--- title: Sally Yates: Read the Transcript of Her Senate Testimony description: Sally Yates delivered her opening statement about the concerns she raised regarding one of President Donald Trump's key advisors Monday canonical: https://time.com/4771272/sally-yates-testimony-senate-judiciary-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-08T19:36:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:48:43.595Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Sally Yates' Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee og:description: This is the first time Yates spoke publicly about her concerns og:url: https://time.com/4771272/sally-yates-testimony-senate-judiciary-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00aaaecafedf8ecd/6988cc7186f68e21506e49a1/gettyimages-543408760.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3432 og:image:height: 1931 og:image:alt: sally-yates-opening-statement og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Sally Yates' Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee twitter:description: This is the first time Yates spoke publicly about her concerns twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00aaaecafedf8ecd/6988cc7186f68e21506e49a1/gettyimages-543408760.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Sally Yates' Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra May 8, 2017 7:36 PM UTC  Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during a press conference to announce environmental and consumer relief in the Volkswagen litigation at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, June 28, 2016\. Volkswagen has agreed to pay out $14.7 billion in a settlement with US authorities and car owners over its emissions-cheating diesel-powered cars, court documents showed June 28, 2016\. The settlement filed in federal court calls for the German auto giant to either buy back or fix the cars that tricked pollution tests, and to pay each owner up to $10,000 in cash. / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks during a press conference to announce environmental and consumer relief in the Volkswagen litigation at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, June 28, 2016\. Volkswagen has agreed to pay out $14.7 billion in a settlement with US authorities and car owners over its emissions-cheating diesel-powered cars, court documents showed June 28, 2016\. The settlement filed in federal court calls for the German auto giant to either buy back or fix the cars that tricked pollution tests, and to pay each owner up to $10,000 in cash. / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra May 8, 2017 7:36 PM UTC [Sally Yates](http://time.com/4770282/sally-yates-michael-flynn-russia-election/) delivered her opening statement about the concerns she raised regarding one of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynna and his connections with Russia. The former acting Attorney General testified in front of a [Senate Judiciary subcommittee](http://time.com/4754803/donald-trump-russia-investigation-momentum/) that is investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election Monday. This is the first time Yates spoke publicly about her concerns. It was also her first time back on Capitol Hill since she was [fired in January](http://time.com/4654665/president-trump-sally-yates-immigration-order/) after she refused to defend Trump’s travel ban. Read the [transcript](https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/%5Fcache/files/79e32986-a3ba-4c8c-bd00-efbb3eb02b1e/the-honorable-sally-q.-yates---opening-statement.pdf) of her testimony below: --- > “” --- This story will be updated as the hearing continues. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4771272/sally-yates-testimony-senate-judiciary-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4771272/sally-yates-testimony-senate-judiciary-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Sally Yates' Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee","datePublished":"2017-05-08T19:36:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:48:43.595Z","description":"This is the first time Yates spoke publicly about her concerns","url":"https://time.com/4771272/sally-yates-testimony-senate-judiciary-transcript/","keywords":["Senate","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00aaaecafedf8ecd/6988cc7186f68e21506e49a1/gettyimages-543408760.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00aaaecafedf8ecd/6988cc7186f68e21506e49a1/gettyimages-543408760.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"sally-yates-opening-statement","caption":"US-GERMANY-POLLUTION-AUTO-VOLKSWAGEN","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/senate/","name":"Senate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4771272/sally-yates-testimony-senate-judiciary-transcript/","name":"Read Sally Yates' Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee"}}]}] ```