— Meteorologists tell Trump he is "misleading": The American Meteorological Society forcefully pushed back on the president's assertion during an interview on 60 Minutes over the weekend that climate scientists have a "very political agenda" when talking about climate change, The Post's Jason Samenow reports.
Mr. Trump's lawyers also try to untangle another potential piece of evidence in the obstruction investigation: his assertion, during an interview with Lester Holt of NBC two days after Mr. Comey was fired, that he was thinking while he weighed the dismissal that "this Russia thing" had no validity.
Some legal experts watching the case said the defense team's decision to proceed with insanity assertions during a penalty phase indicated a difficult bargaining process with Mr. Kaczynski.
The Syrian First Vice President made the assertions during a news conference in Paris at the end of a two-day official visit to France, his first visit to Paris in ten years.
Mr. Cain denied the woman's assertions during an interview on CNN Monday afternoon, in which he first publicized word of Ms. White's charges.
Asked about his wife's assertions during an interview Thursday on Fox News Channel, President Trump blamed being a newcomer to Washington for some of his picks and said he is happier with his team now.
The assertion came during a marathon of testimony on Capitol Hill as Congress held four separate hearings on the Dec. 25 plot by 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria to blow up an airliner headed to Detroit.
His oft-repeated assertion during the campaign that a wall along the southern border would be paid for by Mexico is one that lawmakers in Trump's own party believe will never come to fruition — yet they and others in the government continue to look for some way to help the president save face.
The assertion came during an appearance before members of the House Appropriations Committee, where questions about Barr's handling of the report on whether Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia dominated what otherwise would have been a routine budget hearing.
Noting Obama's repeated assertion during his re-election campaign that a containment policy is inadequate to control the Iranian nuclear threat, Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, has questioned whether the president will "live up to that pledge" or "do what George W. Bush did on North Korea, which is sort of conveniently forget that we actually were opposed to North Korea going nuclear".
