1/ Trump said he doesn’t “have to agree� with his intelligence chiefs on worldwide threats. Trump, agitated after intelligence officials contradicted him several times during congressional testimony last week, said he wants “them to give me their opinion,� but not to share them publicly with Congress. Trump later called the intelligence officials naive and suggested they might need to go back to “school.� Senior intelligence analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves say Trump displays “willful ignorance� when presented with analysis, and that the use of visual aids, confining briefings to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible all fail to keep his attention. Two intelligence officers say they have been warned to avoid giving Trump intelligence assessments that contradict stances he has taken in public. (CBS News / Time)

2/ Trump won’t commit to making Robert Mueller’s final report public, and that he doesn’t know if he wants the report made public at all, saying “it depends� on “what it’s going to say.� Trump did say that while he believes it’s time to “get rid of the Russia witch hunt,� he would leave the decision “totally up to the attorney general.� William Barr, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, said during his confirmation hearing that the public might see a summary report from the attorney general on Mueller’s conclusions and not the full special counsel’s report. (NBC News / New York Times / ABC News)

3/ Trump claimed to have “set the table beautifully� for his next fight with Democrats over his border wall, indicating that he will declare a national emergency on Feb. 15th, to secure funding for a wall. Mitch McConnell, meanwhile, privately advised Trump about the consequences of declaring a national emergency to build his border wall. (The Guardian / Washington Post)

4/ Trump spent about nearly 60% of his time in unstructured “Executive Time.� According to a leaked copy of his private schedule for the past three months, Trump usually spends the first five hours of the day in the White House residence watching TV and reading the news, and then calling advisers to discuss what he’s seen and read. Trump’s first meeting of the day usually starts around 11:30am. Trump has spent almost 300 hours in executive time and 77 hours in scheduled meetings since the midterms. (