Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas said this week he is “inclined” to vote to confirm Trump’s pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel. Patel is a Trump loyalist who has embraced QAnon conspiracy theories, supported the January 6 insurrection and called for the FBI’s D.C. office to be closed.

Meanwhile, a new report by the Justice Department’s inspector general finds the former Trump administration’s DOJ secretly obtained phone and text message logs of 43 congressional staffers and two members of Congress in 2017 and ’18 as prosecutors investigated public leaks of classified government information. Kash Patel was among congressional staffers whose records were seized. The report also found the Trump Justice Department violated its own policies in how it subpoenaed phone and text records from journalists.