Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

in the panel handle and he wanted us to go with him to investigate so we show up at Eglin Air Force Base we're met by the base commander previous says even showing up on this congressional delegation to investigate the Pentagon had tried to cancel the meeting and you can't so this is under the last administration so you can't just cancel a meeting and say you can't come to the base that doesn't work so Gates actually was on house armed services at the time that oversees the U.S.

military and

And so Gates got the chairman involved, calls back onto the Pentagon and gets this meeting on the books.

And, you know, we told them specifically we want to see information on UAPs.

We want to see the evidence and we want to have the pilots that saw these aircraft, whatever they are, or the spacecraft.

We want to have briefings from them.

In a nutshell, we get to Eglin Air Force Base.

They keep BSing us about the Chinese spy balloon.

That's not what we were there to see.

And ultimately, we were in the SCIF.

We got into a verbal disagreement with the base commander at the time who was denying us access to the pilots and to the information and said that we didn't have the authorization.

In the SCIF, there was many members of the intelligence community.

We then go back upstairs to the conference room and proceed to, again, basically have it out with this commander.

And Representative Burchett said, you know, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

You choose, sir.

Kind of, but at the time... I like it when people use a movie way.

And if it's the hard way, you're going to have Representative Gates and Luna in D.C.

questioning you, so I suggest you do it the easy way.

So he actually, in the middle of the meeting, we were kind of holding his feet to the fire on it.

He like kind of got nervous as we were talking to him.