Fed Governor Cook’s Lawyer Blasts Trump Probe, Says She Can’t Attend Nov. 5 Hearing

The significance here is less about Cook personally than about the pressure channel: an independent Fed governor facing a White House-led probe and a demand to appear at a hearing she says she cannot attend. That puts the central bank's insulation from executive pressure squarely in view, at a moment when Fed independence is already a live market theme. The open question is procedural — whether the hearing proceeds without her, and whether the probe advances — since either path would test how much formal distance remains between the White House and the Fed.