hey, matthew campbell wants to hire somebody to kill his mother. >> reporter: that's all it took.n undercover fbi agent posing as a hit man approached matthew. matthew is busted and sentenced to five years in federal prison. on the outside, dana and her daughters struggle to understand how this could have happened. matthew tries to explain in letters home. >> this all blew up in my face. i can't handle it. i finally see where my lifestyle has gotten me. and i have been saved. in the name of jesus christ. all of this is cold, hard truth. and you don't have to believe it. but i hope you believe your son. >> reporter: over the last four years, letters like this kept coming. and with them, finally, a measure of forgiveness. the family now believes matthew never really intended to kill his mother and they are waiting for him to come home from prison this month. >> he wants to move on and put everything past him. and we do too. i think, yeah, we're going to flourish into probably one of the best relationships i think i've ever had. >> reporter: hope springs eternal in big sky country. f

also, former cnn and nbc news anchor campbell brown has been leading media efforts for the second lawsuit. she joined msnbc's chris matthewsn monday and shared a key talking point against tenure laws. >> how we're getting rid of tenure laws make education for the average kid better. >> we have a lot of challenges we need to address. this is one of them. the goal of getting an effective teacher in front of every child. what tenure laws have become is permanent lifetime employment. >> permanent lifetime employment. now, that is what supreme court justices have. but it's not an accurate description of teacher tenure. policies differ by state, but generally tenure is best understood as due process. massachusetts a state ranked first in the nation in k through 12 educational outcomes. massachusetts law provides that teachers receive professional teacher status after three years of service and a teacher with professional teacher status pursuant to section 41 shall not be dismissed, except for inefficiency, incapacity and conduct on becoming a teacher or failure on the part of the teacher to satisfy teacher performance standards