working under and that he may ultimately just be trying to get his words out and this is all about getting the death penalty here. what other reaction did you hear yesterday, scott? >> well, i think this really highlights one of the challenges of trying this case in a military court. i mean, here you have a lawyer who is still a member of the united states army, a soldier. ethically, it would be very difficult for him to stand up in this case and say my client was justified in doing this because he was fighting a war to protect the taliban as hasan suggested in one of his pretrial statements. so the lawyers are in a tough spot here. they really -- at the same time, they don't want to see this case appealed down the road, you know, on an argument he wasn't represented adequately, but they really can't make the argument on hasan's behalf that he seems to want to make, which is that he switched sides as he said yesterday to protect islam. >> well, scott, thank you again and your excellent reporting. howard, our thoughts are with