big concern. how big are we talking about? potassium 6.9 can kill you. this is a huge problem. yeah. i laid awake that night watching the replays of the towers come down and not thinking that oh, great, the vice president s going to die tonight of this. another blood test the next day showed cheney s potassium levels were normal. but this level of scrutiny over dick cheney s health is a reminder. he is no ordinary patient. and caring for him often required extraordinary precautions. in 2007, when cheney needed his implanted defibrillator replaced, dr. reiner ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature, fearing a terrorist could assassinate the vice president by sending a signal to the device telling it to shock his heart into cardiac arrest. and it seemed to me to be a bad idea for the vice president of the united states to have a device that maybe somebody on a
what cheney didn t know is his cardiologist showing his pa tas yum levels were dangerously high. a concern, how big are we talking about? potassium 6.9 can kill you. this is a huge problem. i laid awake last night watching the replay of the towers come down and not think great, the president is going to die tonight. another blood test the next day showed cheney s potassium levels were normal but a reminder, he is no ordinary patient and caring for him often required extraordinary precautions. in 2007 when cheney needed the implanted defibrillator in place, the doctor ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature fearing a terrorist could assassinate the president sending a signal to the device telling it to shock
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questions about his state of mind when he was helping make decisions, including those about war and peace. you were instrumental in many big decisions for the country, including going into afghanistan and iraq. and terror surveillance program and enhanced wiretapping, enhanced interrogation. you had four heart attacks, three catheterizations at this point, defibrillator, by pass surgery. right. did you worry about your physical health inpacting your judgment and cognition? no. not at all? no. were you the best that you could be? the answer to that question just ahead, plus cheney s reaction when i asked him about the research that shows how heart disease does often affect cognition. what his doctors told him about that.
implanted defibrillator replaced, dr. reiner ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature, fearing a terrorist could assassinate the vice president by sending a signal to the device telling it to shock his heart into cardiac arrest. and it seemed to me to be a bad idea for the vice president of the united states to have a device that maybe somebody on a rope line or someone in the next hotel room or downstairs might be able to get into, hack into, and i worried that someone could kill you. it might sound far fetched, but years later, this scene from the showtime drama homeland showed just how it could be done to the fictional vice president. i m killing you. what did you think when you watched that? well, i was aware of the danger, if you will, that existed.