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Are We Fighting to Win in Iraq?; What are Iran`s Motivations?

Aired September 06, 2006 - 19:00   ET

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GLENN BECK, HOST: All right. Politicians are blabbering on about Donald Rumsfeld, and they`re completely missing the point. I`ll try to translate Washington`s bull crap to plain English, coming up.
Also, Osama bin Laden, the president of Iran and George W. Bush all agree on one thing. It is World War III. Details coming up.

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BECK: All right. By now you know the deal on this program. It`s at this point in the show that I say something that may shock you, but you have to give me a few minutes to explain it, because it`s just the plain old truth. Here`s tonight`s exclusive.

If liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, fat people and skinny people don`t find common ground soon, we`re all going to die. OK? Here`s how I got there.

This week the Democrats and some Republicans are uniting. They`re uniting on a plan to make Donald Rumsfeld the target of their latest Iraq attack by offering a Senate resolution, expressing no confidence in the administration`s Iraq policy and in Rumsfeld`s ability to handle his job. You don`t think this has anything to do with the upcoming election, do you?

Let me get this out on the table. If you`re a new viewer and you don`t know who I am, that`s fine. Hello, my name is Glenn. I`m an alcoholic, and I`m a conservative.

I appreciate Donald Rumsfeld`s plain and spoken nature. The guy is single-handedly trying to change the culture of the Pentagon, which isn`t real easy so do. You make an awful lot of enemies, and those enemies happen to have guns.

With that being said, good heavens. Don Rumsfeld, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? No, let me rephrase that. Because I know what we`re doing there. I have no clue as to why we`re doing it this way.

If you want to avoid another Vietnam -- call me crazy -- if you want to avoid the Vietnam, you fight to win instead of fighting not to lose. And that`s what we`re doing right now.

I support the war. I support the troops. I support what the president is trying to do in Iraq, or at least I think -- I`m not even really sure any more. Because it doesn`t seem to me like we`re fighting with everything we`ve got.

Good heavens, man. We are the most powerful nation on the planet. How is it we haven`t crushed these people like bugs yet? Why didn`t we go in with full force and massive troops? Do you remember shock and awe? I remember hearing about -- well, now I can`t even -- what is that going to look like? My reaction to shock and awe was not so much, really.

As I see it, troops are like M&Ms. All right? I might not want to eat the full one-pound bag that I see at the grocery store, but when I`m at the grocery store, I`m buying the one full, big, you know, full pound bag of M&Ms just in case. That way I know I`ll always have enough.

We should have poured a pound of M&Ms in troops on Iraq instead of just the snack size.

We`re still trying to be this kinder, gentler nation. But war isn`t kind or gentle. Call me crazy.

If the terrorists take refuge in a mosque, then kill them there, even if that means destroying the mosque. Don`t worry. We`ll help you rebuild it later, because that`s the kind of suckers we seem to be.

That`s how you win a war. Our kindness in battle is perceived as a weakness, and that`s going to be our undoing.

So here`s what I know tonight. We need to come together on this. We need to put politics aside. We`re in this war. Now, let`s decide how to win it.

You know, I have a hard time listening to a debate about Donald Rumsfeld. Why? I`ve stopped listening, because I don`t think it`s honest debate. It`s all about an election.

Thomas Jefferson once said question everything. Question with honesty and boldness. Question with boldness even the existence of a God. You know, that quote, when I first read it, changed my life.

Politicians seem to only question things as Democrats and Republicans, and they only question enough just to win an election. We need to question things as Americans. Look for the honest answer as Americans and win as Americans.

That`s why I said at the top of the show if we can`t come together on this, we`re all going to be dead, man.

I also know that, while it would make us all feel better to bring our sons and daughters back -- I love that idea. Let`s just come on back. My nephew is over there. My God, it would be great if he could just come home.

But how many hundreds of thousands of people died because we left Vietnam too soon because we just wanted out? If you just quit now, any influence you have in the world, gone!

How much would the Iraqis hate us if we pulled out now? We`re the ones who started it. We need to put the pieces back together, finish the job, and finish it right. Then we can come home.

The American people need to stop calling this war in Iraq "the war in Iraq." This is World War III, possibly of biblical proportions. It`s not about Iraq; it`s more about Iran. I`ll explain later in the show.

