In the process, he made reference to his shifting statements in the days after he announced for president about whether he would have supported the Congressional resolution on war in Iraq.
Recent polls have suggested that his shifting statements on the economic bailout talks in Washington have not reassured some of these conservatives, raising the stakes for Ms. Palin to deliver steady, informed answers and repartee in the debate.
But like many of his counterparts around the country, as well as in New York and Washington, Mr. Zipp said that a secondary factor had influenced his paper's coverage: the shifting statements from officials about the freshness of the intelligence on which the warnings were based.
Does he rebound?" As for the "pattern of deceit" claimed by prosecutors, he addressed Dr. Bierenbaum's shifting statements about the case by saying, "If you've ever waited for a child or a spouse to come home, explanations change as you're talking to yourself or other people".
TIMELINE: All the dazzling denials, contradictions, and shifting statements that came before Michael Cohen's guilty plea.
Now, for whatever reason, we have a pretty misleading montage of U.S. official statements, which Wallace suggests is evidence of "shifting statements".
And his shifting statements on the matter — first blaming "both sides," then condemning Nazis, then blaming the "alt-left" for provoking the Nazis — reveal a man seemingly unable to censor his darkest feelings on race, even if it means offending wide swaths of the nation and damaging his ability to execute a political agenda going forward.
To help clarify the scandal, VICE News put together a definitive timeline of the shifting statements provided by Cohen, Trump, and a host of White House officials now implicated in a number of potentially illegal activities, including campaign finance violations and Russian collusion.
And whether he is playing with phrases on purpose to cover up for mistakes, shifting statements for political gain, or simply doesn't know what he is talking about (which seems to be the likely reason), it personifies a dangerous trait that shouldn't be diminished in importance.
Fed policy makers also discussed shifting their statement of possible future actions to a neutral stance, but made no change because of concerns about disrupting markets.
The testimony, on the fifth day of the trial in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, seemed to suggest turf skirmishes between Police Department investigators and prosecutors in the weeks after the allegation of abuse, a period marked by rapidly shifting public statements about the seriousness of Mr. Mineo's claim.
