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American Morning

Target: Terrorism - President to Meet With Business Titans

Aired October 03, 2001 - 09:06   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's talk a little bit about September 11 and the aftermath of that. The president now winging his way to New York City. He will be meeting with business leaders in this city, as well as the mayor.

What more does the president have to offer? What's in his portfolio should those business leaders, should the mayor ask him for something?

MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, there is a lot of things on the president's agenda today, Miles, in New York City. The mayor has made clear that the city is going to need more federal support, 20 billion has already been authorized by Congress, signed by the president to deal with the situation in New York and at the Pentagon, but the mayor needs more money.

The president is also going to sit down with titans, titans in the U.S. business community. Let me just read to you a couple of companies that will be represented: AT&T, Met Life, American Express, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Verizon, Time Warner -- our parent company.

Many, many heavyweights in the business community will be sitting down with the president. What the president wants from them is their ideas about ways, as the president said yesterday, to increase not only business demand, that is businesses buying things they need to put more products on the shelves, but also things consumers need to buy those products, tax cuts, more federal spending all on the table. Miles?

O'BRIEN: CNN's Major Garret at the White House. Thank you very much, we'll check in with you a little bit later.

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