reporter: romney blaming obama s policies. those who are working are finding it harder and harder to make ends meet. reporter: it s been a particularly delicate balancing act for obama who got big support from wall street in 2008. but two years ago when he was pushing financial reform i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on wall street. reporter: what happened? barack obama s bark is much worse than his bite when it comes to the big banks, and as i say, i don t think they ve been terribly inconvenienced. reporter: and now that he s running for re-election, he s reaching out for their money again. new campaign records show that 65 of the president s top fund-raisers who have brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece are from wall street financial firms and banks. obama s biggest wall street bundler? former new jersey governor jon corzine, his investment firm, mf global, just filed for bankruptcy after investing too hea
the president has this there s a feeling in the business community that the president is anti-business. would it help him to put someone in there with some real world experience in business, the rap has been he s got a lot of academics in there, but no one that totally understands business. would you like to that? well, of course, i want someone who s balanced, who can work with balance and work with working people and labor unions, someone who really sees the whole picture. let me step back and say some of the criticism coming from the business community is coming from the wall street financial firms which took the federal bailout funds and sent a thank you letter to washington in terms of bonuses for the people who guided their corporations and banks into their disastrous policies. so i don t have a lot of sympathy for their antipathy toward the president. the president did what he needed to do, and congress did, too, with wall street financial reform, and again, the republicans
senator joe lieberman. he was in the middle of the big climate change debate. it happes collapsed now. he ll talk about the political climate here in washington, d.c. on my radar tonight, fascinating stories including one democratic governor s unusual job pitch. she d like to come to washington. guess where she d like to work? and whether the supreme court should step in to keep your children from playing violent video games. you re not getting what you want from washington tonight. most of you, anyway. and i m guessing that doesn t come as a big surprise. two-thirds of americans say they support tougher rules on big wall street financial firms, but the senate decided tonight that such a debate has to wait a bit. why? well, you make the call. here s what happened. democrats failed a short time ago to get the 60 votes they need to begin debate on sweeping
somewhere in there with some real-world experience in business. the wrap has been, he s got a lot of academics in there, but no one that totally understands business. would you herolike to see that? of course. i want someone who s balanced. who can work with business and work with working people and labor unions. someone who really sees the whole picture. but let me step back for a second and say, some of the criticism coming from the business community is coming from the wall street financial firms, which took the federal bailout funds and sent a thank you letter to washington in terms of bonuses for the people who guided their corporations and banks into their disastrous policies. so i don t have a lot of sympathy for their antipathy toward the president. the president did what he need to do and congress did too. with wall street financial reform, and again, the republicans opposed us when we said we wanted to make sure we never go through a bailout again, we don t want to go down