Kelela Reinvents R. & B., and Sally Yates Gets Fired

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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When the acting Attorney General Sally Yates wouldn’t defend the so-called Muslim travel ban, she was promptly sacked—“before it was fashionable to be fired” in the Trump Administration, Jeffrey Toobin says. Yates, who served in the Justice Department during the Bush and Obama Administrations, talks with Toobin at the 2018 New Yorker Festival, about the impact of Trump on her career and on American politics. The singer Kelela reinvents R. & B. with influences from jazz to trip-hop and electronica, and she performs a live set at the festival accompanied by the producer and d.j. Loric Sih.

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0:21.5	and WNYC Studios. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Earlier this month at the
0:29.6	New Yorker Festival, our weekend-long bonanza of interviews and live events of all kinds,
0:34.7	Sally Yates sat down with a legal analyst Jeffrey Tubin.
0:43.2	Yates is a former deputy attorney general and she served under Republican and Democratic presidents,
0:47.3	but now she's emerged as a prominent critic of the Trump administration.
0:51.8	And her name is being whispered as a possible candidate for high office.
0:55.3	Now, that's a possibility she usually downplays, but she hasn't shut it down entirely. Here's Jeffrey Tubin, a staff writer at The New Yorker with Sally Yates.
1:05.6	Sally was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She went to the University of Georgia, she went to the University of Georgia Law School,
1:12.6	and in 1989, she became an assistant U.S. attorney
1:16.6	in the city of Atlanta.
1:18.6	She prosecuted a lot of big cases, including Eric Rudolph,
1:21.6	who was the white supremacist who bombed the 1986 Olympics.
1:26.6	And in 2010, President Obama appointed Sally the U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Georgia,
1:37.2	which is Atlanta.
1:37.9	And in 2015, she was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General of the United States.
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