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John Kerry Speaks in Iowa

Aired October 20, 2004 - 11:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: It's 30 minutes after the hour. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Rick Sanchez.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Daryn Kagan.

Let's take a look at what's happening now in the news.

Iowa is the place. Take a look at these two live pictures. Senator Kerry and President Bush are chasing the seven electoral votes in Iowa. The president in Mason City, the senator in Waterloo. They're about 80 miles apart. Kerry's runningmate, John Edwards, visits Burlington tonight.

Today's "Washington Post" reports the flu vaccine is readily available and free to members of Congress. The Capitol physician says lawmakers need the shot because they're at high risk and they meet CDC guidelines, because they shake hands with lots of people.

Rescuers are looking for five people missing after a commuter plane crashed in Missouri. Eight people are confirmed dead. while two others survived. The corporate airlines plane was on approach for landing when it went down in a wooded area.

Large explosions rocked Baghdad at sunset today. You can see a plume of smoke, seen rising in the horizon. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. Keeping you informed, CNN is the most trusted name in news.

SANCHEZ: All right, let's go ahead and take you to Waterloo, Iowa now. That's where Senator Kerry has just started specking. He's expected to hit the president hard on the issue of confusing the war in Iraq wit the war on terror.

Let's listen in.

(JOINED IN PROGRESS)

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He wants to make it solely a contest on national security. Well, I welcome that debate. I believe a president must be able to defend this country and fight for the middle class at the same time.

(APPLAUSE)

A president of the United States has to do more than one thing at the same time. And I believe that this president has failed -- failed -- to make our country as safe and secure as we ought to be given all the options we had staring us in the face.

(APPLAUSE)

My fellow Americans, America must fight and win two wars: the war in Iraq and the war on terror.

KERRY: President Bush likes to confuse the two. He claims that Iraq is the centerpiece of the war on terror. In fact, Iraq was a profound diversion from that war and the battle against the enemy.

(APPLAUSE) It was a profound diversion from the focus on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida and the other terrorists that threaten us.

But now we are fighting two wars and we will prevail in both.

(APPLAUSE)

In Iraq, because the president's miscalculations have created a terrorist haven that wasn't there before and in the worldwide struggle against terrorists because they attacked us, they represent the greatest threat to security in our time.

In Iraq, every week brings fresh evidence that President Bush just doesn't see what's happening. And he isn't leveling with the American people about why we went to war, how the war is going and he has no idea how to put our policy back on track.

(APPLAUSE)

And just to make it clear that he has no idea how to put our policy back on track, here's what Americans have learned over the past two weeks alone.

The president's top weapons inspector in Iraq released a final, exhaustive, damning conclusion: Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and no programs to produce them.

(APPLAUSE)

Iraq was, in truth, a diminishing threat.

And the main reason that President Bush gave for rushing to war was wrong. A CIA report found no clear link between Saddam's regime and Abu Musab Zarqawi, the terrorist who's behind the beheadings of Americans in Iraq, and now a clear Al Qaida ally.

Before the war, the administration claimed that Zarqawi's presence in Iraq was proof of an Al Qaida-Saddam connection. That was wrong. In fact, Zarqawi was operating out of a no-man's land in northeastern Iraq, next to territory controlled by America's Kurdish allies, not by Saddam.

He and his terrorist allies were reportedly producing ricin, a horrific biological weapon. And you know what? We could have, but did not, take them out. That was a terrible mistake that this administration has never explained.

(APPLAUSE)

KERRY: We have learned from Paul Bremer, the president's man in Baghdad, and several senior generals have all said that this administration chose a policy that did not send enough troops to Iraq to manage the aftermath of the war.

That failure made it impossible to be able to stop widespread looting and crime and the breakdown of law and order, to secure Iraq's borders against terrorists, and to guard even 1 million tons of ammunition and weapons that now, because we didn't guard it, has wound up in the hands of insurgents who are using them against our troops, and the failure left in a power vacuum filled by Saddam's loyalists, Shia extremists and international terrorists who were not in Iraq before the war, but have now found a haven there.

