military prison at guantanamo in cuba. throughout his two terms as president. it was a campaign promise that he tried to keep, that he intended to keep, i think he thought he would keep. but in the end, congress really was able to thwart those efforts by the president and his administration and guantanamo was still open for business by the time obama left office. to people who served in the obama administration, particularly people that worked on that issue in the obama administration, i think that was a real disappointment from president obama's two terms, that they weren't able to get guantanamo closed, even though they really wanted to. but that said, they also didn't send a single new prisoner there for the entire eight years that obama was president. for eight years, nobody was added to the prisoner population at guantanamo. well, now that donald trump is president, this week we did add our first new name in eight years to the prisoner roster at guantanamo. the new guy at guantanamo, as of wednesday this week is brigadier general john baker of the united s

about the number of people at guantanamo. and in fact, if they are a guantanamo and go through a military trial, can they get the death penalty? >> a can in theory. the seven people on trial and i believe six of them, are on trial for their r lives, includg a man on trial for the coal bombing where his entire defense team was just discharged by the chief defense counsel because of really horrendous violations by the government. defenseance o of his team, potentially of his meetings with his own lawyers. amy: haven't already something like three cases act guantanamo been overturned? these men have and held for almost 20 years now, a number without charge. >> the vast majority of people have not been charged, will never be charged. there are 10 people who havee been convicted or are on trial right now out of the 41. ththe rest, there are no plans o charge or try. five are cleared for release. amy: the cost? >> some $10 million per individual. dozens of thousands for holding someone. amy: and the fact that sayfullo saipov has a

he's serving it right now at guantanamo. raises a particularly difficult question which the general pointed out as judge was sentencing him to confinement, the general is a u.s. citizen and general in the marine corps and this not quite a court system at guantanamo doesn't have jurisdiction to tell any american what to do, let alone lock one up. this is a military tribunal system set up for foreign terrorists. doesn't have jurisdiction over american citizens, let alone marine general. he's confined as we speak. in addition the judge declared the general's order about the defense lawyers allowing them to go home, declared that order null and void, even though the general wouldn't rescind it. the judge declaring that order null and void, i think that literally means that judge is going to send armed u.s. marshals to the u.s. mainland to hunt down civilian defense lawyers and force them against their will to participate in the case. according to the late report in "the miami herald" the judge is going to try to force the lawyer

never sent to guantanamo bay. he was sent to the brigg in south carolina and made it into the civilian court system and know behind bars for 17 years. to declare him an enemy combatant would open the door to transfer him to a military prison at least for a time if not permanently. i don't know if the mechanism is there for him to go to guantanamo bay or not though. nobody who has ever been arrested on u.s. soil for committing a crime has gone to guantanamo bay. certainly sarah huckabee sanders said this is an idea that the president supports in principle. she said he's not actively advocating for it. senator lindsey graham as you pointed out raised that point earlier today. let's listen to what he said. >> he is acting as a soldier of the caliphate. we should treat him as a soldier of the caliphate. the idea that america is not part of the battlefield is insane. >> so lindsey graham is sugge suggesting if you're from a foreign country and perpetrate and act of terrorism, you qualify as an enemy combatant. this per

the topic is guantanamo bay and policy. how many detainees are at guantanamo these days?hey and what does their future look like? detainees atntly 41 guantanamo, across the years, se780, never one given time. t opened in january of 2002, after the september 11th attack and 41 include 10 men who have military ed in the commissions, work hort set up by to ge bush in response eptember 11th terror attack security arrangement. obama administration was ggressive in getting cleared detainees out, but these five men were left behind because stopped all t has transfers for the moment and these men, as far as i know, no arrangement being made for transfer off of the base and out of the prison. broadly, bring us up to speed on policy, administration policy toward take us back to what president obama was looking to do and what president trump has future of about the the prison. guest: president obama was devoted to close the prison. he had 242 detainees when he it, which meant president bush released 540 of them. and the president -- previous president obama wanted it closed he felt

