bob schaffer has more on what it after a lot of the plot and tax dollars spent and other things to tell us why we need to go metric is in trick system that's about to go. he wasn't talking about ronald reagan didn't ask the metric system. he descended a something called the u.s. metric board delete either was playing in one of them earlier. the report went on to interview a few folks about these issues including these two who are arch enemies. tom wolfe was working on the vanities but his big point had been the right stuff of astronauts. so he goes on and was noting that nassau has managed to go to the moon and it was to blame on the blame on the collectibles he believed things were done better in europe and for the most obedient colonials when it comes to things intellectual. the other guy wolves have actually introduced and have been one of the merry pranksters that he had gone on to found the catalog in his commencement speech they called google. he was against anything in the world against the global capitalism which he took the metric system was doing. he also believed really deepl

. >> next, bob schaffer host a discussion on the militant group isis and what the u.s. response should be. the panel includes a former bush administration national security office are -- advisor and julianna goldman of cbs news. also part of the csi team, senior advisor on transnational threats, homeland security, and counterterrorism. was the deputy national security advisor in the bush administration. a former federal prosecutor who worked on terrorism cases, including the investigation of the uss cole. finally, julianna goldman, our newest cbs news correspondent. she is based here in washington and she came over from bloomberg in august and has more than a decade of experience. she covered both president obama's presidential campaigns and went with them to china. she got the first one-on-one interview with the president after his reelection and reported from the white house on the night that osama bin laden was killed. wrote but after trying hard to downplay policy in syria and iraq, the white house has dived in. you said the recorded the headings of two americans ha

. >>> today cbs news bob schaffer modrates a discussion when when combatting isis. our live coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> some of the upcoming cases include the racial gerrymandering of congressional districts, whistleblower protections and the religious liberties of prisoners live on c-span 2. >>> now a discussion on how the affordable care act is being implemented in southern states including florida, kentucky and texas. this forum hosted by the state university of new york's rockefeller institute is about 90 minutes. >> let's get started. good afternoon and welcome to the national press club. i'm tom gais. the public policy research arm of the state university of new york. today's forum examines implementation of the affordable care act in the south. first we hear an overview of state's responses and then we will hear from individual states from the respective research teams. finally, we will have a wide ranging discussion among four excellent analysts on what the experiences mean to national health reform. the reports and the forum come out