be new yorkers. don t let the bastards get you down. shepard: message received. let s get to it. we re waiting to hear from the white house at any moment now. sarah sanders likely to face questions about the terror attack here in new york. we ll bring that to you live and uninterrupted when it begins. we re learning the suspect accused of mowing down people on the bike path and killing eight and injuring 11 others spent weeks planning the deadliest attack in new york city since 9-11. they have been questioning the 29-year-old at the hospital. according to the reporting of abc 7 here, the suspect said he was proud of the attack. today fbi agents and police searching for ed in patterson, new jersey where the suspect lived. about 15 miles west of manhattan. investigators say the suspect is
truck at the center of the attack and get it out of here, they ll reopen the west side highway. this after a lengthy investigation with a massive team of crime scene technicians, nypd detectives on scene collecting material, taking pictures, talking to witnesses and asking the public for photos or videos that might aid in the investigation. they re confident this lone attacker killed eight now in custody and that terror was his goal. what they have been trying to determine is why. they re trying to backtrack his trail and see who he s been in contact with, who he is talking to, who else might have had knowledge or helped or inspired him to carry out this attack. he appears to have followed from almost exactly to a tee the instructions that isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack.
president s druthers that he would send the person responsible for the attack down to the facility in guantanamo bay cuba where he can be interrogated without the presence of an attorney. this was suggested by lindsey graham of south carolina that believed that we could gain valuable information from talking to this person about what the connections were to terrorism, how this person became radicalized and without the benefit of having an attorney there. we can likely get more information than before. so the best of our knowledge, this would be the first time that anybody who committed a crime on u.s. soil would be sent down to guantanamo bay. you might remember jose padilla from brooklyn, the dirty bomber. he was declared an enemy combatant and sent to the brigg in south carolina but not transferred to guantanamo bay. he made it to the federal court system where he was sentenced to 17 years in prison. after senator graham raised that question, major garrett from cbs, who is seated jus
this individual came here but became radicalized since he was here. how did that happen? i haven t spoken to him. i can speculate that he came across material online shepard: that s what the authorities have saying. exactly. he might have had other issues going on in his life. may have had multifactors and drivers here. i can speculate as authorities have suggested already, that he was supposed to radical extremist content on facebook, twitter and google and youtube. we see this across a lot of cases and the radicalization process becoming shorter. the time of exposure to attack, it s more condensed. that s concerning. one of the reasons you had facebook and twitter and google on capitol hill, in addition to talking about russian interference, it s about extremism and violence on their platform. we want this content down and off. we don t want terrorist
weren t part of that. why aren t you calling for uzbekistan to be put on the list? that s something that we could look at but not called for at this time. we haven t ruled it out. why? again, there s a lot of different criteria that we use to determine which countries should be on there. they haven t been determined as one of the countries yet. i m not saying that s been ruled out. jordan? on senator schumer, can you tell us when was the last time he and the president spoke and more broadly, the president saying that he is responsible at least in part for this attack. does the president still seem him before you go further, the president did not blame senator schumer and doesn t feel that the senator is responsible for the attack. we believe very strongly that the individual who carried out the attack is responsible and no one else. however, we do think that there are policies that could be put in place that help protect american citizens. we ve been talking about them a