so the president may tip his hat to the pope. we'll have to wait and see. getting back to this meeting with senate democrats. the president has been doing this a lot lately. he's been meeting with house democrats over here at the white house. senate democrats at the baseball stadium in washington. did that with bill clinton yesterday. and from what i am hearing from one democratic source, the president did make an offer to some of those endangered red state democrats who were up for re-election this fall. he's not going to travel to states where his presence may not be helpful. so that is one tidbit that did come out of this meeting. our chief congressional correspondent dana bash has also been reporting on this. the president apparently did not say he would -- he's not going to be offended if he's not asked or she said that he didn't hear or didn't say that he would not be offended if he's not asked, but is basically making the offer at this point to stay out of those races where he won't be helpful. we've been hearing over the last several weeks people like mike