Good morning. 
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of thirty-four. Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 4:21 PM, for 9h 15m 47s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is both the one thousand four hundred eighty-third day and the twenty-fourth day.
On this day in 1803, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to an official from the French First Republic. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
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Jaclyn Peiser reports Trump lashes out as former top DHS official reasserts that election was secure:
In his first interview after President Trump fired him from his post leading the Department of Homeland Security’s effort to help to secure the election, Christopher Krebs reaffirmed on Sunday that there was no evidence of voter fraud and the integrity of the election had not been compromised.
“There is no foreign power that is flipping votes [in 2020]. There’s no domestic actor flipping votes. I did it right. We did it right,” Krebs told CBS News’s Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes.” “This was a secure election.”
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During his interview with “60 Minutes,” Krebs spoke frankly about the effect the president’s rhetoric has had on state elections officials. He specifically mentioned secretaries of state in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona, all women, who are “under attack from all sides, and they’re defending democracy,” Krebs said.
“Look at Secretary [Brad] Raffensperger in Georgia, lifelong Republican,” Krebs said. “He put country before party in his holding a free and fair election in that state. There are some real heroes out there. There are some real patriots.” Raffensperger has forcefully rejected criticisms of the election processand been attacked by fellow Republicans, including Trump.
Krebs also quashed the false assertions made by the president and his team, which included claims that Venezuela hacked voting machines and that votes are being tabulated in foreign countries. “I don’t understand this claim,” Krebs said. “All votes in the United States of America are counted in the United States of America. Period.”
He later added: “The American people should have 100 percent confidence in their vote.”
Molly Blackall reports Biden boosts diversity of top team while Trump continues election assault:
Joe Biden has announced an all-female senior communications team at the White House, as he presses on with preparations for his administration despite Donald Trump’s continued attempts to derail the transition.
The communications director of Biden’s election campaign, Kate Bedingfield, will move up to the same position in the White House, while Jen Psaki, a longstanding Democratic spokeswoman, will become press secretary. Biden is also expected to announce the appointment of the liberal thinktank executive Neera Tanden as head of the Office of Management and Budget – all three women are veterans of the Obama administration.
The president-elect has so far tread a decidedly centrist line with his senior staff picks, managing not to rile the left wing of the Democratic party too strongly, writes Daniel Strauss. His selection of women and people of color for top positions has won him praise from the party’s progressive wing.
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Trump made his first media appearance since losing the election on Sunday, phoning Fox News to blame judges for his failure to overturn the election result. The president said his team was “not allowed to put in our proof”, pledging – in true Trump style – that he would “file one nice, big, beautiful lawsuit”.
The claims came a day after Pennsylvania’s high court rejected a lower court’s order that prevented the state from certifying results, the latest in the Trump campaign’s series of unsuccessful lawsuits against the election results.