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Who?

Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) — Member, Senate Indian Affairs Commitee

Ask a Pol asks:

Are you going to be supporting Sen. Markwayne Mullin to head the Department of Homeland Security?

Key Luján:

“Let’s see what we chat about. I mean, he has a big responsibility. His predecessor over there I think created a lot of problems. Problems that he’s going to have responsibilities unraveling, shedding light on as well,” Sen. Ben Ray Luján exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics. “I’m open to having a conversation, but I have a lot of concerns because when Homeland was envisioned after 9/11, the ICE agents were not told to go bust into Americans’ homes or bust American windows open or do those things. They’re supposed to be going after violent criminals. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. And that’s what’s been happening.”

ICYMI: Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo used this exclusive for his LCB wireservice client National Native News

Caught our ear:

“While I may have some policy disagreements with Senator Mullin, Mark’s Mark,” Luján tells us. “Mark’s the guy that, you know, he’s a rancher, that’s who he is. I don’t know that there’s anything out of sorts there. It’s just that’s just who he is.”

“They want to cheat and steal these elections in November because they see what’s happening.”

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ben Ray Luján

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo sees Sen. Ben Ray Luján and an aide walking through the basement of the US Senate.

As they hop an elevator up to the Senate floor, Laslo chats up the Senator about his longtime colleague Sen. Markwayne Mullin who President Donald Trump nominated to replace embattled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

Matt Laslo: “Remember one of my clients is National Native News?”

Sen. Ben Ray Luján: “Yeah.”

Laslo: “Curious how it’s been working with Mullin on Indian Affairs Committee?”

Luján: “Look, Senator Mullin has been good to work with on issues where we’ve been able to find agreement to provide support to Native American communities, to First Nations in numerous areas. Markwayne and I have worked on legislation together. I’ve supported bills that he’s led.”

Laslo: “Huh?”

Luján: “And you know, the tradition of another Oklahoman that has always been a leader in Tom Cole...”*

*Like Mullin, Cole’s an enrolled member of the Cherokeee Nation.

Laslo: “Yeah.”

Luján: “...who I worked with in the House when I was there and still reach out to. Mark has been one of those members — not just, you know, Democrat, Republican — he’s been a member that tribal leaders have sought out to support different efforts.”

Laslo: “And he’s gotten a little bit of trouble — not just with the union boss, but remember over the Lumbee? He kind of offended some within the audience, ‘look at these faces.’ What do you make of his temperament at Homeland Security?”

ICYMI — Sen. Mullin was accused of racially stereotyping his fellow Native Americans in 2025

Luján: “Look, while I may have some policy disagreements with Senator Mullin, Mark’s Mark.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Luján: “Mark’s the guy that, you know, he’s a rancher. That’s who he is, you know?”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Luján: “So, yeah, I don’t know that there’s anything out of sorts there. It’s just, that’s just who he is.”

Laslo: “Are you going to be supporting him or too early to tell?”

Luján: “Let’s see what we chat about. I mean, he has a big responsibility. His predecessor over there I think created a lot of problems. Problems that he’s going to have responsibilities unraveling, shedding light on as well. And so I’m open to having a conversation, but I have a lot of concerns because when Homeland [Security Department] was envisioned after 9-11, the ICE agents were not told to go bust into Americans’ homes or bust American windows open or do those things. They’re supposed to be going after violent criminals. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. And that’s what’s been happening, so I have a lot of questions over that way. But, you know, I’ve served with Mark in the House and now in the Senate as well, and you know, Mark’s always been true to who he is.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Luján: “Yeah.”

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Who?

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS)

Ask a Pol Asks:

What have you made of the pushback from NATO allies — like forbidding US troops from accessing their military bases — on President Donald Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war with Iran?

Key Marshall:

“It’s time for Europe to put some jeans on, take their skirts off, maybe put some boots on and help the rest of the world out,” Sen. Roger Marshall says.

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Caught Our Ear:

“I’ve given up on Europe helping us years ago,” Marshall tells us. “The World War II is over with. The Marshall Plan is over with.”

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Roger Marshall (3-12-2026)

SCENE: Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo and a small gaggle of congressional reporters interview Sen. Roger Marshall as he’s walking back to his office after voting on the US Senate floor.

Sen. Roger Marshall: “I’ve given up on Europe helping us years ago. Uh, they’re all talking, they’ll, you know, they told us they would get to troopers in a GEP and they never did. Half of them never did. Now they’re bosing 5%. They’re all talk. You know, the World War II is over with. The Marshall Plan is over with. It’s time for Europe to put some jeans on, take their skirts off, maybe put some boots on and and help the rest of the world out.”