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soon after guantanamo. opened in january of two thousand and two i think it was within a matter of a few weeks the center for constitutional rights filed a lawsuit to challenge the idea that the men who were held at guantanamo could be held there without charge or without trial. to represent the men who were how there was very controversial because if you remember these are men that were labeled though the worst of the absolute worst. in the united states government created guantanamo because it was supposed to be a place entirely outside the law and the notion that the united states would try to do that was offensive to me and it's offensive to me as as an american it was offensive to me as a lawyer and it was something that i had a professional and ethical obligation to try to do something about. stimulus can use it as my engine off of him and i want that i'm a law. i should go i'm going to almost a agenda. be idempotent is going to and a lot of people didn't. yes good luck with it boys you know when he s

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today the president found himself walking back those remarks about guantanamo. "would love to send the nyc terrorist to guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the federal system." maybe he watched our show. "there is something appropriate in keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed,

is it possible he would be sent to guantÁnamo?>> as i understand the process of someone being declared an enemy combatant is sway above my pay grade. this is an office of federal prosecutors. there was a number of federal crimes committed as set forth in the complaint that we were able to prove and we brought the charges and we intend to proceed with them. whether or not someone will be designated as an enemy combatant or not, that's a determination that would be made elsewhere. [ inaudible question ] >> i believe in the history, if you look through precedents, there can be federal charges in place and someone can be declared an enemy combatant, but, as i said, those are determinations that other people make. yes? [ inaudible question.] >> i believe the complaint alleges that the cell phones that we obtained the search warrant for and that had these images were in a bag that he was allegedly carrying at the time of his attack. correct. >> what you've seen as far as the swocial media, is this a cae of a guy who radicalized himself

now, the president has also talked about guantanamo bay, cuba, and sending this suspect there where so many combatants from foreign countries have also been sent. let's read the tweets this morning. the president writing, would love to send the nyc terrorists to guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the federal system. there's also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed should move fast, death penalty. so what that says to us is the president has sort of evolved from yesterday where he said he would consider sending this individual to guantanamo bay. it's clear there would be some constitutional questions, some legal questions, because to our knowledge, no person on american soil has ever been sent to guantanamo. it's just been people from other countries. enemy combatants who don't get their miranda rights read. apparently the president has sort of changed his mind. the question, of course, whether he is tainting the jury pool by expressing his outrage is something we'll have to hear in the weeks

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i mean when i ordered guantanamo closed that it would be difficult and complex. there are two hundred forty people there who have now spent years in legal limbo. for example the court order to release seventeen weaver's seventeen weaker detainees took place last fall when george bush was president as president i refuse to allow this problem to fester. i refuse to pass it on to somebody else. it is my responsibility. to solve the problem our security interests will not permit us to delay. our courts won't allow it and neither should our conscience. bermuda came in and basically said we want to help president obama we're willing to take detainees and we thought well the leaders have the most compelling case and we have no legal right to hold them. i flew down to bermuda we got there in the late morning met immediately with the bermudan for mir and the security minister that afternoon we reached agreement and everybody on the table agreed we this we can't wait till daylight because this will leave us with the story definitely can and you know whitehall will go nuts.

and what advantages does the president see in sending this terror suspect to guantanamo bay, cuba? >> look, the point he was making is he supports or would support that but wasn't necessarily advocating for it but would certainly support it if he felt that was the best way. >> are there advantages in terms of sending any terror suspect to guantanamo? >> that's a question we would have to dive into deeper and talk with interagency process before answering that. matthew? >> thanks, sarah. the president said last night that he ordered dhs to step up quote already extreme vetting. i'm wondering if you can tell us specifically about what extreme vetting entails? and if there is any indication ta it might have had impact on preventing yesterday's attack? >> sure. some of the specifics for extreme vetting would be enhancing the collection and review of bio metric and biographical data. improving intelligence screen. and verification. improving information sharing with partner nations and foreign law enforcement. and intelligence services. and over all heightened scrutiny and thorough revi

i have a shocking story about a new guantanamo bay inmate though the fact the detention camp still exists is shocking enough similar to my shock upon hearing kid rock is still around. among the forty two prisoners locked up there are suspected terrorists and now an american general has things there gun outrageously out of hand no this torture facility has been out of control since i was a virgin the maximum security bungalows get mo house khalid shaikh mohammad a mastermind of the nine eleven attacks. the mastermind of the u.s.s. cole attack and the soon to be joined by john g. baker the mastermind of standing up for the rule of law a very. dangerous threat we face on par with. unfortunately general baker was not bunking with other suspected terrorists as this would have made for a really entertaining reality television series much better than real housewives of rocca the judge found the general guilty of contempt for refusing to follow his order and sentenced him to twenty one days confinement in a trailer behind the war court compound called camp justice it seems the judge had yet to di