And, finally, the American people have learned that nine months ago the top U.S. commander in Iraq pleaded with the Pentagon for critical supplies to counter the growing insurgency, all of which our troops should have had before they went to war, including 36,000 sets of body armor and spare parts for tanks, helicopters and fighting vehicles.

The very next day, the president, President Bush, went out and declared before America that our troops were properly equipped.

KERRY: That's what Americans have learned just in two weeks.

But what did the president learn?

(LAUGHTER)

Apparently nothing.

(APPLAUSE)

He is, I think, literally, in denial.

He ignored these findings before the war. He ignored the uniformed military leaders that Stansfield Turner just talked about. He ignored the leaders of both parties in Congress. He ignored outside experts who predicted virtually every problem that we now face in Iraq. And, just as today, against all of the evidence he insists we're making good progress.

My friends, all of these calculations -- these weren't just minor miscalculations. These are major misjudgments, misjudgments by stubbornness.

You know, the president keeps saying how certain he is about things, but you can't just be always certain and frequently wrong. It doesn't make sense. (APPLAUSE)

But the facts are grim, the facts on the ground. The coalition has lost control of areas where 1 million Iraqis live. U.S. forces are attacked an average of 87 times a day. That's up 100 percent since the spring.

Over 130 foreigners kidnapped in Iraq since March. And we just pick up the papers today and read of another kidnapping of a woman who heads CARE, 30 years living and married to an Iraqi.

Make no mistake: Our troops are the best-trained, best-led forces in the world, and they have been doing their job honorably and bravely.

(APPLAUSE)

And the problem is the commander in chief has not been doing his.

(APPLAUSE)

My fellow Americans, if the president cannot recognize the problems in Iraq, he will not fix them. I do recognize them and I will fix them.

(APPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Kerry! Kerry! Kerry!

KERRY: All of us as Americans are concerned about the outcome in Iraq. You couldn't be an American and be patriotic and not be concerned about it, and you can't be truly concerned about our security and not be concerned about it.

Now they have a choice: more of the same failed policy or a fresh start. The president believes that we're stronger when we act alone. I believe America is strongest when we lead strong alliances.

(APPLAUSE)

Getting more countries with us in Iraq now will not be easy. In fact, this president makes it harder every single day.

But with new leadership, with new credibility, with a fresh start, with a president who listens to other leaders and is inclusive to people...

(APPLAUSE)

... I know it can be done, because chaos in Iraq is as bad for our allies and for Iraq's neighbors as it is for us. That's the reason.

(APPLAUSE)

And just because George Bush hasn't been able to do it, because he's pushed people away, doesn't mean it can't be done. I will get it done.

(APPLAUSE)

SANCHEZ: And there you have it. Senator Kerry in Waterloo, Iowa, as we had told you he would likely do hitting the president as perhaps as hard as he's hit him yet -- and in detail, criticizing the president's policy in Iraq thus far.

You'll notice we went quite a while with Senator Kerry there. We understand its just a couple of weeks before the election, and we here at CNN are going to make every effort to try and bring you equal portions of both candidate' debates throughout their stump.

You heard from President Bush just a little bit earlier. You heard now from Senator Kerry. We expect to let you hear some more from the president, as well, in another speech coming up a little bit later on in the day.

KAGAN: Well, we're going to talk about the flu shot. The fear of getting the flu is gripping many people in this country, but according to at least one expert, help is on the way. Your "Daily Dose" of health news is up next.

SANCHEZ: And to the untrained eye, he probably just looks like a curmudgeonly old grouch. Well, one author says there's a very real condition. It's called Irritable Male Syndrome.

KAGAN: Do you know anything about that?

SANCHEZ: No. I can't even imagine that somebody would feel like that.

KAGAN: A sweetheart like you? I don't know how you're going to do the interview.

SANCHEZ: Stop that.

KAGAN: Stop.

