>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. wherever you are watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, our critical week ahead with just 11 days until the inauguration. the trump transition team faces a jam packed schedule. confirmation hearings for some of the president-elect's key nominees begin tomorrow. he thinks they will all do well. here's what he told reporters just a little while ago. >> confirmation is going great. >> they haven't started yet. >> i think every nomination will be -- they're all at the highest level. jack was even saying, i mean,

they are the absolute highest level. i think they're going to do very well. >> there's some concern about jeff sessions in particular. >> no, i think he is going to do great. high quality man. >> confirmation hearings begin tomorrow for senator jeff sessions. trump's choice for attorney general and retired general john kelly who is picked for homeland security secretary. on wednesday hearings get underway for secretary of state nominee rex tillerson. transportation secretary -- secretary nominee elaine chow along with congressman mike pompeo for cia director and education secretary nominee betsy devoss. thursday's hearings include retired general james mattis for defense secretary, wilbur ross for commerce secretary, and dr. ben carson for hud secretary. also this week president-elect trump holds his first news conference in six months. he is expected to talk about separating himself from his huge business empire.

he is sure to face serious questions about russian hacking during the election. president-elect trump's nominees face tough questions and sbenls scrutiny from senate democrats. we asked trump senior advisor former campaign manager kellyanne conway, now how they're now preparing for the hearings. >> 2,600 questions fielded by our nominees and our des ig nats, and we met with 87 u.s. senators, including 37 democrats. we like to meet with the remaining democrats. jessica, who are some of the nominee that is are likely to face the most scrutiny? >> the intense spotlight will be bearing down on nominees throughout the week, but really the once to watch will start with potential fireworks at 9:30

tomorrow morning when alabama senator jeff sessions goes before the senate judiciary committee for his role. the judiciary committee actually the same committee that 30 years ago actually pushed back on his federal judgeship chances amid allegations of racial bias. now, of course, other people to watch this week include on wednesday rex tillerson and secretary of state. tillerson could come under scrutiny for having no government experience, and also harsh questions about his ties to russian president vladimir putin. of course, tillerson served as ceo for exxonmobil for the past ten years, and also betsy devoss for education secretary. she, of course, has no education experience on thursday we'll be watching ben carson and his nomination for secretary of housing and urban development. carson, of course, with no previous agency experience. he is also criticized government programs in the past, so a lot happening this week on clel.

a lot of names, a lot of intense scrutiny. >> can you update our viewers. ivanka trump's president, he will be -- become a senior advisor in the white house to the president. is that right? >> that's right. that's something that we've been long expecting. of course, kushner, has been a top advisor to donald trump throughout this election cycle. he played a large role in getting donald trump elected. also pennsylvania, wisconsin. of course, there's been questions about some of the conflicts of interest or the nepotism, anti-nepotism laws, and, of course, we know that jared kushner has been working with will measure hail, the law

firm, to see how he can get around some of those concerns, but, of course, we know now that not being a big concern, they say jared kushner's lawyers saying that those anti-nepotism laws only apply at agencies and not within the white house itself. jared kushner, we know he and ivanka have secured that house down in d.c., and now jared kushner will be in the white house continuing to advise his father-in-law, the president-elect donald trump. he will have a formal position in the white house. thank you very much, jessica snyder reporting for us. the fireworks could begin it at the first hearing for trump's attorney general nominee. senator jeff sessions has been actively preparing for his senate session. we're going to tell you more about that in a little while. the alabama senator was elected back in 1996. he also served as u.s. attorney and attorney general for the state of alabama. sessions was dividend a federal

judgeship back in 1986 after allegations of racism surfaced, allegations that he has always denied. as our chief political correspondent dana bash reports, those old allegations, though, could play a role at the upcoming hearing. >> i have a man who is respected by everybody here. >> jeff sessions. donald trump's nominee for attorney general was the first u.s. senator to endorse him. >> this is a movement. look what's happening. >> the alabama republican gave the new york reality tv star credibility with the gop base. jefferson session iii is a rock ridge conservative. an eagle scout from the heart of the south who was an alabama attorney general. 30 years ago when he was nominated to be a federal judge by ronald reagan, democrats blocked him. sessions talked with us about it in 2009. >> it was not a pleasant event.

