mr. cheney's prospects are pretty good. overall, 88% of men who get a heart transplant survive for a year even 73% survive for five years. so he as, as jamie pointed out, been the beneficiary of many, many advances in heart treatment and here he is if yet getting another one. he could live many years more. >> i want to go back to being on the list. what does that say in terms of your ability to go beyond a certain border or boundary while you're on that list? >> for the average person, it means they have to carry a beeper and come into a hospital in a matter of hour once it's learned there's a matching heart donor. that means that somebody is brain dead and they're going to extract their heart and transport it to where the recipient is. he knew he would have to go to the hospital within hours and he's been aware of that possibility. obviously somebody who has secret service protection has a lot more aids at his side all the time. it wouldn't be the same for a typical american, but still, the process is very much the same. a

mr. cheney is 71 years old and has quite the history when it comes to heart health n.2010, he had a left ventricular assist device for n stage heart failure and it's used to increase the amount of blood the heart is able to pump. for some patients, it can serve as a permanent treatment and apparently, it was determined not to be the case for mr. cheney and determined that he needed a cardiac transplant and he was on the list for a donor for more than 20 months. the former vice president received treatment for 5 heart attacks since the age of 37. he had quadruple bypass surgery in 1988, and has undergone two angiography surgeries, and in 2001, he had a special pacemaker installed. his office released a statement saying in part although the former vice president and his family don't know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this life- saving gift and here at inova fairfax for the transplant center and that said it was done here in 1986 and that was the first for the region and that the center does exceed the success rates, exceed the success rates for the average. g

mr. cheney accidentally referring to himself? >> martin, you speak for me. lf an unmitigated disaster as the vice president who sought to be the commander-in-chief. a man who was a soberingly, i think, and incredibly offensive as a person who can't understand that you can disagree with somebody else without making them the evil action it is of our civilization. his words about president obama are inadvertent confessions about the failed policies of the bush administration. even more so, they lack the kind of graciousness and the generosity of spirit that his former boss, george w. bush, has e-vinced. george w. bush has stayed out of the headlines because he understands that even if you disagree with another president's policies, have enough grace, have enough sensitivity for the american public to stand back and allow him or her to do her thing. i think dick cheney has indicated the very character of the bush/cheney presidency and vice presidency which has been very suspect from the very beginning. in this characters their policies continue to beg some kind o

mr. cheney received the transplant yesterday. nbc's mike vicara starts us off tonight with the latest at the hospital. >> reporter: dick cheney remains here at the hospital after undergoing a heart transplant surgery early yesterday. we learned this after the fact from a statement from t family. it came as a surprise in that sense, but in another sense, not much of a surprise at all. the vice president has a history of no fewer than five heart attacks, the most recent one about two years ago. he was at george washington university hospital on that occasion and shortly after that, he was outfitted with what's called a left ventricular device. that's for people with end stage heart disease. he was put on a wait list for a heart transplant. just this past december, he reached the top of that list and yesterday he had the surgery. as far as we know, although we have not heard anything from the doctors or the cheney family since that statement last night where they thanked the now anonymous donor, they thanked the hospital staff and ou

mr. cheney. stead he just told him that he thought the administration's policies in iraq were disgusting. the vice president thanked him. as the vice president turned to leave mr. howards touched him on the shoulder. there's a dispute whether it was just an open handed pat as mr. howards claims or a push as the secret service agents claim. the secret service, one of the three, then went and spoke with mr. howards, asked him did you assault mr. cheney? he denied that. asked him if he had touched mr. cheney. mr. howards falsely denied that. >> warner: so the man mr. howards argue that he was arrested instead because of his views? >> exactly. his claim, after the charges were dropped, was that he was arrested in retaliation for exercising his first amendment speech rights. >> warner: and the law enforcement, the secret said? >> they said that they had what is known as probable cause, more than a good reason, to arrest him. he had lied to federal officials. >> warner: so what was justice clarence thom

