Mnuchin to attend top Saudi event, media exit over missing journalist

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WEALTH OCTOBER 12, 2018 / 8:02 AM / UPDATED 15 HOURS AGO

Mnuchin to attend top Saudi event, media exit over missing journalist

Saeed Azhar, Lawrence White, Dmitry Zhdannikov
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DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Wall Street bankers will show up at an elite Saudi investment conference this month despite a growing exodus of top media companies and business leaders after the disappearance of a Saudi journalist.

Mnuchin’s plan to attend the high-profile Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that he saw no reason to block Saudi Arabian investments in the United States despite concern over the welfare of Jamal Khashoggi.

“I am planning on going at this point. If more information comes out and changes, we can look at that, but I am planning on going,” Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC on Friday.

In a letter to Trump, the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said Mnuchin should cancel plans to attend the conference unless Saudi Arabia fully discloses what it knows about Khashoggi’s disappearance.

“We urge you to use all pressure necessary to encourage greater Saudi cooperation in the investigation into this incident,” said the committee’s chairman, Republican Ed Royce, and its top Democrat, Eliot Engel.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-politics-dissident-conference/mnuchin-to-attend-top-saudi-event-media-exit-over-missing-journalist-idUSKCN1MM1GJ

[Arkansas Granny]

1. This says a lot about the priorities of this administration.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Yeah, really. This clearly shows that big money takes the front row seats when it all comes ...

down to it. The life of a journalist taken in this manner should call for more stronger actions on the part of the administration. Again, this clearly shows the indifference to life that rump and his cronies have towards the rest of us.

Everyday Americans struggling to pay our bills, etc. but we won't do it at the expense of others. I thought we were better than this...Opps, we are, it's the repugs or the 1%ers that aren't.

Remember, the repugs made numerous attempts to take away health care, and in the tax cut and jobs bill of 2018, have you actually seen a significant bump in income? All of the people I've talked to have said NO.