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>> get your world class education, make your life-long friends. if you can find a life partner, good for you. >> is she right? we put the question to our panel. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. hello, everyone. im fredricka whitfield in for brooke baldwin. the chief prosecutor in houston is under 24 hour protection. and law enforcement officials across the state of texas are treading with caution today after the second recent murder of one of their own. tough talking prosecutor mike mclell...

Officially said whether the mclellands deaths are connected to the killing of kaufman county assistant d.a. who was shot outside the county courthouse in january. the sheriff says extra precautions are being taken to protect county elected officials, as well as the public. >> there will be complete security at the courthouse tomorrow. visible security. >> reporter: mclelland said his coworkers were like a family, but they all knew their job came with risks. >> when you deal with bad people on a ...

Attorney was killed and doug low is joining us and hes a d.a. from neighboring anderson count i and you were friend, mr. lowe with mark mclellan. sorry for your loss and for the loss of the community. tell us a little bit about him. >> you know, mike was basically a big bear of a guy. never met a stranger, was a real friend to me and all of the prosecutors around and you saw the clips of him. thats what mike was. he said what he meant, and im sorry this tragedy followed him, and i mourn the loss...

The assistant d.a. gunned down in a parking lot on january 31 and after that shooting mcclelland was the one that suggested that white supremacists might be to blame and called the killers scum. >> i hope that the people that did this are watching because we are very confident that we are are going find you, we are going to pull you out of whatever hole you are in and we are going to bring you back and let the people of kaufman county prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. >> incredible...

Dont know how the north koreans may view it. but at this time, this is really the u.s. side of the rhetoric and the maneuvering and the messaging. put things into place, show everybody youre ready to go if it comes to that. >> all right, flexing the muscle so to speak. all right, barbara starr, appreciate that from the pentagon. all right, other matters, the chief prosecutor in houston, texas, is under 24-hour protection and law enforcement officials across the state of texas are now treading ...

Killed recently in north texas and a police shootout. he was part of a white supremacist group. why is that important? in december, the texas department.department of public safety put out a bulletin that the aryan brotherhood of texas might be planning retaliation against public official because of indictments handed down in houston. that is all speculation at this point. officials tell pete williams so far, they have not been able to find any solid connection among all of those murders. right ...

Hes not gives himself a way to escape which scares me. we have to go. i hope we dont have to have you back because that means theres trouble. well have you back for other reasons. thank you, ben chang. up next, its a murder 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. more than two years a...

Under state law the governor perry will appoint a d.a. to serve out the --. martha: well, thats the news conference underway in kaufman county, texas. on the right-hand side of your screen you saw the picture of mick mclelland the district attorney in that county. he and his wife were gunned down in their home and as was pointed out by bruce wood, the judge who is speaking, it was just a couple months after the assistant d.a. in that county, mark maase was also murdered in cold blood. clearly th...

Got a d.a. and an assistant d.a. gunned down within two months of each other. >> reporter: people are uneasy, people are on edge, people are scared, fearful. given the fact that you have two prosecutors killed in the span of two months and you have people asking is there a connection, is there a link? and when you talk about these two men, mcclelland and his wife, theyre not making any connection between this murder and what happened two months ago with mr. hasse. again when you talk to public...

Community here is very uncomfortable. i mean were talking about, you know, we have a county just west of here, dallas county has got about 2 million people in it and were standing in a county thats got about 100,000 people in the entire county. everybody knew each other here. it was a great place to practice law. everybody liked the district attorneys office. there just wasnt a lot of activity out here. the biggest shock out here this morning is why, in kaufman, texas, are we having a assistant ...