Now, here`s what I don`t know. This may come as a surprise to you, you know, seeing that I`m a former DJ. I`m no military strategist. Believe it or not, I have absolutely no idea what an actual tactic that would lead to a victory in Iraq would look like.

But we all need to come to a consensus on this, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans, so let`s start here. Let`s see if we can find an answer on how to win and bring our troops home.

Larry Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior advisor for the Center for Defense Information, served as assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan.

Larry, flat out, what do we have to do to win?

LARRY KORB, SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: Well, in many ways, it`s too late to achieve the objective because, as you pointed out, Rumsfeld planned only for the best, did not buy that big bag of M&Ms that you were talking about, did not have enough troops on the ground to get the country under control after the fall of Saddam.

He has also refused to increase the size of the Army and the Marine Corps, so we simply don`t have enough troops to send more there right now.

BECK: Spooky question for you, while we`re here. What -- if something else happens, how do we fight it?

KORB: That`s the problem. You`ve taken 70 percent of the material that the Marines have around the world in case they have to go someplace else, you`ve used it in Iraq. Rumsfeld thought we could win this with technology. We`d be greeted as liberators, and we`d be home by the end of 2003. So they did not plan for this -- for this long war. And now you`re in a situation where you`re going to have to try and make the best of a bad hand.

BECK: OK. Larry, I don`t know if you were for or against what we were doing in Iraq, and you know -- and quite frankly I don`t care anymore. I just want to know how do we win? What is the -- what is the thing that we need to do? Not as Republicans or Democrats but as Americans. What do we do?

KORB: What we need to do is get the Iraqis to make the political compromises, the tradeoffs that will bring the country together. Right now it`s not a unified country. You see the Kurds are flying their own flag. The Sunnis refuse to support the government, because it`s dominated by the Shias. The Sunni speaker of the parliament, you know, wants out.

Mr. Maliki, who`s the head of the government, refused to disband the militias who are fighting his own armies. So you`re going to have to give them the incentive to make the compromises necessary...

BECK: What -- what is that incentive?

KORB: Well, the incentive is to tell them they can`t keep leaning on us as a crutch. That`s why you`ve got to set a deadline for us to get out of there.

BECK: All right. Let me play devil`s advocate with you then.

KORB: Sure.

BECK: Because I`ve never really agreed with the deadline thing because it basically says OK. You know, if I were on the other side, I`d say lay low, man. They`re leaving. Don`t cause any trouble. Lay low; as soon as the Americans leave, then we`ll go in.

KORB: Yes, but the other side is not unified. Less than 10 percent of the insurgents are foreigners. You have a lot of people there who are fighting simply because they think we`re the second coming of the British.

And once it`s clear we`re going, they`re not going to continue to support these insurgents. And then you`ve got the sectarian violence that people are trying to deal with things that have occurred over the last thousands of years, going back to the time of Mohammed.

And they`re not going to stop that until you create a unified Iraq that gives each of the groups their fair share of the benefits of that -- of that country.

BECK: Larry, I only have time for a yes or no on this. Yes or no. Our enemies are stronger and emboldened now because they smell our blood in the water?

KORB: Well, no, they`re not. Our real enemies are not. The -- some of the sectarian violence in Iraq, they`re looking at what we`re doing and figuring that they can get away with it, because we`re not doing anything.

BECK: Good. Thank you. Larry Korb.

Pundits now are debating whether, you know, a big campaign issue that`s here will be terrorism or Iraq. I personally think the voters could care less about either of these issues when politicians start blabbing. Not alone.

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ANNOUNCER: This is GLENN BECK.

BECK: OK. Coming up in just about three or four minutes I am going to introduce you to the real power in the Middle East.

Also coming up, Katie Couric. Post-Labor Day white. Wasn`t she lovely?

And a shocking case of abuse in an Alabama school. Coming up.

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BECK: Just a programming note. Coming up on tomorrow`s radio program Rush Limbaugh. We hope to have him here on the television program, as well, and Jamie Lee Curtis on the television program. Radio also Mitt Romney.