he said he would consider sending the suspect to guantanamo bay. that is a conversation going on between a number of different agencies. she did say that in keeping with what we heard from senators john mccain and lindsey. one other headline, she was pressed on that debate back and forth over john kelly's comments this week that there could ab a. she said the notion that anyone in this administration supports slavery she said is essentially absurd and defensive. >> kristen, great to see you. thanks so much, as always this social media. i just want to hold off for a seco second. we want to know if you got into this country with a special abilities visa or a student visa or a working visa. the protsz cess of getting a gr card is exactly the same. i just have to put it out there. as an immigrant in this country that came in on an o visa and then got transferred to the. it is nonsense to suggest that somebody who came in on a diversion veesh a. this is just intellectually dishonest. >>> rightment this is part of the ongoing investigation into russian i

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pointing out is nobody ever gets convicted in guantanamo.o it seems like a terrible tradeoff where we have this huge public relations disaster and yet there's no benefit. >> there's no benefit in terms of getting justice done and getting closure on a case. the last person who was tried in guantanamo bay was a guy who was responsible for the terrorist bombings in kenya and tanzania. he was brought from guantanamo bay to the courthouse in my old district and tried and convicted there. >> do you think that with the president constantly making these comments he's undermining the judicial process itself? >> it's not good for the judicial process or the department of justice when he calls it a laughing stock. it's not a laughing stock. it's the pride of the american government, the way we handle cases, terrorist cases, corruption cases, you name it, i think we have the best system in the world. the good news is it seems that some of what donald trump does is to engage in a lot of rhetoric to please some people on twitter and when he does these qui

but he's inconsistent on whether or not he wants to go to guantanamo or send him to guantanamo. it seemed to me as a president searching for an argument on why not to send someone to guantanamo, here's what he said, we'd love to send the nyc terrorist to guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the federal system. there is also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed. should move fast. death penalty. that seems to me like a president, who remember, during the campaign, talked a lot about filling up guantanamo. my other hat, when i'm at the pentagon, there have been cases where there's an opportunity to send suspected terrorists to guantanamo and president trump has brought them back to states and put them in federal court. just on monday, some navy s.e.a.l.s snatched a suspected benghazi terrorist. instead of bringing that suspected terrorist to guantanamo, they're taking him to u.s. courts so they can try him there. so despite the president's rhetoric about guantanamo, he seems as though he's c

meanwhile, in guantanamo bay, not one person has gone to trial.n some years ago, when i first became the u.s. attorney, we were supposed to try collsome a that got derailed. those people have not been brought to justice. i don't think it's good for the rule of law, ultimately. >> it's important to underscore what you're saying. we have done this enormous public relations meeting all over the world for guantanamo. what you're pointing out is nobody ever gets convicted in guantanamo. so in terms of just of -- it seems like a terrible trade-off. we have a huge public relations disasters, and, yet, there's no benefit. >> there's no benefit in terms of getting justice done. and getting closure on a case. i mean, the last person who was tried in guantanamo bay was a guy who was responsible for the terrorist bombings in kenya, tanzania, and the american embassies there. he was the last person brought from guantanamo bay and tried and convicted there. >> do you think that what president constantly making the comments is undermining the judicial process it

the first one, would love to send the new york city terrorists to guantanamo, but statistically that process takes longer than going through the federal system. and then there's also something appropriate of keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed. should move fast, death penalty, the president writes. this all follows on quite a day when the president really talked about all the issues surrounding what happened in new york, the terrorists attack, and even called out the democrats into a debate over immigration. >> diversity lottery, sounds nice. it's not nice. >> reporter: overnight president trump tweeting the suspect should get the death penalty, and he also said he should be going to guantanamo. >> send him to gitmo. i would consider that, yes. we want to immediately work with congress on the diversity lottery program on terminating it, getting rid of it. >> the president calling for an end to the diversity visa lottery program, a program that allowed the new york city terror suspect to gain entry into the u.s. in 2010, and demanding congress get tougher on vet

