abrams is trying to calculate just how much labor the king had under his command. how many workers were required to build the palace of 18 rabbit ? abrams: it would be wonderful to observe mayan indians building the structures that they built at copan. of course, that's impossible, so we have to set up experiments which replicate the behaviors as best as possible. keach: abrams times each of the construction phases as the maya might have performed them. knowing the maya used only stone tools, abrams estimates that two people could quarry over 3,000 pounds of rock in a day. he times the other processes, like transportation, knowing that the maya had no wheels or draft animals. abrams also times the manufacture of the blocks and construction of part of a wall. five cubic feet takes 80 minutes. by measuring all the walls in a building, abrams estimates the time needed to complete the masonry. he then adds this figure to the times for other processes like back-filling dirt behind the walls and plastering the exterior. abrams: i selected structure 22 to quantify as an e

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and then finally, i have to point out that elliott abrams said he preferred the american model to the french model. although steve hadley said that he thinks some of the american people are becoming french. i was a little disturbed to hear that. with that, let me turn now to this extraordinary panel of experts and introduce them to you. first, let me tell you what we've asked them to reflect on and you'll find a remarkable similarity to the other themes of this conversation. this isn't every r everything we asked them to do. this is give you a feel for the kinds of things we asked them to give some thought to. where a free and fair democratic system would make resume for all religious actors is best for egypt and the other arab spring countries in the long run? second, whether a regime of robust religious freedom which we practice is an essential component of religious democracy, whether robust religious freedom is likely to moderate the liberal radicalism of some of the religious actors or is it to the contrary more likely to unleash the liberal radicalism? and then finally, here we

the troops want the abrams and bradley. another place that has really shown where i would have said five years ago that the navy wouldn't have a chance in a war like this because of anti-shipping missiles. five carriers came down and put tremendous pressure on the iraqis. it was a very, very positive effort. they were launched in 1975, a 6 ,000-man crew. you will see them in the -- a 6,000 man crew. the u.s.s. baatan, carries a bunch of helicopters, depending on the mission. it carries landing craft. the landing craft lead the marines capture an airfield. a wonderful system that is put together. the apache took a lot of criticism in afghanistan and iraq, but when the battlefield is prepared when you used artillery and fixed-win aircraft correctly it is a good system. the chief of staff at the time -- no -- i'm sorry. i got ahead of myself. the boeing c-17 a. it was held -- it was an object of derision in the product, now boeing. it was held as a product of derision. less aspin called the chief be staffs and demanded he fire

not only is miss abrams an exceptional jurist, there is no doubt that having miss abrams serve on the federal judiciary will bring us closer to that goal. i ask my republican colleagues to come together now around the shared value that we believe as a nation, as a body that everyone deserves justice. we have to work together now because as it stands, there is' is' -- there is not enough judges right now to do the work that our overloaded courts need them to do. we have to be able to hand down justice in a timely manner. former attorney general to president george w. bush michael mukasey recently remarked that the civil litigation system has ground to a halt. that is not the kind of system the american people deserve, and we cannot let partisan politics and political bickering get in the way of allowing our judicial system to function properly. i recommend miss abrams because of her dedication to the law, her commitment to fairness and her ability to serve the people of the great state of new york with dignity and integrity. i have been very honored to recommend her for this position,

dan abrams., it's a very complicated legal case. isn't it? because of the various laws that florida has relation to stand your ground and so on and concealed weapons and all the other facets to this make it complicated. from everything that you've seen and read that is factual so far, what is your overview about this case? should the police based on all we now know have arrested george zimmerman on that night? >> we still don't know about the most crucial question. that's exactly what happened that precipitated this event. we know a lot about all the circumstances surrounding it, but there are still some key questions. and look, i'm not in any rush here. i think that the authorities ought to take their time. with that said, i expect that there be an indictment. i expect that after the authorities review all of the evidence here, after they speak to all of the witnesses, some of whom they didn't speak to early on, it does seem that the publicity surrounding this has led to a lot more information,

>>> and we're back with daniel levy, brettsteins, rula jibrail, and elliott abrams.truck in the "new york times" this week that with all this stalk about iran and the way in which the subject has been -- as dan was saying, redefined by bebe, the palestinian issue has just fallen by the wayside and the article described how the palestinian leadership was almost kind of so marginalized they didn't know what to do. >> well, it's ru. if you look at the obama-netanyahu white house appearance together in the oval office, the word palestine did not escape the lips of either man. nor did it get mentioned by netanyahu in his big apaic speech. i think this is partly because they're expecting not only the american election this year and a possible israeli election this year. nothing will happen until 2013. i think there is a certain satisfaction that they're off the front page because if they were on it, they would not know what to do. >> dan, isn't it fair to say that obama kind of miscalculated, whatever your position on the issue, he got out maneuvered by the israeli governm

