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Atlanta, and she got a lot of democrats upset with her. even and including john lewis, who evan perez, our now colleague who back then was working in 2009 for "wall street journal" did a story he showed me yesterday, that that story said john lewis was trying to block her appointment because he was afraid she was a republican. yes, she was working for the obama administration but obama was the guy who was the president. she had also worked for other administrations technically because of her job...

>> i think shes made, you know, i think it was widely rumored to reply a large role in the justice department if hillary clinton had won. >> so on a different topic, i have a question about that fired usher, angela reed. it was reported she received a generous severance package. how do you give a substantial severance package to a government employee? >> i dont know. i would be glad to get back to you on that. aneta? >> reporter: yesterday we learned sally yates said she learned of the first imm...

Informed at that time? >> i know he was informed at the front end of what she had told them and the counsel had informed him they were going to then seek the information that she said was available to them. ha hallie? >> reporter: i want to follow up on what a couple folks mentioned. you described in this briefing what sally did as a heads-up with don mcgahn. she testified she came to the white house twice in person on the 26th and 27th to do more, she says, than simply offer to provide material...

They are doing their job and they are giving you a warning because it is their job to do this, and that sally yates wasnt coming to them out of any partisan irk but she was coming to them to say look, you have a problem here. >> and she came to them, to use your metaphor of the category 5 hurricane, three times after president obama warned of said hurricane to the incoming president himself. let me move on to, dana, you covered, you all really have, covered capitol hill for years and years, on t...

Obama pointee. you haesh some say thats bogus. our white house reporter is reporting that this has been underconsideration for days but one of the final straws was the revelation that his testimony was riddled with unthoouts. there were only a handful. it was wrong. there were serious errors in that testimony. do you buy that at all as a reason? does that make you question whether the fbi director is doing his job? >> i find it very hard to believe that the reason donald trump fired jim comey is...

Who is arguing for marriage rights. justice scalia later concluding that unless theres a clear answer to that question, he cant see how the court can decide the case. obama pointee elena kagan on the other hand questioning the attorney who argued to preserve californias same sex marriage ban and in his mind, preserve traditional marriage. >> it is very rare that both parties to the couple are infertile and the traditional -- >> if a couple -- i can just assure you if both the woman and the man a...

Hold on. let me answer the question. she had come here, given a heads-up, told us there were materials and at the same time, we did what we should do. just because someone comes in and gives you a heads-up about something and says i want to share some information doesnt mean you immediately jump the gun and go take an action. i think if you flip the scenario and say what if we had just dismissed somebody because a political opponent of the president had made an utterance, you would argue it was ...