meeting was the lunch menu. the readout we got from the white house was very sort of boilerplate. we do know what didn't happen, unless there's something they're not telling us. romney was not offered a job or a post in the administration, as some had speculated might happen as sort of a conciliatory gesture. who knows if he would have taken that or wanted something like that. it was sort of very tepid, the language that we got, that they would work together in the future if opportunities arose on issues they were both interested in, and they discussed american leadership in the world, which is about the closest you can come to saying absolutely nothing. these are two men who were never close. they didn't serve in the senate together like obama and mccain did. really the only times they've met have been in the context of campaigning against one another, being on the debate stage together. so i don't think there was any way for them to get together and have it not be sort of stiff and awkward. >> and in fact, david gregory was reporting that romney doesn't want a part in fiscal cliff negotiations. there were reports that his team said, look, he's not looking for