Article snippet: “I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian meddling in the 2016 election took place,” President Trump said Tuesday, but then immediately added: “Could be other people also. A lot of people out there.” President Trump sought to “clarify” his Monday denial of Russian meddling in the 2016 election a day later — a move that received attention from elected officials. The world was left to wonder: Was he really tripped up by a double negative or was that clarification really a cleanup operation? NESTOR RAMOS Here’s what it might have looked like if history’s great heroes had taken the same approach to danger as today’s GOP. What could President Trump possibly say to dig himself out of his Helsinki hole? We shall see. Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking immunity for five potential witnesses in the upcoming trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. She is a black, Muslim woman who has never run for political office and is now seeking to unseat US Representative Richard Neal, a 15-term incumbent, in the First Congressional District. Analysis As Trump scrambled to patch any holes on Tuesday by reimagining his extraordinary news conference with Russia’s president the day before in Helsinki, the question was whether he had reached a genuine turning point or simply endured another one of those episodes that seems decisive but ultimately fades into the next one. Ground Game What could President Trump poss... Link to the full article to read more