NYT reports that Pompeo, Bolton, Esper met with Trump in late August to plead with him to release military aid. He rebuffed their effort.

BREAKING: The House Foreign Affairs Committee has announced contempt proceedings against POMPEO

NEWS: GAO has concluded that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were invalidly appointed and are *ineligible* to serve in their current roles.

PELOSI exiting election security briefing this morning says administration is “withholding” evidence of foreign election interference, per pool.

NEWS: Dems first learned that a pro-Russian Ukrainian sent anti-Biden material to NUNES when they were inadvertenetly sent the DHL shipping receipt. Dems reported it to the FBI on Jan. 27. Nunes declined to tell them if he got it or what he did with it.

NEW: Geoff BERMAN told Congress today that BARR repeatedly pushed him to resign — starting with a June 18 meeting at a NY hotel and ending with a phone call that night. He refused and Barr announced his resignation anyway BERMAN's opening statement:

INBOX: Top House Dem Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Ted Lieu are urging the FBI “to evaluate whether Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, or Members of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service, committed any crimes in light of nationwide delays and issues with USPS.”

JUST IN: A lawyer for Peter STRZOK says some of the agent's notes recently made ublic by the FLYNN defense team "appear to have been altered," including with at least one handwritten notation that is incorrect >>>