state department in washington is not going to have to take any formal actions. one of the tools they have is they can strip the young diplomat of his status in the united states and that would force his removal but the impression we were left with yesterday is that the state department felt the embassy in washington would clean up the mess, which it appears they re doing. shepard: not surprising. we have cite a relationship with that country. any information on what was happening on the plane specifically? one of the more interesting details, i heard this from a diplomatic source who knows al-madadi is he was not smoking a cigarette but a pipe. i was left with the impression that it was not the kind of pipe that your grandfather had. i heard it was a one-hitter. i heard that too but i have no idea what that means. shepard: i don t either but what s that it said. a one-hitter. all right. cathrine herridge in washington.
they re going through, they re bringing food and drink even though they re in pain themselves. shepard: mighty good of them. hoping for good news there. a bad joke that likely cost us taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. a diplomat from qatar in the middle east who joked about setting his shoes on fire after a flight attendant taught him smoking something on a denver-bound airliner. he was on his way to visit a imprisoned al qaeda agent. he was smiling then. that may have changed. the qatar government reassigned this man, muhammed al-madadi, and he ll leave the united states. al-madadi made the comments shortly before the jet landed but the military scrambled two f16 easy and f.b.i.
member justice stevens is retiring. another high stakes political battle to fill his seat. stevens is the leader of the liberal bloc and president obama is certain to dominate another liberal to take his place. when he was put in, the word from ford was he wanted somebody with the best judicial mind and came up with stevens. now president obama wants someone very similar. the president is considering ten people at potential nominees. i view the process of selecting a supreme court nominee among my most serious responsibilities at president. while we can not replace justice stevens experience or which is some, i will seek someone with similar qualities. this is obviously a political battle. some republicans will fight the president tooth and nail. in fact we only have to look back to last year when the president nominate the justice sonya sotomayor. with us, fox news sunday anchor chris wallace in the a block. it s a big day in washington. where does this go? obviousl