Senior officials clashed in a series of meetings as they struggled to manage a crisis over the president’s refusal to release the documents.

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The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.

It was not immediately clear what led to the incident, which came at a time when the cease-fire in the war has grown tenuous.

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