I know what the people are suffering. The governor knows. The president knows. The military officials know.

Nobody is perfect, Anderson. Everybody has to stand up here and I know you understand.

Anderson, there will be plenty of time to discuss all of those issues, about why, and how, and what, and if. But, Anderson, as you understand, and all of the producers and directors of CNN, and the news networks, this situation is very…

And I have every confidence that this country is as great and as strong as we can be do to that.

I think it's grossly unfair.

We should have an overall administrator, someone like Rudy Giuliani, Jack Welch, Lou Gerstner, Colin Powell, we need an overall administrator, the go-to guy that can tell everybody what to do or woman -- Saved.

Okay. So they will qualify?

Who are they going to get assistance from? Is it going to be clear to them from the outset that they get small business disaster assistance?

Obviously, we want people to know it is different; and our goal is to make sure Katrina folks--well, we specifically put in the amendment, Senator Snowe and myself, a bipartisan effort with Senators Vitter and Landrieu, et cetera, that the…

My interest is not to go backwards into that right now. My interest is to make sure that it doesn't stand as an impediment to our ability to be able to do it now.

I just want to make sure we don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

There is a clearly distinguishable, it seems to me, impact area and effect that we ought to be able to arrive at an agreement on.

Have you had any evidence that you are not able to keep up with the demand at this point?

Can you give us an answer today as to whether you will agree to do that?

I am not ready to make a commitment today to do a Star loans II unless we really are able to understand exactly who is going to get those loans.

Well, do we need to put that into a bill?

Are you saying to me you are not supportive of that----

I am trying to figure out where we are.