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To help break it all down, I'm joined now by the Hill opinion contributor and former
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analyst at the departments of state and defense, Merrick von Reinenkamp. Merrick, great
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to have you. What do you make of this? I mean, yet another person coming forward with
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a new story, but still basically of the same theme that there is a secret Pentagon program
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with secret evidence that the public and lawmakers know nothing about.
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That's right, Elizabeth. And you alluded to it a little bit in the opening to the segment.
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But what I like to maybe take a more of an analytic approach, and if we zoom out, you
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know, in the new cycle, we focus on the latest breaking developments in the whistleblowers.
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But the smoke now around this UFO story is unbearable. It is choking. There is so much here.
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And again, from an analytic perspective, the system is blinking red, right? We have Chuck
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Schumer, the most powerful senator who has proposed bipartisan legislation that says that
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the government has these secret, unreported UFO retrieval in reverse engineering programs.
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You have remarkable commentary from just about every single former national security official
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in recent years about UFOs. And just to maybe tie this in, we've heard from President
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Obama, they've all made remarkable statements. It's an incredible shift from where we were
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over the last several decades. Just so our viewers know, Mary. Go back to what
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president's former president's Trump and Obama have said, because I want to remind our viewers.
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Yes, absolutely. And I want to tie this directly back to what Mike Schellenberg just said in
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that segment. And there is an incident reportedly, according to this new whistleblower of
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F-22 fighter jets are truly our newest and most advanced fighter jets, basically being
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chased and shadowed by orbs. That's the allegation. President Trump has said the exact same
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thing. He said he has heard from Air Force F-22 pilots who had encounters with spherical
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objects. And if right now, if you were to go to arrow.mil, that is the US government's UFO
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analysis office. The most commonly reported UFO is spherical. It's round and apparently has
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some remarkable characteristics. So from again, the also. And what did former president Obama say?
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President, former president Obama a few years ago said that they're going to quote as directly as
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I can, but there is footage and records of objects in the skies. And we cannot explain how they
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moved and their trajectory. And he's also spoken about the implications. If these UFOs,
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UAP are indeed non-human. And that is the language that Chuck Schumer uses. He's openly discussed how
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that might change politics and how that might change our perspective on the cosmos. And it most
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certainly would have some pretty remarkable ramifications. I think we can all agree on that.
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Yeah, I think it feels like we've crossed a Rubicon here from the days when anybody who said,
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I think there's evidence that there are UFOs or that aliens have visited Earth, which by the way,
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it's incredibly, I think, prehistoric to think we're the only intelligent life in the entire
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universe. But we've crossed this Rubicon from thinking, oh, if you say something or believe
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something like that, you're, you got, you words, your tinfoil hat, to now having not one but two,
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at least, former presidents of the United States, leading current members in high-ranking positions
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in Congress who say there might be something here. Absolutely. Again, the smoke is overwhelming.
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And to your point, I think the tinfoil hats should now be worn by the people who are denying that
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there's something to this story. It is just a remarkable switch we went from in the 1950s and the 1960s
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to official debunking and obfuscation and truly ridicule. You can look this up. The first head
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of CIA said openly that publicly, the government is ridiculing witnesses and individuals who've
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seen very credible folks, by the way. But behind the scenes, this is direct quote. This is in,
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and CIA archives, you can find this, that behind the scenes, Air Force officers are so
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broadly concerned was the actual quote. So this is truly a remarkable shift. And I just want to
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drive this home, that this is truly bipartisan. We have John Brennan, the former CIA director,
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said that UFOs could, quote, constitute a different form of life. Pretty remarkable from a former
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CIA editor. Thanks so much for watching. Go to joinnn.com to find news nation on your television
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