1. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans don't think Trump is taking the investigation into Russian meddling seriously enough, and roughly the same amount don't think he's doing enough to prevent foreign meddling in future U.S. elections. (CNN)

  2. A former chief administrative officer at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development says she was demoted and replaced with a Trump appointee after she refused to illegally fund an expensive redecoration of Ben Carson's office. Helen Foster says she was told "$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair" after she reminded her superiors that $5,000 was the legal limit for improvements to Ben Carson's suite in Washington. (The Guardian)

  3. Melania Trump has parted ways with adviser and longtime friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff after news broke that Wolkoff's firm had been given a $26 million contract to help plan Trump's inauguration. Two people with direct knowledge of the situation told the New York Times that the contract was terminated last week because the Trumps were unhappy with the news reports about the contract. (New York Times)