into some of the players a bit later, including the format. opening statements, volleys of questions and so on. our justice chief correspondent pete williams along with our players in the lead-up coverage. pete, we have some experts assembled as well to talk about sally yates. give us the thumbnail sketch. who is sally yates and what about her assignment today, what she can and can t talk about, is going to be difficult? former career prosecutor in georgia then became the u.s. attorney nominated and confirmed by the obama administration. then she became deputy attorney general when lore rhetta lynch attorney general. so she s had a partisan and nonpartisan role in the government. she was asked to stay over by the trump administration to be acting attorney general until jeff sessions could get confirmed. that didn t last, because after she said justice department lawyers should not defend the trump travel restrictions, the