A video of the hearing will be available  once the hearing begins.

Who is Sally Yates? Meet the acting attorney general Trump fired for ‘betraying’ the Justice Department; article by The Washington Post: 

“Acting attorney general Sally Quillian Yates, a longtime prosecutor from Atlanta, began her tenure as an Obama appointee two years ago by saying that pursuing justice was more important to her than bringing federal cases in court.

” ‘We’re not the Department of Prosecutions or even the Department of Public Safety,’ ” Yates said in May 2015, the week after she was confirmed as deputy attorney general, the second-highest-ranking position in the Justice Department. ‘We are the Department of Justice.’ “

“On Monday afternoon, only days away from stepping down from her 27-year career in the Justice Department, Yates defied President Trump, ordering federal attorneys not to defend the controversial immigration order issued Friday.

“Within hours, Trump fired her. In a news release, the White House said Yates had ‘betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.’ Yates was replaced by Dana Boente, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who told The Washington Post he would enforce the president’s directive until Trump nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is confirmed.”

[Read the White House statement on Sally Yates]

*Yates was born in Atlanta to J. Kelley Quillian, an attorney and judge who served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals between 1966 and 1984, and Xara Terrell Quillian. Her grandmother had been one of the first women admitted to the Georgia Bar, however, she was not hired as an attorney, instead working as a legal secretary for Yates’s grandfather.

She attended the University of Georgia, receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1982. In 1986, she earned a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. While in law school, Yates served as the executive editor of the Georgia Law Review. (From Wikipedia)