that is the immediate process confronting lawmakers retina. -- right now. then it is a question of how much more room do you make in the legislation for other energy policies given that it is something they may want to move quickly on. host: virginia, independent line. caller: thank you for c-span. i am a first-time caller. keep this bill moving. we need things to export. have a great day. host: phoenix, republican line. caller: thanks for your contributors, c-span, and the people that call in. it is a really complicated issue. it is a shame that -- it is hard to implement policy emissions, epa regulations when everything is coming from the top down. we under estimate as consumers the ability for us to change how we buy from, what we buy -- who we buy from, and what we buy. the oil companies have tons of money. if we, write to them and the legislature, they have lobbyists that will go to washington for us. i am conservative. i am in an area where my environment, my responsibility as a consumer and what i can choose to purchase and choose to say to the compa

. >> before i met jack, he did some research on the eye in death where he looked at the retinas of people in their last moments and noted the changes in the vessels in the back of the eye. >> i went down and checked the corpses and i took photographs of the eye. how long after death how things changed so i could tell a time after death. >> it had to do with transplant surgery. >> it was much harder to know back then when somebody died and minutes could make the difference in whether an organ is usable or not. >> so i did it. and then you get the -- they start calling you dr. death back then, see, because i was dealing with corpses all the time. but then when organ transplants came and they had the person who's terminal, they've got to know when he's dead to take his organs. what did they do? they paid billions of dollars in machines to make sure he's dead. look in the eye. you can tell from the heart each beat. you know, they didn't pay attention to it. they just ignored it when i published it. >> larry: i should welcome back to "larry king live" dr. jack kevorkian. this documentary premi

in the first year of the retina ministration, president reagan announced the nation's war on drugs. his wife nancy was involved in the just say no campaign. we have the establishment of the office you now hold. in those decades, i would wager this country has spent billions of dollars on drug education, introduction, prosecution, and yet drug usage rates continues to grow almost at an alarming rate. what are we to take away from that? guest: i think one of the things, not calling it a war would be quite helpful. it is both a public safety problem and very much a public health problem. and in dealing with it holistic play -- and president obama released his national drug control strategy a little over a month ago from the oval office, dealing with it hold mystically and a balanced way. it will probably have more effect in the long front -- long run. it is about prevention, education, and treatment, and it is also about the criminal justice system. host: to do it effectively, the policy community has to understand root causes. maybe that is what i'm getting at. what is the understandi