i got to tell you. it was really so heart breaking. >> he was accused of racial insensitivity, calling a black lawyer boy and civil rights groups like the naacp unamerican, which he denied. >> i am not a racist. i am not insensitive to blacks. >> he was hounded by then senator joe biden. >> they may have taken positions that i consider to be adverse to the security interest of the united states. >> does that make them unamerican? >> no, sir, it does not. >> does that make the positions unamerican? >> no. >> that was not fair. those were false charges and distortions of anything that i did, says and it really was not. i never had those kiefr views, and i was characterured in a way that wasn't me. >> now, the son of civil rights activists whom sessions prosecuted for voter fraud is coming to his defense. >> i don't think he is a racist. >> albert turner jr. says he has

worked extensively with sessions who was elected senator 20 years ago. >> i talked to senator sessions about historical black colleges and trying to get historical black colleges some assistance and funding. he listened. >> susan collins, a moderate republican, was elected to the senate the same year as sessions. >> you don't agree with him on a lot of issues. >> we don't agree on a host of issues. >> still, she plans to introduce sessions at his confirmation hearing for attorney general. >> i don't know what happened more than 30 years ago, but i do know that jeff sessions sathat have worked with in the past 20 years. i want a person of integrity and experience, and jeff sessions has all of those characteristics

and qualities. >> sessions spent two decades in the senate fighting for conservative causes, but did team up on a bill with this high-ranking democrat. >> you worked with him on legislation. >> this was like a miracle. filibuster -- >> dick durbin was trying to reduce the penalty for crack cocaine, which was 100 times higher than powder cocaine. then he saw sessions in the senate gym. >> we both showered and put our clothes on and we were about to leave, and i said, jeff, give me a number. if you can't do one to one and i won't go for 100 to one, what is it? it was 18. i can't tell you why, but it was 18. we agreed where. >> still, durbin says he disagrees with sessions on most legal issues, which makes it hard to support him for attorney general. other democrats sessions got to know in the gym agrees where. >> i said if he made you head of the trade representative, we would be working together very well. we can kibitz in the gym. you keep these positions on immigration, you keep these

positions on civil rights and voting rights, it's going to be very hard for me to support you. >> dana bash, cnn, washington. let's get to more on the confirmation hearings and what we should expect when they all start tomorrow. joining us now from capitol hill, kentucky republican senator rand paul. senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> you're on the foreign relations committee. you're on the health and -- homeland security committee. all of them are going to be hosting confirmation hearings this week. let's start with your colleague senator jeff sessions for attorney general of the united states. do you think he will be confirmed and will you vote to confirm him? >> yes on both fronts. i think it's unfair for people -- and it might be hurtful for people to say you're a racist when there's no evidence that he has ever been racially insensitive. i think it's a slander and very unfair for people to try to do that to someone, and i think he is going to do fine in the

confirmation process. >> have you spoken with him? what is your sense of that confirmation? are you likely to vote yea in support of his confirmation. >> i think he is an impressive individual. i think he will always have america's interest first in negotiating with any country, and i think he will negotiate from a position of strength with the leadership of donald trump. in that sense, yes, i'm favorably disposed. i will still ask questions during the public hearing because i think public answers are very important. i will say does he think regime change throughout the middle east has made us safer or has made us less safe. i will ask these questions because i think it's very important that we learn from the past couple of decades particularly as we embark on the next couple of decades in the

middle east. >> does it bother you that he has had a good relationship with putin of russia? in fact, received an award from putin personally? >> well, you think so senator barber in indiana. a lot of people have gotten that award, and i think bh you are in business, your job is to be diplomatic, to try to get the best advantage for your company. in some ways a business transaction is somewhat like diplomacy. you have to realize that your opponent across the table is an adversary, and you are also trying to find an agreement at which both parties can come away from the table feeling as if they won. no, i think he will be a skillful negotiator and a good diplomat. i want somebody who believes that war is the last answer, so

in that sense he is a good pick. >> i want you to clarify exactly where you stand and based on your conversation with donald trump where he stands on repealing and replacing obama care. >> there is a plan in place to replace it, and you said that donald trump is with you on that. where exactly is he and where are you? >> as a physician as an individual and a patient, i'm opposed to obama care, and it's been a disaster for our country, and i will vote for repeal. i d think you should vote on replacement the same day. i'm putting together a bill. it's virtually completed. it will be full of the consensus opinions on replacement.

