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tell nbc news those two american contractors were killed and a third american contractor, all three civilians, was wounded at the king abdullah national police training center outside of amman jordan, overnight. the shooter was a jordanian, apparently a disgruntled former police officer recently fired. what s important here is the motive. and so far officials say there s no indication that he was targeting the americans, had no political agenda, that it may be because he had some grievances against the jordanian police, a police force from which was reportedly recently fired. now, in addition to americans, there are reports that two others of two different nationalities were also killed in the shooting free. we are told by officials that the shooter then took his own life and was not shot dead by security force there is. the officials also stress there are no u.s. military at that base or involved directly at this time in any of the police training there outside of amma ....
biography that has his father saying things about donald rumsfeld and dick cheney and how they interacted with his brother, george w. bush. my brother s a big boy. his administration was shaped by his thinking, his reaction to the attacks from 9/11. i think my dad, like a lot of people, loved george, wanted to try to create a different narrative, just because that s natural to do, right? george would think this was under my watch, i was commander in chief, i was the leader and i accept personal responsibility for what happened, both the good and the bad, and i think that s the right way to look at it. as it relates to dick cheney, he served my brother well as vice president, and he served my dad extraordinarily well as secretary of defense. the context changes. we ve got to get beyond, i think, the feeling that, you know, somehow the 1991 is the same as 2001. right. which is the same as 2017. it isn t. the world has changed. it always changes. and the context chan ....
kristen welker. welcome, all. kristen, first to you. tell us what your sources are telling you with the usual caveats. reporter: right. well, my sources are telling me that the vice president could make his final decision within the next 48 hours. a third source cautioning, though, that only the vice president knows when he will decide. the important caveats that you mentioned are of course that the vice president has blown past several other deadlines. you will recall he said he was going to decide by the end of the summer and now we are into mid-october. having said that, he is getting a lot of pressure from his supporters to make this final decision known. in part because if he is going to run, they want to get to work. if he s not going to run, they want to know that as well. also important to note, we don t know what form this is going to come in. could it come from his surrogates, through a leak. those are things that remain to be seen. we do know that the vice ....
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