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Thinks she's done a good job as secretary of state so the whole notion of clinton being named a supreme court justice was quickly knocked down by the white house. >> we appreciate senator hatch's addition. i think the president has identified in secretary clinton a job he thinks she's doing, a capacity in which she's doing a wonderful job and the president is going to keep her as his secretary of state. >> all right, so now that it's clear that president obama does not intend to pick his secretary of state hillary clinton, we continue with the name game as gibbs calls it for the next few weeks...

Court justice john paul stevens sent in his letter of resignation two days ago, but the name game in washington started and who is the best candidate and is another distraction taking congress's focus off jobs. >> chris wallace, anchor of fox news sunday is live with us from d.c. good morning, chris. before i get to the serious stuff, i was watching with rapt attention as the dallas stadium blew up. it was like seeing the death star blow up at the end of "star wars," i feel like the world is a better place today. >> it had, we will have a bunch of ewoks later on the show and cheering in the pl...

Sotomayor was nominated. . >> let's spin the wheel for big bucks, the name game has begun. first up, the most contentious, diane wood, friend of president obama from chicago days, friends there in chicago on the 7th circuit court of appeals judge there. and the reason this could be the most contentious because by far and away she's the most liberal. >> a liberal stance on abortion rights, liberal stance on same sex marriage, immigration reform and hinted she may agree with taking the words "under god" out of the pledge of allegiance claiming it's unconstitutional. this would make liberals acro...

Get this done without any sort of break into process and procedure with the supreme court, right? >> absolutely right. he wants to -- he said in his letter to the president he wants to give the senate and the president enough time to get a nominee decided on, and the confirmation process done by the time the supreme court's term starts in october. and if you look at the announcements of intention to step down over, say, the past 25 years, this is among the earliest. so that certainly in his calculus, and he's sort of been tell grafg for weeks now that he would be doing this. >> now to the name...

Phone to stevens. he called and praised him to reporters, saying that his leadership is going to be sorely missed. and now for the second time in less than a year, the president will make a nomination that will likely influence the country long after he leaves the white house. our cnn white house correspondent, dan lothian, joining us live. hey, dan, good to see you. >> reporter: good to see you, suzanne. >> what are we expecting here from the president? >> reporter: well, you know, suzanne, i should point out this did not come as a surprise to this white house. for quite some time the aides h...