some of the debates on the floor of the house and senate, and the committee meetings, and i would muchto ask -- how involvement or input are you getting from the medical profession itself? -- i think the great majority of doctors are not badlyh prescribers or intentioned prescribers, the outliers. and there are many patients who .o have chronic pain say cutting off, making rules arbitrarily about cutting days a person of can have a prescription for, etc., is unwise. host: ruth, we will take your point. congressman? guest: you make your point. we have to have a careful balance. we have had a lot of input from the medical community. most of us have had roundtables back in our districts. i have had metal health -- mental health advocates, law enforcement, and the patient community as well. if you watch the debate on the house floor, it is pretty stirring. as people grapple with just awful pain that has got to be relieved for them to feel that they can even live to the next day. we have some pretty powerful drugs out there as well that deals with that. but as we know, they can be addictive.

if you go back to what paul ehrlich wrote and how many people are going to be bernanke how muchto be born and food we produce, there is a disconnect between those numbers. weyou look at the oil that produce and the oil we consume, there is a disconnect. these feel like they will be problems and there will be places where they create pressures but they are also likely things that we will find ways to cope with. host: back there. audience member: following up on the previous question, what is one big thing that al gore got right, and what is one big thing that al gore got wrong? [applause] will answer in vague terms because i don't pay much attention to what al gore says. al gore has been a very destructive force in the climate debate. the things that he says that are an accurate obviously do a direct the service to the debate, but they also encourage people from the other side to say climate science is a joke. i'm sure he knows something about climate science but he is not doing climate science. and folksl gore focused on that kind of climate communication, something they outright, th

we're muchto closen election day now than then. >> tea c coverageing up in less than 30 minutes on "nbc nightly news." p >>> ance george county teacher is suing the school district. she says the principal at ardmore elementary school bullied her and should be fired. beth women are on leave. what the school system is doi. >> i have in my hand an order of protection she received. >> reporter: this has now become a legal matter. >> wha i would like to see that the bullying stop. >> reporter: sitting next to her attorney, crutchfield said she's suing prince george's county schools and suing for the principal atyrdmore eleme to be fired. she said she's been bullying her for years. two weeks ago things esca lated. >> i don'tnow what led up to her being angry and hostile with me at this time. t >> reporte confrontation erupted in the parking lot between the principal and crutchfield on june 12th. both women have been placed on administrative leave and this letter was sent home to parents because it's possible students witnessed the incident. crutch field's attorney, charles tucker, saysnc the

some of the debates on the floor of the house and senate, and the committee meetings, and i would muchto ask -- how involvement or input are you getting from the medical profession itself? -- i think the great majority of doctors are not badlyh prescribers or intentioned prescribers, the outliers. and there are many patients who .o have chronic pain say cutting off, making rules arbitrarily about cutting days a person of can have a prescription for, etc., is unwise. host: ruth, we will take your point. congressman? guest: you make your point. we have to have a careful balance. we have had a lot of input from the medical community. most of us have had roundtables back in our districts. i have had metal health -- mental health advocates, law enforcement, and the patient community as well. if you watch the debate on the house floor, it is pretty stirring. as people grapple with just awful pain that has got to be relieved for them to feel that they can even live to the next day. we have some pretty powerful drugs out there as well that deals with that. but as we know, they can be addictive.