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Alright, here's the show.

It's the NPR Politics podcast and shout out to the son of one of our listeners in Russia.

And it's convenient because we are here to talk about yesterday's Senate hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 election,

which featured the testimony much anticipated from former acting attorney general Sally Yates.

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House for NPR.

I'm Scott Detro, I cover Congress and I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor.

I feel like we should bring him on the podcast interview him about Russian tactics.

I have a feeling that is not the voice of a Russian operative.

So they're a little closer to it than us.

The hearing yesterday was before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee and it was officially titled Russian interference in the 2016 United States election.

What was it actually about?

Well, the hearing ended up being about two parallel things and I think we're going to kind of talk into this two hearings, one room dynamic in a little bit.

But a lot of the Democrats had a lot of specific questions for Sally Yates, who's a really key player in what we knew about Michael Flynn and his conversations with Russia's ambassador.

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