from this week's new york terrorist attack and sending islamist terrorists to the prison camp at guantanamo bay in cuba let's just have a listen to what the attorney general said terrorists should know this this administration will use all lawful tools at our disposal including prosecution in article three courts or at one time obey if anyone has any doubt about it they can ask the more than five hundred criminals in the department of justice has convicted terrorism related offenses since nine eleven and they can ask the dozens of the enemy combatants at guantanamo. all right that was u.s. attorney general there jeff sessions carson you know earlier u.s. president donald trump he appeared to roll back on his suggestion of sending that suspect mr sipe of to guantanamo now it seems that mr sessions is at least holding out the possibility that it may indeed happen what is going on here. the way i understood it mr sessions the attorney general was talking in more general terms about the fact that when it comes to prosecuting and trying terrorism suspects both the military legal system where the

guantanamo bay takes forever. fewer than 20 prosecuted. and it costs an arm and a leg. >> if i'm arguing the other side i say that's on you, the establishment, you take too long. these are the new pedophiles. we hate them. treat them terribly. put them in bad places. we all get the base of it. phil is saying facts matter. you can't say the military communals are more about invoking justice. >> it will be on my watch. i won't be like you guys. >> his promising or projecting a new future where separation of powers and all the frustration by design don't apply, that's not reality either. we have a system in this country rooted in law, rooted in history, rooted in tradition. he may play to the base but it is our job to point out that facts matter. >> i hear you. here's a fact also, guys. i get it. yes, i'm devil's advocate. it is going all around our society. i have a brown guy with a beard who is a muslim who said he wanted to kill us and he's proud of it. that's the only facts i need to treat this guy like what he is. he's a savage. that's h

they can be transferred to guantanamo. that terror attention center was not closed by president obama despite that was one of his key promises during his two terms in office. and so the system that is in place right now for going after terrorists across the world is that, yes, they can be treated as enemy combatants and transferred to guantanamo. it sounds like the president is open to that possibility. he told reporters that exact thing just a few moments ago, wolf. >> he certainly did. he said he's open to that. he would consider that. he really went after the democrats at one point saying the democrats don't want to do what's right for our country because they oppose his proposals to change the immigration system here in the united states. jim acosta at the white house. thanks very much. the suspect, sayfullo saipov, used a truck to orchestrate this deadly terror attack. deadliest terror attack on new york since 9/11. seems to be part of a rising trend. look at the numbers of attacks since 2014 where vehicles were used

people in guantanamo bay were not tried. they are coddled or they play with the system's simply not true. the conviction rate among terrorism cases is one of the highest of any crimes in the united states. it's rare to have people acquitted in terrorism cases. but what they do get is a fair trial. then, when we impose the punishment we impose it on our terms not theirs. they get a fair trial, the type of thing they deny other people. >> thank you guys appreciate its. >>> coming up learning more about the suspect in the attack. including why he picked halloween and what police found on his phone. and his background in uzbekistan. cable. just like some people like banging their head on a low ceiling. drinking spoiled milk. camping in poison ivy. getting a papercut. and having their arm trapped in a vending machine. but for everyone else, there's directv. for #1 rated customer satisfaction over cable switch to directv. call 1-800-directv. >>> again the breaking news, the suspect wounded and arrested in yesterday's truck attack

and i said i am a victim of manipulation between politicians held in guantanamo the number of al qaeda and taliban detainees transferred to u.s. forces in afghanistan has continued to grow for years without trial do you know that your own government for six years has been telling every country in the world are innocent and please take a quest for a better life that ended in incarceration the guantanamo twenty two at this time on al jazeera. was the end of an era celebrations in.

