Who?
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) — Chair, Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)
LISTEN: Laslo & Wicker
Ask a Pol asks:
Have you had any talks about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s…?
Key Wicker:
“Nice try,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker told Ask a Pol. “I’ve ceased doing interviews in the hallway.”
Oh, no — did someone do something?
Wicker laughs.
Spread the word…
Caught our ear:
Just curious if Schumer’s UAP Disclosure Act amendment came up in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act — NDAA — talks?
Wicker’s silence was deafening.
Wicker Classics? Meh — play the tape…
2023 NDAA — “not at our level at this moment”
2024 — “don’t know where you would have heard that”
2025 — less than a tease on 60 Minutes…
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Roger Wicker (10-7-2025)
Background: Laslo’s covered Wicker for Mississippi Public Broadcasting for years, so he’s used to him being quiet, if cagily so, and refusing to answer questions, though he’s also learned Wicker often ascribes much weight to the few words he does divulge while walking through the US Capitol at an almost leisurely southern pace.
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo greets Sen. Roger Wicker as he exits one of the US Senate’s underground trams before they part ways at a bank of elevators underneath the US Senate floor.
Matt Laslo: “Have you had any talks about…?”
Roger Wicker: “Nice try.”
ML: “…Schumer’s…"?”
RW: “I’ve ceased doing interviews in the hallway.”
ML: “Oh, no — did someone do something?”
Wicker laughs — Laslo laughs before disregarding the Senator’s new rule.
ML: “I was just curious if Schumer’s UAPDA has come up at all in the NDAA talks?”
Wicker says nothing as he enters a Senators Only elevator.
ML: “Gotta try. Thank you, sir.”
ICYMI — Wicker used to be able to say words publicly*
*even on camera Wicker all but renders himself mute…
