Inaccurate tweets sent by Donald Trump about a congressional hearing into Russia’s alleged influence in the US elections were corrected in real time on Monday – at the hearing. In one of the more surreal exchanges of the day, US representative Jim Himes asked FBI director James Comey and NSA director Mike Rogers to clarify two messages sent by Trump that morning, in which the president appeared to mischaracterize statements they had made

Source: The Guardian March 20, 2017 20:18 UTC