TERRY MORAN has been ABC’s Chief White House correspondent since September, 1999. On Tuesday, Moran challenged White House spokesman Scott McClellan on the appropriateness of the call from the White House for Newsweek to do more to repair the damage from the Isikoff report. The New York Times‘s Elisabeth Bumiller followed up with questions that dripped with sarcasm: “Are you asking them to write a story about how great the American military is; is that what you’re saying here?”

Terry Moran joined me for a three-part, on-air interview yesterday, the transcript of which is posted here. Moran’s view of the world is interesting: including Moran’s candor on the subject of hatred for Bush among a few “big fish” White House correspondents, the voting pattern of White House correspondents, the state of John Kerry’s political future, the newsworthiness of Kerry’s pledge–broken again–to release his SF 180, and the hostility of the media to the military in general and Newsweek‘s sins in particular.