mr. cheney remains in intensive care here. it's not clear how long he will be at the center. there is no comment because of the privacy issues, but experts do say the transplant or heart transplant patients are in intensive care for several days and remain in the hospital for up to two weeks. they will also take an immune suppressing medication, likely for light, and that is to keep your body from attacking the new organ. a little bit of background about the inova fairfax transplant center, the website said it performed the first transplant in 1986, and the success of the transplant succeeds all national averages. hopefully he is in good hands here. mr. cheney is 71 years old and has an extensive history with when it comes to heart health. he suffered five heart attacks since age 37 and his office released a statement saying in part, in 2010, mr. cheney had a left ventricular device for treatment of early and end- stage heart failure. and has been on the cardiac transplant list for 20 months. they will be forever grateful for this life-saving gift. the former vice president r

mr. cheney was out of bed and sitting up in a chair less than 48 hours after a heart transplant.tor reiner says it is absolutely possible mr. cheney, who is 71, will live another 10 years and that was the and the cardiologist says once he recovers, the former vice president will likely find he can do whatever he wants, shep? >> shepard: mike, very interesting. any word on who donated this heart? do you get to know that sort of thing? >> i asked the cheney family spokesperson late today. she says they do not note donor's identity. the cheneys say they will be forever grateful for this life saving gift. as for special treatment dr. reiner says no chance. noting the former v.p. waited almost 21 months. his doc says the process so well defined it's impossible to get special treatment. dr. reiner felt mr. cheney felt it was important to wait his turn. shep? >> shepard: mike emanuel live on capitol hill. the nation's highest court taking on the president's signature piece of achievement. now new poll numbers reveal how americans really feel about the health care overall two years after

mr. cheney's doctor said that he had exerted no special influence to receive this heart. and the system, the donor system could not been manipulated. is he right about that? >> i think so. particularly given the fact that he waited 20 months on a vad or a heart pump for this transplant. that's longer than the typical person waits. that's longer, it's quite variable across the country. but in our region, that would be a very long wait. in our program, that would be a very long wait. we would probably have a person like that transplanted... see them transplanted in 6 to 12 months depending upon other issues. i think that's unlikely. to have happened. >> warner: the head of the organ donor network said today or said over the weekend that now fully a third... no, 15% of those on the list, the wait list for a heart transplant are now 65 and older. do you expect that to increase, given as baby boomers age and as this becomes more widely available? >> i think that's true. i think the vice president is the classic example of what happens with cardiovascular disease today. he has

the romney team was so nervous that their candidate would be photographed alongside dick cheney, mr. banned tv cameras from covering the event. the l.a. times reports a pool of reporters was allowed in, but media photos of romney and cheney together were not permitted. not only were they banned from photographing romney and cheney together, they weren't even allowed to eyewitness the two men standing together. quote, when mr. romney arrived at the reception, he greeted mr. cheney with a handshake and his wife lynn with a kiss, but reporters were promptly escorted out by the campaign. later in the evening, quote, once at mr. cheney's private residence, a reporter within earshot of mr. romney's remarks, heard mr. romney invoke mr. bush but was not able to make out the context and was again escorted away by a campaign staffer. the romney campaign went to great length to allow there to be a dick cheney appearance last night while also squel ching evidence they had had anything to do with each other. and in the same news cycle, in that same news cycle, somebody in romney land had the geni

mr. cheney has been waiting for a match since then. coincidentally i saw the former vice president just a few weeks ago and while he looked fine, it was clear he was having breathing problems. so my sense is that it became more and more necessary for them to move forward with the transplant quickly. we should just add that earlier this evening the cheney family released a statement saying that although they do not know the identity. donor, they will, quote, be forever grateful for this life saving gift. alex? >> jamie, thank you for the information. our chief sign correspondent joins us now. bob? >> 2,300 people get heart transplants in a year and the survival rate is pretty good. 88% are alive after three years, 73% after five years. mr. cheney had a beeper like most transplant patients while he was on the waiting list and he had to come into the hospital on the in the of a matter of hours when a donor became available, which is somebody who is brain dead and they extract their heart. so his prospects now are very good. even though it

