occasions and i m halfway retired from my family physician job and part of my current work is to see the jail inmates when they get sick and i m familiar with a lot of cases. and i believe he was doing an excellent job as district attorney. i won kerr if the governor will find anyone brave enough to at that time job of district attorney because that s what i ve been told, the governor will appoint a new district attorney before long. that s a good question. who would want to take that job. mr. mayor, we appreciate you this morning. thank you. and bottom of the hour, we will talk to congressman ted poe, also former texas judge, talks about how he himself has been threatened being in positions of that nature. they started with 68 teams. now just four are left. we re talking about the final four of course. louisville meets wichita state in one game, syracuse taking on michigan in the other. this happens next saturday.
mass casualties or death. what more do you know about this group as a judge in kaufman county? was this a group that you were familiar with? did you have to sign off on, on anything there at the courthouse regarding them? no. i m not involved in criminal cases. okay. in the courthouse. we have other judges that take care of that. but what i know about the aryan brotherhood is really what i ve heard on the news, as well as in the printed press. and i m not involved in day-to-day investigation and will not get into that. i m not knowledgeable of all the facets of this investigation of this investigation. understand, judge bruce wood thank you so much. we re sorry for losing these two folks in your county. well, thank you very much. coming up next hour we will hear from the mayor of kaufman, mayor william fortner and we will also speak with texas congressman ted poe. also a breaking story coming into cnn right now. christine romans has that. following this right now
what s the talk around town about that? yeah, he was. he was an army veteran, practiced law here for several years, 18 years before he ran for first public office. three years ago, in 2010, and beat out the incumbent district attorney three years ago and took over. he kept a lot of the same personnel out here. he kept the same policies and procedures in place, and he was very well liked. people would see him throughout the town. he was very personable. everybody knew that when he was in charge, you know, communities in kaufman would be safe. so, great guy. i mean it s a big loss for the entire north texas region. absolutely tragic all the way around. thank you very much. we re going to talk much more on this story. we ll talk to the kaufman county judge bruce wood. he worked with mclelland and hasse and in the next hour we re talk to the may william fortner and texas congressman ted poe. everyone is talking about one game and one awful moment in the final four march madness.
killed about how this town is reacting. here s is what he told us. law enforcement community is very uncomfort shl. we have a county just west of here dallas county has about 2 million people in it and we re standing in a county that has about 100,000 people in the entire county. everybody knew each other here. it was a great place to practice law. everybody liked the strict attorney s office. there just wasn t a lot of activity out here. so the biggest shock out here this morning is why in kaufman, texas are we having an assistant da get killed and elected da. it s sending shockwaves through the community. so far police have no suspects and no motive. i want to bring in congressman ted poe who has served as prosecutor and junk in that state. good morning. good morning. let me begin with mike mclelland. you can tell us more about him? he was a career law
i believe he was doing an excellent job as district attorney. i wonder if the governor will find anyone brave enough to at that time job of district attorney because that s what i ve been told the governor will appoint a new district attorney before long. congressman, if i can get you to react to what he said and then just also how do you fill a role where potentially he or she would have a target on his or her back. well, this is a small county, not very many people. really not very many attorneys. but there will be someone that the governor s office will appoint to fill the role of district attorney. my own opinion is that one of the purposes of these murders was intimidation by a group of individuals to intimidate the district attorney s office not to investigate their particular criminal activity. i do not believe that intimidation will work. there will be someone who will