. >>> joining us is representative jim moran, a democrat from virginia.>> good afternoon. >> your colleague chuck schumer said earlier, quote, russia has stabbed us in the back and each day mr. snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist of the knife. do you share mr. schumer's view? >> no, i think highly of chuck schumer, but no, he's overreacting. this guy is not a hero, but i don't want to make him a martyr, either. you know, i hear from a number of people like that in my own district who are passionate, but imbalanced in their perspective and immature. i think frankly living in russia will be a very maturing experience for mr. snowden, and he'll want to get back to the united states in any way possible after he realizes what it's like to live in a totalitarian state. >> i'm quite sure he will. you voted last week in favor of an amendment that would have limited the nsa's ability to gather data. the measure, as you know, was defeated, buzz it does allow for a rare debate about national security practices. are you glad that mr. snowden's leaking of

. >> according to jim moran a democrat from virginia part of a congressional delegation, went down to gitmo and he was told yup, number one book for them-- . >> stephen: i always knew terrorists hated us for our freedom. now they love us for our bondage. which brings me to threat number three, global erotic extremism. folks, it's no surprise. if you are's looking to turn back the clock on women's roles in society, it's hard to beat 50 shades of gray. i mean at least sharia law does not contain passages like my nipples harden and he long gate from the assault. that's interesting. because mine just receded completely inside me. i think they're poking out my back right now. well, this settles it, nation. i'm finally on board with shutting down gitmo because the only thing nor disturbing than american detaining and torturing prisoners is the possibility that they're getting off on it. (laughter) next, folks, i love coloring books. fact i'm in a coloring book club. this month's selection is dora the explorer jumbo coloring and activity book. oh my god, how am i supposed to get through this

virginia congressman jim moran went there with a congressional delegation, says high value detainees enough of the trilogy. only thing i can think of, if this is true, this is secondhand information, but if true, i assume they're getting ready for the 77 virgins, right? >> 72. who's counting. >> i got to tell you, i hope we're not supplying them with these books, are we? are we? >> how would i know? >> how else are they getting it? >> the guards are like there's nothing else going on, it keeps them calm. >> they get harry potter. >> he took terrorists and turned them into lonely, middle aged soccer moms. he should be saint for this. >> who? >> dick cheney, the idea of gitmo, now the terrorists are like -- >> make the books away, soccer field away. let them go in a concrete cell with cinder blocks and think about what they did. i don't want them reading that. >> okay. bob no. it beats the anarchist cookbook. i think "the five" viewers should suggest a reading list for gitmo, start a book share program, can i make a point, during the tease dana was teasing for this segment, said a book

i love what jim moran had to say.northern virginia, democratic congressman from just across the river here. he basically said to chuck schumer hey, chill, chuck. >> i think highly of chuck schumer but no, he's overreacting. this guy is not a hero but i don't want to make him a martyr either. i hear from a number of people like that in my own district who are passionate but imbalanced in their perspective and immature. i think living in russia will be a very maturing experience for mr. snowden. >> bill: good boy. good boy. we haven't had jim moran in the studio for awhile. >> great reason to have him in. >> bill: he's great. >> a very maturing experience. yeah, i'll say! >> bill: i've been to russia. i wouldn't want to live there. i'll tell ya. the real deal is this. and by the way, check out my column at billpressshow.com today if you have a chance because i've written a column about bradley manning which relates to edward snowden. i bring snowden into the column as well. and basically, the point of the column is we'r

our allies, mary landrieu of louisiana and lindsey graham of south carolina and the house side, jim moranvirginia and bill young of florida to have language to stipulate that usda could not spend any of its dollars setting up an inspections program for horse slaughter for human consumption. we won the amendments but the spending bill is not passed because congress is not doing its job on a reliable basis. we don't know when that was going to pass but usda surprisingly -- with that looming, with that spending ban looming and the prospect of the plants operating for two months, three months at the longest, basically said okay, we're going to grant you inspection permits. bill, this is even more strange because the administration in its 2014 budget request on agricultural spending urged a defund of the horse slaughter plant. so i think the lawyers got ahold of this and they took this highly legalistic view that well, we don't support horse slaughter but the current law says it is okay. so we're just going to allow this. >> bill: when i read that, i thought it was like -- you know, one hand w

moran in beirut. pierre thomas in washington. we're going to start with abc's jim avila at the white house. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, dan. the president has not decided which option to take. but the u.n. weapons inspectors have left the country. and the window is now open for a u.s. military strike on syria. a war-weary president meets with his national security council. delivering the commander in chief strike options that are targeted, limited, no boots on the ground. >> we are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow act. >> reporter: the white house, opening the window for a military response. delivering an intelligence report, based on medical personnel, satellites, social media videos and intercepts from syrian officials, that found 1,429 people killed in the chemical weapons attack. 426 of those, children. >> instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children, dead from assad's gas. >> reporter: the secretary of state calling syria's president a thug and murderer. >> this crime against humanity, this matters to us. >> reporter: th

jim. thanks. >>> let's go to the war zone, now, where the u.s. navy is positioning ships in the mediterranean. the entire middle east on-edge. abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran in beirut this morning. the warships are in place. congress getting briefed. inspectors getting out. everything falling in place for a strike. >> reporter: it certainly is, george. the sense this morning out here, though, is that the march to war has slowed a step or so, just over the last 24 hours, because the obama administration's made clear for all of the president's tough talk, america's not going to do this alone. britain and other key allies have said they want to wait for the u.n. inspectors to get out. as you said, that's not going to happen until this weekend. and more broadly, there's a question in the air here and in washington and other capitals, what exactly is an attack supposed to accomplish? what are the chances of success? what are the risks of failure? there's no question that war is in the air. but the march has slowed. there's a sense of a pause. for a moment here. >> another big question is, what kind of retaliation would there be if there is a strike? and what d