with jury selection for paul manafort. the president's former campaign chair is accused of hiding at least $30 million that he made before his days with trump as an unregistered foreign lobbyist for ukraine, and its former pro-russian president. told the prosecution plans to call 35 witnesses including agents from the fbi, treasury department and irs to show how he stashed his wealth in overseas banks to avoid paying u.s. taxes. last week a member of robert mueller's team said he does not anticipate a government witness will "utter the word russia" during the trial. but if manafort is convicted, they could use it as leverage for him to talk about anything he knows pertaining to the trump campaign and russia. the trial is expected to last about three weeks. manafort face as similar trial in washington in september. >> richard -- >> a long haul for him.
took a man's life. i honestly can't answer that. i don't know how to feel. >> i gave the prosecution everything they need to put me away for a very long time. >> reporter: the person cordle first contacted about wanting to publicly confess was alec sheen. sheen runs a website called because i said i would, a site where people make public commitments. >> i believe he should be treated fairly like everybody would in the legal system. i can say that he feels guilty. i know this much. the intent of this video is never to get him a lighter sentence. >> reporter: ultimately, sheen says cordle's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved. so please. >> the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated vehicular homicide as well as driving under the influence,
first contacted about wanting to publicly confess was alec sheen. sheen runs a website called because i said i would, a site where people make public commitments. >> i believe he should be treated fairly like everybody would in the legal system. i can say that he feels guilty. i know this much. the intent of this video is never to get him a lighter sentence. >> reporter: ultimately, sheen says cordle's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved. so please. >> the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated vehicular homicide as well as driving under the influence, which carries a maximum sentence of up to eight and a half years in prison and now that the prosecution has this confession in hand, they could present their case to the grand jury as early as next week. jake? >> jason carroll.
publicly confess was alec sheen. sheen runs a website called because i said i would, a site where people make public commitments. >> i believe he should be treated fairly like everybody would in the legal system. i can say that he feels guilty. i know this much. the intent of this video is never to get him a lighter sentence. >> reporter: ultimately, sheen says cordle's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved. so please. >> the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated vehicular homicide as well as driving under the influence, which carries a maximum sentence of up to eight and a half years in prison and now that the prosecution has this confession in hand, they could present their case to the grand jury as early as next week. jake? >> jason carroll. cordle's lawyer said he wasn't aware the video had been
he runs a website called, because i said i would. a site where people make public commitments. >> i believe he should be treated fairly like everybody would in the legal system. i can say he feels guilty. intent of this video is never to get him a lighter sentence. >> ultimately, sheen says cordle's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved. so, please -- >> the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated ve hick lar homicide as well as driving under the influence, which carries a maximum sentence of up to eight and a half years in prison and now that the prosecution has this confession in hand, they could present their case to the grand jury as early as next week. >> thanks so much. dennis rodman is back from another trip to north korea. we'll tell you what he said
first contacted about wanting to publicly confess was alec sheen. sheen runs a website called because i said i would, a site where people make public commitments. >> i believe he should be treated fairly like everybody would in the legal system. i can say that he feels guilty. i know this much. the intent of this video is never to get him a lighter sentence. >> reporter: ultimately, sheen says cordle's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved. so please. >> the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated vehicular homicide as well as driving under the influence, which carries a maximum sentence of up to eight and a half years in prison and now that the prosecution has this confession in hand, they could present their case to the grand jury as early as next week. jake?
a site where people make public commitments. >> i believe he should be treated fairly like everybody would in the legal system. i can say he feels guilty. i know this much. the intent of this video is never to get him a lighter sentence. >> reporter: ultimately sheen says cordal's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved, so, please. >> reporter: the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated vehicular homicide as well as driving under the influence which carries a maximum sentence of up to 8 1/2 years in prison. now that the prosecution has this confession in hand, they could present their case to the grand jury as early as next week. >> jason carroll, thank you. cordle's lawyer said he was not aware that that video had been released, but he called it a testament to the integrity and character of his client. still to come on "newsroom,"
sentence. >> reporter: ultimately sheen says cordle's goal is to help stop others from drinking and driving. >> your victims can still be saved. so, please,. >> reporter: the prosecution plans to charge cordle with aggravated vehicular homicide as well as driving under the influence. that carries a maximum sentence of up to 8 1/2 years and now that they have this confession, they could present their case to the grand jury as early as next week. for "outfront," jason carroll, new york. >> poignant story, and let us know what you think about it, what you think about his confession and what you think about that sentence, of course, you can always reach me on twitter. still to come more potential waste by the irs. we've got the tape. where your money is ending up. and big boats and big money, what it takes to win yachting's greatest and riskiest prize. and the video that has set the web on fire. will this be the thing? that finally puts an end to
val want -- valiant attempts to save it. what a story. gregg: closing arguments set for today in the court-martial trial of accused fort hood shooter nidal hasan. hasan putting on almost no defense at all against charges that he murdered 13 people in 2009. casey stiegel is live from fort hood, texas. casey, he want ad piece of evidence presented to the jury. what is it? >> reporter: gregg, just one single piece of evidence and it's a glowing performance evaluation that he received while he was practicing as a psychiatrist in the u.s. army. court starts in about five minutes at the top of the hour and we have a busy day ahead. here is how it will all go down. first the jury will get all their instructions on the charges from the judge, then we move straight into closing arguments. the prosecution plans on taking an hour or so, using a power point presentation. this it goes to major hasan, hard telling how much or how little time he will take.
looking at his relatives often and even smiling. now, this trial could last three to four months as the prosecution plans to call 100 witnesses. another day in court after hearing from 18 witnesses in the defense then rested its case in the murder trial of george zimmerman this all going down yesterday. however, the big question was whether or not the self-described neighborhood watch volunteer would actually take the stand. >> whether or not you want to testify in this case. >> yes, your honor. >> after those discussions have you made a decision? >> yes, your honor. >> and what is your decision? >> after consulting with counsel, not to testify your honor. >> his attorney later spoke about that decision. >> it's strange. for a year and a half he's been hiding.