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On the abortion executive order, and the way in which it was resolved and all difficult for him and, now, he says he was -- we expect the news conference, to announce his retirement and there is some speculation in democratic circles he might actually resign from congress, immediately. don't look for that to happen. we are being steered away from that but he got pressure from the president not to retire. and got phone calls from the democratic leaders, in congress, saying, don't announce your retirement, hang in there and keep up the fight, and, shortly, we expect that he will say, bye-bye at ...

Clinton may decide to step down while barack obama is president and could only be assured of that, until 2012, you know, so they can get a liberal member of the court, as james pointed out, it will not swing the balance of the court. it would be a liberal replacing a liberal. and, therefore might not be quite as big a fight in the senate, but, very important to one of the liberal members of the court a liberal president is the one who names their successor. martha: yes, and the question as you pointed out, will be how liberal that person is, and that is the fight and the discussion that will e...

Much. bill: bill figure that one, huh? eleven minutes past the hour now. one of the president's new policy is ises weg -- policies is being slammed not just by congress but by north korea, that regime making a promise to expand its own arsenal. breaking redetails in minutes. >> mayor mayor it may be signed and sealed, but here the question, is congress going to sign this treaty and the new packet would limit nuclear weapons. it still has one very big hurdle to pass, though, and there's requests about whether or not it will pass when the president gets back to washington. bill: also these guys ...

She's favored to win it. and the two other speaksers we'll hear are a pair of governors, bobby jindal, the governor of louisiana who insists he's not running for president and few people in new orleans and louisiana believe that. and, he gave the response to the president's state of the union recently and was criticized for not having done a good job and this is considered an opportunity for him to correct that and take a new course and rick perry the governor of texas. everything is big in texas. and he's been on the cover of magazines lately, questioning whether or not he might run for 2012 ...

Wife would make a decision in february of next year, and newt gingrich will decide whether he'll formally run for president. last might he made it clear, he thinks republicans need to stand up to barack obama more tough than they have been and listen to his description, he's a former professor, loves to talk about history, and put his description of barack obama in pretty sweeping historical terms. >>... >> reporter: i guess we don't have that. trust me, newt gingrich is one of these speakers who can put it together, a stem-winder and when he has an audience of southern republicans thinking ab...