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susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. i'm 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 cnn's 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 mention that vice president cheney at 71 is on the upper end of the age range of people who get he...

santorum victory in louisiana with two washington bureau chiefs, susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. i'm 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 cnn's athena jones. 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, certainly sev...

Iowa. i was there last week. i couldn't believe all the ads. you know that's potentially about to happen to you. are you ready for that? zbr absolutely. you don't get into this race thinking people aren't going to say bad things about you. i've said i'm the most consistent conservative. i've never said i'm perfect. i've made mistakes. out here on the stump i've owned up to it. whether it's 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 a mistake. th( is the differ rens. you never see me go out and vad vo kate things ...

I was there last week. i couldn't believe all the ads. you know that's potentially about to happen to you. are you ready for that? zbr absolutely. you don't get into this race thinking people aren't going to say bad things about you. i've said i'm the most consistent conservative. i've never said i'm perfect. i've made mistakes. out here on the stump i've owned up to it. whether it's 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 a mistake. th( is the differ rens. you never see me go out and vad vo kate things that a...

>> well, that's the classical way that -- martha: you're saying if you have this implanted, your heat could rejuvenate itself? >> there are studies that show clearly if you rest the heart it doesn't have to work that hard, that maybe that into itself can help improve the overall function and maybe he's able to get off the device. but you know, look, this is telling us that the vice president's heart is in severe, critical condition right now, and we hope that, you know, he has the best cardiologists in the world, that they find a way to get him back on track. martha: so the device is implanned...