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....Fighting continues but the people of Afghanistan want peace in this never ending war. We will soon see if talks will be successful? North Korea relationship is best it has ever been with U.S. No testing, getting remains, hostages returned. Decent chance of Denuclearization...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019

...Time will tell what will happen with North Korea, but at the end of the previous administration, relationship was horrendous and very bad things were about to happen. Now a whole different story. I look forward to seeing Kim Jong Un shortly. Progress being made-big difference!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 30, 2019

But the tweet contradicted the president's claim six weeks ago at the U.S. has \"defeated ISIS in Syria.\" Vice President Pence also declared two weeks ago that we have \"crushed the ISIS caliphate and devastated its capabilities\" -- just hours after ISIS claimed responsibility for a terrorist bomb attack that killed four Americans in Syria.

Coats disputed that as well, saying that while ISIS has suffered losses, it is \"intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria.\"

Ahead of a second summit with Kim Jong Un slated for next month, the president said the relationship with North Korea is the \"best it has ever been\" but he seemed to hedge his bets on the odds of North Korea denuclearizing.

After last summer's summit in Singapore with Kim Jong Un, Trump tweeted that “there is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”

But that is not the assessment of top intelligence officials, who on Tuesday asserted that despite ongoing negotiations between the United States and North Korea, the regime has not been straightforward about its intentions.

\"The regime is committed to developing a long-range armed missile that would pose a direct threat to the United States,\" CIA Director Gina Haspel said.

The White House maintains that the goal is still complete denuclearization.

“Our goal is to achieve the final, fully verified denuclearization of the DPRK as Chairman Kim committed to in Singapore,” a White House spokesperson said in response to the intelligence community's testimony.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, responded in a statement: “It is a credit to our intelligence agencies that they continue to provide rigorous and realistic analyses of the threats we face. It’s deeply dangerous that the White House isn’t listening.”

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, weighed in with his own tweet: \"The President has a dangerous habit of undermining the intelligence community to fit his alternate reality. People risk their lives for the intelligence he just tosses aside on Twitter.\"

The president's foreign policy positions aren't only at odds with his own intelligence chiefs but even some of his Republican allies on Capitol Hill.

Senate Majority Leader McConnell on Tuesday rebuked the president's decision to withdraw troops from Syria -- a decision that prompted the resignation of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis. McConnell said he would offer an amendment that would “acknowledge the plain fact that al Qaeda, ISIS, and their affiliates in Syria and Afghanistan continue to pose a serious threat to our nation.”

ABC News asked the White House about McConnell's amendment, but they would not offer any comment on the record.

President Trump was scheduled to receive an intelligence briefing at the White House Wednesday morning.

ABC News' Benjamin Siegel and Mariam Khan contributed to this report.

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