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Body camera footage shows cops wrestling a man suspected of a shooting spree that killed three, including a 9-year-old child, to the ground.

“They should just let us take him out back and kill him,” one of the officers wearing the camera can be heard saying, according to Law & Crime.

Fox News allegedly asked Maria Bartiromo's producer Abby Grossberg to lie about what she observed while working for the network during the months following the 2020 election. She ultimately quit, hired a lawyer, and is suing the network.

At the same time, she also handed over documents and recordings to the judge in the Dominion case. The result was that the judge learned Fox didn't hand over everything required in discovery and he has since assigned a special master to investigate.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was recorded in a call with Fox News and Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo urging her to stick to the facts in her coverage of the 2020 election.

"It can't just be, you know somebody tweeted this. It's got to be demonstrable facts that can be laid out with evidence because that's what a court of law is gonna look to, not just an allegation but actual facts," Cruz said in the tape that was given exclusively to MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday.

Ralph Yarl rang a doorbell looking for his twin brothers, but he got a shot in the head and fell to the ground. The shooter then stepped through the broken glass door and shot the teen again.

Yarl's family said that he ran to three homes looking for help before someone opened the door. The one that did told him to put his hands in the air and lay on the ground.

Republicans in the House and Senate are lost on what to do about abortion after the Supreme Court killed the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to a new Politico report.

For a party that once painted itself as small government and individual rights, the new battle over abortion rights puts Republicans in a difficult position. Minority Whip John Thune (R-ND) thinks that they can put restrictions on it, like a 15-week abortion ban. He warned his party was “getting hammered” on the matter.

Freshman Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pledged that he would be donating his congressional salary to "the Department of Veterans Affairs," wrote Insider. Now he's not saying where it will go, or even if it will be donated at all.

The promise was made in two of Santos' campaigns, 2018 and 2020. By the time Santos came into Congress, his staff had explained donations would be made quarterly to groups "such as a soup kitchen or animal shelter." The same spokesperson said that the donation would be made in the first week of April.

The co-hosts of "The View" started their Thursday show attacking Robert Kennedy Jr., who declared he would run for president on Wednesday. The younger Kennedy hasn't held any previous elected offices before, but concluded the presidency was an excellent place to start.

The moment comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appears to be preparing to announce his presidential campaign taking on former President Donald Trump. "The View" showed a clip of DeSantis ranting about "pronouns," saying he was banning them from schools in the state, highlighting "being normal" again.

Last week the McCurtain Gazette News, suspecting that county meetings continued after the public left in a violation of Oklahoma's open-meetings laws, secretly placed a voice-activated recorder in the room.

The conversations that happened when the commission didn't think anyone was listening included plotting the murder of the local newspaper publisher, including hiring a hitman to carry out the murder. Other topics discussed were barbecuing a body and longing for the days when they could lynch Black men.

A longtime adviser to Donald Trump, Boris Epshteyn, was sitting at the lawyer's table after his boss was booked in the Manhattan court. Now he's going to be sitting for special counsel Jack Smith, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Epshteyn is the second Trump lawyer to be called to answer questions, the other being Evan Corcoran, who recently revealed that since he was forced to testify, he must recuse himself from the stolen documents case. It's unclear whether Epshteyn would have been doing a lot of work during the trial for the documents case or the Jan. 6 case or if his purpose is as a campaign adviser.

District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, who was appointed by Donald Trump, ruled Wednesday that former prosecutor and adviser to the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Mark Pomerantz, must appear for a deposition in the House Judiciary Committee.

“The subpoena was issued with a ‘valid legislative purpose’ in connection with the ‘broad’ and ‘indispensable’ congressional power to ‘conduct investigations.’ It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection. Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law,” Vyskocil wrote in the opinion.

Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe explained to MSNBC that some might be disappointed in the final Dominion settlement with Fox News. However, he explained, the real problem for the network is not the financial loss but the fact that special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can use the lawsuit as part of their cases against Donald Trump.

Speaking to MSNBC's "Deadline White House" on Wednesday, Tribe began by saying that those who wanted a public apology on air from Fox personalities isn't what the civil justice system is designed to do. Besides, he argued, it's not like any of the viewers would buy it.

The upcoming case between Donald Trump and rape accuser E. Jean Carroll is moving forward, but there are concerns that Trump's lawyers could face some problems before the presiding judge.

Former prosecutor Robert Katzberg, who was also a defense attorney for white-collar crime, penned a piece in Slate about the difference between the lawyers in the case and how it will likely impact the perception around the issue.