Now, with all of the talk about Iran lately, it seems like President Tom has been around forever, but the truth is that he`s only been in office for a little over a year now. And although he`s made a great first impression with sensational statements about wiping Israel off the map, those were fun, and putting an end to the west.

The truth is the president of Iran is kind of like that bold voice that was coming behind the curtain in "The Wizard of Oz". You know, "I am the great and powerful."

Not so much. Sounds pretty menacing when you`re there with the scarecrow. But when you pull the curtain aside you see the reality. Unfortunately, in this case, the reality is even spookier, because it is the supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khameini, who is really pulling all the strings since 1989 and has created an environment where basically nothing can happen in Iran without his express written approval.

I want you to think about that when you read a quote or when you hear me read this quote from President Tom that you`ve probably never heard before. I hadn`t heard it either until President Bush referenced it in a speech yesterday, and I ran to look it up. Listen to this quote.

"If you would like to have good relations with the Iranian nation in the future, bow down before the greatness of the Iranian nation and surrender. If you don`t accept to do this, the Iranian nation will force you to surrender and bow down."

Well, let`s talk with the U.N., shall we? Iman Foroutan, he is the executive director of the Iran of tomorrow movement.

Doctor, who is this guy who`s behind the power? First of all, does he agree with what President Tom just said?

IMAN FOROUTAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SOS IRAN: Absolutely, Glenn. Ayatollah Khameini, the supreme leader of Iran, is a one man dictatorship. He`s in full power in charge of all of the three sections of the government, the judiciary, the Congress, and the executive. And he has veto power over every single item that is passed by the Congress and the president.

So indeed, both Ahmadinejad and all the clerics who have been ruling the country, what we have to understand is that they`re going with the fundamentals of this Shiite sect says. They`re fanatics.

No. 1 is that the 12th imam is going to come on the day of the apocalypse and Ahmadinejad is trying to hasten that. So when the cities and the world is filled with blood, and this 12th imam is going to come out of the well on top of his horse and save the world. And basically kill all the infidels.

BECK: Let me stop you here for just a second, because this is kind of frightening, because I`m seeing things I`ve been saying for a while. All of this stuff is connected. President Bush finally came out a couple weeks ago and said it`s all connected.

We saw a line -- in fact we have it here -- from Osama bin Laden. He has declared that the capital of the califate will be in Iraq. He said, quote, "I now address the whole Islamic nation. Listen and understand. The most serious issue today for the whole world is this third world -- Third World War that is raging in Iraq."

The capital of the califate, that`s where Osama bin Laden says it is. This is also where this ayatollah says it`s going to be, is in Iran, and that is biblically Babylon, is it not?

FOROUTAN: Very close. In today`s Iraq, as you know, there is the Shia sect. There is this city called Karbala, and that`s where the Imam Ali, the first imam of the Shia sect, is buried. So -- and that`s where the -- Muqtada al-Sadr is, and obviously, we know that he`s funded by Iran and the Islamic Republic.

So all these are connected. And there`s documentation, many documentations, that over half of the insurgents inside of Iraq is supported, has been funded and planned by Iran.

BECK: All right. Now I want to give you -- I only have a minute, and if you can help me quickly. There is -- there is a word, taqiyya. I`ve never seen this word before. But apparently this is Islamic law that allows you -- for instance if you get into negotiations with the United Nations, you can lie as long as it services Islamic goals. Is that right?

FOROUTAN: Absolutely. If I understand it correctly -- correctly, you`re referring to the word taqiyya. That`s the third fundamental law of the Shiite sect of the Muslim people.

Basically, what it says is that go ahead and sign any contract with anyone including your enemies, and knowing well that you`re lying and you have no intention to do what the contract says, as long as it`s saying that it`s going to benefit, you know, Islam.

Therefore everything that the Islamic Republic in Iran has signed or will sign with the U.S., western countries, or United Nations is all a lie. They`ve proven it in the last 20 years, and they definitely will not honor their contract or whatever they`ve signed for.

BECK: Dr. Foroutan, thank you so much.

Now I want to go to some headlines that Iranians are reading today. This is the stuff for them, not for us. And the supreme leader is making the news.

Headline from the "Tehran Times". "Big Powers Ignite Wars to Sell Arms." The article here claims that the goal of the U.S. is to hold back Iran`s development by keeping the region in constant strife.

