Washington, DC Journalist Matt Laslo returns to The Good Trouble Show with his recorded interviews with lawmakers, both Democrat and Republican, in Congress on the stripping of The Schumer Amendment. This legislation was written by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Mike Rounds and would have brought transparency and accountability from The Pentagon to the UFO / UAP topic.
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Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction with Matt Laslo 00:04:14 - Holiday Hiatus Plans and UAP Coverage 00:08:59 - Lack of Journalism in the UAP Space 00:13:19 - The Schumer UAP Amendment 00:17:44 - Private Aerospace Companies and Congressional Inaction 00:22:13 - Discussing Jim Himes's dismissal of UAPs 00:26:42 - Intimidation at the Staff Level 00:31:18 - Lack of Communication in Congress 00:35:51 - Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Influence of Contractors 00:40:17 - Battelle's Involvement in Reverse Engineering 00:44:58 - Confusion and Frustration in Negotiations 00:49:29 - The UAP Thing on the Backburner 00:53:46 - Tim Burchett and the UAP Issue 00:58:25 - Future Unification of Strategies to Address UAPs 01:02:47 - Lack of Transparency from DOD and CIA 01:07:22 - Congressman Andre Carson's Potential Role in the UAP Select Committee 01:12:01 - Democracy and Intelligence Failures 01:16:31 - Recovered Balloon and Sensor Fusion 01:20:59 - Lawmakers and Fundraising 01:25:17 - Support for Journalists in the Industry 01:29:27 - Technical Glitches and Upcoming Interview
Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo is a journalist who's been covering campaigns and every aspect of federal policy since 2006. He's a WIRED magazine contributor, covering everything from data privacy and crypto to Big Tech and UFOs (or UAPs). Since moving from music to the political beat, Laslo's been a contributor with VICE News, VICE News Tonight (HBO), Rolling Stone, Raw Story, The Daily Beast.. He also runs The LCB (Laslo Congressional Bureau)-a wire service that's brought Washington to life for millions of (public radio) listeners and readers nationwide. Since 2009, he's served on the board of the Regional Reporters Association where he helps represent the dwindling numbers of local reporters based in Washington. In 2011, Laslo graduated cum-laude from the Johns Hopkins University's MA in Government program-where he's been an adjunct political communications professor since 2016. He's also taught comms. and/or journalism at Boston University (MA), George Washington University (MA) and the University of Maryland (BA).
He can be found on most all social media platforms as @MattLaslo. Laslo's also had bylines in Billboard, The Atlantic, Campaigns and Elections Magazine, Countable, GEN Medium, NBC Think (their non-partisan opinion vertical), OZY.com, The Chattanooga Courier, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, The Guardian (op-eds under his professor cap), The News of Delaware County, The Metro, The Omaha World-Herald, The Trace, This American Life, Thompson Reuters (op-eds), USA Today and Washingtonian Magazine, among others.
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