SANCHEZ: Ladies, pay attention -- Daryn.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: There is encouraging news in the frenzy over flu shots. The CDC says that there are fewer cases of flu now than at the same time last year. Health officials are trying to get the vaccine to the people who are most at risk, and the director of the CDC is optimistic.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DR. JULIE GERBERDING, CDC DIRECTOR: We had projected 100 million doses this year, but that was far more than we thought we would actually be able to use. Even six years ago, we used about 60 million doses, and that's what we'll have this year. What we need do is get them where we need them the most, and that's our challenge right now. But we're optimistic as these doses come out that the seniors and the very young children and those who need the doses will be able to get them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAGAN: Your "Daily Dose" of health news is always just a click away. You can log onto cnn.com/health for the latest medical news. You'll also find special reports and a health library.

SANCHEZ: Well, I think it's called something like IMM, Irritable Male Syndrome -- or IMS. But some at CNN call it JCD, or the Jack Cafferty Disease.

Have I not been here long enough to say that? Was that mean?

KAGAN: No, that's OK. I love Jack. I happen to love Jack Cafferty.

SANCHEZ: Don't we all?

KAGAN: Yeah, but I think I know what they're talking about. Yeah, OK -- jokes aside, one author is calling the Irritable Male Syndrome...

SANCHEZ: Love the way you got out of that.

KAGAN: Love you, Jack!

It's very treatable. That's the good news for us ladies out there. There is hope for your men. The surly warning signs are coming up next.

SANCHEZ: Stay with.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: Welcome back to CNN. I'm Rick Sanchez. Ladies, has that wonderful guy that you married turned into a middle-aged grouch? Men, do you often feel that your spouse's daily mission is to get on your last nerve? Perhaps the cause is something called, are you ready? Irritable male syndrome. Jed Diamond, he's the director of the Men Alive Health Network has a new book about this. He says that the IMS is a real phenomenon that can be diagnosed and treated.

And Jed Diamond is here to maybe help us a little bit, those of us who, at least once in a while, get a little bit irritable.

You know what I want to do, I want to read back your own quote to you. I think this is interesting to have you comment on it. "Hell hath no fury like a man devalued." Huh?

JED DIAMOND, "THE IRRITABLE MALE SYNDROME": Exactly, Rick. Men are feeling that their lives are overstressed. We don't feel that we're, valued and it comes out in irritability, particularly directed at the women that we're the closest too and that we love the most.

SANCHEZ: I understand that there's a statistic that you found or used that says something like 60 percent of men just want to get away. What does that mean?

DIAMOND: Well, we did a stud we nearly 10,000 males, and what we found that was many, many men are so stressed they want to get away from it all. If they're staying in a relationship, they withdraw emotionally, and they're really overwhelmed, and it's really destroying relationships, which is is my main concern.

SANCHEZ: Is it about -- and I'll say this in a low tone of voice, are you ready, is it about sexual satisfaction?

DIAMOND: It is about partially about that. You know, sex is an important part of our lives, and when we aren't having a satisfying sexual life, things get bad. So we need to improve our lives. We need to get men in a place where we're feeling a lot better about our relationships.

SANCHEZ: All right, so in case there are some guys out there who want to ask themselves the following question, am I going through this, give us what some of the symptoms may be so we can do a self- analysis.

DIAMOND: Well, what we've done is we've set up a special web site called www.theirritablemale.com, and if you think you've got the problem or you're living with someone who has the problem, you can take a test. It will score it for you, and it will give you the answers, whether you're irritable, whether you're grouchy, whether you're overly sensitive, and it's a good time to find out, before your relationship really starts coming apart.

SANCHEZ: Yes, but can you get out of it? I mean, suppose you find out I scored 100 out of the 100 of the questions that I was asked. Now what do I do to make myself different. Is it possible?

DIAMOND: The good news is there's a lot we can do, everything from diet to counseling to changing hormone levels. The good news is that relationships can get better so that the best we've ever had in our lives.

