yesterday. the president's former campaign team have formed a lobbying group focused on advancing mr. obama's legislative agenda. to get the ball rolling. they funded a pitch sounded like they were selling access to the president and the new york times had a long report about this whole thing over the weekend. here is the white house spokesman jay carney fielding questions from white house correspondent ed henry. >> you're not denying the point that was reported by the new york times that even though he has all of those reforms if you give 5,000 or more to this group you get access to the president. >> the president is engaged in an effort to pass items on his agenda and outside organizations that support that agenda, like organizations that are environmental in nature and support abbi