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susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. im candy crowley and this is "state of the union." first our news of the day. former vice president dick cheney is recover from heart transplant surgery. joining me now for the latest from the hospital is cnns athena jones. athen athena, do they have any idea how long he might be there? >> reporter: well, we understand that most heart patients who go through a surgery like this end up staying in the hospital for about a month. i should ...

santorum victory in louisiana with two washington bureau chiefs, susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. im candy crowley and this is "state of the union." first our news of the day. former vice president dick cheney is recovering from heart transplant surgery at a northern virginia hospital. joining me now for the latest from the hospital is cnns athena jones. athena, do they have any idea how long he might be there? >> reporter: well, we understand that most heart patients ...

Iowa. i was there last week. i couldnt believe all the ads. you know thats potentially about to happen to you. are you ready for that? zbr absolutely. you dont get into this race thinking people arent going to say bad things about you. ive said im the most consistent conservative. ive never said im perfect. ive made mistakes. out here on the stump ive owned up to it. whether its the vote for no child left behind. not like i was an advocate for it but i ended upholding my nose and voting for it. ...

I was there last week. i couldnt believe all the ads. you know thats potentially about to happen to you. are you ready for that? zbr absolutely. you dont get into this race thinking people arent going to say bad things about you. ive said im the most consistent conservative. ive never said im perfect. ive made mistakes. out here on the stump ive owned up to it. whether its the vote for no child left behind. not like i was an advocate for it but i ended upholding my nose and voting for it. it was...

>> well, thats the classical way that -- martha: youre saying if you have this implanted, your heat could rejuvenate itself? >> there are studies that show clearly if you rest the heart it doesnt have to work that hard, that maybe that into itself can help improve the overall function and maybe hes able to get off the device. but you know, look, this is telling us that the vice presidents heart is in severe, critical condition right now, and we hope that, you know, he has the best cardiologists ...

Another drug. evidence shows diabetes drug avandia increased theç risks of heart attacks. yesterday an fda panel recommended keeping the drug on the market but with additional warnings. the final decision will come in the next few months on avandia. the agency, though, usually follows recommendations from its advisory board. an update today on the health of former vice president dick cheney. he is recovering from life-saving heart implant surgery. the news broke just last night. it seemed to ...

Device or l-vad in him and that it was necessary because he was suffering from severe congestive heart failure. the former vice president actually just released a statement. he said as many of you know ive dealt with coronary artery disease for decades, suffering from my first heart attack at the age of 37. hes had five heart attacks. he says -- he goes on to say a few weeks ago it became clear that i was entering a new phase of the disease when i began to experience increasing congestionive hea...

Unbelievable, but, yeah, there are cases where there is abandonment, a parent has just left a child, left the child somewhere. and mostly, we file a lot of neglect charges, what is why i said early on, think for them not to do something in this case, you are setting a horrible precedent for people. its just for people to look at and say, well if she doesnt have chrs filed against her for putting a child on plane, you are going to put charges against me for leaving my child in a car, as mark said...

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That theres a leak within the white house on national security issues. that cannot be tolerated. but i do want to make it clear, that we want the president to get independent advice and we would hope at times he would give more deference to the experts. >> you do have a problem with the fact of the phone call. you do not think he should have called to congratulate vad ir putin? >> absolutely, its in our interest to promote democracy and good governance and the elections in russia were controlled...