“It’s a new day and it’s a new chair. And I have the gavel at this point — if you wish to leave you may.” “Can you clarify that for me?” “Yes, clarify is this: if you wish to leave you may.” “O.K. so you’re — we’re dismissed, is that correct?” “If you wish to leave, you may leave.” “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” “You’re wasting your time. Don’t – remember, you have a foreign dignitary in your office.” “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. I will cancel my meeting. And I will not be back here. I will be very clear, if that’s the way you’d like to have this relationship. What I’ve told you is I thought it was respectful that you’d let me leave at 5:15, which —” “You are free to leave anytime you want.” “You may go, anytime you want.” “Please, please dismiss everybody. I believe you’re supposed take the gavel and bang it. That’s the appropriate —” “Please do not instruct me as to how I am to conduct this committee.”