. >> tell him al abrams says hello. i worked for him in the '80s. >> i know. [laughter] >> al -- [inaudible conversations] >> hello, hello! >> he was claiming he was -- [inaudible conversations] >> no, no, no. >> al abrams? well, you tell al, tell al, give him the usual greeting, you ornery old -- >> i will, i'll do it just for you. >> thank you for coming by. this is madness. who was that? who was that? some phantom, i don't know. >> you have a longstanding relationship with -- >> was that norm m irk neta? >> long relationship. >> yeah. >> anyway, i don't know. [inaudible conversations] >> starting out minimally -- [inaudible conversations] yeah, i've got all my arguments, i've got people worried about this now. they don't want to raise taxes because grover says no. >> i say, look, when coburn takes off -- [inaudible conversations] he calls it ludicrous, tom did, and i call it deceptive. >> yeah. tom's helping on this. >> oh, he -- yeah. >> i'm gaining ground. >> pick up a vote or two. [laughter] ann is in there. >> oh, she's in there? >> sam donaldson said h

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abc news legal analyst, dan abrams. the defense rolling out the witnesses, speaking about his behavior before the crash. >> it's a two-part defense. number one, he wasn't drunk. and number two, that the bentley malfunctioned. currently, we're in phase one of the defense, which is the whole point he wasn't drunk. people coming in, saying, i was with him. he didn't seem drunk. the problem is the numbers. he actually blew in a breathalyzer that showed he was drunk. his claim is he started drinking after the incident. that afterwards, to calm his nerves, he took some drinks. but in each one of these instances, it's not putting a legal burden on the defendant, but a practical one, in order to demonstrate, i was drinking later. i wasn't drunk before. the bentley had the problems. these are all little facts that the defense kind of has to show, even though there's no legal burden on the defense in this case. >> these really play like hurdles, to a degree. are there any holes in the prosecution's case that the defense can explo

tell him al abrams says hello. i worked for him in the '80s. [laughter] >> hello, hello! >> he was claiming he was alan simpson. >> no, i'd never do that, i'm not tall enough. >> al abrams? >> yeah. >> tell al, give him the usual greeting. >> i will, i'll do it just for you. >> thank you for coming by. this is madness. >> yeah. >> who was that? who was that? some phantom. >> [inaudible] longstanding relationship. >> was that norm mineta? anyway -- [inaudible] >> i'm starting out minimally, but i'm not getting any support -- [inaudible conversations] >> yeah, i've got all my arguments. i've got people worried about it now, they don't want to raise taxes because grover says no. >> i say, look, when coburn takes six billion out of the ethanol and grover calls it -- [inaudible] he calls it ludicrous, tom did, and i call it descent -- deceptive. >> yeah. tom's helping on this, so's -- [inaudible] i'm gaining ground. >> pick up a vote or two. [laughter] >> ann is in there. sam tondson said -- donald said he would -- [inaudible conversations] >> i didn't write this book. i don't

nixon wished to fire the united states commander in vietnam, general craig abrams, because he was not acting forcefully enough. in 1972, in the beginning of the year, when the north vietnamese launched the eastern offenses, mr. nixon immediately criticized the air force for not developing sufficiently potent plans for hitting north vietnam. in fact, the christmas bombings that occurred in december 1972, in which we sent 150 b-52 bombers, was prefigured the middle of april of that year when mr. nixon specifically wrote in memos that he sent to the pentagon, i want a plan thursday morning to hit hanoi with 100 b-52 bombers. he was constantly pushing and pushing. this is the kind of thing you have to explain. it's not limited. there was a plane shot down. the immediate response that knicks be son ordered was an armedbñ-v attack, similar to at north korea. i actually with a colleague here from the nixon library, did the oral history interview with former secretary of defense melvin laird and he explained how he had to deconstruct this nixon order to go attack north korea. so the historia

