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Ventricle assist device pump that ties into the bottom of the heart, small operates several thousand rpms battery powered that supplements the heart. it moves blood through your system and restores the normal flow to your kidneys and liver. >> sean: do you feel the same? >> much better than i did before. this is the battery. theres a control element here. and another battery here. i like to do this. >> sean: you do that to scare people. >> it beeps when you take it apart. >> sean: put the batter...

jet in 172 dressed as a priest. the fbi says wright then forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove agents had no guns. he flew to algeria and vanished, until now. he was living in a resort town and is now fighting extradition. for a second day workers are hanging outside the washington monument at the very tippy top, checking each marble block. that earthquake that shook the east coast last month did more damage than first thought. >> these engin...

today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the obama policy in the middle east wasnt naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous. >> and the governor didnt stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left irans radical regime emboldened. >> to date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was wasting precious time on a naive policy of out...

>> id reached the point after 30 years and 5 heart attacks where i really needed to do something. its a wondrous device, its really a miracle of modern technology and, you know, im here today because we have that kind of technology. >> reporter: i know youre not going to pick up your shirt and show me. the reality is you have a cord that now comes out. >> right. >> reporter: and you have a battery pack. >> its -- i wear it on a vest, and theres a control element here. and then two batteries, one...

Hour. welcome back to this "american morning." the former vice president, dick cheney, is talking about his health. familiar with a lot of his health problems over the years with his heart. talking about a heart device thats for the most part keeping him alive. >> in an interview with nbc news, cheney who also lost quite a bit of weight says hes still not decided whether or not to actually go on a transplant list to seek a transplant for what he calls end stage heart failure. he has an artificia...

Refer to health care reform not as job killing but as job destroying but, of course, im a moderate democrat. my more liberal colleagues insist it be called job evaporating. dick cheney says that president obama will not be re-elected because his administration has spanneded the size of government and the size of the deficit. former vice president spoke to nbc "today" show and told nbc how his new heart pump works. >> i wear it on a vest and there is a control element here. and then two batteri...

Theres a control element here. and then two batteries. one on each side. good for about 12 hours each. and then theres a cord that runs inside my chest to the pump on the inside. and thats what powers it and keeps it functioning. initially, obviously, its kind of awkward to walk around with all this gear on. you quickly get to the point where youve adapted, where its second nature to you. >> well talk more about the political subjects that came up in this interview tomorrow. but what a delight t...

Him darth vader. we started talking about the heart pump that saved his life. >> i wear it on a vest and theres a control element here, and then two batteries, one on each side, good for 12 hours each. and then theres a core that runs inside my chest to the pump on the inside and thats what powers it and keeps it functioning. initially, obviously, its awkward to walk around. but all of this gear, you quickly get to the point where youve adapted where its second nature to you. >> are you thinking...

Deficit and giving more and more authority and power to the government over the private sector are all weaknesses. as i look at barack obama, and i think hell be a one-term president. cheney said that president obama learned from experience that some of the bush administrations decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, including not shutting down the prison at guantanamo bay. the vice president said, i think hes learned hes not going to be able to close guantanamo, that is if you didnt have ...

Theres a control element here. and then two batteries. one on each side. good for about 12 hours each. and then theres a cord that runs inside my chest to the pump on the inside. and thats what powers it and keeps it functioning. initially, obviously, its kind of awkward to walk around with all of this gear on, but you quickly get to the point where youve adapted, where its second nature to you. >> 43 past the hour. dick cheney talking to jamie gangel about his heart pump. cheney sat down for th...