. >> nick confessore has been in the belly of the beast. and both are corrupted. he writes about it in his spectacular article in "the new york times" magazine section this weekend in an article titled "obama's not so hot date with wall street." he joins us now. nick confessore, political reporter for "the new york times." thanks so much for being here. >> mm-hmm. >> nick, let me see if i get this right. this seems almost to be an abusive relationship. wall street hates the president. they give him money because they need influence. the president doesn't like wall street, but he takes the money because he needs it. am i capturing the dynamic between two parties that are dancing together? >> that's certainly the case in the macro sense. but as the article points out he's getting less wall street money than he used to. the contributions are way down. the people who are still giving, frankly, are the ones who are true believers or have other agendas, but for the most part they're on the team because they're on the team. the money that has fled