Yesterday, America's brief interim Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by the Trump Administration for refusing to defend his Muslim ban, became what The Daily Beast calls "the early hero of the Trump era."

Until two hours ago when President Trump fired James Comey, America's FBI Director, Sally Yates was the person of the hour, after her professionally dazzling testimony on Monday before a Senate Panel investigating the Russian meddling in America's presidential election.

On Monday, prior to the Senate hearing, NBC reported that in his first meeting with President Obama on November 10, President-elect Trump was advised not to hire General Michael Flynn for a key post in the administration. Trump ignored President Obama's warning and hired Flynn as his National Security Adviser, exposing him to all of America's top secrets.

Yates clarified for Senators and the general public yesterday that upon reading an pre-report analysis of information gleaned by the FBI on Flynn, she was so concerned that she picked up the phone and called White House Counsel Donald McGahn, requesting an immediate in-person meeting.

Yates said, “We believed that General Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians," and that “logic would tell you that you don’t want the national security adviser to be in a position where the Russians have leverage over him.”

The White House fired Yates four days later and only fired Gen. Flynn 18 days later because of a leak to the Washington Post about Flynn's activities with the Russians. In spite of the Trump administration's attempts to paint Sally Yates as a political hack prior to yesterday's testimony, Republican senators led by the committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham found her to be highly credible.

Because of tonight's firing of FBI Director Comey, the plot has thickened dramatically around the aggressive tactics of the Trump administration.