Here`s the quote from the ayatollah himself: "The western countries give arms to regional states in return for oil money so the grounds for wars and conflicts would remain in the region."

It took me a while. I had to read it a couple times to see if I got this right. The richest country in the world is only over in Iraq for the money. Never mind the threat of suicide bombers, the desire to wipe Israel off the map, the nuclear weapons, or that crazy desire to hasten the return of the 12th imam by causing global chaos.

Get this straight. We`re there for one reason and one reason only, to defend our way of life and to wipe these people off the face of the earth.

Stick around. More ahead.

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BECK: All right. Every day you can hear my radio program on stations all across the country, including 1290 WJNO, West Palm Beach, Florida, 580 WHP in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And Pat Gray does mornings on our affiliate in Houston, Texas, 950 KPRC.

Hello, Pat.

PAT GRAY, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Hello, Glenn.

BECK: Did you watch Katie Couric last night in her debut?

GRAY: In all her white glory.

BECK: Yes.

GRAY: Labor Day, I think you mentioned.

BECK: I understand. I mean, what is that -- it`s the new rule.

GRAY: I don`t know. And what was the deal about -- how lame is it that she`s looking to us for a sign-off? You`re making $18 million. You need me to help? Come on.

BECK: The thing -- the thing with Katie is I -- you know, look. It was her first night. Did you see my first night on television?

GRAY: I did. Unfortunately.

BECK: It was ugly. And it`s still pretty dicey every night.

GRAY: But that`s not her first night on television. It`s her first night in a new place.

BECK: Look, here`s what I said last night. I`m not a fan of Katie Couric, per se, her politics, and I don`t really know why CBS is trying to fix their image with somebody who also is really no more credible to the rest of the country than Dan Rather was.

GRAY: Right.

BECK: But they at least sense that times are changing, and the evening news is dead.

GRAY: Yes.

BECK: However, were you struck with -- by the whole thought that it was -- they practically came out and said hey, we`re Generation X-er`s just like you. You know?

GRAY: You touched on exactly the biggest problem. And politics aside, forget the political leanings, which we all know she has.

BECK: Right.

GRAY: But the other big rap on Katie Couric is, you know, she`s like a Three Musketeers candy bar. She`s fluffy, not stuffy.

BECK: Yes, right.

GRAY: So what`s the first -- one of the first stories they do is the baby Suri thing. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite when he was the most trusted man in American doing a story on baby Suri?

BECK: Well, but wait a minute. Hang on just a second. Times have changed. Times have changed.

GRAY: But has the news really changed that much? Is it...

BECK: No. Here`s -- here`s what I think they were going for. They were trying to show that this is not your father`s newscast. Or your grandfather`s. And unfortunately, I think they showed that it`s my grandmother`s. You know?

GRAY: At least they showed something.

BECK: Yes, it was more -- it was really -- and you know, maybe this is going to work for them. I don`t know. But it was really -- it was a chick broadcast.

GRAY: It was.

BECK: Wasn`t it?

GRAY: If you`re going to do a chick broadcast, why not bring in Mary Hart, let`s say, from ET? I mean...

BECK: I don`t know if Mary Hart is really...

GRAY: She`s just as perky, but not as chunky.

BECK: Yes.

GRAY: You wouldn`t need the PhotoShopping.

BECK: Right.

GRAY: You know. You`ve got the finished product.

BECK: Do you have a suggestion for her sign-off line? Because I have -- actually had a couple. Some listeners called in today. Was -- one was "I`m Katie Couric. Good night and remember your colonoscopy." That was one.

GRAY: I like that. I like that.

BECK: My favorite was. "I`m Katie Couric. Good night, sweet land of liberty." It`s a little -- you know, kind of fits into the "courage" thing.

GRAY: I was -- yes, but that`s already been done. The courage thing.

BECK: Yes, yes.

GRAY: I was thinking "I`m Katie Couric, and I just made $56,962.45. Good night." That`s kind of what I`m thinking.

BECK: For a half-hour of work. Absolutely unbelievable.

GRAY: For a half-hour of work.

BECK: All right, Pat. Thank you so much.

GRAY: All right.