SANCHEZ: That's excellent. Thank you so much. We certainly appreciate it, and we'll check back with you to see how things going.

DIAMOND: Great.

SANCHEZ: There you go. You know, it always comes back to hormones, doesn't it? It's a hormonal imbalance.

DIAMOND: I would ask you. I think I'd be more interested in talking to your wife, though, to see if that IMS thing is happening in the Sanchez home.

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

KAGAN: All right, a little anger, a little controversy, you can add it up to one heck of a ballgame.

SANCHEZ: Oh, yes. A couple of disputed calls help the Red Sox move one step closer to breaking the curse, not that the calls were wrong, by the way. We don't want to infer that.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: Baseball fans, we got us a championship series. It's all tied up in the American League. Can you believe it? It all comes up to game seven. The Boston Red Sox could be close to reversing the curse after reversing two critical calls last night. Well, they didn't; the umpires did, appropriately we might add. Mark Bellhorn's fourth inning three-run homer for the Red Sox bounced off a fan and back on to the field. The left field umpire thought it was only a ground-rule double, but the other five umpires told him, uh uh, that was a homer, my friend. So they reversed it.

Then in the eighth, Alex Rodriguez, charging down the first baseline, slapped the ball out of the pitcher's hand. Derek Jeter scored, and it looks like the Yankees were just one run behind, but Boston argued, and the umpires called another one of them meetings, they huddled, and they called Rodriguez out for interference, erasing the run. Twice, angry Yankee fans threw debris onto the field. There's a history of bad blood between these teams, like we need to tell you that.

KAGAN: This just in.

SANCHEZ: And after a close call at first in the next inning went Boston's way, riot police took the positions on the field, just in case. Game seven, Yankee Stadium, tonight.

KAGAN: Game six, NLCS, fours hours and 10 minutes away in St. Louis.

SANCHEZ: Astros up 3-2.

KAGAN: Absolutely.

That's going to do it for us. I'm Daryn Kagan for Rick Sanchez.

We toss it now to Wolf Blitzer in Washington D.C.

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Aired October 20, 2004 - 11:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: It's 30 minutes after the hour. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Rick Sanchez.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Daryn Kagan.

Let's take a look at what's happening now in the news.

Iowa is the place. Take a look at these two live pictures. Senator Kerry and President Bush are chasing the seven electoral votes in Iowa. The president in Mason City, the senator in Waterloo. They're about 80 miles apart. Kerry's runningmate, John Edwards, visits Burlington tonight.

Today's "Washington Post" reports the flu vaccine is readily available and free to members of Congress. The Capitol physician says lawmakers need the shot because they're at high risk and they meet CDC guidelines, because they shake hands with lots of people.

Rescuers are looking for five people missing after a commuter plane crashed in Missouri. Eight people are confirmed dead. while two others survived. The corporate airlines plane was on approach for landing when it went down in a wooded area.

Large explosions rocked Baghdad at sunset today. You can see a plume of smoke, seen rising in the horizon. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. Keeping you informed, CNN is the most trusted name in news.

SANCHEZ: All right, let's go ahead and take you to Waterloo, Iowa now. That's where Senator Kerry has just started specking. He's expected to hit the president hard on the issue of confusing the war in Iraq wit the war on terror.

Let's listen in.

(JOINED IN PROGRESS)

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He wants to make it solely a contest on national security. Well, I welcome that debate. I believe a president must be able to defend this country and fight for the middle class at the same time.

(APPLAUSE)

A president of the United States has to do more than one thing at the same time. And I believe that this president has failed -- failed -- to make our country as safe and secure as we ought to be given all the options we had staring us in the face.

(APPLAUSE)

My fellow Americans, America must fight and win two wars: the war in Iraq and the war on terror.

KERRY: President Bush likes to confuse the two. He claims that Iraq is the centerpiece of the war on terror. In fact, Iraq was a profound diversion from that war and the battle against the enemy.

(APPLAUSE) It was a profound diversion from the focus on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaida and the other terrorists that threaten us.