middle east policy makers from the obama and bush administrations, dennis ross, steve hadly and elliot abrams. it will be moderated by our own scholar. in the afternoon, i'll moderate our second and final panel when will explore the impliyations and how it effects the other nations of the arab spring, let us begin, i want to produce monica duffy tuft who will moderate the first panel. she is an associate professor in the kennedy school of law. professor toft is the coauthor with tim shaw and danielphilpot of the boom "god's century." she is also with professor's shaw and philpot, a member of our scholars team. >> this morning we have been tasked with investigating the space of religious extremism. and the degree to the which the exclusion or inclusion of religious actors and political parties in the political process provokes violence. so i'm joined by three panelists and we will move from the more general, and she is an author of -- price of freedom denied, religious conflict in the 21st century and a head of a doctoral committee. he has written suicide bombers in iraq, and the third, kwh i

nixon wished to fire the united states commander in vietnam, general creighton abrams, because he was not acting forcefully enough. in 1972 in the beginning of the year when the north vietnamese launched their easter offensive, mr. nixon immediately criticized the air force for not developing sufficiently potent plans for hitting north vietnam. in fact, the christmas bombing that occurred in december 1972 in which we sent 100 b-52 bombers against hanoi was prefigured as early as the middle of april of that year when mr. nixon specifically wrote in memos that he sent to the pentagon, i want a plan thursday morning to hit hanoi with 100 b-52 bombers. mr. nixon was constantly pushing and pushing for the most forceful option imaginable. this is the kind of thing you have to explain. it's not limited to vietnam for that matter. early in the nixon administration there was an american reconnaissance plane that was shot down off the north korean coast, an aircraft of the type called the ec-121. the immediate response that nixon ordered was an armed attack similar to what we did after the gulf

arab spring and the participants in this panel include former bush administration officials elliott abrams, a former deputy national security adviser, stephen hadley and former middle east peace negotiator dennis ross. live coverage resuming here on c-span3.

moreover, and this is something that dennis ross and stephen hadley and elliott abrams and i'm surprised that i agree with so much of some of what they said because my politics is a little different than theirs. moreover, you would think that in elections and in participation of elections that the voting public or electorate would make future decisions based on performance, based on whether these groups have delivered jobs, whether they have established better educational systems, health care that wasn't deteriorating, whether they generated economic progress as opposed to simply the idea that somehow the sharia is the answer. the other thing related is not directly implied. i want to highlight it a little bit is that there does seem to be an assumption and i have a little bit of difficulty with this that the type of government in a place like egypt or tune eesh tunisia or elsewhere should look like the government that we have here in the united states. we suspect it to look quite different. the key thing, however, is whether these political systems, constitutions, institutions are robus

kelvin abrams came up with the idea. >> i read an article on the internet.l we want off in the back of my head. >> jane loves it and so do all her friends. ice cream and cold water, dog treats and more. >> it's good stuff. >> reporter: the truck is ready to roll. and you'll be seeing it all over the baltimore area. >> people in dog parts have asked us to come out and serve ice cream. >> reporter: four flavors for your four legged friends. >> our dogs are our human friends. like i always used to say. they're just humans in little fur coats. we get poisoned with ice cream so why not spoil you dog with christ cream. >> the >>> straight ahead on wjz eyewitness news at 4:00 -- >>> chaos in the courtroom. a not guilty verdict and find out why no one is going to jail for four murders. >>> scary moments at'. it ends people into a panic. >>> and a beautiful day outside right now. are the rain and clouds moving in. >>> complete coverage continues with denise cone, vick carter, and first warning weather with bob turk and meteorologist tim williams and sports with mark

. >> dan abrams and pete williams are just outside and they are reading the ruling even as we go to them. pete, what do we know? is this a split decision? >> it would appear to be so. it's not signed by any single justice. the senior justice, justice john paul stephens leaves little doubt there's no room for a recount. justice suter says, we think he's talking about what could have happened. >> if there's no room for a recount, this election is over for vice president al gore. all his political aids are saying if they lose on the recount it's over. >> i see nothing in think way that's incompatible with that tom. >> that was how it ended. the presidential election was decided not in november, but in december of that year, more than a month after the election and it was decided at the courthouse. on election night, which had been 35 days before you just saw pete williams on the courthouse steps there, every other state in the union has turned in a defentive election result it was chaos. george w. bush won, maybe. after recounts and the republican so called brooks brother riot to interfere

abrams shooting a rabbit while you stand on a mountain?emind me not to invite herman cain over for easter. the last video he pretended to kill a gold fish. it's all part of his fix the economy or i'll kill your pets campaign. he put out another one today, featuring a beloved family pet. at least in this one, the animal lives. >> this dog represents government spending. the ladies represent you, the average taxpayer. you're getting humped by the dog. >> if you need a real human to hump you, i'm available. >> jimmy: gont forget to spa and neuter your government. here's another good animal video. this is a guy walking through what appears to be a park, probably on his way to a meeting. he's dressed up in a suit. suddenly he's frond by a goose. an angry goose. not a silly goose. instead of running, which is what i would do, he decides to have a duel with the goose. really teach it a lesson never to bother a human being again. but the goose -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: now it's a real slug fest. he looks like he's about to get out, but no, no, no,

