Lester Holt

You're thinking about your mom.

Incredibly, the one person Allison chose to call after her arrest was her husband, Patrick.

Yes, Patrick.

The man she was accused of plotting to kill.

Bye.

Patrick has stood by Allison.

He agreed to sit down with us to defend his wife.

She's your ride or die.

There are going to be people saying, come on, Patrick, you know, wake up.

How can you defend this woman?

How can you defend your wife when it's right there, you know, in these calls, these things she's saying?

What is your response to that?

To him, Allison was a victim of James.

You're never going to listen to it.

Patrick says Allison was manipulated.

What would she say to us?

There are some people who feel that if you're capable of asking James to kill Patrick, that you were capable of asking Delbert to kill Patricia Lee.

For Allison Salinas, it was a dramatic fall.

Once an entrepreneur and Senate candidate, she was now charged with plotting to kill her husband, Patrick.

From behind bars, she agreed to talk to us.