BECK: And we will talk to you tomorrow.

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BECK: Right. OK. Welcome to the "Real Story." This is where we try to cut through the media spin to find out why a story is actually important to you.

Last night I told you about former Iranian President Khatami`s current propaganda tour of the U.S. among other stops. He`s scheduled to visit Harvard University this weekend to take part in a forum called Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence. I know. Pretty ironic, isn`t it?

Yesterday we focused on the fact about this story that it`s really more about us as a country allowing people like this to have a forum for their propaganda.

Well, today the real story is that someone with actual power and intelligence agrees with me. Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts. He issued a statement saying, quote, "State taxpayers should not be providing special treatment to an individual who supports violent jihad and the destruction of Israel. For him to lecture Americans about tolerance and violence is propaganda, pure and simple."

Thank you, Mitt Romney. Finally someone besides a radio talk show -- a clown basically saying what the rest of America is thinking. If you want to know the truth, don`t listen to Harvard which calls the speech quote, "a free exchange of ideas."

Listen to what Mitt Romney who says that Khatami is nothing more, quote, "than a wolf in sheep`s clothing," end quote. A wolf that we are allowing to walk right into the hen house. Mitt Romney be on my radio program tomorrow morning to talk about this, and we`ll of course keep our eye on the rest of the Khatami visit and update you as things develop.

While we`re on the topic of Iran one of the big headlines today is that the president is in the midst of a series of speeches regarding the war on terror including one yesterday to the Military Officer`s Association.

Most of the headlines today focus on the timing of the speech, just days prior to the fifth anniversary of September 11th. Unfortunately by focusing on the politics of when the speech occurred, all the journalists, thus you also, are missing the what, and that`s the real story.

Yesterday`s speech was remarkable. Because for the very first time the president used the terrorist`s own words to illustrate their intentions. We don`t have to guess what their plans are. They`re telling us. So what are the plans?

Well, first and foremost they`re working to establish a caliphate. Listen to this, please. The caliphate is a concept of a one world government -- sound familiar -- that begins with the unified Middle East governed by an extreme Islamic law. But the real key is how the caliphate ties into the war on terror. Listen to the president.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. PRESIDENT: They`ve made clear that the most important front in their struggle against America is Iraq. The nation bin Laden has declared the capital of the caliphate. Hear the words of bin Laden. "I now address the whole Islamic nation. Listen and understand. The most serious issue today for the whole world is this third world war that`s raging in Iraq."

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BECK: When the leader of your enemy tells you that this is World War III and that the central front of the war is in Iraq, you don`t cut and run. If you leave, you lose. Not just in Iraq, not just the whole Middle East. But World War III and the result will be exactly what they`ve been planning all along. A caliphate. A united Islamic state that would rival the greatest superpowers the world has ever known based squarely in the home of ancient Babylon. You do the math.

A few weeks ago I brought you a story about Kalie McArthur (ph). She`s a young mentally disabled girl who was sexually abused by her peer counselor in the stairwell of her school.

We spent a lot of time talking about the case and tonight we`re continuing to follow it with the real story, and that`s unfortunately this isn`t an isolated incident. It is something that happens far more than we want to believe, oftentimes in small little farm communities where everybody just sweeps this stuff up underneath the rug.

And in this case there`s a story of a 17-year-old special needs student from Alabama. She has an IQ of 49. She was sexually assaulted by the coach at the school until a TV viewer who was personally involved brought this story to us it had received virtually no attention.

So we investigated it. And in this month of my magazine "Fusion" we told the whole story, and it led us in a direction we never really expected.

This story really is about how we`re failing to protect the weakest among us. Just hours after the alleged assault, the young girl told her story to three different teachers. They were all special ed teachers. They did nothing.

Two days later after they did nothing the girl finally got up the courage to go to her mother. Told her mom. Both mom and child went to the school to the principal with the same allegations. Nothing. Nothing happened. Then they went to the police.

When the police arrived at the school, all four educators were arrested. Teachers each found guilty of failure to report a crime and sentenced to, get this, 40 whole hours of community service and $100 fine.

The principal was acquitted of all charges. Now, Randi Clark, is the girl`s aunt and Dana Gantry is the family`s attorney. Guys, first of all, I don`t want to spend time on the coach. He`s been indicted on a felony charge, but this is really about the school and the teachers, isn`t it?