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Who?

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Ask a Pol asks:

Now that the Republican primary for the Texas US Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn is headed to a runoff — after Cornyn and his GOP allies spent upwards of $70 million ahead of this week’s primary election day — are you prepared to back your colleague Cornyn or his challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton?

Key Cruz:

“I’m continuing to stay out of it,” Sen. Ted Cruz exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics.

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz (3-5-2026)

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches Sen. Ted Cruz as he’s hopping in a waiting car outside the US Capitol.

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Matt Laslo: Any thoughts on Cornyn v. Paxton?

Sen. Ted Cruz : I’m continuing to stay out of it.

ML: Wise man. Have a good one.

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Who?

Rep. Al Green (D-TX)

Ask a Pol asks:

Why did you choose to protest during the President’s State of the Union address tonight?

Key Green:

“I wanted him to know and I wanted him to see it and hear it up close,” Rep. Al Green exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “I wanted the President to know that we are not going to sit by while he disparages an entire race of people with these racist tropes.”

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Caught our ear:

“If you tolerate this level of racism, you perpetuate it,” Green tells us. “I refuse to tolerate it. I don’t want to see it normalized.”

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Al Green (D-TX), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Al Green (2-24-2026)

SCENE: After Rep. Al Green unfurled his hand-drawn “Black people aren’t apes” sign, was escorted out of the House chamber by the Sergeant-at-Arms following his protest during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo left his seat in the chamber, rushed down 3 flights of stairs and through back cooridoors before catching the Congressman before he exited the Capitol on the first floor.

ICYMI — Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo first sold this through his wire service, The LCB, to client, Raw Story

Matt Laslo: “What happened?”

Rep. Al Green: “Well, as you know, the President has depicted the former President and First Lady Obama as apes.”

Rep. Al Green: “And if you tolerate this level of racism, you perpetuate it, and I refuse to tolerate it. I don’t want to see it normalized. And that’s why I pledge this to the President, so that there will be no question as to where I stand, how he needs to know that there are some people who have the courage to tell him things that he doesn’t want to hear, and that nobody else will tell him. And on some issues, it’s better to stand alone than not stand at all. So I stood alone.”

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Who?

Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) — Member, House Judiciary Committee

Ask a Pol asks:

Are you worried the Second Amendment’s being attacked by members of the administration?

Key McClintock:

“I utterly reject the premise of your question,” Rep. Tom McClintock exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics when asked if the Second Amendment is under attack from the administration. McClintock points to concealed carry laws in 29 states as evidence against that premise.

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tom McClintock (2-3-2026)

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches Rep. Tom McClintock walking through the basment of the US Capitol…

Matt Laslo: “What do you make of — like you think your party needs to hold hearings on the Second Amendment?”

The partially perplexed (partially pissed…) Congressman — who Laslo covered for Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio for a decade or so — shakes head.

Laslo: “Are you worried that it’s being attacked by members of the administration?”

Rep. Tom McClintock: “No, I don’t.”

Laslo: “No?”

McClintock: “I reject the premise of your question.”

Laslo: “29 states have concealed carry! And they said that’s illegal?!”

McClintock: “I utterly reject the premise of your question.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Laslo’s ears perked, so he does 180.

Laslo: “So what do you think?”

McClintock: “I just told you.”

McClintock boards elevator.

Laslo: “Alright, go ahead, sir.”

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Who?

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — Senate Armed Services Committee

Ask a Pol asks:

What have you made of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…?

Key Kelly:

“The president wanting to hang me?” Sen. Kelly exclusively tells Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo. “Yeah, I take a little bit of offense to it, you know? And saying I should be prosecuted, executed, yeah, it’s outrageous. I mean, he’s the President.

“The real thing that matters is there are over 2 million retired veterans whose First Amendment rights are on the line with this case, because if they can say that me, as somebody who left the military 15 years ago and is a retired service member, that I do not have freedom of speech rights — and I’m a US senator, right?

“If they can take away my rank after 25 years and take away some of my retirement pension, they can do that to anybody. Much easier to do that to somebody else.”

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Caught our ear:

“This government doesn’t want us speaking out against them,” Kelly tells us. “Such a fundamental American right that we all have is to criticize the government. They don’t like criticism.”

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mark Kelly (Feb. 2026)

SCENE: Sen. Mark Kelly invites Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo to ride the underground tram from the US Capitol to his office across the street.

