I appreciate your response and agree that maybe the best course for Mnuchin would be to avoid potential conflicts at this particular point. The problem is that I'm not sure that this is possible for a couple reasons.
First, he will surely be attacked by democrats on the basis he is going to do favors for "his hedge fund billionaire friends". If his answer regarding FnF is that he has not discussed specifics with President Elect Trump, they will attack him on this, i.e you said FnF was a top ten priority so how could you not have discussed or given that housing is 20% of the economy, how could you not have discussed. He runs the risk of being made out as inept and/or unprepared.
Two, I believe that he will be drawn into the topic with very specific questions on FnF, restructuring, etc. His answers will need to be direct and he will most likely be re-questioned again on specifics as they relate to his answers.
I'm just not so sure than he can be circumspect or vague in his replies and I'm also not sure that he can say after already commenting on FnF that he has yet to discuss specifics with PEOTUS.
Would it be a good decision to blame the current admin for the situation of FnF, i.e. draining off the capital buffer and keeping all profits through the NWS, putting the economy/taxpayers at risk and trampling on shareholder rights? This would united republicans and put democrats on defense IMO. It would also fit with how Trump might approach this type of situation.
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