DANA GANTRY, ATTORNEY FOR FAMILY, Absolutely. It`s definitely about the school and the teachers and their just absolute lack of responsibility toward this child.

BECK: Right, and the teachers -- it`s my understanding at least according to our own magazine here, they were trying to put a guilt trip on your niece?

RANDI CLARK, AUNT OF GIRL: : That`s correct. They did do that.

BECK: In what way? How did you mean that?

CLARK: I mean with retaliation against her since she`s gone back to school. Retaliation as far as her being in a class and having to take care of children that are in wheelchairs, that are in hospital beds, and when I say take care of, I mean feed, clean up after, clean up dishes, mop the floor, vacuum the floor instead of being in curricular classes.

BECK: All right. Dana, help me out on this. The district attorney or the assistant district attorney is quoted in "Fusion" as saying this, quote, "there seems to be a level of cover-up at the school. I think it`s clear that the teachers tried to cover it up to assist Mr. Moore. They did nothing to help the victim."

What was the cover up?

GANTRY: Well, I think that the issue, Glenn, at that point in time was probably just trying to cover up the actions of one of their fellow coworkers. I want everybody to understand we have I think the finest district attorney here in Russell County, Alabama anywhere across the country. He`s a wonderful man and a wonderful prosecutor and I think he`s going to attempt to see to it that justice is served in the case.

But the school board is still -- this child is still not matriculating through school. This child is still being held back, she`s still not in any type of core class, she was pulled out of this special needs program last year when this incident occurred, was not allowed to matriculate last year, is not in a program this year at this part of this year where she`s matriculating, and that`s just absolutely deplorable.

BECK: This is not a civil suit, you`re not looking for many or anything. What are you looking for in the lawsuit?

GANTRY: Well, at this point in time there`s no civil suit that`s been filed. I`ve been asked by the family to simply try to straighten out this little girl`s educational situation. They want this little girl to matriculate as best as she can and to have the same opportunities to do the best that she can do with her situation. And to be able to go along in school as if this incident never occurred, and it seems like since this incident`s occurred, the school`s not done anything but retaliate against this young child.

BECK: It doesn`t sound like -- In the article it doesn`t sound like this is the kind of district that does anything. This is, correct me if I`m wrong, this is the seventh teacher in the last year that`s been arrested for some sort of allegation of crime?

GANTRY: That`s my understanding. I`d have to refer any of that to the district attorney`s office. That is my understanding, and I want to make it clear I`m not saying at this point in time that there`s not a civil suit. That is just not been filed right now at this point in time. We`re still awaiting the trial of the coach who actually perpetrated the crime. We`re just not at liberty to say at this point.

BECK: Randi, real quick, we have to break but how is your niece?

CLARK: Sure.

BECK: How is she?

CLARK: She`s very hurt. She`s very upset. And very untrusting of adults.

BECK: Thanks, guys.

CLARK: She expected these teachers to help her.

BECK: As I think we all would. That is the real story tonight. We`ll follow it up.

Now, if you would like to read the article in "Fusion" magazine, on this case, you can do it for free, or if you`ve found a real story of your own that you would like to tell us about, please visit glennbeck.com/realstory. There you`re going to find the archive of the stories that we`ve covered along with a form to submit your ideas directly to us.

Crazy world we live in. Straight to Hill. Erica Hill, the anchor of PRIME NEWS on Headline News. Hi, Erica.

ERICA HILL, CNN HN ANCHOR: Hi, Glenn, how are you?

BECK: I`m pretty good.

HILL: Good.

BECK: You`re looking sharp.

HILL: Thank you very much, sir. I appreciate it.

BECK: Sure. What`s happening in the world?

HILL: We`re talking a little baby news. No, not the pictures of Suri Cruise.

BECK: Ooh, Suri.

HILL: We`re going to Japan.

BECK: Really? Yes. All right.

HILL: Japan`s princess Kiko giving birth to a baby boy this morning. It`s the country`s first male heir to the throne in more than 40 years. This is big doings in Japan?

BECK: I`m sure it is.

