白宫已将针对美联储理事莉萨·库克抵押贷款欺诈指控的拟议听证会推迟至12月，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的最高经济顾问表示，但库克的律师周五拒绝确认双方已商定任何日期。
The White House has delayed until December a planned hearing into allegations of mortgage fraud by Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, President Donald Trump's top economic advisor said, though lawyers for Cook on Friday declined to confirm that any date had been agreed.
“总统已要求他的一小部分人员运行一个完全公平的程序，把所有信息都摆到桌面上，然后总统将决定下一步行动，”凯文·哈塞特周四对彭博电视台表示。“我们白宫方面，白宫法律顾问，已与库克理事的人密切合作。我认为他们已经商定了一个12月的日期，届时会面把这些事情谈清楚。”库克的律师此前曾表示，在美联储12月8日至9日的政策制定会议之前，库克无法出席任何听证会。
"The president has asked a small set of his people to run a completely fair process that puts all the information on the table, and then the president will decide next steps," Kevin Hassett told Bloomberg TV on Thursday. "We in the White House, the White House counsel, has worked very closely with Governor Cook's people. I think that they've agreed to a date in December to meet together and talk these things through." Cook's lawyer, who along with Cook herself has denied any wrongdoing and called Trump's accusations a pretense to remove her because he wants the Fed to cut rates, had previously said Cook would not be available for any hearing until after the Fed's December 8-9 policy-setting meeting.
该律师与库克本人均否认有任何不当行为，并称特朗普的指控只是借口，目的是将她免职，因为他希望美联储降息。库克律师的一位发言人没有确认12月的任何新日期。特朗普一年多来一直试图解雇库克。
A spokeswoman for her lawyer did not confirm any new date in December. Trump has been trying to fire Cook for more than a year.
最高法院6月裁定，他不能“随意”这样做，但如果他给她机会，让她针对他认为表明存在免职“理由”的任何证据为自己辩护，他或许可以这样做。特朗普上月宣布了一项新的调查，并最初将11月5日定为听证日期。
The Supreme Court in June ruled that he cannot do so "at will" but that he may be able to if he gives her a chance to defend herself against any evidence he believes shows "cause" for removal. Trump announced a fresh investigation last month and initially set November 5 as a hearing date.
库克本周对美联储维持利率不变的决定投了反对票，她本希望美联储再次加息以抑制通胀。外界普遍预计美联储将在12月再次加息。特朗普长期抨击美联储不降息，并指责包括库克在内的“政治化”美联储理事会阻碍美联储主席凯文·沃什降息。
Cook this week dissented on the Fed's decision to leave rates steady instead of delivering another rate hike to curb inflation, as she would have preferred. The Fed is widely expected to raise rates again in December. Trump has long railed against the Fed for not cutting rates, and accused a "political" Fed Board, which includes Cook, for keeping Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh from doing so.
哈塞特是特朗普任命的三人委员会成员之一，负责调查库克并建议是否应将其解职。去年8月，他曾称库克为“党派人士”，理由是她在特朗普提出指控后没有辞职。
Hassett, who is on the three-person committee Trump appointed to investigate Cook and recommend if she should be fired, had called Cook "partisan" last August for not vacating her post after Trump's allegations.
周四，他对彭博电视表示，他觉得“沃什主席很好地允许了正常的异议，然后推动达成共识。”他说，调查库克的白宫委员会由“正直的人组成，他们负责审视证据，并以一种人们能够观察和批评的方式正确地描述证据。”
On Thursday he told Bloomberg TV Thursday he feels "Chairman Warsh has done a good job of allowing, you know, normal dissent and then driving a consensus." The White House committee looking into Cook is comprised of "people of honor who are charged with looking at the evidence and correctly characterizing it in a way that people will be able to observe and criticize if they like," he said.