jonathan reiner, dr.ooley told the bush campaign that cheney was in good health with normal cardiac function. the "normal cardiac function" wasn't true. >> cheney: i'm not responsible for that. i didn't know what took place between the doctors. >> gupta: this idea that you have this respected heart surgeon from texas who didn't see you, didn't examine you, and then writes something saying that you have normal cardiac function. that just wasn't true, mr. vice president. >> cheney: go ask denton cooley about that. >> gupta: but sir, you saw it. >> cheney: listen to me-- i think the bottom line is, was i up to the task of being vice president? and there's no question. i think based upon the fact that i did it for eight years that they were right. >> gupta: how were they able to say that you were able to do the job? >> cheney: the way i look at it, sanjay, is that first of all, i didn't seek the job. the president came to me and asked me to be his vice president. the party nominated me. the doctors that consu

jonathan reiner, dr. cooley told the bush campaign that cheney was in good health with normal cardiac function. the normal cardiac function wasn't true. >> well, i'm not responsible for that. i don't know what took place between the doctors. >> this idea that you had this respected heart surgeon from texas who didn't see you, didn't examine you, and then writes something saying that you have normal cardiac function, that just wasn't true, mr. vice president. >> ask dr. cooley about that. >> but, sir, you saw it. >> listen to me, i think the bottom line was after the task of being vice president and there's no question. i think based upon the fact that i did it for eight years that they were right. >> how were they able to say that you were able to do the job? >> the way i look at it, sanjay, is first of all, i didn't seek the job. the president came to me and asked me to be his vice president. the party nominated me. the doctors that consulted on it reached a common conclusion, the people elected me. now,

jonathan reiner who will be joining us later. i'm please to do have dick cheney back on this program. welcome. >> thank you charlie. >> rose: everybody says the same thing. you look great. you know that. >> compared to what i did, no, three years ago, i was in big big trouble. but they got me -- >> rose: you were thinking about the end. >> i was. i had hours to go, i had lived the full life and grateful for it but i fully expected i hadn't reached the end of my days. my heart was starting to shut down, liver and kidneys no longer receiving an adequate supply of blood. they went in on an emergency one night for nine hours, gave me a pump to supplement my heart. that brought me 20 months. >> rose: nine hours of senior. >> the transplant was easy the nine hours surgery was to keep me alive to get the transplant. the transplant, i've had three open heart operations and this was the simplest. it's a matter of taking out the old heart and put in a new one and hooking it up. >> rose: how fast do they have to do it. >> they try to minimi

jonathan reiner, dr.t cheney was in good health with normal cardiac function. >> the normal cardiac function wasn't true. >> well, i'm not responsible for that. i don't know what took place between the doctors. >> this idea that you have this respected heart surgeon from texas who didn't see you, didn't examine you and then writes something saying that you have normal cardiac function, that just wasn't true, mr. vice president. >> well, go ask denton cooley about that. >> sir, you saw -- >> listen to me. i think the bottom line is was i up to the task of being vice president? and there's no question i think based upon the fact they did it for eight years they were right. >> how were they able to say that you were able to do the job? >> the way i look at it, sanjay, first of all i didn't seek the job. the president came to me and asked me to be his vice president. the party nominated me. the doctors that consulted on it reached a common conclusion. the people elected me. now, what basis do you want to over

jonathan reiner, dr.ley told the bush campaign that cheney was in good health with normal cardiac function. >> the normal cardiac function wasn't true. >> well, i'm not responsible for that. i don't know what took place between the doctors. >> this idea that you have this respected heart surgeon from texas who didn't see you, didn't examine you and then writes something saying that you have normal cardiac function, that just wasn't true, mr. vice president. >> well, go ask denton cooley about that. >> sir, you saw -- >> listen to me. i think the bottom line is was i up to the task of being vice president? and there's no question i think based upon the fact they did it for eight years they were right. >> how were they able to say that you were able to do the job? >> the way i look at it, sanjay, first of all i didn't seek the job. the president came to me and asked me to be his vice president. the party nominated me. the doctors that consulted on it reached a common conclusion. the people elected me. now,

sanjay gupta on assignment for "60 minutes" sat down with cheney and his cardiologist, jonathan reiner, as they talked about what was done to protect the vice president. >> reporter: in 2007, when cheney needed his implanted defibrillator replaced, dr. reiner ordered the manufacturer to disable the wireless feature, fearing a terrorist could assassinate the vice president by sending a signal to the device telling it to shock his heart into cardiac arrest. >> and it seemed to me to be a bad idea for the vice president of the united states to have a device that maybe somebody on a rope line or someone in the next hotel room or downstairs might be able to get into, hack into, and i worried that someone could kill you. >> reporter: years later, this scene from the showtime drama "homeland" showed just how it could be done to the fictional vice president. >> i'm killing you. >> what did you think when you watched that? >> well, i was aware of the danger, if you will, that existed. but i found it incredible because i knew from the experience we'd had, the necessity for adjusting my own devic

