comments from major hasan. ashleigh? >> maybe not surprising, but definitely, ed, not how you normally see a murder defendant open up a case. ed lavendera, keep your eye on this for us and give us the updates as they do come into you. thank you. i also want to move to the whole notion of what's going on in that courtroom. joining us now with his take on this court-martial is criminal defense attorney, steve razor. he's also a former judge advocate general in the u.s. army, so he knows a thing or two about court-martialing process. steve, i'm sure that you are not astounded by this opening statement, but it is bizarre, nonetheless. is this something whereby major hasan can't plead guilty by law, but he is darned well going to do it by fact in this case, isn't he? >> yes. and apparently, that's the preferred method for him, because a plea of guilty obviously would be quick and the case would be done. this allows him to, in essence, as you indicated, to plead guilty through a trial, which is very rare, but is exactly what