we hope people save so they can help buy insurance floor health savings accounts, and we help individuals who associate from groups of individuals to health association plans so they can spread their risk and get a cheaper product. if you put those three market reforms together as well as some tax changes, i think you can get something that virtually every republican agrees to, but would also help soften the blow as we go from obama care to a more market or yepted type of industry again. >> you've heard a lot of republican leaders say, yes, you can quickly repeal it, but it could take six months, could take as much as a year to come up with this specific plan to replace it. in the phone conversation that you had with donald trump, what was the impression he left you? where does he stand? >> well, i completely disagree with those who say we either don't have a plan or have to wait. there are about 50 replacement bills that have been out there for years. congressman tom price who is up for a cabinet position.

about half the bills are his. there are consensus on at least ten, 15 different bills in congress. i think consensus is there. the bills have been written. let's put them together and have a vote on replacement. with regard to the president, all i can say is he called and said he agreed with me. we ought to vote on replacement the same day we vote on repeal. >> it's because a lot of the republicans they want to vote to repeal it on day one. they don't want to wait at all. they say, you know, we'll have plenty of time being to up with plans in the months that follow. you're totally opposed to that. and what i hear you saying is that the president-elect is totally opposed that as well. >> we have a replacement plan. we have 50 different bills out there. what i keep hearing people say -- >> senator, senator, they need one plan. >> exactly. >> if you have 50 plans, you got to put the best of it together and say the majority leader mitch mcconnell says that can take six months. >> no, i disagree completely. we have them out there, and there is a consensus position on

the vast majority of what republicans do for replacement. we're putting it together, and we will put it forward. i will do everything in my power to have a vote on it the day we repeal obama care. i not a vote on replacement and we'll see where i get with that, but there's a growing moment wrum yum both among senate republicans and among house republicans that we should vote on replacement the same day we vote on repeal. >> will you -- in the legislation that you have to put it in legislation, will it require 6 0 votes? in other words, when democrats oppose the new plan, will they be able to filibuster requiring 60 votes? >> for part of it, yes. i think you can do some replacement within the reconciliation, budget rules. you can do some replacement. there needs to be a separate replacement bill. that's what i'm working on. it will be out within two days.

within two days i'll have a bill. we will vote on both the same day. >> thanks very much nor joining us. >> thanks. >> coming up, will democrats dig in and delay the nomination hearing from many of donald trump's nominees. democratic senator chris kuhns will sit in on several of those hearings. he is standing by live. he will join us right after this. giving you more time for what matters most. (team sing) safelite repair, safelite replace.

>> there are not only 11 dasz until the inauguration for president-elect donald trump. the real action starts tomorrow with the first two of a series of cabinet confirmation hearings before the u.s. senate. democrats have promised no free passes to the trump picks, but incoming white house press secretary sean spicer has this advice for the senate. >> they can aimlessly -- because of the uncertainty created by a lack of continuity of government or they can enjoy the timely -- and make sure the president is ready to govern on day one. our expectations of this cabinet will receive broad bipartisan

support throughout. >> wilmington, delaware, democratic senator chris kuhns, the foreign relations committee. senator, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> do you believe at least some of the confirmation hearings scheduled to begin tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, should be delayed and if yes, which ones? >> i do think, wolf that, we need to make sure that every one of donald trump's nominees completes their fbi background check and their office of government ethics forms before we proceed with any confirmation vote. we've never seen a cabinet so full of billionaires in american history, and the complexity and the reach of the potential conflicts of interest for many of the members of donald trump's cabinet deserve thorough and fair consideration. we also have hearings this week that i'll be participating in for two different gentlemen, mr. tillerson, for secretary of state, and senator sessions for attorney general who have

complex public records and difficult public positions that i think deserve a full and fair hearing. i'm going to be pushing back on our moving forward with eight different confirmation hearings this week. the same week that we're also going to be voting on the budget reconciliation -- and the same week that donald trump is at least allegedly going to faebl hold the press conference where he will radio veal how he plans to deal with his conflicts of interest. >> what would be wrong with starting the process. let the committees start the confirmation process, but make sure before the full senate votes the fbi background check, the full vetting, all of those reports are in place before all 100 senators vote. why not get the process started right away? >> i do think we can get the process started right away. that's why i will be participating fell in an all day hearing reviewing senator sessions' backgrounds on a wide range of issues.

