Who?
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — Ranking Member, House Financial Services Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Waters
Ask a Pol asks:
I was following that crypto, de-banking hearing — what do you make of this new narrative from the GOP?
Key Waters:
“Well, like I said, I wasn’t gonna even deal with it, because they have refused banking to poor people and to working people,” House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters told Ask a Pol.
Caught our ear:
“Let the big billionaires fight it out,” Waters told us.
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Maxine Waters
SCENE: After leaving a de-banking hearing, Rep. Maxine Waters is hopping an underground tram from the US House Office Buildings to the Capitol when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo snags this brief exchange with her.
Matt Laslo: “You’re the one I’m looking for!”
Maxine Waters: “How you doing?”
ML: “How are you ma’am?”
MW: “How are you?”
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ML: “Living the dream.”
MW: “Living the dream?”
ML: “I was following that crypto hearing. How do you — what do you make of this new narrative?”
MW: “Well, like I said, I wasn’t gonna even deal with it, because they have refused banking to poor people and to working people. Let the big billionaires fight it out.”
Maxine Waters gets enters tram.
ML: “Mind if I get on with you?”
Waters wasn’t interested in a long interview.
MW: “Let the big billionaires fight it out.”
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ML: “Yeah?”
MW: “Not me. I ain’t in it.”
Rep. Kweisi Mfume: “And I’m with Maxine!”
Laslo turns to a smiling Rep. Mfume who was seated in another section of the tram.
ML: “I know, right? You’re a wise man!”
Laslo turns back to Waters.
ML: “Thank you, ma’am.”
Nicolae Viorel Butler contributed to this report.
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