mr. cheney we cut 25%. we did. cold war was over. i don't know of that level of don't think we can now but the pentagon should be like any other department, analyzed to see what we don't really need. . . that was absolutely needed and was told to us by our commanders in domestic spending should be what was needed to take care of our people, take care of our infrastructure and education and all the other things we need. but everything should be on the table. i think it was a mistake not to accept a proposal that came from since symbols. that would've been a start if everybody had to come to the table and give up some thing, but that did not pass legal muster an hour trying to talk figure it out. one thing we've got to do somehow. however we do it, we cannot keep spending $3 trillion a year and only taking two trying dollars a year. we can't run a 711 i die. the answer is easy we borrow the money and our grandkids will pay for it. we have to figure out how to bring our government spending down, which means all of us have to give up som

mr. cheney is in the intensive care unit in fairfax in falls church, virginia. months. the family doesn't know who the donor was. but they are grateful to the life saving gift and doctors and medical staff for the outstanding care. >> that's our fox report on saturday. i am harris faulkner. luse -- louisiana is the focus wantful tonight you for watching on the busy primary night.

mr. cheney looked back on the "go bleep yourself" moment fondly. >> it's sort of the best thing i ever did. >> but, oh, dick cheney, how do you narrow it down when you've done so much? mr. cheney, you are the most astonishing figure in american politics. we expect some people to be very, very radical in american politics. we have a wide-ranging, wide-open, unconstrained political system. we expect some people to be really radical. we also expect some people to unexpectedly gain power in politics. but there is nobody who approaches your combination of maximum power and maximum radicalism. it is astonishing that somebody as radical as you got to be as powerful as you did in our country. if i sound fired up about this, i am. i fascinated by you. you know that book i wrote this year, "drift," it is dedicated to dick cheney in the hopes that he will let me interview him about these things some day. i have a lot to ask him. but now in today's politics, we are still trying to figure out what it does to ourselves as a country, and specifically what it does to the republican party, to have had some

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mr. cheney thanked the family of the on known heart donor. president barack obama is in south korea for three days of diplomacy. the president arrived on sunday morning local time. he plans to keep pressure on north korea to back off of a planned rocket launch. the president's first business will be a visit to the dmz. the controversy over the death of trayvon martin should cause everyone to do some soul- searching. in baltimore, activist are answering that call and organizing a rally. we are live downtown with the story. >> a lot of people in the baltimore area are upset and outraged by what happened to trayvon martin. even the sanford, florida is far away, if people in our area are showing their support on monday night. >> trayvon martin has become a symbol for the fight for justice, not in sanford, fla., but across the nation. >> rev. witherspoon and cheryl black are outraged by the shooting death of trayvon martin. the circumstances surrounding his death are reminiscent of incidents that happened in baltimore, like the alleged beating by

mr. cheney sitting mute and expressionless next to the governor. the next day, mr. to say i was right. there would be real political problems if he chose mr. cheney, so solve them, he said. politics was my responsibility, his job was different to select his best partner in the white house and a person the country would have confidence in if something terrible happened to him. rove adds, quote, there's a lesson there for mr. romney, choose the best person for the job. well, that would be the lesson if bush had actually chosen the best person for the job, but he chose dick cheney. there's a lot of free advice flying around these days on who mitt romney should choose or he should not choose as vice president including some this morning from our own joe scarborough. >> i'm just going to say it and i -- why not, this is why people watch this show. let me set myself on fire politically, he's not ready to be vice president . just like barack obama wasn't ready to be president. just like sarah palin wasn't ready to be on the ticket in 2008. marco rubio has a great story, an

