averted. and the people s republic of china, red china, urging washington to raise the debt ceiling. somewhere chairman mao is smiling. president obama went on record with his account of how last night s turbulent meeting ended. you ll recall house majority leader cantor said the president told him not to call his bluff, said i ll see you tomorrow and walked out of the cabinet room. look, at the end of the meeting after we d already met for a couple of hours, what i said to the group was what i think the american people feel, which is we have a responsibility to do the right thing. we shouldn t be overly partisan. we shouldn t be posturing. we should solve problems. whichever account rings true to you, today s meeting was the first to deal with largely revenue. we got insight in a moment from gel ca yellin and gloria borger. there s new polling you should know about that mayed is prize you, showing what americans really think about raising taxes to close the budget gap.