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Sort of can got to understand better the republicans and the republicans got to understand the president better. and he said that that was even more of a shocker i think to republicans, that the president is actually sincere in where he's coming from. i have a very unsophisticated word to describe this. duh. this is human relationships and it should have been happening for years and years. to understand each other, baseline of that, that has to happen before they can talk across party lines. >> wolf, didn't we have this conversation in 2009 and it had to do with beer and a beer summit and it w...

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...

Have said something more and meantime i'm doing this and that. mccain and graham going to the white house today where they'll probably touch on everything, probably has more to do on coming to some bipartisan agreement on immigration than avoiding the sequester. >> the optics is here are these people fierce critics of the president, john mccain on just about everything entering the white house, whether to talk about immigration reform or if it's to have a beer summit, they're walking in so the optics of that at least gives a view of these people having the ability to meet and talk over somethi...

Over a controversial arrest. >> and we decided to take a cue from the president. >> in that spirit a local toledo television station decides to organize a beer summit of its own featuring ben and maxwell. >> good to see you. >> nice to finally meet you. >> i feel like a bond, you know what i mean. >> a little bit. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> here you go. >> thank you very much. >> a peace offering. >> we had our beer. we talked about the city, talked about some of the issues facing young people in the city, facing downtown toledo, which he also had some interest in. so we found some common ground. >>...

We know this is not a beer summit nor did they drink that lovely wine you keep discussing with me. do you think they buried the hatchet? >> reporter: they're really tight-lipped about this. there were only two people in the room and those were the principals, of course, president obama and mitt romney. martin, it was 12:29 when a lone blank lincoln navigator suv made its way up west executive drive adjacent to the west wing and out popped a smiling mitt romney. they're one-on-one meeting to bury the hatchet as you put it before they sat down for lunch in the private dining room which turns out...