BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Back to the White House and Kelly Wallace. An interesting proposal: trying to get a joint session of Congress up to Manhattan. That would be quite a sight. We saw all of the delegations -- large delegations -- back in late September head up there. Any chance of that happening -- Kelly.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it is interesting. Sen. Clinton putting it forward. President Bush seemed to have a lot of smiles about it. We will have to see what administration officials are saying about it. You know, Bill, it is very interesting watching this. Lots of smiles and lots of praise. Leader after leader, law maker after law maker saying President Bush is a man who is keeping his word. Background here, as you know, some of these same lawmakers have been questioning the president publicly and privately, questioning whether he would keep that word, keep the $20 billion promise, Sen. Clinton, in fact, alluding to a hearing that she had last month in which Mitch Daniels, the budget director, testified, Mitch Daniels coming under fire last month when he sort of talked about this push for money for New York, comparing it, in his words, to a money grubbing game. Well, later, Mitch Daniels saying that his comments were really misconstrued. He backed away. Mr. Bush, in fact, going up to New York, saying, I make my promise -- I'm going to keep it. Today, what we understand, about $5 billion more was put to his pledge, a little more than $20 billion, money to go for clean up and for transit costs. Again, the president saying the money and help is on the way -- Bill.</s>HEMMER: $20 billion large. Thank you, Kelly. Kelly Wallace, on the Front Lawn there. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
President Still Plans $20 Billion Aid for New York