. >> jacoby: as news of the fed's actions spread throughout the financial world, andrew huszar, a former official who'd left to work on wall street, got the offer of a lifetime. >> i was sitting in a cafeteria in stamford, connecticut, when i got the call. i was eating a sandwich, i almost choked on it at the time (laughs) basically i realized very quickly what i was being asked. i was being asked if i would manage the largest financial markets intervention by a government in world history. >> jacoby: the job was to join the fed office in manhattan and manage a massive expansion of its power in the financial markets under qe-- buying more than a trillion dollars in mortgage bds from the banks as quickly as possible. >> the idea was that the fed was trying to get more credit and cheaper credit into the hands of the average american. there were millions of people losing their jobs, millions of people in mortgages that they couldn't afford, and how could the fed use its financial tools to actually help the average american? >> jacoby: is this something that had ever been attempted before? >