mr. cheney was put out on twitter today by daughter liz cheney. >>> still ahead as "nightly news" continues on a tuesday night. does this woman look obese? tonight, the surprising new face of an epidemic. tonight, what millions of american women may not know about their own weight. >>> and later, state of the art. masterpieces and places a lot of people can only dream of going to see for themselves, until now. >>> there is news tonight on this nation's growing weight problem, a problem that is actually getting worse than we first thought, because of how we measure it, especially when it comes to women. our report tonight from our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: it's no surprise that americans are getting fatter, but a new study finds the obesity epidemic could be a lot worse than anyone thought. the new face of obesity could actually look more like this. this is barbara hemerly-golask. she's now at a healthy weight but a year ago, doctors determined she was obese. even though her body mass index or bmi, indicated she was normal. >> when i saw the results it was utter

mr. cheney discusses his medical condition, his stance on gay marriage, and his take on the 2012 presidential campaign. from the washington center, this runs an hour. [ applause ] >> thank you, everyone. welcome to the spring semester internship program here in the blinken auditorium at the washington center. 25 years ago a four-term congressman from wyoming spoke to a group just like you. we're very honored to have him back with us today. and to introduce him is his good friend, another congressman and cabinet level secretary, the honorable norm mineta. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, mike. really, it does give me a great deal of pleasure and honor for me to have this opportunity to introduce the next speaker in the alan k. simpson, norman y. mineta leadership series event here at the washington center for interns and academic seminars. as all of you know, the washington center was founded in 1975 and has been the recognized leader in providing transformational experience for over 50,000 students through internship and special academic seminars. almost two years ago my very, very good f

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mr. cheney had a history of heart problems, suffering five heart attacks, and he had been on the transplantaiting list for 20 months. i'm joined by our chief medical reporter dr. nancy snyderman. >> we think of 70 as being the cutoff. but if the tissue matches right and he waited a pretty long period of time, then, you know, there are just times that it gets matched up. he had run out of options. >> in terms of his overall health, it is good? >> this is where the ethical issue comes up. because there are younger people also on transplant lists. when you have heart failure over this prolonged period of time, lungs and kidneys take a hit. that will be the question as he moves forward. he'll be on immuno suppressive drugs for the rest of his life. >> thanks. >> you bet. >>> the president visited the border region between north and south korea. >> reporter: making his first trip to the demilitarized zone, which separates the two koreas, president obama peered intently at the isolated north. >> it's like you're looking across 50 years into a country that has missed 40 years or 50 years of progre

mr. cheney who headed the vice presidential search in 2000 also said that mitt romney should ignore what, quote, talking heads have to say about the running mate search. >> welcome to the spring semester program here in the lincoln auditorium at the washington center. 25 years ago a four-term congressman from wyoming spoke to a group just like you. we're very honored to have him back today. to introduce him is a good friend, another congressman and cab knelt level secretary, the honorable norm manetta. >> thank you very much, mike. it really does give me a great deal of pleasure and honor for me to have this opportunity to introduce the next speaker in the alan kay simpson norman mineta leadership event here at the washington center for interns and academic seminars. as you all know the washington center was founded in 1975. and has been the recognized leader in providing transformational experience for over 50,000 students through internships and special academic semina seminars. almost two years ago my very, very good friend of 70 years, former republican senator allen kay simpson of wy

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>> let me come to dick cheney's defense here, chris. according to mr. perkins, it's dick cheney's fault that his daughter was a lesbian. first of all, i don't think there's anything wrong with it, and secondly, the notion that cheney parented in an inferior way to mr. perkins is an absurdity. i don't think mr. cheney taught his daughter to act improperly and she became a lesbian. i know of no such evidence that the parents have an effect one way or another. i don't know anybody for whom their sexual orientation wasn't involuntary, whether people are straight or gay, but there are a lot of conservative people who have had gay and lesbian children, and for mr. perkins to be blaming the parents, the cheneys, for example, for having a lesbian daughter is another absurdity. >> i never blamed anyone or accused anyone -- >> but you said the way you parent determines your child. >> i said the parents can control a lot of those environmental factors. barney is the one who said it was a problem. >> he's just backing up what he said. he said he taught his children

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mr. cheney on behalf of all the liberals and all the progressives you're welcome. thanks again.lm will be back right here on monday night. good night good luck, and have a great weekend. peace. [ ♪ music ♪ ]