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People are dead, murdered. tonya radcliff is a friend of the slain d.a. and his wife. she joins us. tanya, i never know what to say to friends and families in these instances, theyre just so incredibly difficult. you know, everyone is watching this tonight and you know, our heart bleeds for friends and relatives and theres a real danger out there and im curious, do you have any reason to believe that they had any enemies, either one of them? >> they were the sweetest couple and well-liked in the...

So its a bizarre case, but again, no suspects, no leads, no identified motive. at a press conference the day assistant d.a. mark hasse was killed, his boss, the prosecutor in that county, the elected district attorney in that county, did not mince his words. >> any assistance that anyone can give us in finding the people who did this will be greatly appreciated. anything that you people can do to accelerate our getting our hands on this scum will be appreciated. i hope that the people that did t...

>> and coincidence or a connection. two texas prosecutors gunned down in two months. >> prosecutors in texas on high alert after two of their own are gunned down in cold blood. the recent a district attorney and his wife killed in their own home. >> we obviously have some folks that are out to do harm to elected officials. >> mike and cynthia mclelland with found dead over the weekend, two months after one of his colleagues, the assistant d.a. was shot dead in broad daylight outside the county c...

What made the killing stand out at the time it happened is how for a lack of a better word, i guess, is how professional the killer or killers seemed in this shooting. the assistant d.a., mark hasse, parked his car in a parking lot about a block away from the county courthouse where he was working. a sudan reportedly pulled up alongside him, either one or two people got out of the sudan and shot him multiple time said. the suspects were described as being dressed in all black, having their faces...

Been done if its not revenge motivated. again, thats from an anonymous police source, ascribing a motive based on what he or she saw at the scene. the abc affiliate locally wfaa is reporting according to their sources, a .223-caliber rifle was used and approximately 14 rounds were fired. to have the assistant district attorney and district attorney of the same small texas county shot to death within eight weeks of each other seems like a coincidence if it turns out to be a coincidence. but in te...

All unusual in your conversation? >> nothing at all. i spoke with mike on wednesday and we were joking around about some training we were attending. there wasnt any impending doom or fear. >> after the first-- after the assistant d.a. was murdered two months ago, did they get a security or increase their own security, buy more firearms or anything? >> im not privy to any of that information. >> so, this is just completely out of the blue? this has no explanation for you? >> its a complete shock....

Looking into a link between the colorado prison chiefs killing and the first killing. they had already been looking into that link before the district attorney was killed. they have produced no evidence to think they are linked, at least that they have made public. one loose thread that everybody does seem willing to pull, though, is related to white supremacist prison gangs. on the day that the assistant d.a. was killed, the justice department has just cited the kaufman countys d.a. office anno...

Represents. >> we just have a few seconds. chad, sanford or bostic? >> i think sanford in a close one. >> dick? >> i agree, sanford in a close one. i hope. >> because you think hell be easier for her to run against? >> i think either one of them is tough but i think he is the poster child for liar. >> thanks to both of you. >> checking the news feed this morning, officials in texas are looking for a violent white supremacy group into their investigation of the weekend murders of a district attor...

Identified motive. at a press conference the day assistant d.a. mark hasse was killed, his boss, the prosecutor in that county, the elected district attorney in that county, did not mince his words. >> any assistance that anyone can give us in finding the people who did this will be greatly appreciated. anything that you people can do to accelerate our getting our hands on this scum will be appreciated. i hope that the people that did this are watching because were very confident that were going...

Mystery in texas. a district attorney is found shot to death with his wife. could it be part of a white supremacist plot down there? they already had the assistant d.a. killed. that could have been them, too. this is "hardball." the place for politics. leaning . lets get a recap, merv. [ merv ] thanks, other merv. mr. clean magic eraser extra power was three times faster on permanent marker. elsewhere against dirt, it was a sweep, with scuffed sports equipment... had it coming. grungy phones... ...