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Sen. Rounds on Schumer UAP amendment: "Nothing at this stage ... so early in the process"
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Sen. Rounds on Schumer UAP amendment: "Nothing at this stage ... so early in the process"

Ep. 200 — Sen. Mike Rounds on new AARO report: "gonna wait and read the classified one" (3-14-2024)
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Sen. Mike Rounds talks to congressional press corps after voting on the Senate floor. Photo: Matt Laslo

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.”

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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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LISTEN: Laslo & Rounds

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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.

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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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