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And the president said repeatedly, that he would like to think of somebody who is not necessarily a judge, somebody with real world experience, possibly a politician. one name that has been mentioned along those lines, is the secretary of homeland security, the former governor of arizona, janet napolitano. she was seriously considered last time and i suspect her name will be at least mentioned by all of us as a possible this time as well. martha: it is interesting, in the discussions the president has had, about the way he views the court, he has suggested that, you know, he likes to have some...

Can tell i'm not running for office, but, the other is, on march 9, when vice president biden was there, i think it was a bit of a snub and i do think it was netanyahu's injection of the u.s. government, the internal politics, and, that followed and i think hillary clinton was absolutely right en saying it was not only a snub of the vice president, it was a snub of the united states, which we did not deserve, to be put into internal politics and, subsequent, his subsequent visit to the u.s., it seems to me was at the wrong time, an injection into our politics, the president was in the middle o...

Democrats did it and we reserve the right to do it now. so i think, the possibility of a filibuster, i don't think it is particularly likely, but i think it is still out there and very much depends on how ideological a choice the president makes. bill: it is shaping up to be quite a summer and stand by and we want to get back to the white house now, and james rosen is in -- poking around and listening to the conversation and james, your view on that, given the atmosphere in washington today as -- is what based on what you are talking about with sources there? >> reporter: it is highly polarize...

White house, we know he's expected to make a statement about this mining tragedy and we expect to hear from him on this as well. it was no secret that justice stevens was considering retiring, he had only hired one law clerk to assist him in the following term. former justices of the supreme court are entitled to one law clerk and typically if you serve and continue to serve on the high court you have four law clerks and that was an early hint he was considering retiring. this will mean that this will give the president an opportunity to nominate a successor to justice stevens, and, potentiall...

Washington next week and what we are learning about the reason for that. and his relationship with the president and all of that. we'll get into that a couple minutes from now. bill: and the man accused of gunning down 13 at fort hood now released from the hospital. we'll tell you where he is headed. martha: and the space shuttle program will be history by the end of this year, so guess how many astronauts and how they'll get up to the final frontier, hitchhiking to space! straight ahead! ♪ ♪ why don't we steal away ♪ into the night... [ music playing, indistinct conversations ]