i suppose that is my form of steven chu levity degette i can't see any one of the religion that i have been studying until now that it's any better than any of the others. i don't see any of the mass superior. each one of them has its own particular genius, its own particular take on what we call the sacred and the good life. and if each has its own particular drawbacks and failings because these are human institutions as sacred ones. so, at the moment it's not -- it's an unorthodox position. but i get nourishment from my study i think. >> host: what is the most frequent question people ask you? >> guest: what you just asked, where are you now. they asked me about death a lot. surely what religion is about the afterlife. and i am very conscious now that i've come into the last phase of my life. so many people i know who died, and i seem to be heading up there to be next up in nicu as it were. and i have no thoughts about the afterlife. one of the things i've discovered is that is not a religious preoccupation. really it's only christianity and judy is on. -- judaism. in the eastern tra

>> we have information that we can present to the entire acquisition steven chu this summer. >> good. we will anxiously await that and hopefully you will share that with us so that we can figure out the best way to move this ball. cost containment, cost growth and resource constraints have happened at the same time. you saw a $53 million for s.a.m. but only received 7 million. the time line has slipped. weording to the 2012 report, hoped for early 2014 to read it has slipped to 2015. as we slipped this timeline, it is robbing peter to pay paul. the underlying legacy system has to be paid and that is wasting money down the drain. how realistic do you think the current timeline for thelementation of s.a.m. is, 2015 timeline? >> it is related to the options that we are working with omb and the acquisition communities to develop. what lessons did we learn from s.a.m.? we needed to reform the acquisitions systems and create a new modern acquisition environment. you are right that it is challenges -- challenging and will be difficult for us to pull off. we demonstrated the latter with our v