investigators are looking at the photo to find out. it was posted on a website of isis in august. that is something investigators are looking at right now in terms of, are there other people involved. right now it looks like a lone lone wolf case. bret: we heard from authorities about the efforts to talk to the truck rental, car rental dealerships around new york city. to engage them, to see if there s anything suspicious, to tell us. obviously this was a rental pickup truck. and that s something that, it sends up red flares for authorities. i think the shield program in new york, anyone suspicious renting these vehicles to stop them. the 93 world trade center bomber. this is nothing new to new york and unfortunately, they are the number one target.
we know that internationally. but there president ran on the issue of long wait lists at the v.a. he s eliminating them. eliminating them. and yet yesterday at that press conference he used it almost as a defense. look, it s this is a problem that s been there for years. what you ve been you ve been in office for five years. what have you done about that? and that is one reason. they re not going to look at an alternative system. we ran the sound bites of all the times he s talked about it through the year, a.b. we mentioned this yesterday as well, there is some culpability on capitol hill. i mean, all of these there haven t been a lot of red flares sent up about this issue. i absolutely agree. i think in both parties you have champions of veterans on capital hill, but there aren t a lot of them and they haven t been loud enough. this isn t hardly a chorus of anger and frustration and concern until now. and this it is true that it s
to be taking place tomorrow. very difficult to see how they re going to actually happen in this environment. we were talking to one of the individuals who has actually been trying to negotiate with the government. he said that as long as these tactics are being used, those negotiations will just be a farce. arwa, we ll get back to you in a moment. we re having audio issues. right next to taksim square. this all started as a protest to turn a park into a shopping center and it has turned into this. live, dramatic scenes unfolding before our eyes coming to us from istanbul, a major city in turkey. one of the most important countries in that part of the world. tear gas fired, water cannons, protesters going in and out of the park. anything pay t nick paton walsh is there. what are those red flares? is that riot police or something demonstrators are using?
in libya to see what s going on? yeah. you make a very good point. because the government s not allowing media in. you won t allow journalists to record what s happening so i think it s important that we have you on here to explain to our viewers now exactly what you saw today. as we understand, that some members of the military, militia, as you say, were in trees shooting at protesters. shooting, injuring some, killing others. yes. i have sent you already a video that was a short video. you can see in that video bullets going through bodies of libyan guys and you can see it. you can see it very clear because it s dark and the bullets look like red flares but they re really fast. yeah. cars driving by through the streets randomly with people in them randomly shooting at protesters? yes. yes. that s true.
you won t allow journalists to record what s happening so i think it s important that we have you on here to explain to our viewers now exactly what you saw today. as we understand, that some members of the military, militia, as you say, were in trees shooting at protesters. shooting, injuring some, killing others. yes. i have sent you already a video that was a short video. you can see in that video bullets going through bodies of libyan guys and you can see it. you can see it very clear because it s dark and the bullets look like red flares but they re really fast. yeah. cars driving by through the streets randomly with people in them randomly shooting at protesters? yes. yes. that s true. that s correct. and i want to mention one thing, please.