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Hurricane sandy that i think was around $40-$50 billion. so we have a long road to rebuild the fourth-largest city in the united states as well as the entire geographic region. >> chris: the questions of the president. yesterday you were with him in the houston area. for one, i assume you are too smart to not impress them on the amount of money you are going to need. did he have a sense or did make any commitment on their talking about more than $100 billion? and secondly is behind the scenes. what struck you about his interaction with the people of houston? >> present the president did and ha...

Hurricane sandy that i think was around $40-$50 billion. so we have a long road to rebuild the fourth-largest city in the united states as well as the entire geographic region. >> chris: the questions of the president. yesterday you were with him in the houston area. for one, i assume you are too smart to not impress them on the amount of money you are going to need. did he have a sense or did make any commitment on their talking about more than $100 billion? and secondly is behind the scenes. what struck you about his interaction with the people of houston? >> present the president did and ha...

Was around $40-$50 billion. so we have a long road to rebuild the fourth-largest city in the united states as well as the entire geographic region. >> chris: the questions of the president. yesterday you were with him in the houston area. for one, i assume you are too smart to not impress them on the amount of money you are going to need. did he have a sense or did make any commitment on their talking about more than $100 billion? and secondly is behind the scenes. what struck you about his interaction with the people of houston? >> present the president did and has made 11 specific commitment...

End. >> are you concerned you could get push back when it comes to getting the federal funding? >> i am confident we're going to see strong bipartisan is up fort for major federal relief. i will say from the beginning i've spoken with the president repeatedly throughout the course of this horrible storm. at every statement the president is committed that the administration is all in. he said, ted, whatever texas needs, that's what you've got. our governor greg abbott has been phenomenal. turner has done a terrific job. we've seen government working together. i'll tell you, next week when we co...

Colleagues have called me nonstop, i spoke to the speaker of the house, the democratic leadership and what they said is there will be no divide, no sunshine between them on what texas needs. and i'm going to take them at their word. right now i'm writing a bill of aid for house that i hope to introduce for $152 billion. and frankly, it may go up even more. and i welcome the support of our two united states senators and their leadership and i look forward to the bipartisan leadership. let me tell you, people are dieing, people are still needing to be rescued. as the mayor of beaumont said they'...