Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories In a highly anticipated hearing, former acting attorney general Sally Yates testified for the first time about why she notified White House officials that President Trump’s newly named national security adviser could be compromised. In the three-hour long hearing on Monday afternoon, members of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee questioned Yates about the former Trump adviser, Michael Flynn. She was also asked about her own dismissal after she refused to sign off on Trump’s first travel ban, which has since failed to get approval from the courts. On paper, the hearing was supposed to examine how the Russian government tried to influence the 2016 election. Yates testified alongside James Clapper, a top intelligence chief during the Obama administration. Here are five key moments from the hearing: 1. “The Vice President was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because, we believed, that General Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians.” In her testimony, Yates said she went to the White House twice to talk with President Trump’s top lawyer, Donald McGahn. She said she did so for a number of reasons, but chief among them were that the Justice Department had concluded that Flynn could be compromised by the Russians. In other words, the Justice Department knew that Flynn had lied to the vice president, — and so, most like... Link to the full article to read more