i spent the weekend reading through a 300 page background briefing meco. i know senator sessions well. we belong to a weekly prayer breakfast. we work out in the gym occasionally together, and he is a pleasant man, and i have given him a fair review. there are many areas, many areas, wolf, where his actions, his votes, and his record from civil liberties to civil rights, torture, to criminal justice reform, to immigration are starkly different from my own, and i look forward to a full hearing tomorrow and the following day of senator sessions' record. >> on wednesday you'll be in the senate foreign relations committee in that hearing when the secretary of state choice rex tillerson appears before your committee. do you need answers from him and as ties to the russian president vladimir putin. as far as you're concerned, is that an issue at all? >> yes. that's a real issue. i had an hour and a half private meeting with mr. till areson last week.

he was able to be very forth coming and clear with me about his views on nato, on putin, on russia, and on our role in western europe and in confronting russia's attack on our democracy. i will be looking forward to see whether mr. tillerson is as clear in a public hearing on the record because it creates some tension between his views and the statements by at least candidate donald trump and some recent statements by president-elect donald trump. i found mr. tillerson to be thoughtful and experienced, although we have different values and different priorities, and i am going to be asking him some of those same tough questions again on the record in the hearing this wednesday. >> do you concede, though, senator that given the fact that republicans are in the majority of they have 52 republicans in the senate. they only need 50 given the fact that the vice president will break a tie and the vice president will be mike pence. they not on need 50 to confirm.

do you concede that realistically all these nominees are likely to be confirmed? >> wolf, these nominees will be confirmed if republicans do not conduct a thorough review of their background and their record. in a number of cases we have nominees to lead the e.p.a. or to serve as attorney general or to serve in a number of other agencies where their record really runs against the core mission of the agency they've been nominated to lead. the gentleman from oklahoma who has been nominated to head the epa has a long public record of going directly against the core mission of the e.p.a., so you're right. numerically, if republicans vote in lock step with their leadership and their party and their president-elect, it will be very difficult for us to stop any of these nominees. it's my hope that after a full day of hearings, deep dives into their background and conversations with home state constituent that is a number of republicans will be per saided that this is one of the most extreme, most right-wing

cabinets ever assembled by an american president. >> the other problem you have and you understand this, several of your democratic colleagues, especially those who were up for re-election in two years in states that donald trump won decisively, they're already indicating they're going to side with the republicans on this and go ahead and vote to confirm as well. you really face an uphill struggle in trying to derail any of these republican nominees. >> well, wolf, it's -- that's right. there are a number of nominees who i think will win bipartisan support. there's a number of nominees who have strong experience. we'll have to see as the next few weeks unfold. i do think it's unfair to move forward any vote on any one of these nominees until their antics disclosures are completed and their fbi background checks are completed. that's a standard that mitch mcconnell held president obama's

nominees to, and that's a standard i think we should stick to here as well. i'll remind you in previous administrations folks who look like they were going to sail through confirmation were ultimately tripped up on issues that came up in their fbi background check or in their ethics disclosures. we constitutional also, wolf, have the significant and unresolved issue of president-elect trump's potential conflicts of interest, which i hope we're going to hear a clearance to this wednesday. >> that's when he holds his first news conference in more than six months. all right, senator. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> still ahead, a current u.s. senator, reretired major general and a billionaire all with one thing in common. we'll tell you which hearings could spark some real fireworks?

>> we have a transition of power alert. cnn can confirm that donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner will be named senior advisor to the president in the white house. kushner played a mashlg role advising donald trump during the campaign. the move comes ahead of president-elect trump's news conference in new york city on wednesday. he is expected to make it clear that his daughter, ivanka, kushner's wife, will not be running the company. his own company president-elect. nine cabinet picks. meanwhile, head to -- could be rather intense. we're watching that very, very

closely right now. the hearings are scheduled to begin tomorrow. let's discuss with our panel. all of us right now. i want to start with you. dana bash is with us. jof sessions is popular among his colleagues even though a lot of them disagree with him. he is very well liked. this is sort of like a club, the u.s. senate, as you know. at the end of the day there are differences on policy that will cause i would say probably fair to say most democrats to vote against him. jech sessions has been in the senate now for 20 years. what a strange twist of fate. the fact that jeff sessions is now coming before this very same committee, the senate judiciary committee, that rejected him 30

years ago when he was nominated by president reagan to be on the federal befrm. then ten years later he was elected to the senate, and he was on the daez. he wasn't on this judiciary committee the whole time. now he is going to be back in the witness chair and he is going to be asking the same committee again to confirm him for a different role. i'm told that he has been working very, very hard on his cra prep. even this past weekend he was not too far behind us in his office building -- office in the russell building working on prep with his team doing what they call murder boards, which is just coming instant one after another question, question, question, answer, answer, answer. he hopes he is going to be ready. >> what about rex tillerson who has been nominated to become the secretary of state? >> well, a less known entity on capitol hill, and he has been doing the rounds as well.

