1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: You're listening to Taking Stock with Kathleen pim Fox on 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. When We're Taking Stock is brought by Commonwealth 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: Financial Network. When it's time to change the conversation, talk 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: with a broker Dealer, r I A that's ready to listen, 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: Call eight six six four six two three three eight 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: or visit Commonwealth dot com to learn more. Story today 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: about Hillary Clinton, of course, her campaign said Sunday that 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: she had been diagnosed with pneumonia and would cancel a 9 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: plan two days swing through California. This came hours after 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: Mrs Clinton abruptly left at nine eleven Memorial ceremony in 11 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: New York, and the diagnosis coupled with remarks by Hillary 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: Clinton late Friday criticizing some Trump supporters as a basket 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: of deplorables, an unwelcome distraction to the campaign, to say 14 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: the least. Here to tell us more, Margaret toliv. She 15 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: is the White House correspondent covering the presidential for Bloomberg News, 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: and you can follow her on Twitter at Margaret Tollive. 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: She joins us from Washington, d C. Home to Bloomberg 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: and one oh five point seven h D two. Margaret, 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: go ahead, tell us your analysis of what is going 20 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: on with not only the Clinton campaign but the response 21 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: that has been generated by the Trump campaign. Well, yes, 22 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: good afternoon. If I had to tell you some silver 23 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: lining to the developments of the last twenty four hours 24 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: or so, it is that we now expect to get 25 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: more detailed health reports and records doctors records from both 26 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: the Clinton and the Trump campaigns Now the devils and 27 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: the details. We'll see what those are, but it certainly 28 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 1: sounds like midweek. By the end of this week, Uh, 29 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: we'll have more information from both of them, essentially the 30 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: sort of information that has been standard practice for nominees 31 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: for president for years now. Um, as you know, Donald 32 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: Trump has been slow too, and has continued to hold 33 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: off on releasing attack tax record, something that Hillary Clinton 34 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: has our an he done. But health records are also important, 35 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: as this episode proved. So, Uh, what is the latest 36 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: on her health that I think is very important just 37 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 1: at the most basic level. Uh, pneumonia, walking, pneumonia or 38 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: whatever it is is nothing to play with. What kind 39 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: of commentary have you heard from people inside her campaign 40 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: or health experts who have weighed in? Yeah, that's right, 41 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: and her Brian Fallon one of her chief spokesman has 42 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: been out pretty affirmatively today on television trying to sort 43 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: of be forthcoming about the fact that the campaign could 44 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: have dealt with this better and and to say that 45 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: there's no other conditions that have not been disclosed, that 46 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: she is making, uh, you know, a steady recovery, that 47 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: she's an an antibiotics, she's no longer contagious. Um. But 48 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: certainly these are all issues that we're swirling during that 49 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: eight hour time frame when nobody knew exactly kind of 50 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: like where she was, what was going on, how long 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: has she been sick, and that sort of thing. Uh, 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: she does have studio allergy. These uh, they can lead 53 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: to a chronic cough. That cough at a certain point 54 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: last week reached the threshold where it became ammonia. And 55 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: her dark doctor they have now announced publicly disclosed that 56 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: last Friday she decided to go ahead with her National 57 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: Security meeting that was scheduled, and of course that fundraiser 58 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: with Barbara streisand where she made the now infamous comment 59 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: about the basket of deplorable. Now, in Donald Trump's case, 60 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: he has you know, sad yesterday out because it was 61 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: nine eleven. But it's certainly trying to take maximum advantage 62 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: of this, saying he feels invigorated by the long schedule 63 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. The only medical report that 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: has been released in the context of this campaign by 65 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a short and curious one by a 66 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: doctor who proclaimed all of his test results to be 67 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: very positive, which is not always what they're looking for 68 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: in the test results, and uh, you know, proclaiming to 69 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: be like the healthiest nominee for president ever. So you know, 70 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions on both sides because of 71 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: the Clinton campaigns handling of this, more but a focus 72 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: has been on her. But if the Clinton campaign manages 73 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: as they're seeking now to do, to be a little 74 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: bit more forthcoming and sort of she's control of the narrative, 75 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: they may be able to put pressure on Donald Trump 76 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: to disclose much more himself. Margaret is I just want 77 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: to play devil's advocate here. I mean, it is the 78 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: press making too much of this, and mainly because there's 79 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: nothing else going on in the campaign at the moment 80 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: that right now, nothing else at all, only like you know, 81 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: isis and well that's what I mean. In other words, 82 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: you know, there are all these issues, but here we 83 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: are talking about whether the doctor said, you know, eight 84 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: hours six or whatever it is, is that does this 85 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: make any sense? Right? And I think one of the 86 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 1: major criticisms that she's based, and one of the interesting 87 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: sort of questions political questions, is could they have just 88 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: nipped all of this in the bud by either disclosing 89 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: on Friday that she wasn't feeling well, had come down 90 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: with pemumonia, was being treated, but was going to go 91 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: ahead with events, or if if she felt as it 92 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: now seems that she did that you know, okay, she 93 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: was sick, but she was, she'd seen her doctor, she 94 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: was getting medicine, she was okay to push ahead with 95 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: those events. Then, certainly on Sunday at the nine eleven memorial, 96 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: once she left, they could have disclosed that she had left, 97 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: They could have disclosed why she had left, and she 98 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: could have come out herself as she did yesterday in 99 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: front of her daughter Chelsea's house, and said at the time, 100 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: which she did not, Hey, I have pneumonia. I wanted 101 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: to be here to uh, to honor you know, the 102 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: men and women killed on nine eleven, But I should 103 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: have taken my doctor's device and I'm going to bed. 104 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:34,599 Speaker 1: She didn't do any of those things. And it is 105 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: the handling of the situation that raises so many questions 106 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: about her health, but about her tramp market I'd like 107 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: to ask you just quickly about thirty seconds. But to me, 108 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: much more lasting and interesting is that she called half 109 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: of Trump's supporters deplorables. Who was she referring to? Does 110 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: she mean people who are don't have a high school education? 111 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: What was the context of that? That seems to me 112 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: that could have more lasting damage than her pneumonia. Yeah, 113 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: and the Trump campaigns betting on it. There's an ad 114 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: that they were putting up now just to that effect. 115 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: But the clumsily, clumsily the point that she now sounds 116 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: that she was trying to make was that, uh, there's 117 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 1: so many examples of different sort of the slivers of 118 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: anti immigration attitudes, issues with women, Uh you know, uh 119 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: that if you put all those together, they represent a 120 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: huge chunk of the Trump electorate. That was her point. 121 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the percentages that she wishes she 122 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: could redo it too. She probably wishes she'd never said 123 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: anything like that at all. Margaret Tall, and thank you 124 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: so very much politics reporter for Bloomberg News. I'm Kathleen 125 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: Hayes along with him Fox on taking stock. This is 126 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: Bloomberg