Yates was the deputy attorney general in the final years of the Obama administration and served as the acting attorney general in the first days of the Trump administration. During a briefing Tuesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer denied that the White House sought to hinder Yates’s testimony. On Tuesday, Nunes declined to say if the White House had asked him to cancel the hearing. Reporters also asked Nunes if the Trump administration sought to prevent Yates from testifying, to which he replied: “Look, you guys are just speculating. Meet the acting attorney general Trump fired for ‘betraying’ the Justice Department.

Source: Washington Post March 28, 2017 13:56 UTC