that house for those ten years. and also there's this issue, if ariel castro is willing to show remorse, then, again, it goes to the cathartic element that the victims and their families will receive some closure. >> i'm trying to put myself in the shoes of the defense attorney. really is there anything they can say or do even though they've given some indication and ariel castro has talked about being abused as a child, about how he's a series of sexual problems throughout his entire life. is there anything that can happen today that's going to change the outcome here? >> there is nothing this defendant can say. whatever he says about remorse, whatever kind of explanation he offers about his own addiction or his own abuse nothing he can say is going to take a single hour off the life sentence plus 1,000 years. but i agree with the comments made. there are other important goals