/newsroom. >> from all us hereat kqed newsroom. in thank you for jous. good night. bert: one president fight and the next one looks ahead. >> it's all gone too far. robert: t president's baseless claims spark outrage as he refuses to concede. and considers pardons. >> help is on the way. robert: put the predent-elect mostly ignores him and announces nominees to address the pandemic and the economy. on the hill, momentum gathers behind a stimulus compromise. >> the time to borrow money is when there's ad crisis. this is a crisisre >> we a not going to leave until we get something accomplished. robert: next. announcer: this is "washington week." funding is provided by --

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welcome to kqed news newsroom. i am priya david clemens. it has a been a week of going english and going home. american reported more than 300,000 reported covid-19 test but we also welcome the arrival of the first round of the coronavirus vaccine to hundreds of locations across the nation. direct relief payments good to be on their way as we appear to be close to a new economic stimulus came package. >>> we also learned about the biggest cyber espionage attack in years. hackers targeted dozens of public agencies including the u.s. treasury and the agency that maintains our nuclear weapons while. joining us now by skype from washington, dc's democratic california congress member adam schiff who chairs the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you for joining us. the stimulus package appears to hit one obstacle after another. what is going on in washington quench market feels like our country's leadership is completely out of touch with the very real economic struggles people are going through. >> certainly some of the leadership

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to weigh in on. >>> we take into unique architecture of myron's county civic center. >>> welcome to kqedsroom. >> the death toll from the coronavirus keeps climbing. more than 19,000 people have died in california and more di than 276,000 have

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