Trump fires acting attorney general

President Donald Trump has fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she announced she would not defend his controversial immigration order.
Sally Yates. (Photo: U.S. Department of Justice)
He is naming Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve in her place.
The White House press office says in a statement Monday that Yates “has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States