Matt Laslo: “What do you think about this, the President and the Pentagon…?”

Mark Kelly: “The president wanting to hang me?”

ML: “Yeah.”

MK: “Yeah, I take a little bit of offense to it, you know? And saying I should be, you know, prosecuted, executed…”

ML: “Yeah.”

MK: “…yeah, it’s outrageous. I mean, he’s the President.”

ICYMI — Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo used this exclusive interview for his wireservice, The LCB, client Raw Story

ML: “Yeah?”

MK: “He should — every day he just says outrageous stuff.”

ML: “Are you worried, though, seeing the Pentagon then carrying out his unconstitutional will?”

MK: “There is a — am I worried? There’s a process.”

ML: “Yeah.”

MK: “This is part of the process. I filed a lawsuit against Pete Hegseth to, you know, stop that process.”

ML: “Yeah?”

MK: “But the real thing is…”

Kelly and his aides already boarded the underground tram when Kelly invites Laslo aboard.

MK: “Here, you want to hop in?”

ML: “Yeah.”

MK: “You know, the real thing that matters is there are over 2 million retired veterans whose First Amendment rights are on the line with this case, because if they can say that me, as somebody who left the military 15 years ago and is a retired service member, that I do not have freedom of speech rights — and I’m a US senator, right?”

ML: “Yeah.”

MK: “If they can take away my rank after 25 years and take away some of my retirement pension, they can do that to anybody. Much easier to do that to somebody else.”

ML: “Yeah.”

MK: “And, you know, this government doesn’t want us speaking out against them — and such a fundamental American right that we all have is to criticize the government. They don’t like criticism.”

ML: “Do you — are you feeling good about your case?”

MK: “The law and the Constitution are on our side here.”

ML: “Yeah?”

MK: “So yeah, I mean, anything can happen, but, yeah, I felt pretty good about it.”

ML: “Seeing you on TV a lot because of it.”

Laslo laughs; Kelly doesn’t.

MK: “Yeah. I didn’t ask for this.”

ML: “I know.”

MK: “I mean, I was just trying to send a really very simple, basic message that I felt needed to be said.”

ML: “Yeah?”

MK: “And, you know, this is all Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s doing.”

ML: “Yeah.”

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Who?

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA)

Key Dean:

“We either uphold this Constitution and call out the criminal, lawless behavior of this president and his administration, or we could be doomed,” Rep. Madeleine Dean lectured congressional reporters from the steps of the Capitol.

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Caught our ear:

“Americans are being shot and killed. Journalists like you are being arrested. This is in violation of our First Amendment guarantees,” Dean said.

“They were put in there by the very first Congress to the United States, because some were worried that states didn’t have — and individuals didn’t have — enough protections within the Constitution. Are we going to walk away from the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights today?”

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Madeleine Dean (2-3-2026)

SCENE: After voting on the floor of the US House of Representatives, Rep. Dean stops at the bottom of the US Capitol steps to answer questions from the press corps.

Rep. Madeleine Dean: “This is a historic moment, folks. Americans are being shot and killed. Journalists like you are being arrested. This is in violation of our First Amendment guarantees.

“They were put in there by the very first Congress to the United States, because some were worried that states didn’t have — and individuals didn’t have — enough protections within the Constitution. Are we going to walk away from the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights today?

“This Congress will be held to account. Republicans will be held to account, as Americans are shot and killed in the street, little Liam is taken, fearful — our children in this country are fearful they are going to be taken by authorities in America.

“We are at an incredibly historic time. We either uphold this Constitution and call out the criminal and lawless behavior of this president and his administration, or we could be doomed.”

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Who?

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

Ask a Pol asks:

Is ICE escalating tactics in Minnesota?

Key Omar:

“They are. They are. I mean, “occupation,” I think, is a light word. It’s terror at this point,” Rep. Ilhan Omar exclusively told Ask a Pol Politics.

Do you think it’s because of fmr. VP candidate, Gov. Tim Walz or is it the Somali community? Or both?

“They have a desperate need to show that they are able to do something there,” Omar said. “Obviously, the Somalis are not in the crossfire of this, because nearly 60% of Somalis in Minnesota are US-born. Almost 99% of us are citizens, so when they couldn’t find Somalis, I think, they’re taking their anger out on the Latino and Asian community. And it is, like I said, it’s pure terror…”

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Who?

