It's Thursday, November 7th. I'm Jane Koston and this is Waterday, the show where we're putting our heads down and getting back to work after a brief session of uninterrupted screaming.

On today's show, we're going to make it. And there's some good and bad news in Congress. So let's get into it.

I'm here to help me do that is our good friend Josie Duffy Rice. Josie, how are you? I'm sure everything's normal and good and fine in Georgia.

Everything is phenomenal, Jane.

I've had a great week.

Nothing's gone wrong.

It's been awesome.

No downsides.

Nothing has gone wrong at all.

Nope.

Nope.

Yeah.

Well, glad to be here.

To talk about things that definitely didn't go wrong, Vice President Kamala Harris

officially conceded to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday. Harris addressed a crowd of

hundreds of campaign staffers and students who gathered on the lawn of her alma mater, Howard

University, and she said it was important to accept defeat. A fundamental principle of American

democracy is that when we lose an election, we accept the

results.

That principle, as much as any other, distinguishes democracy from monarchy or tyranny.

And anyone who seeks the public trust must honor it. Ooh, it was an obvious dig at Trump, who you may remember was not nearly as gracious, a loser

four years ago, to put it mildly, and who spent the entirety of this race, suggesting he would

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