the first supper. and so he's clearly changed his attitude towards this. maybe because he believes he's got nothing to lose. >> who does want to lose? so perhaps this is the beginning. i'd love to know what's on the menu, but something perhaps something we can report tomorrow. the beer summit worked for him. go ahead. >> i think what's going to be on the menu here is this notion of if we can get past these so-called forced spending cuts that we're now in, what can we do over the summer to come up with a grand bargain. the president really sees, brooke, that public opinion by a 2-1 margin today in "the washington post"/abc news poll, public opinion for spending cuts. he may be losing the pr battle over this was going to be armageddon or not. i think the president's own popularity has gone down by an average of four points over the last couple of weeks.