We Came So Close To Complete Economic Ruin

Questions and concerns surrounded the $700 billion that was requested by Hank Paulson in the waning days of George Bush. The number was not explained well at all and now we are starting to get a picture of what was going on between Congress and the markets at the time. I give credit to Congressman Kanjorski for telling this story below, but where was this information back in September when we needed to know it?