Text messages between two former classmates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and one of the women who has accused him of sexual misconduct suggest Kavanaugh and members of his team were working alongside friends to discredit the allegations before they were made public, according to a report Monday.

The text messages show correspondence between Kerry Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, who both attended Yale University with Kavanaugh and Deborah Ramirez. Ramirez has accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself to her at a party their freshman year of college in the 1980s, an allegation that was made public on Sept. 23 in the New Yorker. Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that he was not aware of Ramirez’s allegations until the article was published.