This comes as NBC News is reporting Kavanaugh and his team worked behind the scenes to refute claims of sexual misconduct by his former Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez—before her claims went public. Ramirez told The New Yorker Kavanaugh exposed himself to her by thrusting his genitals in her face at a drunken dorm party when they were both freshmen. NBC reports Kavanaugh personally contacted former classmates ahead of publication by The New Yorker, urging them to go on the record in his defense. This contradicts Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony to Republican Orrin Hatch at Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he only learned about Ramirez’s allegations from The New Yorker article.