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Fla Dem

(23,556 posts)
Mon May 8, 2017, 10:35 AM May 2017

Five things to watch at the Sally Yates hearing. Scheduled for 2:30 pm today.

By Tom LoBianco, CNN

Updated 9:49 AM ET, Mon May 8, 2017

CNN)Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is expected to deliver long-awaited testimony Monday afternoon before a Senate subcommittee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Yates was thrust into the national spotlight after she broke with President Donald Trump over the enforcement of his travel ban, an action which led to her firing in January. But since then, her profile has only risen following revelations that she said she forcefully warned the administration about former national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications with a Russian diplomat weeks before Flynn was fired.

Hours before Yates was set to testify, CNN reported that former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page told Senate investigators that he had "brief interactions" several years ago with a Russian official he said was a "junior attaché," even though US officials had suspected the official of spying on behalf of the Kremlin.


Here are five things to watch in Yates' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, which is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. ET on Capitol Hill.

1. What was the extent of Yates' warning?

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Five things to watch at the Sally Yates hearing. Scheduled for 2:30 pm today. (Original Post) Fla Dem May 2017 OP
Sadly, the FOX News and 1200 hate talk radio programs crowd Mr. Ected May 2017 #1
Is this going to be broadcast on CNN? SwissTony May 2017 #2
I have to assume cnn will broadcast the most highly anticipated hearing this year. Fla Dem May 2017 #3
Yes; 2:30 Eastern Time. n/t Adsos Letter May 2017 #4

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
1. Sadly, the FOX News and 1200 hate talk radio programs crowd
Mon May 8, 2017, 10:43 AM
May 2017

Will only hear 2 talking points: that Yates is a partisan hack, and that the leaking of the information is more relevant than the information itself.

Both of these induce a gag reflex with me.

SwissTony

(2,560 posts)
2. Is this going to be broadcast on CNN?
Mon May 8, 2017, 11:55 AM
May 2017

I have access to CNNI (I'm in Europe), but the web will (also) presumably be available.

Thanks.

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