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Watch Sally Yates go toe to toe with Ted Cruz over Trump's immigration ban

Ted Cruz asked Sally Yates about her decision not to enforce Trump's first immigration order, grilling her on whether she had the authority to defy him.

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SALLY YATES:I would, and I'm also familiar with an additional provision that says “no person shall receive preference will be discriminated against an issuance of a visa because of race, nationality, or place of birth”. That, I believe was promulgated after the statute that you just quoted.

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CRUZ:In the over 200 years of the Department of Justice history are you aware of any instance in which the Department of Justice has formally approve the legality of a policy and 3 days later the Attorney General directed the department not to follow that policy and to defy that policy?

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