dana, isn't that like putting jack abram in charge of lobby i ing? >> right.b serving as his national spokesman. if there's one group in american society that's been under represented and underprivileged. >> and lacking influence. >> that's the group we're talking about. it's not helpful to mitt romney because he's already seen as this gordon gecko character. it's happening to him over and over again. hiss own sentiments are lined up for that image. >> speaking of the candidate, how much more on newt and rick going to make romney and his spuper pacs spend. they don't appear to have a clear path poth nomination. they can make it expensive for mr. romney, can't they? >> that's exactly right. that's one of the reasons why the gop establishment, folks here in washington are so nervous about this primary going on and on and on into june is because mitt romney has not really thrived on big donors as well as his super pac. there's only so much he can raise and many of them are already maxed out. they have given as much as they can for the primary and already given mo

and a mathematician from abrams university show med where that number comes from. >> it's the same forwing any night. here's the formula for the number. >> and for all you math nerds, this is a factorial equation. starting at 56 down. so this tells you how many tickets there are for the first five numb barnes that's the last number. >> and the answer? >> very large. >> the answer is 175,711,536. >> so this is the number. these are your odds. so 1 in this number the odds of winning. >> that's correct. >> that's act how many glades of grass there are on a football field. >> yo so you're telling me you're not playing the lottery. you half at us who play? >> well, i probably won't play. >> what about the odds of having mull pl winners? now that the jackpot is so high. >> because there are so many tickets shold for this particular draw, that makes it much more likely there will be multiple winners. so if you do win the jackpot, you ear very likely to share the jackp jackpot. >> my team, we just put in some pun. a lot of people are doing the office pool thing. that has to increase your odds,

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let's bring in our legal analyst, dan abrams.this awfully tall mountain? >> in cases like this, you see one of two defenses. blame the hitman. this was his plan. i never intended for this to happen. or that it was a complete and total misunderstanding. i never wanted my husband killed. maybe i wanted him roughed up or not at all. we don't know what her defense will be. when you have this kind of evidence. the notes from her, recordings, you tend to see one of those type of defense. >> and we have what would seem to be a brutal eyewitness, the restaurant owner making the recordings, turning them over to the police. the fulcrum of the case? >> no question. the defense will go after this guy. they'll say he's not telling the truth. if he's saying she wanted her husband dead, the defense has to go after him. he'll become a crucial witness. >> we have this blog she was keeping. it reads as something written by the all-american mom. an emt. a sympathetic figure. you think that could play into the prosecution's hands? >> yes. the defens

. >> we're going to bring in dan abrams. what are the issues?act from the law. he is told not the get out of the car on the 911 call. he gets how any way. he makes the comment, they always get away. >> they. >> they, right, unclear what he means, but it's not helpful to his case. allegations the police are putting words into people's mouth. and the fact that trayvon was unarmed. the difficulty here is the florida law. they have a law called the stand your ground law. in most state, you're retiquire to retreat. you don't have the right to shoot someone on the street if you feel you're in danger. in florida, you do have that right. that's what the prosecutors are relying on. >> you just said it. zimmerman got out of hais car, admitted he was following him. how can you claim self-defense when you're the aggressor? >> it's a good question. it's who is the aggressor at the moment it occurred. hypothetical situation. let's say zimmerman gets out of the car, follows trayvon. trayvon turns around and wants to know who is following him, gets aggressive w

. >> we turn to our "gma" legal analyst, dan abrams. where to begin. the defense.ng a $250,000 car on trial first. is the >> two things to explain. number one, the drinking. the reason he was drunk, he was drink after the zeaccident. they're going to call in experts from bentley to suggest that the car could have lurched forward. to say those two things happened at the same time is where it will be difficult. on his face, he shows he's drunk according to the breathalyzer. now he left the seen, now he's got to explain each and every one of those facts taken together is tough. a tough defense. >> we were saying, okay, maybe one without the other. but to have all of that and expect the jury to believe all of it seems a bit much. you say you have to have it all? >> somehow he's got to explain what happened here. there's -- someone died here. this is a serious, serious case. and he's got to explain why he was the one in the accident. why he didn't stay. and why he shouldn't be found guilty here. prosecutors have the burden of proof. you have this kind of defense, the de