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We're just not getting questioned to the press secretary. that would not have happened. fox news always got a question every day at the briefing until president obama, so let's make sure that's perfectly clear to everybody watching out there. fox news alternates got questions. msnbc always got questions -- the previous administrations. this is a new thing this white house is doing to us at cnn and to a couple other news outlets as well. but as for the camera issue, as you know, that briefings was off camera, so i asked a couple times during the briefing, why can't we turn the cameras on? peopl...

Whole other side to the body camera issue that perhaps we haven't talked about enough and what are those? >> cops like -- they like body cams. they like -- the concern of the cops that i talked to in west philly is cameras come out and they catch only the very end of a confrontation, of an encounter. they don't see why what's happening is happening and so they say if it's a body cam they'll see the entire -- >> there's the issue, willie, of sometimes one angle is not the whole story. we know from working with video over decades that even when we're in the edit room trying to tell a story for e...

Throughout the st. louis area now have body cameras. . this particular case, randi, we understand the officer did have a body camera, but did not have it on at the time. however, what we're relying on now is the surveillance video, these pictures that show you exactly what happened. up until the point that it's frozen, and from what we're seeing right now, again, we see two men basically near that police car, kind of hard to see, it's up in the corner of the screen but we've certainly blown it up to show you as best we can these two people near the police officer, you can see one of the figure...

>> so i've heard -- i think the body camera issue is interesting. i think it's really caught fire in the wake of these various incidents. obviously, the president has endorsed his pilot program. is the idea in your mind that we have an objective record of what happened or is the idea that it acts as a kind of check on the worst instincts of police officers who know in the moment that they might do something this they shouldn't be doing that they're being watched? >> evidence suggests that when police officers wear a body camera their behavior comports to, you know, certain behavior. so it's cl...

Injury we should have a special prosecute because there's an inherent conflict in local prosecutors and because they rely upon police officers. >> so i've heard -- i think the body camera issue is interesting. i think it's really caught fire in the wake of these various incidents. obviously, the president has endorsed his pilot program. is the idea in your mind that we have an objective record of what happened or is the idea that it acts as a kind of check on the worst instincts of police officers who know in the moment that they might do something this they shouldn't be doing that they're bei...