relationship, don, as a lot of relationships are that revolve around politics and money. right now the president is in line with wall street because of that concern about default and, in fact, he s looking for wall street leaders, the bankers, the people that he s now in touch with and talking to a lot to help make the case for him about the catastrophic threat of default. but it goes back and forth, you know, when the president ran for re-election ran for election, i m sorry, the first time he did very well by wall street. they pumped a lot of money into his campaign and once he got elected and the recession hit in force, he went after wall street and talked a lot about how there needs to be reform passed, the wall street reform law, and the relationship soured, in fact, after the midterms, the president acknowledged i ve got a strained relationship with the business community, i need to do something about it, and, in fact, you know, that s been up and down. right now as this fight
again, at the way that the political winds are blowing out in that direction. and if we get out of that attitude and we get down to business in this next section we can address some of the issues like the unemployment rate. and you saw the president try to reach out to 20 different c.e.o. s, of the major companies and say, you are sitting on $20 trillion in cash. can we spend that money and create jobs? but, then, paper, on the other r saying, can he listen to the needs of the company and act on that? so, everyone wants credit, and everyone wants to be the business friendly politician and the business friendly party, but the president himself, even in his own party when you look at some of the people that are in swing states, the conservative democrats, he is not guaranteed even their support. so, what he is doing is stepping into a nightmare situation before the election in 2012. shepard: thank you, lee.