Rep. Maxine Waters to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a congressional hearing: 'If you wish to leave, you may leave'
The Treasury secretary at 5:08 p.m. ET interrupted the question-and-answer session with lawmakers to remind the committee of their agreement that he would be able to leave at 5 p.m.Mnuchin said he was scheduled to meet with a senior official from the government of Bahrain to discuss efforts to combat counterterrorism financing, but would be willing to stay until 5:15 and return at a later date to testify before the committee.
You're wasting your time, remember you have a foreign dignitary in your office." The secretary then threatened to"rethink" whether he would voluntarily return back to the committee to testify if he was going to poorly treated. "If you'd wish to keep me here so that I don't have my important meeting and continue to grill me, then we can do that," said Mnuchin."I will cancel my meeting and I will not be back here.
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