his financial history has not been reviewed by the ethics office, but also getting some sense of his understanding of the world. obviously as executive at ek exxonmobil with the reach that they've had across the globe, they'll have a good understanding of the a lot of the geopolitical concerns that an oil company would have to be aware of, but if they try to drill him down on vars aspects of the trump administration's policies on russia, of course, and other parts of the world, there he may get tripped up. he needs to explain what is his relationship with vlad peer putin and what will it be should he become the nation's top diplomat? >> a lot of senators say he has done a good job in private off the record meetings, one-on-one meetings, but we'll see how he does in an open session. he has been nominated to become

the defense secretary. >> there's a couple of interesting things about mattis. on the one hand, mattis faces a higher bar because he does need the waiver because he is -- has recently been a general in order to serve as secretary, and so democrats if they wanted to would have a little bit more power to potentially keep him out if they wanted to. on the other hand, mattis has a lot of democratic friends. he is one of the better liked nominees on the entire slate of people that trump has nominated among democrats. he has add viedsed policy makers and is seen as a potential stabilizing force within the trurp administration. >> i totally agree with you. if you look at the eight nominees that senator schumer, the democratic leader put out that they were going to potentially slow walk mattis was not on that list, and that was not an accident. the fact of the matter is for

lots of reasons, one, because personally i think that they find him more acceptable than others, but also because of that and because the defense department and sort of the person who is going to be in charge of, you know, the civilian side of troops is so politically dicey, that's probably going to be one that's going to have an easier ride. >> at the golden globes awards last night, meryl streep had a few words and clearly she was referring to the president-elect of the united states when she said this. >> this instinct to humiliate when it's modelled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. disrespect invites disrespect. violence insights violence. when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all

lose. >> donald trump tweeted this morning reacting to that. among others things, she's an overrated actress. >> you and i would be discussing meryl streep while overlooking the u.s. capital. i would not have guessed that. she speaks for a lot of folks in hollywood, and certainly, you know, if you believe the election results, a majority of americans who voted who do not -- you should believe the election ruesults. i mean the fact that the majority of americans did not vote for donald trump, and it's something that i think he as the president and the president-elect in the next few days still hasn't really addressed other than to suggest that people that speak out against him are unqualified or unworthy, and, you know, it's an interesting thing. i don't know whether we'll see any change in his tone and demeanor come wednesday should he have this news conference as scheduled and get asked about it, but it's something he is going to continue to face should he be not address it in some ways.

>> you know you hit him, he is going to come back. >> he is a counter puncher. he is not going to stop, and also, this is the culture war that now exists in this country, right? it's hollywood and the elites versus trump and the people who support him. it's a very clear cleavage. you can see it. you can see it on twitter and in the commentary about this episode. on the other hand, all the screaming about, you know, the out of tuchl hollywood elites, being out of touch with regular americans, and on the other hand, the people who feel that trump is not legitimate and their voices need to be heard, and i think that culture war will be the shape of the next four years. >> this conversation, guys, stand by, a lot more coming up. also, remember cnn hoeg says says a town hall with bernie sanders later on tonight. we'll get a preview with his wife and adviser jane sanders. that's coming up next. ucing t-m. now with taxes and fees included. four lines, 40 bucks each, all unlimited, all in. switch your family today and get 600 bucks. learn more at a t-mobile store.

