and an expert who studies wall street and washington greg vallieriee wonders if it s the case. i m just wondering is the tea party complicating this relationship? oh, absolutely. the republican party as you said has been the haven for the business community and been the party most aligned with that side of the debate. it s really not the case anymore. when you talk about the wall street leaders who are trying to influence this debate, they re not really speaking to the people who are leading the charge and that s the minority in the house. those are folks that are aligned with the tea party who very much want to listen to their constituents and aren t influenced by big business as much anymore. ben feller, appreciate your expertise on this. thank you. have a good evening. all right, thanks, don. you re welcome. you know, one business is, again, stepping into the political fight. starbucks as a matter of fact, their customers can sign a petition that puts pressure on washingto
give it a shot. so, as i said, we ve got a lot to cover for you. our chief political correspondent, of course, is candy crowley. candy is in washington. and then at the white house is cnn s brianna keilar. briann brianna, i under that you just got back from a little bit of an update on the situation in washington. fill us in. what did you learn? reporter: well, yeah, don. basically as we said, senate democrats are meeting here at the white house with president obama. you have the top i should say senate democratic leaders, the top four, so you have harry reid, dick durbin, chuck schumer and patty murray. they re in, i m told by white house officials, just basically doing a check-in with president obama, kind of comparing notes and getting on the same page after a lot of developments here in the last couple of days. after the white house rejected a house republican proposal that would have extended the debt ceiling for just six weeks right up to the beginning really right before tha
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it s been a long afternoon and that s all for me and we ll hand it over to don lemon who is covering all the developments in washington and plus how the battle in washington will affect your money and that s something you do not want to miss. don, my friend, it s all yours. good luck. i think kanye west has the name of his next album lesus instead of jesus. thank you. you, too. it is so good to be with you on this saturday. i m don lemon. you re in the cnn newsroom. so, there are new developments to tell you about right now in washington, we re working on all of it for you. the house of representatives like most of the government today not working. talks between the republican house leadership and the white house are going exactly, here s a quote, nowhere. so now the senate is trying to
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