The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted Resolution 2617, renewing the mandate of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) for another four years, until December 31, 2025.
AMMAN Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Thursday visited the Public Security Directorate s Operation and Control Department as well as the Greater Amman Municipality s emergency centre.
money to amuse the president. this is not about a dictator. this is about the president wanting to honor the military. when we have plans we ll announce them to you. joining me now, steve cole, the dean of columbia graduate school of journalism. pulitzer prize winner and author of the book directorate s. steve with a welcome to you, sir, i want to read very quickly what congressman john kennedy from louisiana, he s a republican, he said i think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud. america is the most powerful country in all of human history. you don t need to show it off. what are your thoughts on a parade? is he right? well we have had military parades when we ve had something to celebrate. after a victory in war. so it s not unprecedented. but what is unprecedented is the idea of having an annual peace time military parade. and you know, you showed that clip from defense secretary mattis press conference last week when the story was blowing
steve cole, the author of directorate s pulitzer prize winner and dean of columbia s school of journalism, thanks for making time with us. coming up, brian boitano joins joy to discuss the stand-off between usa olympic skater adam rippon and u.s. vice president mike pence.
to vietnam and i remember talking to holbrooke after that meeting and he said they shouldn t be afraid of history. i ve come around to thinking we have to watch the patterns that we keep repeating in our foreign policy and one of them is suppressing facts about a difficult stalemate in war because we can t handle the facts. the book is directorate s steve coll, thank you very much. coming up, one of our next guests said the deep state did exist in 2016 and that it elected donald trump. lanny davis is here with his new book on james comey s role in the 2016 election and what it means for what we re seeing now with the nunes memo. morning joe is coming right back.