Matt Laslo is an American journalist who has covered Congress for radio, print, and digital outlets. He founded Ask a Pol to publish direct hallway interviews with senators and representatives, often asking questions that receive little attention during formal press conferences. The format preserves short, attributable exchanges with officeholders in their working environment.

Laslo spent years covering Congress before building Ask a Pol around a simple reporting advantage: lawmakers are often more candid while moving through Capitol corridors than at formal press conferences. He records short, attributable exchanges and publishes the audio with minimal delay. Applied to UAP, that method created a running oral history of who attended briefings, what surprised them, and where they disagreed. His beat is the legislature itself, with disclosure emerging through repeated questions to many members rather than dependence on one faction.

Laslo has made UAP one of his most recognizable beats. He asks lawmakers whether they attended briefings, what they thought of witnesses, whether they support disclosure legislation, and what barriers they encountered. These conversations reveal levels of interest and knowledge across Congress, including members who have said little elsewhere. A hallway answer is not a classified record, but it is a primary statement from the official speaking.

Laslo is central to media coverage of UAP and the public chronology of UAP legislation. His contribution is granular and cumulative: dozens of brief interviews show how the subject moves through committees and party networks. He is not advocating a single explanation for UAP; he is documenting what lawmakers say when asked directly and on the record.