But now we are fighting two wars and we will prevail in both.

(APPLAUSE)

In Iraq, because the president's miscalculations have created a terrorist haven that wasn't there before and in the worldwide struggle against terrorists because they attacked us, they represent the greatest threat to security in our time.

In Iraq, every week brings fresh evidence that President Bush just doesn't see what's happening. And he isn't leveling with the American people about why we went to war, how the war is going and he has no idea how to put our policy back on track.

(APPLAUSE)

And just to make it clear that he has no idea how to put our policy back on track, here's what Americans have learned over the past two weeks alone.

The president's top weapons inspector in Iraq released a final, exhaustive, damning conclusion: Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and no programs to produce them.

(APPLAUSE)

Iraq was, in truth, a diminishing threat.

And the main reason that President Bush gave for rushing to war was wrong. A CIA report found no clear link between Saddam's regime and Abu Musab Zarqawi, the terrorist who's behind the beheadings of Americans in Iraq, and now a clear Al Qaida ally.

Before the war, the administration claimed that Zarqawi's presence in Iraq was proof of an Al Qaida-Saddam connection. That was wrong. In fact, Zarqawi was operating out of a no-man's land in northeastern Iraq, next to territory controlled by America's Kurdish allies, not by Saddam.

He and his terrorist allies were reportedly producing ricin, a horrific biological weapon. And you know what? We could have, but did not, take them out. That was a terrible mistake that this administration has never explained.

(APPLAUSE)

KERRY: We have learned from Paul Bremer, the president's man in Baghdad, and several senior generals have all said that this administration chose a policy that did not send enough troops to Iraq to manage the aftermath of the war.

That failure made it impossible to be able to stop widespread looting and crime and the breakdown of law and order, to secure Iraq's borders against terrorists, and to guard even 1 million tons of ammunition and weapons that now, because we didn't guard it, has wound up in the hands of insurgents who are using them against our troops, and the failure left in a power vacuum filled by Saddam's loyalists, Shia extremists and international terrorists who were not in Iraq before the war, but have now found a haven there.

And, finally, the American people have learned that nine months ago the top U.S. commander in Iraq pleaded with the Pentagon for critical supplies to counter the growing insurgency, all of which our troops should have had before they went to war, including 36,000 sets of body armor and spare parts for tanks, helicopters and fighting vehicles.

The very next day, the president, President Bush, went out and declared before America that our troops were properly equipped.

KERRY: That's what Americans have learned just in two weeks.

But what did the president learn?

(LAUGHTER)

Apparently nothing.

(APPLAUSE)

He is, I think, literally, in denial.

He ignored these findings before the war. He ignored the uniformed military leaders that Stansfield Turner just talked about. He ignored the leaders of both parties in Congress. He ignored outside experts who predicted virtually every problem that we now face in Iraq. And, just as today, against all of the evidence he insists we're making good progress.

My friends, all of these calculations -- these weren't just minor miscalculations. These are major misjudgments, misjudgments by stubbornness.

You know, the president keeps saying how certain he is about things, but you can't just be always certain and frequently wrong. It doesn't make sense. (APPLAUSE)

But the facts are grim, the facts on the ground. The coalition has lost control of areas where 1 million Iraqis live. U.S. forces are attacked an average of 87 times a day. That's up 100 percent since the spring.

Over 130 foreigners kidnapped in Iraq since March. And we just pick up the papers today and read of another kidnapping of a woman who heads CARE, 30 years living and married to an Iraqi.

Make no mistake: Our troops are the best-trained, best-led forces in the world, and they have been doing their job honorably and bravely.

(APPLAUSE)

And the problem is the commander in chief has not been doing his.

(APPLAUSE)

My fellow Americans, if the president cannot recognize the problems in Iraq, he will not fix them. I do recognize them and I will fix them.

(APPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Kerry! Kerry! Kerry!

KERRY: All of us as Americans are concerned about the outcome in Iraq. You couldn't be an American and be patriotic and not be concerned about it, and you can't be truly concerned about our security and not be concerned about it.

