plus, you could save hundreds when you switch, up to $423. call. today. liberty mutual insurance responsibility. what s your policy? welcome back to the lead. you re looking at live pictures at taksim square in istanbul, turkey. people on the ground say they fear it s going to get worse before it gets better. i want to get to our nick paton walsh, who has been reporting in and out of a gas mask for us, as police continue to fire tear gas. nick, i know that the light is low where you are because you don t want to alert anyone around there as to where you are and where you re broadcasting
previous breakaway economy, what are they going to do to put control back in this vital part of the city? all right, we ll come back to you in a little bit here in the studio. with me is bulent aliriza and david rothkopf. bulent, if i m president obama and i m watching this unfold after this multi-year attempt to form a very strong alliance with prime minister erdogan, 2009 president obama went to turkey, i was on that trip as a member of the white house press corps, what is going through his mind? how are u.s.-turkish relations now? it is difficult for the white
house. one is president obama hosted prime minister erdogan exactly four weeks ago. he had a meeting with him in the morning and a private dinner with him. in between they have a joint press conference. having been that close to prime minister erdogan, it s difficult for president obama to decide exactly houw he s going to deal with the situation. secondly, turkey is being portrayed as a model for the arab countries. at this point you cannot argue turkey is a model for everybody. no doubt president obama and his advisers are thinking about this now. bulent, how did the meeting go between prime minister erdogan and president obama? what was the most contentious issue they discussed? syria. prime erdogan came hoping to convince president obama to get
problems with the press, with the economy. problems with syria. it s not the picture that existed a couple months ago. we need to take a quick break but we ll be right back with this coverage of the wild night in istanbul, turkey. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but a friend under water is something completely different. i met a turtle friend today so, you don t get that very often.