if you want a 20-year delay, send someone to guantanamo. if you want effective and swift justice, federal courts and state courts in new york can handle that very well. >> i should note that the guantanamo system is such a mess that today a judge ordered a marine general acting as a defense attorney in guantanamo to serve a 21-day sentence because things are blowing up there so much. congressman, i want to offer my condolences as well. >> thank you. >> on behalf of everyone. thank you very much for making time tonight. >> thank you. >>> sebrina sidiqqi and rick. rick, you can watch the wheels turn and know where he's getting his information. does it work? does it draw blood? >> look, what it does is it keeps his base stoked an it keeps those folks in that h hermetic bubble they have become accustomed to living in. it's the sort of thing he needed this week after a fairly catastrophic opening to the week and he's obviously very willing to jump right into that pool and to stoke up the argument of -- to try to force everybody who isn't a membe

dana, president trump bringing guantanamo back up.o you he's trying to kind of flip over everything president obama did or didn't do with iran or gitmo. >> dana: i think he was speaking based on his instinct. this guy should have to face tough punishment. while that's an instinct for a citizen to believe, for a commander in chief it's more difficult because you are the chief law enforcement officer and the supreme court has ruled many, many times, especially in 2007. it was a disappointment for the administration at the time we couldn't try him as an enemy combatant. he's a legal permanent resident so it wasn't going to fly. i understand the instinct but i think sending him to gitmo would make him a murderer to isis. it's better to leave him here. new york city has a near-perfect prosecution record for terrorism cases. the evidence against this guy is so overwhelming. >> jesse: is it a death penalty situation? >> dana: yes. in new york state, i think. death penalty? i don't think so. i think the president saying he should get the deat

president had suggested cindy ings i-pod to the guantanamo detention center in cuba today he seemed to pull back on that but his attorney general was speaking earlier and he was pushing that idea further as well what is happening here. well i think i think the attorney general jeff sessions was talking about this issue in more general terms pointing out that both the military legal system with the detention center at guantanamo bay and the civilian judicial system are in the mix when it comes to prosecuting terrorism suspects or terrorists and so obviously one tunnel bay is used mainly for so-called foreign fighters whereas the judges of the system is for american citizens the suspect here is not a citizen but a legal resident and i think most legal experts and also jeff sessions agree that it's my impression that this suspect should be tried in a court in new york our correspondent crossed a phenomenon the story for us tonight in the u.s. capitol crossing thank you very much i mean time at the white house the u.s. president today nominated to head the u.s. federal reserve if confirmed

he's suggesting he'd send the new york suspect to guantanamo bay in cuba. playing politics with a deadly terror attack? >>> putin's propaganda. lawmakers released some of the ads russian troll farm purchased on facebook during the u.s. election campaign. what were the hot-button issues russian meddlers

a major from one of the contractors providing language support for guantanamo and then he asked them have you heard of weekers being caught in afghanistan and brought over twenty nine . and they said yes i need to. translate this week or so. and i was shocked actually i didn't know what to say. but i decided to go for it i decided to go and serve my country and the country needed my service. because you can then go down the road kill the.

enemy combatant, president trump said today he's open to sending him to the military prison at guantanamo bay, a move seemingly backed by some on capitol hill. >> if you act like a terrorist and you say you're a terrorist, that's enough for me. we ought to treat you as a terrorist. >> because he's an enemy combatant. he killed americans. >> reporter: mr. trump also called on congress to dismantle the diversity visa lottery program, which allowed sayfullo saipov into the united states from uzbekistan in 2010. >> diversity lottery sounds nice. it's not nice. it's not good. >> reporter: the program randomly selects applicants from countries with low immigration rates. there are some requirements like criminal background checks, but mr. trump says it isn't tough enough. >> we have to get much less politically correct. >> reporter: the president called the diversity program a chuck schumer beauty. schumer initially supported the '90s era law but in 2013 backed a bipartisan bill to scrap it. today schumer fired back. i guess it's not too soon to politicize a tragedy. >> the president ought to s

president suggested sending the suspect to going condo -- suspect to guantanamo. his attorney general pushing the ideas well -- ideas as well. what is happening here? carsten: i think jeff sessions was talking about the issue in general terms, pointing out that the military legal system with the detention center at guantanamo bay, and the civilian judicial system, are in the mix when it comes to prosecuting terrorism suspects. so guantanamo bay is used for so-called foreign fighters, where as the judicial system is for american citizens. the suspect is not a citizen, but a legal resident. i would think most legal experts agree that the suspect should be tried in the court in new york. brent:carsten von nahmen on the story tonight in the u.s. capital. thank you very much. in germany, more than a month after national elections the company is still struggling t form a coalition government, and there is no sign of breakthrough. the parties are trying to hammer out an agreement on a host of issues, but negotiations are becoming contentious. the greens have accused the