Now they have a choice: more of the same failed policy or a fresh start. The president believes that we're stronger when we act alone. I believe America is strongest when we lead strong alliances.

(APPLAUSE)

Getting more countries with us in Iraq now will not be easy. In fact, this president makes it harder every single day.

But with new leadership, with new credibility, with a fresh start, with a president who listens to other leaders and is inclusive to people...

(APPLAUSE)

... I know it can be done, because chaos in Iraq is as bad for our allies and for Iraq's neighbors as it is for us. That's the reason.

(APPLAUSE)

And just because George Bush hasn't been able to do it, because he's pushed people away, doesn't mean it can't be done. I will get it done.

(APPLAUSE)

SANCHEZ: And there you have it. Senator Kerry in Waterloo, Iowa, as we had told you he would likely do hitting the president as perhaps as hard as he's hit him yet -- and in detail, criticizing the president's policy in Iraq thus far.

You'll notice we went quite a while with Senator Kerry there. We understand its just a couple of weeks before the election, and we here at CNN are going to make every effort to try and bring you equal portions of both candidate' debates throughout their stump.

You heard from President Bush just a little bit earlier. You heard now from Senator Kerry. We expect to let you hear some more from the president, as well, in another speech coming up a little bit later on in the day.

KAGAN: Well, we're going to talk about the flu shot. The fear of getting the flu is gripping many people in this country, but according to at least one expert, help is on the way. Your "Daily Dose" of health news is up next.

SANCHEZ: And to the untrained eye, he probably just looks like a curmudgeonly old grouch. Well, one author says there's a very real condition. It's called Irritable Male Syndrome.

KAGAN: Do you know anything about that?

SANCHEZ: No. I can't even imagine that somebody would feel like that.

KAGAN: A sweetheart like you? I don't know how you're going to do the interview.

SANCHEZ: Stop that.

KAGAN: Stop.

SANCHEZ: Ladies, pay attention -- Daryn.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: There is encouraging news in the frenzy over flu shots. The CDC says that there are fewer cases of flu now than at the same time last year. Health officials are trying to get the vaccine to the people who are most at risk, and the director of the CDC is optimistic.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DR. JULIE GERBERDING, CDC DIRECTOR: We had projected 100 million doses this year, but that was far more than we thought we would actually be able to use. Even six years ago, we used about 60 million doses, and that's what we'll have this year. What we need do is get them where we need them the most, and that's our challenge right now. But we're optimistic as these doses come out that the seniors and the very young children and those who need the doses will be able to get them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAGAN: Your "Daily Dose" of health news is always just a click away. You can log onto cnn.com/health for the latest medical news. You'll also find special reports and a health library.

SANCHEZ: Well, I think it's called something like IMM, Irritable Male Syndrome -- or IMS. But some at CNN call it JCD, or the Jack Cafferty Disease.

Have I not been here long enough to say that? Was that mean?

KAGAN: No, that's OK. I love Jack. I happen to love Jack Cafferty.

SANCHEZ: Don't we all?

KAGAN: Yeah, but I think I know what they're talking about. Yeah, OK -- jokes aside, one author is calling the Irritable Male Syndrome...

SANCHEZ: Love the way you got out of that.

KAGAN: Love you, Jack!

It's very treatable. That's the good news for us ladies out there. There is hope for your men. The surly warning signs are coming up next.

SANCHEZ: Stay with.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: Welcome back to CNN. I'm Rick Sanchez. Ladies, has that wonderful guy that you married turned into a middle-aged grouch? Men, do you often feel that your spouse's daily mission is to get on your last nerve? Perhaps the cause is something called, are you ready? Irritable male syndrome. Jed Diamond, he's the director of the Men Alive Health Network has a new book about this. He says that the IMS is a real phenomenon that can be diagnosed and treated.

And Jed Diamond is here to maybe help us a little bit, those of us who, at least once in a while, get a little bit irritable.

