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Two batteries, one on each side, good for about 12 hours each, and then there's a cord that runs inside my chest to the bump on the inside. and that's what powers it and keeps it functioning. initially, obviously, it's awkward to walk around with all this gear on. you quickly get to the point where you've adapted. where it's second nature to you. >> that is something else. he says it is a miracle of modern technology. and the reason he's here today. it was quite the welcome home for the new york yjets. the empire state building was lit up in the green and white colors. as the charter flight ap...

>> i'd reached the point after 30 years and 5 heart attacks where i really needed to do something. it's a wondrous device, it's really a miracle of modern technology and, you know, i'm here today because we have that kind of technology. >> reporter: i know you're 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. >> it's -- i wear it on a vest, and there's a control element here. and then two batteries, one on each side, good for about 12 hours each. and then there's a cord that runs inside my ches...

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 that's for the most part keeping him alive. >> in an interview with nbc news, cheney who also lost quite a bit of weight says he's 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 artificial pump that's been implanted in his chest. >> i wear it on a vest. there's a control element here....

Refer to health care reform not as job killing but as job destroying but, of course, i'm 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 batteries, one on on each side. good for about 12 hours each. and then there is a cord that runs inside m...

There's a control element here. and then two batteries. one on each side. good for about 12 hours each. and then there's a cord that runs inside my chest to the pump on the inside. and that's what powers it and keeps it functioning. initially, obviously, it's kind of awkward to walk around with all this gear on. you quickly get to the point where you've adapted, where it's second nature to you. >> we'll talk more about the political subjects that came up in this interview tomorrow. but what a delight to see him sitting there matter of factually, i've got this thing plugged in here, the batteri...