HILL: Big news. They`ve been waiting for a boy. Newspaper had extra editions. TV news stations ran continuous coverage. People all over the country celebrating.

BECK: Right.

HILL: Many believe his birth will likely postpone the long-running debate about whether Japanese law should be changed to actually allow a woman to succeed the throne.

BECK: Right. They really still have a king and stuff? Or an emperor.

HILL: They have an emperor.

BECK: Didn`t we wipe the emperor out? Wasn`t that the whole World War II?

HILL: The emperor is still around.

BECK: Really? We really screwed up. Didn`t we? What were we thinking? All right, Erica. Thanks a lot.

HILL: See you tomorrow.

BECK: Bye-bye.

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BECK: One of the many, many low points of the weekend was standing in the book store at the college and we`re buying books, and we got to the math book, and it`s $107. $107. It`s a math book. And she said well, this is the new math book. It came out last year. And I said oh. So math was just a giant theory before, now you`ve proven it so now these are actual equations. What has changed in the new math book exactly besides the price on the cover?

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BECK: Every once in a while I like to do a story that doesn`t make you want to go to sleep angry or terrified. Unfortunately this next story is not one of those.

This weekend I dropped my daughter off at college for the first time, and, you know, I`ve seen all of the reports on the shows about all of the terrible things she could be doing at school right now. Trust me, I get it.

When I was in college I majored in throwing up in my sleep. But I wanted to have a guest on tonight to make us all feel better if you`re in the same boat. Somebody would say don`t worry, your kids are praying and napping. Sure, that`s what they`re doing.

Author Barrett Seaman not one of those guests. I want to thank the crew for this one. His new book "Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess" will make you want to home school your kids for the rest of your life.

Barrett, please tell me my daughter is sitting in her dorm ring studying right now?

BARRETT SEAMAN, AUTHOR, "BINGE": Of course she`s sitting in her dorm room studying, Glenn. You raised the perfectly good wise .

BECK: Yes, it`s everybody else`s kids that are screwing my kids up. I know. Your book is a little frightening. You say that you went to school in the 1960s, which I mean I get it. You say it was -- it`s much worse now.

SEAMAN: Well, in many ways it is worse. In many ways it`s a lot better. These students have access to unbelievable amounts of information, resources, computer technology, but at the same time there is an intensity about campus life now that is at a degree that`s much higher than anything I remember in the 1960s.

BECK: I went to my daughter`s dorm, which is coed, and I love that.

SEAMAN: I`m sure you do.

BECK: I went and I`m walking down the hall, there`s my daughter, and she`s got a towel on, and I`m like, hey, and I see two guys come out and they`re in towels, and I think dear God in heaven, I think blood is going to shoot out of my eyes. What is it that they`re doing now that`s different than what has always happened on campuses?

SEAMAN: Well, what`s fascinating to me, a lot of colleges went to coed dorms in the early 1970s, late 1960s, frankly a little bit after I was in college. And they gave all the college students the same freedoms they would have as adults.

Then what`s happened is that over the years they`ve kind of gradually taken those freedoms away. We lowered the voting age to 18, we did a lot, we lowered the drinking age to 18, and then we took it back. We raised the drinking age in 1984, effectively in 1988 to 21 again.

There is very involved oversight of student life these days by non-faculty members whose job it is to make sure that your daughter doesn`t get murdered and gets a fair shake at the resources of the university. But I think in many ways we kind of are treating these young people less like adults and more like children.

BECK: I have a friend whose son just started at Columbia University, and he said the first day at orientation they were like we want you to know that sex is good as long as you have permission, sex is great.

And the parents called me and said not so much, not really what I wanted to pay Columbia University for. That`s not the kind of education I was hoping for.

SEAMAN: Well, one of the big problems is unfortunately all too often sex happens after people have had an awful lot to drink, and I think that`s a recipe for disaster, and it`s why we continue to have a major problem with date rape on American college campuses.

BECK: In your book, you talk about helicopter parents a little bit.

SEAMAN: Don`t be one.

BECK: I don`t know how to stop being a helicopter parent. I want to fly over not just with the helicopter but with the SWAT team. That`s what I want. What is the problem with helicopter parents? As if I don`t really know?