he shouldn't be sent to guantanamo. you are not going to get anything out of him there. but i think nypd sent some vet o investigators that know islam. you might get somewhere. that's the best chance. >> okay. bob, thank you so much. again, watching and waiting for the white house daily briefing to start. president trump has made news today on multiple fronts with regard to this terror attack in new york city. let me bring in dana bash, chris, and former department of assistant secretary in the george w. bush julie myers wood. good to see all of you. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you. good to be here. as we wait to see sarah huckabee sanders you know she's going to be asked about the visa program which is apparently how this 29-year-old got in the country in the first place in 2010 i believe it was and how president trump is today saying over. what are your questions about that? >> well, one of my first questions is he's saying, okay, we are done with this lottery. it's called a lottery. and it's supposed to be. >> diversity vista program. >> and it's done on a lott

floating guantanamos. >> the coast guard has been operating deep into the pacific andn interdicting cocaine detaining suspected drug smugglers aboard their cutters, often for weeks or months in what one former coast guard official called floating -- onnamos on these this the pacific. amy: we will speak with the stor the reporter who broke the story. and john kelly, while he was the head up south comb. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy! now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump is heading to capitol hill today to promote his proposed tax plan, which would shower billions of dollars worth of tax cuts upon the wealthiest americans, including president trump's own family. the congressional budget office says the senate's version of the tax bill would hurt people making less than $30,000 a year, while giving major tax cuts to those making more than $100,000 a year. a provision of the senate bill would also eliminate a key part of the affordable care ac

i don't think that's the case with this saipov guy. >> so, should we keep guantanamo open? >> i think we have to because we do have the core of the original al qaeda leadership. and just, if you remember, just the security costs to try them in manhattan, in new york city, would be millions of dollars a year. plus, guantanamo bay is a safe and secure facility which we can prevent al qaeda attacks, trying to demonstrate or even trying to free people like that, but i don't think that's the issue with the saipov case. as far as we can tell from the reports we've gotten in the first day, after tech, he seems like a relatively low-level, lone wolf person inspired by isis or al qaeda propaganda, but he doesn't seem to be part of any greater covert network. >> mr. yoo, i want to turn to the russia investigation and mueller. you argue that even if people don't like it, presidential pardons for anyone who falls under mueller's charges are legal, saying "even if mr. trump has the constitutional power to pardon mr. manafort and his allies, conservatives should vigorously oppose such pa

i want to come back to the guantanamo statement. guantanamo has been a lightning rod for, you know, isis sympathizers for a long time, and there's a construct of a legal issue. by the president stating that, it's further feeding into the isis propaganda. this is what the intelligence community will worry about, lowering the tone of that so it doesn't lead to, you know, follow on attacks. we don't want that to spur on. >> i want to ask you about something "the new york times" reported on, isis doesn't claim responsibility typically for an attacker where the attacker is captured and under arrest, and there are different theories of why that might be. i am wondering if you have any notion? >> that is typical, so that's why it's not surprising that isis wouldn't take credit for this. for one, we don't know the suspect's ties to isis at this stage. they may have been passive, and they may have been more active that there was somebody in europe, potentially, or somebody in the middle east that he was having direct contact with. we don't k

he's suggesting he'd send the new york suspect to guantanamo bay in cuba. is the president playing politics with a deadly terror attack? >>> putin's propaganda. lawmakers released some of the ads russian troll farm purchased on facebook during the u.s. election campaign. what were the hot-button issues russian meddlers used to try to divide americans? >>> and fear of flight. with former trump campaign chairman paul manafort now under arrest, court papers in the russia probe show he has three u.s. passports and registered a phone and e-mail account under a fake name, but those aren't the only reasons he's considered a flight risk. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news. an urgent investigation is now underway into how and why a lone attacker driving a rental truck killed eight people and injured 13 others in new york city. police called it a page straight out of the isis playbook, saying the suspect who was shot and wounded was apparently inspired by the terror group and planned the attack for weeks