How fast do they have to do it?

Well, they try to minimize the amount of time it's without a supply of blood.

So as the recipient, they've got you opened up and ready to go, awaiting the heart from the donor, and they try to minimize the amount of time from the time it's, uh, you're, uh, it's plugged into the donor blood supply to the r- uh, rise for the recipient.

Photographer, yeah

... and, and, uh, told David, uh, said, "It's, it's really a spiritual experience, David, not only for the recipient, but also the, uh, the surgical team." And he said, "Well, does that mean you're a Democrat now?" [laughs]

Did you have any role in Speaker Hastert, Speaker of the House being taken

away? We evacuated Speaker Hastert to a secure facility and later the rest of the congressional leadership.

I also ordered the evacuation of cabinet members.

And so we sent Tommy Thompson and Veneman Gail Norton also up to secure facility.

And in the days since, we've always maintained to say, I've spent a good deal of my time up at Camp David since the president returned to the White House just so that we weren't both together in the same place so we could ensure the survival of the government.

The president was on Air Force One.

We received a threat to Air Force One.

Were we ready for this?