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — lead Republican sponsor of Epstein file measure President Donald Trump signed into law*

*Massie and his Democratic partner, Ro Khanna, authored the “Epstein files“ discharge petition, which forced Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP leaders to bring the Epstein measure to the House floor for a vote.

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The measure sailed through after overcoming a fierce lobbying effort by President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and others who fought the documents’ release, and who, according to Massie and Khanna, have now failed to abide by the law by refusing to release all the Epstein files Congress overwhelmingly mandated be released publicly.

Ask a Pol asks:

Any update on the Epstein files the Justice Department has refused to release?

Key Massie:

“No,” Massie exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics. “There’s a court angle now. I think there’s a path. We asked for a special master, and the judge says, ‘Alright, tell us what you’re thinking.’ And he asked the DOJ to tell them — to send something…”

Caught our ear:

Do you want to see a Contempt of Congress or is going through the courts better to get the outcome you want?

“This is quicker and has more precedent,” Massie tells us.

And you think they’ll listen to a judge a little more than Congress?

“I think so,” Massie says. “That’s just the world they live in — courtrooms.”

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Thomas Massie (1-15-2026)

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo is showing the managing editor of one of his wire service clients around the Capitol during a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Rep. Thomas Massie leaves the House floor and starts peeking around the Speaker’s Lobby — a rare Members and Press Only area — so Laslo ditches his British guest in the hall to get this update on the Department of Justice slow-walking the release of the Epstein files, a rare successful legislative effort spearheaded by Massie and California Rep. Ro Khanna.

Matt Laslo: “Mr. Massie.”*

*Laslo covered Congress for Kentucky Public Radio for years, so the two know each other.

Rep. Thomas Massie: “Hey, how are you?”

Massie’s on the Democratic side of the Speaker’s Lobby looking for someone…

Laslo: “Any update on Epstein [files]?”

Massie: “On the..?”

Laslo: “Epstein and DOJ?”

Massie: “No.”

Massie stops looking around corners…

Massie: “We’re working with the — there’s a court angle now.”

Laslo: “Do you think — do you feel good about that or…?”

Massie: “I think there’s a path.”

Laslo: “Even with this DOJ?”

Massie: “Well — no, with the court…”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Massie: “…with the judges. We asked for a special master, and the judge says, ‘Alright, tell us what you’re thinking.’ And he asked the DOJ to tell them — to send something.”

Laslo: “But in the end, if the judge rules in your guys’ favor, it would still be up to [Attorney General Pam] Bondi and the Trump administration to implement it. Do you think they would?”

Massie: “Well, then she’s in contempt of the judge.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Massie: “Which is a little more clear-cut than…”

Laslo: “…Contempt of Congress.”

Massie: “…Contempt of Congress.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Massie: “Yes.”

Laslo: “Interesting. Do you…?”

Massie: “Judges, hit people every day for being in contempt.”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Massie: “We haven’t done it 85 years.”

Laslo: “Do you want to see a Contempt of Congress or this is better — to get the outcome you want?”

Massie: “This is quicker and has more precedent.”

Laslo: “And you think they’ll listen to a judge a little more than you all?”

Massie: “I think so.”

Laslo: “Yeah.”

Massie: “I mean they’ve all — that’s just the world they live in…”

Laslo: “Yeah?”

Massie: “…courtrooms.”

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Laslo: “Yeah. Interesting. We’ll see.”

Massie: “We’ll see. Yup.”

Massie turns away from Laslo’s mic as he starts looking around the Speaker’s Lobby again.

Massie: “I’m looking for Ro Khanna.”

Massie heads south and Laslo peeks around a north corner closer to the House floor.

Laslo: “There he is.”

Laslo politely rushes and catches up to Massie.

Laslo: “Mr. Massie — he’s over here.”

Massie: “Oh, is he?”

While Laslo escorts Massie to Khanna, a throng of congressional reporters crowd around the Kentucky Republican.

Laslo: “He’s sitting down…”

Massie chats briefly with Khanna before doing an impromptu press conference with a dozen or so journalists in the Speaker’s Lobby.

As the other reporters pepper Massie with questions, Laslo slides next to Khanna for an exclusive with the California Democrat on the Epstein files.

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Who?

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) — Member, Senate Banking Committee

Caught our ear:

“I myself have a nephew, I mean this kid was salt to the earth and now he tried meth just once and now he’s in prison. And it turned him into a totally different person,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis tells us. “He was the neatest kid. Yeah. And he’s gone. Yeah. That person is gone. And so I’m pretty hardcore about keeping it away from people, but I don’t know how to do it.”

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