Welcome to the ticket, I'm Isaac Dauver. With the election now behind us, we're faced with a number of new questions.

What lesson should we take from the narrower than expected results?

Will Donald Trump concede to Joe Biden and allow a

transition to occur? And while the president refuses to leave office, the

pandemic is reaching new heights. Just how dangerous could these coming months

get? To help answer these questions, I'm joined this week by Congresswoman Abigail Spandberger.

Spandberger is a Democrat from a historically Republican part of Virginia.

With a narrow victory in 2018, she was part of the big class of

freshman Democrats who flipped the majority in Congress. After an even narrow

victory last week, she and her colleagues have been debating what the political

lessons were from this election.

However, the most pressing question after this election is what Donald Trump will do next.

He's refused to concede or start the transition. This is another expansion of undermining the basics of American democracy.

It's been a running theme of these four years.

But now it has national security implications.

And that comes as Trump fired his defense secretary and installed loyalists in the Pentagon,

and with worries of more purging to come.

So I asked Bamberger about all these developments.

Before she was a politician, she was an honest-to-god spy in the CIA, working undercover her entire

career there.

She talks about what it was like going from a false alias to a congressional seat, why she ran

in the first place, and what she thinks Congress needs to focus on now.

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