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>> tonight a special cnn town hall. former presidential candidate senator bernie sanders will sit down with chris cuomo and answer questions on a host of subjects, including how democrats will work with the trump administration. taking questions from members of the town hall as well. that's at 9:00 p.m. eastern. live tonight only here on cnn. joining us now jane sanders, the wife of bernie sanders, a key member of his presidential campaign, critically important adviser to her husband as well. jane, thanks very much for joining us. >> good to be here, wolf. >> so how do the democrats from your perspective plan to work with the republicans and the trump administration? >> unlike the republicans who sometimied president obama right from the beginning and said don't work with him whether he is right or wrong, we'll work

with him when he is right, and we will oppose him when he is wrong, and hold him to some of the words he used to get elected. like saying he wouldn't cut social security and medicare and medicaid and that he was a different kind of politician. we'll see. hopefully he will work on infrastructure with him. the democrats will work with president trump if he is serious about increasing jobs and protecting social security. >> so there are some areas of agreement. infrastructure, as you point out, building new roads, bridges, airports. that's an area where democrats and the trump administration clearly can get along. i know that your husband agrees with him basically on a lot of the trade issues as well. the assumption that china, for example, other countries, mexico, they've been taking u.s. jobs away. you think that's going to be the focus right now, or will the focus be in areas where you

totally disagree, for example, climate change? >> climate change, we hope he will walk back some of the things he said. as long as you doesn't privatize some of the roads and in terms of trade policies, i mean, that is something that they have spoken about and certainly the people that voted for president-elect trump agreed with bernie on trade issues and a number of the people that voted for him. what better way? you put the people first, not the profits, and not politics. you put the people first, and you work together where you can, and you fight for the people when you think that he is wrong. >> president obama will give a fair well speech. senior obama administration official describing the speech this way. i'm quoting now. "saying this will not be a

policy speech, nor will it be a contrast speechl. the president's goal is to end his time in office the way he started it -- optimistic and hopeful." are you feeling that optimism given the severe setbacks the democrats suffered losing the white house, the majority and the senate, the majority and the house? >> i'm always an optimist, wolf, and i think tomorrow is always a better day. >> i think one of the things people voted for was change and to shake up the system where. we definitely are getting that. the question is whether or not we can work with the president-elect ask his appointees to try to affect change that we consider best for the people. more jobs, better health care. better child car dealing with climate change. he is a businessman. he will want to see results.

president obama and his family, his entire family have served the country with dignity and with respect and we thoem a debt of gratitude for that. i mean, they've represented us well. now, you know, of course, this policy differences with among democrats, among independents, among republicans. let's try to find common ground. one of the things you mentioned earlier was meryl streep and talking about humiliation and disrespect. not being the order of the day. bernie and i run the campaigns without any of that. we absolutely stay away from any negative campaigning. that might not be politically expedient, but it's the right thing to do, and our hope is that going forward that model will continue

>> jane sanders thanks so much for joining news thank you of one other thing, wolf, i just wanted to same you mentioned california with meryl streep. one of the things the media needs to could have is the democratic party delegate elections n. california there was a progressive spooep sweep. i haven't seen it reported anywhere but on line. just a thought. >> all right, jane, as usual, we'll continue these conversations down road. jane sanders joining us from vermont. >> thanks, wolf. an important note to viewers. don't forget cnn's town hall live tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern, rm forepresidential candidate vermont senator bernie sanders sitting down with chris cuomo answering questions on how democrats will work with the trump administration. we'll be right back. mom, i just saved a lot of money

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break news. an intense manhunt in orlando, florida, after a police officer was shot and killed. cnn's paolo sandoval is following the story. there was emotional reaction to today's killing from police

officers. >> reporter: there are three reasons this is personal for police officers. not only is he suspect of shooting and killing a sergeant this morning. but the pursuit also resulted in the debt of a motorcycle sheriff's deputy who was involved in a traffic accident. a third police officer, a police captain was slightly injured as he tried to confront this individual. there is a reward offered for the 41-year-old individual who is considered extremely dangerous. this 17 year veteran of the force, sergeant clayton tried to confrop this individual possibly recognizing him as a outstanding suspect for a murder last year of a pregnant woman. that's when this female officer was reportedly shot several times. the identity of the second deputy that was killed today in the accident, that hasn't been released. here's what we know about this police officer. she was a wife, a mother of two, someone who gave back to her

community. and now police officers in orlando are torn between honoring her and trying to track down the suspect cop killer. wolf. >> paula sandoval reporting for us. thank you. that's it for meechltd i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. for our international viewers. amanpour is next. for our american viewers, news room with brooke baldwin starts next, right after a quick break. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. and if you do have an accident, our claims centers are available to assist you 24/7. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

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