Mr. Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was struggling on Monday to elicit details from James Comey, the F.B.I. That disclosure, Mr. Nunes said, had put “a big, gray cloud” over the White House. On Wednesday, Mr. Nunes tried to replace that cloud with a smoke screen. After making his disclosures during a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Nunes went to the White House to brief the president. Mr. Nunes unspooled his information on Wednesday over the course of two news conferences that had a strikingly improvisational air.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2017 22:41 UTC