Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called President Trump to tell him that his tweets questioning Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser’s motivations were not helpful to the process. Source: CNN
100 kegs. A stripper. Wild parties. Kavanaugh classmate details senior year of high school
A goal of drinking 100 beer kegs by the end of senior year. A party with a stripper. A student falling through ceilings at house parties. These are new details coming to light in Mark Judge’s descriptions of his days as a Georgetown Prep student. Source: CNN
Rosenstein denies discussing plot to record and remove Trump
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is denying leaked memos that suggest he schemed to remove President Trump from office. Now the question remains, what will happen to Rosenstein under the Trump administration? CNNs Gloria Borger has the story. Source: CNN
GOP adviser helping Kavanaugh abruptly quits amid sex harassment claim
Garrett Ventry, a communications adviser for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s GOP majority who was leading the committee’s response to allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, has stepped down. CNN’s Sarah Westwood has more. Source: CNN
Reagan's daughter reveals her own rape
President Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis wrote about her own sexual assault experience to defend Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Source: CNN
Ford has until 2:30 p.m. ET to decide to testify
The Senate Judiciary Committee will likely propose holding a hearing next Wednesday where they will hear testimony from both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing him of sexual assault, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Source: CNN
Ben Carson ties Kavanaugh allegation to old socialist group
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Friday tied the sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a century-old plot by socialists. Source: CNN
GOP senator 'appalled' by Trump tweet
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) responded to President Donald Trump’s “inappropriate” tweet that questioned why Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford did not report her alleged assault to authorities immediately after it occurred if it “was as bad as she says.” Source: CNN
Report says deputy AG discussed recruiting Cabinet members to use 25th Amendment. Rosenstein calls story inaccurate
In the days after FBI Director James Comey’s May 2017 firing, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed wearing a “wire” to record conversations with President Donald Trump and recruiting Cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, The New York Times reported Friday. Source: CNN
Opinion: Remember, the 25th Amendment requires political apocalypse
People are again talking about using the 25th Amendment as a means to remove President Donald Trump from office, and they’re doing it more seriously. Source: CNN