A tale of two press conferences

Under fire from both allies and opponents, US President Donald Trump has tried to clean up remarks made at a press conference with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. His fresh comments are so different, they appear to have come from a different person

"My people came to me, (director of national intelligence) Dan Coats came to me and others, and they said, ‘I think it is Russia’. I have President Putin, he just said it is not Russia. I will say this—I do not see any reason why it would be"

"In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word would instead of wouldn’t. The

sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t or why it wouldn’t be Russia’”

"So I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today"

"I have full faith and support for America’s great intelligence agencies...

I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place... Could have been other people also.

There’s a lot of people out there" Original statement Retraction

"The whole concept of that (meddling) came up perhaps a little before, but came out as a reason why the Democrats lost an election, which, frankly, they should have been able to win"

" I have, on numerous occasions, noted our intelligence findings that Russians attempted to interfere in our elections. We’re doing everything in our power to prevent Russian interference in 2018"