justice. reporter: and secretary tillerson, of course, this has been happening all too often and the u.s. is having to deal with allies around the world, particularly in europe about these type of car attacks, these shootings, brooke. he just secretary tillerson just swore in a new counterterrorism coordinator named nathan sales, a former doj and dhs official, and this is certainly one of his first orders of duty is to try and shore up intelligence and security cooperation with these allies around the world as these lone wolf-type attacks continue to pop up. of course there s a lot we don t know about this attack, but certainly, trying to prevent these type of attacks for u.s. allies, and the potential damage to u.s. citizens abroad, a real priority for this secretary. absolutely. as it should be. elise, thank you so much on secretary tillerson. again, president tweeting moments ago, condemning the terror attack, essentially saying, we ll do whatever
some grievance of some kind in which he imagined that he needed to take revenge. there were some reports that he was recently fired from his job with the jordanian police. all of that is under investigation. but we should not hesitate to point out here that jordan is one of the strongest allies the u.s. has in the region and vice versa, but there s no question that the jordanians will conduct a fair and thorough investigation, get to the bottom of what happened here, kate. jim at the pentagon, thanks. let s bring in daniel benjamin from dartmouth college, former counterterrorism coordinator for the us state department. good to see you. tell me about this facility, this training center, and how critical that, what kind of a mission it was performing. so the facility, which is
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about this, the feeling was maybe it was dying down a little bit and what are we hearing now. reporter: the concern is really there, martha, bill, we are hearing it from the counterterrorism coordinator for the state department, daniel benjamin, in london today, and, his exact words are the situation is the same as the current circumstances, have not changed and they do not warrant any change of the alert, france and other countries are also not downgrading their own terror alerts, and, the state department response might be a response to some more grousing, we are hearing from european intelligence officials, late last week we heard from unnamed figures saying the warnings were nonsensical and exaggerated, and benjamin apparently and the state department and the u.s. says, in fact, not so. he was also quoted as saying, we ll remain in place, should be, in place, for the next 90 days, and so far, it has been in play for two weeks and says, then at that time, there will be a decision,