1/ The Trump administration declassified and ordered the release of former FBI director James Comey's text messages and 20 pages of a surveillance application that targeted Carter Page.
2/ Trump plans to cap the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. next year at 30,000, the lowest ceiling since the refugee program was created in 1980.
3/ Trump says he feels "terribly" for Brett Kavanaugh and that he is "not a man who deserves this" as the Senate prepares to hear testimony from a woman who says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teenagers.
1/ Rick Gates requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities and use social media manipulation to gather intelligence in order to defeat Republican primary race opponents, as well as Hillary Clinton
1a/ Kavanaugh is the first justice nominated by a president who lost the popular vote, confirmed by senators representing less than half of the country, while also having his nomination opposed by a majority of the country.
1/ In a sworn declaration, a third accuser said she witnessed efforts by Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge between 1981 and 1983 to get girls "inebriated and disorientated" so they could be "gang raped" in side rooms
1a/ Julie Swetnick swore that Kavanaugh and Judge would "'spike' the 'punch' at house parties" with "drugs and/or grain alcohol," and that she witnessed Kavanaugh "being overly aggressive with girls."