream?”
MR: “It looks like it. Yeah, it's a Thursday, which is a Senate Friday or a Senate Thursday or whatever…”
Laslo laughs.
ML: “Have you been able to check out that AARO report?”
*Senators had their annual ‘retreat’ this week.
MR: “I have made arrangements to get the complete version, so that I can read it.”
ML: “Yeah? You get the good one.”
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