we were personal assistants i was a i was a personal assistant to rob reiner when i got curb your enthusiasm really and delver although the sister world is so crazy and you have to do terrible things you know it's not just being an assistant to what somebody in a dot of at person do you know i mean like you've got you guys i mean like i can't speak for you but but when you're in somebodies home you're kind of a part of their it's a weird thing because you're part of their life but you're also you also work for them correct so i was a nanny for a shouter like i will. we can. yes so so the writers of the show is the purpose is to i mean to shine a light on this dark underbelly world but i have a lot of fun with it and so we have in the show we need help we share a personal assistant a guy named max who's played by max lowe who actually was my assistant for a while so max is a struggling young actor and in real life he was my assistant and then i met you know also studying the groundlings to yes which we both that's how we met was to the ground anyway so there's a blurred line you board is the

he says he and his cardiologist jonathan reiner agreed to turn off his implanted defibrillator in caseterrorist attack -- excuse me, what it does, fatally shocks the heart's rhythm. perhaps sounding far fetched until it was played out in the episode of the showtime series "homeland." take a look. >> in an interview with "60 minutes" cheney sid it was a credible theory. if he could adjust the defib raters -- defibrillators who is to say that somebody else can as well? it can control the heart beat and control them with electrical jolts. >> i was aware of the danger, if you will, that existed. i found a credible because i knew from the necessity to adjust my own device that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible. >> now despite his life-long battle with heart disease and family history, cheney said it never served as a distraction during his time in office. that sentiment was echoed all throughout his new book. at one point he writes "i never believed that the disease inhibited my capacity to do my job." i basically dealt with each problem as it came up relying on my doctors t

jonathan ryan -- reiner fre george washington hospital and has been dick cheney's surge for the last ten years. with that experience what's for us to know. >> this is an even bigger story. sometimes i would think about this book i once heard someone say this book isn't just about dick cheney the way rocky wasn't just about boxing. this is really a book about hope and resilience. and not just on the part of this unusual patient but on the part of the people who innovated these and who take care of this patient over the last 35 years. so it's really a story of the revolution in medicine that has provided opportunities for patients like the vice president to not just survive but to thrive but it's a story of resilience, it's a story about people not taking no for an answer. we tell a story in the book about the inventor of the defib rill eighter, a device that saved the vice president's love. he was a holocaust survivor from his family. made from poland essentially to the united states and didn't take it more seeing people their advice saying you can't do it. didn't take that as gospel

all this is revealed in his new book called "heart" he's written with his cardiologist jonathan reiner. but he was so concerned about his health that two months after taking the oath as vice president, he took a very unprecedented action. >> basically what i did was i resigned the vice presidency effective march 28th of 2001. >> so nearly for your entire time as vice president there was a letter of resignation sitting there. >> pending. >> pending. >> he saw there was no provision in the constitution to replace a vice president who was alive but incapacita incapacitated, so he drew up a letter of resignation to give to the president. >> i richard b. cheney hereby resign the office of the vice president of the united states. >> how did president bush react when you told him about that? >> he seemed a little surprised, but he thought it was a good idea. >> and you could see my full, exclusive interview with dick cheney sunday night on "60 minutes" and also right here next weekend on "sg md." >>> coming up for any potential parents out there genetic testing before you get pregnant. what's

jonathan reiner, dr.y was in good health with normal cardiac function. >> the normal cardiac function wasn't true. >> well, i'm not responsible for that. i don't know what took place between the doctors. >> this idea that you have this respected heart surgeon from texas who didn't see you, didn't examine you, and then writes something saying that you have normal cardiac function, that just wasn't true, mr. vice president. >> well, go ask denton cooley about that. >> but, sir, you saw it -- >> listen to me. i think the bottom line was, was i up to the task of being vice president? and there's no question, i think based upon the fact that i did it for eight years, that they were right. >> how were they able to say that you were able to do the job? >> the way i look at it, sanjay, first of all, i didn't seek the job. the president came to me and asked me to be his vice president. the party nominated me. the doctors that consulted on it reached the common conclusion and the people elected me. now, what basis

talented will you in your career when you got the part in curb your rubber on his assistant i was rob reiner's assistant at the time but you were also in the groundlings i was in the groundlings i was performing at the groundlings and every edition and she came back and i was she sat down next to us in the theater and you were like you guessed it on curb right i did one of the catch us they cast me as a lesbian assistant to mel brooks. and on never forget the first day of shooting i called cheryl afterward and i said oh my god there is going to fire me and she was a pilot and i said yeah he just kept shaking his head after takes and looking at me like this and she said oh no he does that with everybody is natural selection change your career or yeah how do you get along with larry right away yes what do you care straight away i was cast right away they called me that two hours after my audition and said i got the part which never happens never stuck to that show took off. i was shocked when i auditioned it was just a one hour special on h.b.o. it wasn't even a show and then i was yeah i rememb

