Donald Trump was interviewed by Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes just after the election:

STAHL: “Are you going to be tweeting?”

TRUMP: “I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all.”

“Paranoia is enveloping the White House and President Trump’s network of former aides and associates as Robert Mueller’s Russia probe heats up,” Politico reports.

“Former national security adviser Michael Flynn agreed to cooperate with investigators as part of the plea deal he reached last week, adding to the worry already inside Trump’s circle surrounding the secret deal struck earlier this summer by former campaign aide George Papadopoulos, whose cooperation was kept quiet for months before being unsealed in late October. Both cases raise the possibility that other current or former colleagues have also flipped sides — and they’re prompting anxiety that those people could be wearing wires to secretly tape record conversations.”

Said one person close to the White House: “Everyone is paranoid. Everyone thinks they’re being recorded.”

John Dowd, President Trump’s outside lawyer, outlined to Mike Allen a new and highly controversial defense in the Russia probe: A president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice.

Said Dowd: “The President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under the Constitution’s Article II and has every right to express his view of any case.”

“Trump’s legal team is clearly setting the stage to say the president cannot be charged with any of the core crimes discussed in the Russia probe: collusion and obstruction. Presumably, you wouldn’t preemptively make these arguments unless you felt there was a chance charges are coming.”