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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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Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)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)I have access to CNNI (I'm in Europe), but the web will (also) presumably be available.
Thanks.