House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows told Politico Playbook Thursday that a number of unnamed congressional Democrats have contacted his office about investigating the anonymous New York Times op-ed trashing President Trump.

The big picture: The piece, attributed to a "senior administration official," has taken Washington by storm. Meadows told Politico that the apparent bipartisan outreach came about because "what many of us do agree on is that efforts within the White House to anonymously sabotage a duly elected president is an act of cowardice and does not serve American taxpayers well."