reiner, who also rigwrites alongside in the book, gave a firsthand account of 9/11. cheney's heartbeat was so abnormal he was afraid the vice president was going to go into cardiac arrest. >> he can be grateful to a very good cardiologist. thank you. >>> now, want to bring you this fox news extreme weather alert. these raging wildfires that we're watching already destroying parts of australia's most populous state. the heat and the strong winds are certainly not helping those efforts. the damage has doubled since friday. police are investigating the cause as they search for more survivors and assist in recovering efforts. >> this is a very tragic fire. the impact on our community is enormous. i want to say to residents they're going to hear statistics and numbers today that are going to upset them, but just hold on to that faith and hope that we'll see this through. >> i remember when he carried me across the threshold. i remember having all my babies here. all the hard work. everything, all those years. it's just gone. i've got to start again. but we will. >> as a f

my doctor who cowrtoe the book with me, jon reiner.e was wise enough to suggest back in 2001 that i should have an implantable defibrillator. like a pacemaker but with the added feature of being able to measure heart rate and shock it into normal rhythm. eight years later, that's exactly what happened. that saved my life. >> they had to reprogram -- >> well, there was a problem. because the latest version which i had by then was capable of being programmed remotely which was a nice feature in terms of being able to manage it. as vice president the concern was -- >> somebody would kill you. >> somebody on a rope line with the right device could interfere with that implantable defibrillator and cause it to go into sudden cardiac arrest. some years later, in fact on an episode of "homeland" bad guys did kill the vice president by tampering with his implantable defibrillator. >> one of the number one killers of everybody. great advice here. great council. and shows what medicaled a vapss have done. >> i hope it convey it is notion that the

. >>> today's tweet of the day comes from carl reiner.t for next election when voters get to shut down the congressmen who shut down the government. max and penny kept our bookstore exciting and would always come to my rescue. but as time passed, i started to notice max just wasn't himself. and i knew he'd feel better if he lost a little weight. so i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. i just fed the recommended amount... and they both loved the taste. after a few months max's "special powers" returned... and i got my hero back. purina cat chow healthy weight. [ coughs ] ♪ [ male announcer ] you can't let a cold keep you up tonight. vicks nyquil -- powerful nighttime 6-symptom cold & flu relief. ♪ >>> 12 years ago this week, america began its global war on terror. i was on the air when just weeks after 9/11 t u.s. launched attacks against the taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan. here's a look back at the start of operation enduring freedom in today's "flashback friday." >> the first wave is over but there's more to come as

reiner. we're back now with the former vice president.ving fun with jon karl there. >> a little bit. >> one of the most moving parts of the book is when you write about those days before you got the pump and your days were literally numbered, counting the days, maybe counting the hours until your heart would give out, and you write you were at peace with that, yet now, you're back to something back everyone else has, all the time. can you describe how it felt going from having your days literally numbered to open-ended again? >> as my doctor said, a transplant is a spiritual experience, not just for the patient but the surgical team. i wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day i thought i would never see. you don't sweat the small stuff and everything else is small stuff. >> it really does work? >> it really does work. >> what did this all teach you about the american health care system? >> well, the system we have the best in the world by far, lot of debate about it, and so forth, but the fact is,

that was an instant where the technology and my doctor, john reiner, who helped me write the book, saved my life. you can talk about when i went into end stage heart failure in july of 2010. my liver and kidneys were shutting down. there simply wasn't enough blood being provided by my heart to the rest of my body for me to survive. i had hours to go. they went in and operated on me for nine hours one night, over 20 units of blood, installed a left ventricular assist device, it's a pump attached to my heart that operated at 9,000 rpms and supplemented the blood flow throughout the rest of my body. saved my life. bought me 20 months and it got me to the transplant. right there, the defibrillator, the transplanted heart, they saved my life. >> there's a great story in the book about when you had the el-vad installed and people asked what you remembered from when you were under sedation. can you share that story? it's pretty remarkable. >> well, i came out of that surgery in bad condition. i had been very weak going in, i was so sick, and lost 40 pounds, had pneumonia. heavily sedated for a

it seems you're his mel brooks to his carl reiner. stephanie link, josh brown, joe terrano terranova also here. i want to talk about what it's like to pull into an investment like apple. let me start about asking something that scott unearthed, and that was about his sale of netflix earlier this week. and i think we got a very interesting window into his sell discipline. he basically said it wasn't because reed hastings said something about the stock. it was because i made five times my money. is that really a key takeaway, joe, from what we can -- what we can learn by watching icahn? sell discipline? >> i think it has to be. and i also think it's important to understand that what icahn is saying is i'm taking some profit and i'm hoping the sale i made is a lousy sale because i want the stock to continue moving higher because underneath it all, i still own a significant amount of shares. you have to understand the actual investment that you own. think for a second about netflix. an incredibly rich valuation. now you get really, really