Trump UFO disclosure promise: Public ready for the truth, journalist says | Elizabeth Vargas Reports

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>> ARE WE FINALLY ON THE EVE OF A TRUE AGE OF DISCLOSURE, WANT ALL GOVERNMENT SECRETS ABOUT ALLEGED ALIEN LIFE AND UFO'S WILL FINALLY FINALLY BE REVEALED. PERHAPS AFTER PRESIDENT TRUMP GAVE THE GREEN LIGHT FOR GOVERNMENT FILES ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE TO BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. IT IS A DIRECTION THAT A GROWING NUMBER OF VOICES HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR FOR YEARS FROM UEFA WHISTLEBLOWERS TO TOP RANKING CONGRESSIONA OFFICIALS HERE AT NEWS NATION. WE HAVEN'T JUST BEEN FOLLOWING THE STORY. WE'VE BEEN LEADING IT 2 YEARS AGO.

WE BROUGHT YOU THE EYE-OPENING STORY OF DAVID GRUSCH, THE FORMER AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER WHO BECAME A WHISTLEBLOWER AND ALLEGED GOVERNMENT COVERUP OF A RETRIEVAL PROGRAM. I NEVER WANTED TO DO BUT MY SENSE OF SERVICE I DECIDED TO DO THIS FOR THE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. I THINK HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE OLD THE IG ACCOUNTABLE IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE WE HAVE A >> SEVERE COSTA TO SHUTTLE CRISIS RIGHT NOW. THIS IS THIS IS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER. >> NOW THAT CALL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY COULD SOON BE ANSWER.

TRUMP POSTED ON TRUTH SOCIAL THAT DUE TO QUOTE, TREMENDOUS INTEREST. HE IS DIRECTING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO BEGIN IDENTIFYING AND RELEASING FILES RELATED TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE. PEAS AND FOES. TRUMP HAS BEEN DANCING AROUND THE DISCLOSURE TOPIC FOR YEARS. SO THIS ANNOUNCEMENT MIGHT NOT BE TOO SURPRISING COMING AS IT DID JUST HOURS AFTER FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA MADE HEADLINES ON THE SUBJECT, HE SAID ON A PODCAST HE THOUGHT ALIENS WERE REAL.

THE COMMENT LIT UP SOCIAL MEDIA YESTERDAY REPORTERS ASKED PRESIDENT TRUMP TO WEIGH IN. >> ALL OBAMA ALIEN A REAL AND YOU SEEN ANY EVIDENCE. >> HUMAN VISITORS WHAT PLAYERS RIGHT. INFORMATION IS ASKED SPEAK MY MAY GET A BEACH LAST WEEK. >> AND WITH THAT, HE ORDERED THE FILES TO BE DECLASSIFIED AND RELEASED, PERHAPS WANTING TO CREATE A LITTLE VIRAL SENSATION OF HIS OWN.

>> BUT WHEN WE WHEN MIGHT WE SEE ANY OF THEM? THERE'S NO WORD ON THAT. AND NO WORD ON WHAT THOSE FILES MIGHT CONTAINED. >> AND PLEASE REMEMBER THE RELATIVE NOTHING BURGER OF THE JFK FILES RELEASED LAST YEAR. SO HOW BIG REALLY IS THIS? WE'RE JOINED NOW BY MARK FUN READ AND COMPHER SERVED AT THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE DEFENSE. HE'S AALSO A ONTRIBUTOR AT THE.

SO MARK, YOU SAY THIS IS A HUGE DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE SHOULD BE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC. HOW COULD IT BE BOTH? >> HEY, GOOD EVENING WITH A AND I THINK ANY TIME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PUTS THE WORDS ALIEN EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE INTO A SOCIAL MEDIA POST RIGHT NEXT TO LANGUAGE SAYING IT'S SUGGESTING THAT HE WILL ORDER THE RELEASE OF FILES RELATED TO UFO'S. IT'S THAT'S QUITE AN EXTRAORDINARY DEVELOPMENT. AND THAT'S ESPECIALLY THE CASE AFTER 80 YEARS OF DENIAL, RIDICULE AND OBFUSCATION FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ON THIS TOPIC.

THAT SAID, AS YOU AS YOU HAPPILY RIGHT, THAT WE HAVE SEEN PRECEDENT FOR QUARTER, QUOTE, NOTHING BURGER WITH SOME OF THESE OTHER RELEASES THAT HAVE BEEN HYPED. THERE'S A LOT OF CHATTER ABOUT THIS POTENTIALLY BEING A POLITICAL DISTRACTION. SO I'M I'M INDEED, CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC. BUT I DO WANT TO MAYBE JUST BRIEFLY LEVEL SET BECAUSE A LOT OF THE COVERAGE THAT I'VE SEEN HAS BEEN QUITE DISMISSIVE OF THHESE COMENTS. BUT AT THE END OF DAY, THIS IS AN EXTREMELY BIPARTISAN ISSUE.

