in a bizarre twist to a bizarre story, fred grabbe's new girlfriend, barbara graham, armed with a gune jail one night and attempted to get him out of prison. she fired five shots, wounding one deputy in the leg. >> she was able to get on top of her and said, don't make me kill you, and at that time the struggle ceased. >> for that offense, barbara graham was sentenced to 16 years in prison. two months later the home fred and charlotte shared and the house their children jeff and cindy had built next door burned to the ground. arson investigators discovered both fires were deliberately set. >> oh, i believe fred grabbe probably had some involvement with it, not setting the fires directly, but i believe he probably had some involvement that we'll never know probably. >> fred grabbe's lawyers appealed the first verdict and on a technicality won a new trial. a month before the second trial fred's son, jeff grabbe, who had testified against his father at the first trial, was found murdered in california with three bullet wounds to the chest. to this day some believe fred grabbe had a hand

barbara, thank you very much. let's get back to senator lindsey graham, a key member of the senate armed services committee.ters, u.s. military central command last week get ready for an offensive starting in ing ining in april or may. not so fast. what happen snz. >> i welcome the reconsideration because i had doubts. the iraqi government and people are demanding that mosul be liberated. put yourself in the shoes of the defense minister in iraq who is a sunni from mosul. he wants his town liberated from isil isil. that's a need and a desire. but the capacity doesn't exist. this iraqi security force is basically a shia army. the army has been basically fractured. if you go into mosul ill prepared could you have a war between the iraqi security forces and sunni tribes in mosul, not just isil unless we're in the mix. the way to fix this is to have a larger american ground component to make sure the iraqi security forces have the capacity to win. >> have ii have limited confidence in the iraqi military. they laid down weapons and ran away. >> because the iraqi security forces became a shia army and the shia ir

graham leads with 17%, with jeb bush next. joining me nbc senior political editor mark murray. we will start off because it is colorful, it is a holiday, one to talk about, barbaras dinner saying that i guess she's ready for her son to run. >> and for jeb bush she needed to say that she changed her mind. she had previously done so before, but tamron you and i remarked about the comment she gave about there have been too many bushes should have other families run for the presidency and that was probably a mention about her own family and jeb bush and about the possibility of having another clinton in the white house. i wouldn't be surprised, even though barbara bush retracted the statement, said she's fine with her son running, we won't see that pop up in some tv ad appeared not only on the "today" show but it appeared in another interview she did on cspan, so where things are never lost forever, and political ads, wouldn't be surprised to see that in 2016. >> talk about take aways, the nbc, marist poll shows hillary clinton has a massive lead over other democrats. >> the republican field is wide open seven republicans getting double digit support. on the democra