White House ‘aliens’ joke not funny, Ross Coulthart says | CUOMO

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Full auto-transcript: The UFS UFO issue isn't about little green men and believing that you're going to get beamed up in a saucer. That's a stupid thing. It's about transparency. It's about hundreds of millions of dollars and obvious things that are of national security interest and playing out in the wars that we're seeing right now and the wars to come. That's what it is. So, why would you mock it? Why would this administration mock it when they're trying to own the transparency of it? But they did. They teased, "Oh, they're coming. They're living among us." Like, you know, this is the walking among us, you know, like as if you believe in this stuff, you believe in it's all about aliens and you And they're doing that. They're mocking those of us who want transparency on this as a way to make a joke about people who are here as illegal aliens. And it's just another level on the whole demonizing, mocking, and making them something less than the rest of us. So, today, Pentagon UFO whistleblower David Grusch, along with members of Congress, announced they're going to soon hold a press conference demanding the Trump administration reveal everything the government knows about UFOs. My question is, is there an or else? Let's bring in NewsNation special correspondent and investigative journalist Mr. Ross Coulthart. Ross, it's good to see you. My understanding is there is an or else. >> There very much is, Chris. Good evening. I I I don't think the president's being well advised at the moment. It was a puerile effort by somebody in the White House administration to use the aliens.gov website as a way of one, trying to promote the president's position on stopping illegal immigration, which I think many Americans would applaud, but I think there's been a miscalculation. The president has been badly led by people inside his administration who thought that they would score points by mocking the the efforts to become transparent on the subject of non-human intelligence. It's seriously at risk of blowing up in his face, and there is more. My worry genuinely all along has been that there are people who are very desperate inside what we call the legacy reverse engineering craft retrieval program that is a covert effort involving non-human technology, incredible as it may sound. My worry is that some of those people might just throw the whole file into the public arena and compromise laudable efforts by people in national security to develop weapon systems and energy and propulsion systems that are actually of value to the American public. The real risk is that we might lose these efforts to our adversaries, to potential foreign adversaries, if the president doesn't recognize the severity, the significance of what he's playing with here with UAP transparency. This is all about national security. It's terribly important. >> I'll tell you what, Ross, it's There's a very provocative question here, maybe even an existential one. Um what is more important to national security? That this type of classified information that may give us an advantage, may not let our adversaries understand certain capacities or incapacities, or that the American people at some point have to win. They have to get what they demand at some point or they won't believe in the system anymore. That is not for us to answer, but it will be for us to observe. Ross Coulthart, thank you very much. Appreciate you as always. Thank you for watching. Subscribe below and download our NewsNation app right now on your phone, and you will get fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.