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Scottie Scheffler praises police for being 'our protectors,’ describes interactions with them while in custody

Scottie Scheffler was in unfamiliar territory early Friday morning, as he was arrested en route to the PGA Championship at Valhalla.

The ordeal had Scheffler feeling “pretty rattled, to say the least,” and he admitted it took him a “few holes” to feel somewhat normal again.

But in a somewhat ironic twist (he is facing a felony charge of second-degree assault on a police officer), the officers who were involved in placing Scheffler in custody wound up playing a role in calming him down.

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“The officer that took me to the jail was very kind, he was great. We had a nice chat in the car, that kind of helped calm me down. I was sitting there waiting to go in, and I asked him, I was like ‘Can you just come hang out with me for a few minutes so I can calm down?…’” Scheffler said after his round. (He even joked that he had been stretching in a jail cell.)

“The officers inside the jail were tremendous.”

Scheffler even said he was the butt of some jokes made inside the jail “when they figured out who I was and what happened and how I ended up there.”

“This one older officer looked at me when I was doing my fingerprints and looks at me and goes ‘Do you want full experience today?’ I looked at him and go, ‘I don’t know how to answer that.’ He was like ‘Come on man, do you want a sandwich?’ I was like ‘sure, I’ll take a sandwich. I didn’t eat breakfast yet.’ They were really kind.

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“I’m thankful that we have such strong police. They’re our protectors out there. We just got into a chaotic situation this morning. That’s really all it was.”

Scheffler was detained at 6:01 a.m. ET and released just over two-and-a-half hours later, and arrived at Valhalla another half hour after that, 56 minutes before his tee time.

Starting on the back nine, the reigning Masters champion naturally birdied 10 to start the day. He followed with a bogey on 11 but responded with a birdie on 12.

After five-straight pars, he then ripped off four birdies in his next eight holes.

He finished the round two shots back of the lead, as Collin Morikawa rattled off five straight birdies at a point to head into the clubhouse at -11; Scheffler was -4 after the first round.

Scheffler was booked into the Louisville Department of Corrections later Friday. He was also charged with criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals from an officer directing traffic.

Fox News’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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UFO whistleblower praises historic Congressional hearing on 'non-human' craft: ‘Inflection point’

Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves reacted to the historic congressional hearing this week on UFOs, calling it an “inflection point” in an interview with Fox News Digital.

“It does certainly feel like it’s an inflection point. We saw a lot of interest from the representatives that attended. The questions were really on point. They were very serious, and I think they were a bit shocked at how big of a national security concern this actually can represent,” Graves said Thursday of House members present at the hearing. 

“Congress wasn’t fully aware of how big of an aviation safety issue this was,” said Graves, who serves as executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, 

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Graves was referring to unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, an acronym that has recently dominated the public imagination. Clips of Graves and two other whistleblowers — David Fravor, former commanding officer in the U.S. Navy, and David Grusch, U.S. Air Force officer and former intelligence official — have gone viral after they gave sworn testimony in front of Congress as to personal experiences with what many Americans would describe as UFOs. 

Graves described the seemingly physics-defying nature of UAPs during the hearing. “These objects were staying completely stationary in Category 4 hurricane winds. These same objects would then accelerate to supersonic speeds.”

The most common UAPs, he explained, were “dark gray or black cubes inside of a clear sphere.”

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The hearing, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency,” was held in front of the House’s Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.

Graves told members of Congress during the hearing that he felt some anger after Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., recounted the stories of pilots at Eglin Air Force Base who were afraid to reveal their personal experiences with UFOs to the public. Graves, who is also the first active duty pilot to speak to Congress about UAP, has designed a “pipeline” service for whistleblowers to come forward about their experiences with aerial phenomena. 

“It’s just frustrating because that’s essentially the worst case scenario for me,” Graves said of pilots who felt pressured not to report on UAPs.

Graves emphasized that he’s been pushing for pilots to be able to talk about their experiences and “share safety knowledge about this issue” without feeling like “they’re doing something wrong. This is their lives on the line,” he added. “They’re responsible for those aircraft, they signed for them. And if you’re a commercial pilot, you’re accepting responsibility for potentially hundreds of lives.”

“And to think that they have to work in the shadows in order to ensure the safety of their operations — for me, it’s just unacceptable,” Graves said. 

Graves agreed that the “logical next step” was for whistleblowers to meet with members of Congress in a “closed session,” responding to Grusch’s suggestion at multiple points during the hearing that he could reveal more about UAPs to Congress in a “SCIF,” or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.

Graves told Fox News Digital that one of his major takeaways from the hearing was not only “national security” but also “the fact that this is an aviation safety issue.” He continued, “I think the representatives were disappointed at how the commercial sector’s aviation sector has not responded to this issue. I hope they hear loud and clear that they’re serious about this now.”

While Graves and his fellow whistleblowers Fravor and Grusch all testified about their personal experiences with UAPs, some claims are getting more attention than others. 

Notably, Grusch was asked by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., if he believed that the government had made contact with “intelligent extraterrestrials.” He answered that he could not discuss the topic in a “public setting.”

Grusch did, however, claim that the government was in possession of biological material, which he called “biologics,” from “non-human” species. 

Grusch told Congress that he could further discuss evidence of his claims in a SCIF.

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Schumer praises Biden for making deal with McCarthy, tells Senate to prepare for weekend vote

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised President Joe Biden for coming to a debt ceiling agreement with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and told senators to prepare for a vote later this week.

Schumer made the statement in a “dear colleagues” letter to his fellow Democrats on Sunday. The caucus will meet over the phone to discuss the specifics of the budget deal later Sunday and early this week, he said in the letter.

“I salute President Biden for protecting the American economy and delivering for American families by taking the threat of default off the table,” Schumer wrote. “I look forward to seeing the language of the agreement and reviewing it carefully.”

“These have been a difficult few weeks given how intransigent and extreme the MAGA Republicans are, but nonetheless we must avoid default and its grave consequences for the American people,” he added.

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McCarthy also noted a warning from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that the U.S. would not be able to pay its debts beyond June 5 if Congress does not act.

McCarthy has vowed that lawmakers in the House will get 72 hours to review the text of the agreement before voting on it, pushing back the Senate process to later this week.

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Biden’s White House team negotiated with Republican leadership throughout the weekend before announcing an “agreement in principle” on Sunday. The speaker defended that agreement in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

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“Maybe it doesn’t do everything for everyone, but this is a step in the right direction that no one thought that we would be able to today,” McCarthy told host Shannon Bream.

“I’ll debate this bill with anybody,” he continued. “Is it everything I wanted? No, because we don’t control all of it. But it is the biggest rescission in history. It is the biggest cut Congress has ever voted for in that process.”

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Several Republicans remain opposed to the legislation, most of them within the House Freedom Caucus. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, blasted the bill for not cutting the vast majority of Biden’s push to expand the IRS, among other things.