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FILE - In this June 28, 2016, file photo, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. Yates is expected to testify to Congress on May 8, 2017, that she expressed alarm to the White House about President Donald Trump's national security adviser's contacts with the Russian ambassador, which could contradict how the administration has characterized her counsel. Yates is expected to recount in detail her Jan. 26 conversation about Michael Flynn and that she saw discrepancies between the administration's public statements on his contacts with ambassador Sergey Kislyak and what really transpired, according to a person familiar with that discussion and knowledgeable about Yates's plans for her testimony. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
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In this March 7, 2017 photo, Catoosa County, Ga., Sheriff Gary Sisk poses for a portrait at the sheriff's office. In the northwest corner of Georgia, where cows and crops vastly outnumber people, a small cluster of privately owned treatment centers have sprung up in recent years for heroin and prescription painkiller addicts. "Georgia is getting inundated with these treatment centers and they're really drawing patients in from outside of our area and that's a big concern," Catoosa County Sheriff Gary Sisk said. "We can't be the solution for all the surrounding states." (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, Ashley Gardner, 34, takes a dose of methadone at Counseling Solutions of Chatsworth, Ga. Gardner, 34-year-old woman said her addiction started in the seventh grade when she wanted to numb the pain after she was sexually assaulted. She was assaulted another time, and saw both fathers of her two of her children die from an opioid overdose. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)
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In a Friday, April 28, 2017 photo, the Kelly Walsh percussion ensemble plays during Rodstock at Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, Wyo. Rodstock is an all-day music festival for Make-A-Wish Wyoming that has raised tens of thousands of dollars for sick children. (Alan Rogers/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP)
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In this April 26, 2017, photo, Mike Hunter, Oklahoma Attorney General, speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Hunter said the state is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a unanimous recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a death penalty moratorium remain in place. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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In this April 26, 2017, photo, Mike Hunter, Oklahoma Attorney General, speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Hunter said the state is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a unanimous recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a death penalty moratorium remain in place. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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FILE - This Oct. 9, 2014 file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Oklahoma has had one of the busiest death chambers in the country for decades, executing more people per capita than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that death sentences could resume. But after a botched lethal injection in 2014 and drug mix-ups in two scheduled executions in 2015, the state is taking a close look at whether executions should resume at all (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Second base umpire Bruce Dreckman (1) chats with New York Yankees' Aaron Judge (99) in the ninth inning of the Yankees' baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Judge hit two home runs in the game, including a three-run homer in the seventh, as the Yankees won 11-5. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Chicago police investigate the scene where two police officers were shot on South Ashland Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The officers were shot and wounded late Tuesday during an incident in a high crime neighborhood of the city's South Side, a police spokesman said. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Chicago police investigate the scene where two police officers were shot on South Ashland Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The officers were shot and wounded late Tuesday during an incident in a high crime neighborhood of the city's South Side, a police spokesman said. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Chicago police investigate the scene where two police officers were shot on South Ashland Avenue in Chicago on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The officers were shot and wounded late Tuesday during an incident in a high crime neighborhood of the city's South Side, a police spokesman said. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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New York Yankees' Aaron Judge watches his three-run home run off Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Jason Grilli during the seventh inning of a baseball game in New York, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. It was Judge's second home run of the game. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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New York Yankees' Aaron Judge hits a three-run home run off Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Jason Grilli during the seventh inning of a baseball game in New York, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. It was Judge's second home run in the game. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Damon Brumfield, a student at Southern University of Baton Rouge, poses while his friends take photos, in front of a mural honoring Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Everett Matthews of Baton Rouge, holds up a sign outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Alton Sterling was killed last year, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Alton Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Na'Quincy Pierson, son of Alton Sterling, smiles as he stands with Darin Fontenette, left, his football coach, outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Sterling was killed last year, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A young boy listens as people speak at a rally outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Alton Sterling was killed last summer, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cellphone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Everett Matthews, of Baton Rouge, La., holds up a sign outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Alton Sterling was killed last year, in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cellphone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Darin Fontenette, left, football coach for Na'Quincy Pierson, son of Alton Sterling, pats Na'Quincy on the head outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Sterling was killed last year in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Judy Scott raises her hands to praise God for justice for her dead son, Walter Scott, as other family members and the family's lawyer stand nearby during a news conference, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Charleston, S.C. Michael Slager, a white former police officer whose killing of an unarmed Walter Scott running from a traffic stop was captured on cellphone video pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal civil rights charges that could send him to prison for decades. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
