Yes or no. No hemming or hawing. It's a simple question, yes, or no?
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Is it clear to you now that a simple yes or no question, couched in an incorrect assertion is not actually a simple question?
Hell, I'd be fine with a hedged answer of "it can be." That would make a ton of sense and would make sense. Akin to asking "is it speeding to drive your car at 40?" The answer would be "in certain situations, certainly. Can be too fast and it can be too slow." So an answer of "I can't answer without more context" would be fine.
None of that is what I saw.
Let me give you another chance to answer a simple yes or no question.
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Since it's obvious that democrats are all criminals and baby-eaters, is Elizabeth Warren a democrat?
Yes or no. No hemming or hawing. I'll interrupt you as soon as I hear any words besides those two. Your answer or failure to answer will appear as a headline in the New York Times.
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The chair was responding to the statement made in the question, the congressman just didn't like what that response was, which is why he kept interrupting.
Though, I'll bite. What statement is made by the question "Is ETH a security?" Why is that a question that can't be answered with "Yes", "No", or "it depends how it is packaged"?
The chair's answer was, as we can glean from the interruptions (but who the hell really knows, the man's not allowed to finish a sentence) 'It depends'.
And note that some things can be both a security while wrapped around a commodity. Just look at brokered CDs. Such that, even if you agreed that ETH is a commodity, you can still have financial instruments on ETH that are securities.