You know what I want to do, I want to read back your own quote to you. I think this is interesting to have you comment on it. "Hell hath no fury like a man devalued." Huh?

JED DIAMOND, "THE IRRITABLE MALE SYNDROME": Exactly, Rick. Men are feeling that their lives are overstressed. We don't feel that we're, valued and it comes out in irritability, particularly directed at the women that we're the closest too and that we love the most.

SANCHEZ: I understand that there's a statistic that you found or used that says something like 60 percent of men just want to get away. What does that mean?

DIAMOND: Well, we did a stud we nearly 10,000 males, and what we found that was many, many men are so stressed they want to get away from it all. If they're staying in a relationship, they withdraw emotionally, and they're really overwhelmed, and it's really destroying relationships, which is is my main concern.

SANCHEZ: Is it about -- and I'll say this in a low tone of voice, are you ready, is it about sexual satisfaction?

DIAMOND: It is about partially about that. You know, sex is an important part of our lives, and when we aren't having a satisfying sexual life, things get bad. So we need to improve our lives. We need to get men in a place where we're feeling a lot better about our relationships.

SANCHEZ: All right, so in case there are some guys out there who want to ask themselves the following question, am I going through this, give us what some of the symptoms may be so we can do a self- analysis.

DIAMOND: Well, what we've done is we've set up a special web site called www.theirritablemale.com, and if you think you've got the problem or you're living with someone who has the problem, you can take a test. It will score it for you, and it will give you the answers, whether you're irritable, whether you're grouchy, whether you're overly sensitive, and it's a good time to find out, before your relationship really starts coming apart.

SANCHEZ: Yes, but can you get out of it? I mean, suppose you find out I scored 100 out of the 100 of the questions that I was asked. Now what do I do to make myself different. Is it possible?

DIAMOND: The good news is there's a lot we can do, everything from diet to counseling to changing hormone levels. The good news is that relationships can get better so that the best we've ever had in our lives.

SANCHEZ: That's excellent. Thank you so much. We certainly appreciate it, and we'll check back with you to see how things going.

DIAMOND: Great.

SANCHEZ: There you go. You know, it always comes back to hormones, doesn't it? It's a hormonal imbalance.

DIAMOND: I would ask you. I think I'd be more interested in talking to your wife, though, to see if that IMS thing is happening in the Sanchez home.

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

KAGAN: All right, a little anger, a little controversy, you can add it up to one heck of a ballgame.

SANCHEZ: Oh, yes. A couple of disputed calls help the Red Sox move one step closer to breaking the curse, not that the calls were wrong, by the way. We don't want to infer that.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: Baseball fans, we got us a championship series. It's all tied up in the American League. Can you believe it? It all comes up to game seven. The Boston Red Sox could be close to reversing the curse after reversing two critical calls last night. Well, they didn't; the umpires did, appropriately we might add. Mark Bellhorn's fourth inning three-run homer for the Red Sox bounced off a fan and back on to the field. The left field umpire thought it was only a ground-rule double, but the other five umpires told him, uh uh, that was a homer, my friend. So they reversed it.

Then in the eighth, Alex Rodriguez, charging down the first baseline, slapped the ball out of the pitcher's hand. Derek Jeter scored, and it looks like the Yankees were just one run behind, but Boston argued, and the umpires called another one of them meetings, they huddled, and they called Rodriguez out for interference, erasing the run. Twice, angry Yankee fans threw debris onto the field. There's a history of bad blood between these teams, like we need to tell you that.

KAGAN: This just in.

SANCHEZ: And after a close call at first in the next inning went Boston's way, riot police took the positions on the field, just in case. Game seven, Yankee Stadium, tonight.

KAGAN: Game six, NLCS, fours hours and 10 minutes away in St. Louis.

SANCHEZ: Astros up 3-2.

KAGAN: Absolutely.

That's going to do it for us. I'm Daryn Kagan for Rick Sanchez.

We toss it now to Wolf Blitzer in Washington D.C.

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