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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 heart transplants, at least according to the international society of heart and lung implantation. his age could play into how long he s kept here under observation, candy. certainly this is not the first time, as we all know, he s been hospitalized, maybe the most serious as far as i can tell, but nonetheless, he s had a long history. reporter: absolutely. he s had five heart attacks over ....
achieved. and we re doing it because ideas matter. being able to make a principle case matters. the reagan tradition of visionary conservatism was based on proverbs and the deep believe that without vision people perish. and i believe we need a visionary leader who is prepared to talk about a dramatically better future with dramatically more jobs, more energy, and a safer and stronger america. that s the key to winning this fall. not all this petty baloney, but the really big choices. and as i went around both states talking about $2.50 gasoline, having all sorts of folks in the elite media saying that s not possible, and finally on saturday in the wall street journal they wrote a piece that is entitled newt gingrich is right about gasoline. and he walked through step by step why it s possible. and the fact is it s very possible. and then yesterday, steven moore reported in the wall street journal, numbers are so amaz g amazing, the fact i want to about substance ....
administration could put out a compromise for catholics today. dan lothian is at the white house. dan, what exactly are you hearing? reporter: that s right, i m hearing that a compromise or an accommodation as they like to call it here, i m hearing this from a senior administration official, will likely be announced today. we re trying to get more details but it will likely be some kind of a balance whereby women do have access to contraceptive coverage but on the other hand you will have these organizations, religious affiliated organizations will not have to directly provide that coverage. it s unclear whether this will be enough to ease the concerns of these religious organizations and others who really were looking for a reversal of this policy. what s clear though is there s been a lot of pressure on this white house over the last couple of weeks, not only from the catholics and other religious groups, but also from lawmakers up on capitol hill. republicans. the ....
now is not my time. we saw the governor s sense of humor, the command of the room as he answered questions for a long time. gin acosta was right there. he was heavily urged to run, he was flattered, the pressure came from people of high stature, in the end it wasn t enough, why? reporter: well, john, answering that question should take a couple of minutes but chris christie, who never is at a loss for words held court in the news conference room for an hour and listened as every reporter in the room basically poked him with a stick, trying to get at why he was not going to make this decision to run for president. he was asked about whether or not it was that compressed primary calendar that all of the republican conditions are looking at right now. he was asked about his weight, whether or not his health might be an issue. he was asked whether his views as a republican are just too moderate for the party. but in the end chris christie said you could not get around o ....