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BECK: We`re back with Libertarian presidential candidate and former congressman, Bob Barr, who`s making the case as to why real conservatives who are frustrated with the current crop of candidates might want to give him a look.

Bob, we`ve only got a limited amount of time, and I`ve got a lot of things to cover here. And we will have you back to explain in detail, but if you can give me some just yes or no answers on some of these things.

"24," Jack Bauer, it`s the concept of, we think there`s a nuke going off. Do we get the information out of the people that we think have information any way we have to? I say, you can waterboard them in my pool if you think a nuke is going off in New York. Do you? Yes or no.

BARR: No.

BECK: OK. You got to come back and explain that one.

BARR: I`d love to.

BECK: Illegals, do you ship them home or not?

BARR: When you find them, you ship them home, absolutely.

BECK: OK. Do you fine the companies crippling fines who are hiring employees and bringing -- and being the bait to bring them in?

BARR: Yes, you do.

BECK: Do you build the border fence?

BARR: No.

BECK: You got to explain that one. Why not?

BARR: First of all, I think it would be terribly costly. And whatever border fence you build, people are going to find a way to get around it, go under it, go over it, somehow.

I think it would look absolutely awful. And even though it`s a fence to keep people from coming in, as opposed to the Berlin wall, it gives the same impression. Not the impression I want to give the world about America.

BECK: I mean, what am I on "Curb Appeal" all of a sudden? It looks bad? All right, we'll put some flowers there.

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