CHUCK SCHUMER OF ALL PEOPLE STATED ON THE SENATE FLOOR THAT MULTIPLE CREDIBLE SOURCES HAVE COME TO CONGRESS STATING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAS ILLEGALLY WITHHELD INFORMATION ON UFO'S. GREAT AGAIN FROM CONVERSE. THAT'S PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY. WE SEE IN THESE HEARINGS, NEW VIDEOS KEEP COMING OUT. MARCO RUBIO STATED JUST IN DECEMBER THAT GENERALS AND ADMIRALS, THE THE TOP TIER OF OUR MILITARY, THE UNITED STATES MILITARY TOLD HIM AND THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THAT AN REPORTED UFO RETRIEVAL IN REVERSE AND TURNING ENGINEERING PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN WITHHELD FROM THE PRESIDENT.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF SMOKE. THERE'S AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SMOKE HERE. I'M CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC. WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE STORY CLOSELY. YOU KNOW, AS YOU HAVE AND AND WE HAVE BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN REPORTING ON A LOT.

>> WE KNOW THAT IT'S SORT OF THE DEFENSE CONTRACTING INDUSTRY THAT HAS BEEN REALLY WORKING ON ALLEGEDLY THIS REVERSE ENGINEERING PROJECT. WE'RE TAKING EXTRATERRESTRIAL REMAINS OF CRASHED VEHICLES AND TRYING TO REVERSE ENGINEER THEM. IF THERE'S BEEN ALMOST A DELIBERATTE ATTEMPT TO CUT OUT ELECTED LEADERS, EVEN ELECTED PRESIDENTS BECAE THEY'LL BE GONE IN 4 OR 8 YEARS. WHERE IS FOR DECADES THESE COMPANIES HAVE WITH THESE LABORATORIES ARE ABLE TO WORK IN AND IN EXTREME SECRECY ON EXTRATERRESTRIAL CRAFT. >> THAT CERTAINLY IS THE NARRATIVE THAT HAS DEVELOPED AND THAT IS BEEN TOLD BY MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT SOURCES.

AND IT'S A CAN. IT'S A IT'S A VERY CONSISTENT NARRATIVE WHICH MAKES BIT WHICH IS FASCINATING TO YOUR POINT. BUT YES, THAT IS POTENTIALLY A WAY OF OBFUSCATING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT WAS, FOR EXAMPLE, OF HIDING TECHNOLOGY IF IT HAS INDEED RECOVERED, BEEN RECOVERED. I WILL SAY THAT THAT SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER AND MIKE ROUNDS, REPUBLICAN OF SOUTH DAKOTA HAVE REALLY LED THE CHARGE IN THIS. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR LEGISLATION, THE EU, AP DISCLOSURE AT IT SPECIFICALLY GETS TO YOUR POINT AND IT HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ASSERT EMINENT DOMAIN OVER IT AND ALL.

>> YU AP. >> CRAFT THAT HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO PRIVATE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS. AND AND THAT EXTENDS TO ACCORDING WHAT THEY DESCRIBE AS BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. AND THAT'S IN BLACK AND WHITE LITTLE BIT. THAT'S PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY.

BUT YES, YOU HEAR RIGHT. SO THE QUESTION IS, IF RIGHT, IF IF THE ANY POTENTIAL RELEASE OF INFORMATION IS OF GOVERNMENT FILES AND THE BULK OF THE THE EQUIPMENT. THE HARDWARE IS ACTUALLY IN PRIVATE HANDS. THAT DOES RAISE A VERY INTERESTING ISSUE. BUT WE SHALL SEE.

I FOR ONE WILL BE WATCHING TUESDAY STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS VERY CLOSELY IN THE EVENT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPANDS ON THTHESE COMMENTS, WHICH AS YOU NOTED, HAVE TAKEN OFF LIKE WILDFIRE CERTAINLY ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA. DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY DO THAT? I MEAN, AS YOU POINT OUT, >> THERE'S BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR THIS VERY HIGH RANKING MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE NECESSITY. >> OF RELEASING THESE RECORDS. >> KNOW, >> IT WILL BE INTRIGUING IF YOU MENTIONED THAT NOW.

>> 1, 100%. BUT YOU'RE RIGHT. WE'RE GETTING TO A FEVER PITCH I WANT TO ALSO POINT OUT THE THE FILM, THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE, WHICH DID INCREDIBLY WELL AS THE HIGHEST GROSSING DOCUMENTARY O ON AMAZO PRIME VIDEO WITHIN 48 HOURS OF COMING OUT. AND AS RUBIO, SENATOR GILLIBRAND, RIGHT CENTER AROUND ALL THESE INDIVIDUALS MAKING PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENTS. SO, YES, I THINK REALLY IS A A I THINK WE'RE AT A CRITICAL MASS HERE.

THERE'S REALLY A GROUNDSWELL OF BOTH PUBLIC AND CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT FOR FOR TRUE TRANSPARENCY. AND AFTER YEARS. >> IT'S ALL RIGHT, 10 SECONDS BECAUSE THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT. MAYOR MARK, ARE WE READY FOR IT? BECAUSE IN AGE A DISCLOSURE, THEY TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE ALKED ABOUT RELEASING THESE FILES AND RULE AND DECIDED THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, THE WORLD, IN FACT, WASN'T READY TO LEARN THAT THE QUOTE, TRUTH. >> I THINK WE'RE READY FOR.

I THINK THE BIG QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENS DAY AFTER GEOPOLITICALLY ECONOMICALLY SOCIALLY AND CULTURALLY? YEAH.