jim garrity, contributing editor at "national review." and joe trippi, fox news contributor and a democratic strategist. how has this video of the shoplifting which i've now seen about 10,000 times, how has it changed the story line of this tragedy? >> it is utterly transformed the way we take a look at this, the way analysts do, the way reporters do, and the way the public sees it. you know the old cliche, a picture is worth a thousand words. it doesn't matter what the police are saying that it didn't have anything to do with it. what they're saying is the images are saying yeah, it did. >> does it matter what the reporters and the anchors are saying? and should cable news be playing this over and over and over again like wallpaper despite the fact that there is no dispute, that this robbery was not connected to the shooting? >> absolutely not. i mean, this is something of the media going overboard. and the police shouldn't have released it either, howie. even the fbi said don't do this. it will cause trouble. >> jim, how is it that it t

. >> fox news contributor lauren ashburn joining us, jim garrity, contributing editor at national review and joe tribity. how has this video of the shoplifting, which i've now seen about 10 nous times, how has it changed the story line of this tragedy. >> it has utterly transformed the way we look at this, the way reporters do and the way the public does. it doesn't matter what the police are driving. what they're saying is i don't know the images. what they're saying is yeah, i did. >> does it matter what the report erts and the anchor res saying? like wallpaper, despite the fact that there is no dispute that this robbery was not connected to the shooting? >> absolutely not. this is something of the media going overboard and the police shouldn't have released it, either. even the fbi said don't do this. it will cause trouble. >> jim, how is it that it took skeptical reporters, hours after this thing was playing on cable news, to get the police chief to acknowledge that this is a shoplifting case and that the officer who shot michael brown didn't even know that the guy was a suspect? >>

the national news, jim garrity and washington news, betsy woodruff and rick klein.t take? first a humanitarian crisis they all claim is so devastating, i agree with that. now we have a gunned down border patrol agent in front of his wife, kids and parents. >> you can't cast a story more tragically to have two men six times arrested for crossing illegally and still here, just adds fuel to the fire. this is the debate we're having for now. forget the children for the moment, a humanitarian crisis, say the border situation is involved, still a very porous problematic border. for a lot of people the concerns stereotype of who is coming over the border. this is a vast minority but when it happens, tragic. >> politicians are gone. they created this problem and they have gone. don't they give a damn? i would think if they cared they would be trying to work on this. >> given the things they haven't given a damn about so far it makes sense. this isn't just politicians, federal agencies. the documents that came out recently showed immigrations and customs enforcement official