SEAMAN: Well, I think you do know. The problem is if you`re making decisions for your son or daughter while they`re in college they`re never going to learn how to make those decisions on their own, and that`s really why they`re there. So they`ve got to learn how to fall on their knees and scrape them a little bit so they don`t fall the next time.

BECK: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. The name of the book again is "Binge." It`s in stores now.

Time to check in with Nancy Grace to see what she`s got coming up tonight. Nancy?

NANCY GRACE, CNN HN HOST: Glenn, believe it or not Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, back in court. He apparently is getting preferential treatment in his child custody case.

California officials say no more, and they`re stopping the practice of all these celebrities hiring private judges. Have you ever heard of that? A private judge. It`s a regular practice out there. Only employed by the rich and famous.

And also tonight major break in the case of the Texas real estate agent murdered in a model home, Glenn.

BECK: I`ve got to say. For some reason I can`t get enough of Michael Jackson stories. Don`t forget you can check out Nancy tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

ANNOUNCER: Why does this man want to eliminate these cuddly creatures from the face of the earth? The answers on this week`s podcast. Ask Glenn. Download it on iTunes or cnn.com/glenn.

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BECK: Our "Ask Glenn" segment comes today from Steve in Atlanta. He says Glenn, "I think you were so engrossed in Katie Couric`s search for a sign- off last night that you might have missed the pictures of baby Suri. I was totally convinced she doesn`t exist. But now I`ve lost a bet, and I feel terrible about wagering on a baby. Am I going to hell or what?"

Steve, who am I to judge, but yes, you`re going to hell. What kind of weirdo is betting against the existence of a celebrity baby. The clear bet her is that she did exist. There`s way to much press to fake this thing. Kind of like the moon shot.

That being said, I don`t know about you but I was kind of disappointed to finally see Suri. For a minute there I thought I could actually understand Tom Cruise. I thought gee, maybe the guy`s becoming normal or something. A normal non-Hollywood dad would say I don`t want my child to be a celebrity before she can eat solid foods.

I know I wouldn`t want to turn my newborn into a really small and unusually smelly media circus, at least until she was 4. Of course that`s just me. I can safely say that because nobody`s offering me millions of dollars to do it.

The one thing you could see last night during Katie Couric`s debut on the "CBS Evening" news was there is no questioning that this is the baby of Tom Cruise. Look at the head of hair on that kid. She has more hair than I do. I know that`s not saying much, but what kind of cruel joke in the universe lets that happen. It`s pissing me off.

If men knew the whole silent birth thing produced quality hair like that there`d be a male movement to Scientology. Yes, we`ll beat a path to your door.

If nothing else, we`ve seen that really good genes produce really cute babies. Of course nothing could be more adorable than that cute little sprite reading me the news last night. Katie, you`re delectable and I mean that.

Now that CBS and "Vanity Fair" have shown us a baby of someone we don`t know I gues it`s back to focusing on important things like where`s the greatest hole in our security, what to make of that crazy nuclear ambition of Iran, and of course at which club has Lindsay Lohan vomited the most.

Tomorrow on the radio program governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and the one and only Rush Limbaugh making a very rare radio appearance -- I should say rare radio guest appearance on my radio show tomorrow. E-mail is glennbeck@cnn.com, and we`ll see you tomorrow right here, you sick twisted freak.

RICHELLE CAREY, CNN HN ANCHOR: Hello everybody. I`m Richelle Carey. Here`s your Headline Prime Newsbreak. We`ve talked about it for months. On Wednesday President Bush fessed up. He says there are CIA prisons worldwide holding terror detainees. He also said the mastermind of 9/11 and 13 other high level prisoners have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay for trials.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Florence is gaining strength in the Atlantic to become a hurricane by Thursday. But virtually all predictions right now have it veering away from the U.S.

And the Austrian teenager who spent eight years trapped in her kidnappers home is now speaking out. Tasha Tampoo (ph) said all she could think about was how to escape, but she was afraid her abductor would kill her. Now she just wants to finish high school.

And 16 nurses in Florida who won $6 million in the state lottery should have the money in the bank by now. They`re going to get $214,000 before taxes, and that should improve anybody`s bedside manner.

That`s the news for now. Keep it here, thanks for watching. I`m Richelle Carey.

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