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Speaker 1: about Hillary Clinton, of course, her campaign said Sunday that
Speaker 1: she had been diagnosed with pneumonia and would cancel a
Speaker 1: plan two days swing through California. This came hours after
Speaker 1: Mrs Clinton abruptly left at nine eleven Memorial ceremony in
Speaker 1: New York, and the diagnosis coupled with remarks by Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton late Friday criticizing some Trump supporters as a basket
Speaker 1: of deplorables, an unwelcome distraction to the campaign, to say
Speaker 1: the least. Here to tell us more, Margaret toliv. She
Speaker 1: is the White House correspondent covering the presidential for Bloomberg News,
Speaker 1: and you can follow her on Twitter at Margaret Tollive.
Speaker 1: She joins us from Washington, d C. Home to Bloomberg
Speaker 1: and one oh five point seven h D two. Margaret,
Speaker 1: go ahead, tell us your analysis of what is going
Speaker 1: on with not only the Clinton campaign but the response
Speaker 1: that has been generated by the Trump campaign. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: good afternoon. If I had to tell you some silver
Speaker 1: lining to the developments of the last twenty four hours
Speaker 1: or so, it is that we now expect to get
Speaker 1: more detailed health reports and records doctors records from both
Speaker 1: the Clinton and the Trump campaigns Now the devils and
Speaker 1: the details. We'll see what those are, but it certainly
Speaker 1: sounds like midweek. By the end of this week, Uh,
Speaker 1: we'll have more information from both of them, essentially the
Speaker 1: sort of information that has been standard practice for nominees
Speaker 1: for president for years now. Um, as you know, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has been slow too, and has continued to hold
Speaker 1: off on releasing attack tax record, something that Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: has our an he done. But health records are also important,
Speaker 1: as this episode proved. So, Uh, what is the latest
Speaker 1: on her health that I think is very important just
Speaker 1: at the most basic level. Uh, pneumonia, walking, pneumonia or
Speaker 1: whatever it is is nothing to play with. What kind
Speaker 1: of commentary have you heard from people inside her campaign
Speaker 1: or health experts who have weighed in? Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: and her Brian Fallon one of her chief spokesman has
Speaker 1: been out pretty affirmatively today on television trying to sort
Speaker 1: of be forthcoming about the fact that the campaign could
Speaker 1: have dealt with this better and and to say that
Speaker 1: there's no other conditions that have not been disclosed, that
Speaker 1: she is making, uh, you know, a steady recovery, that
Speaker 1: she's an an antibiotics, she's no longer contagious. Um. But
Speaker 1: certainly these are all issues that we're swirling during that
Speaker 1: eight hour time frame when nobody knew exactly kind of
Speaker 1: like where she was, what was going on, how long
Speaker 1: has she been sick, and that sort of thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: she does have studio allergy. These uh, they can lead
Speaker 1: to a chronic cough. That cough at a certain point
Speaker 1: last week reached the threshold where it became ammonia. And
Speaker 1: her dark doctor they have now announced publicly disclosed that
Speaker 1: last Friday she decided to go ahead with her National
Speaker 1: Security meeting that was scheduled, and of course that fundraiser
Speaker 1: with Barbara streisand where she made the now infamous comment
Speaker 1: about the basket of deplorable. Now, in Donald Trump's case,
Speaker 1: he has you know, sad yesterday out because it was
Speaker 1: nine eleven. But it's certainly trying to take maximum advantage
Speaker 1: of this, saying he feels invigorated by the long schedule
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. The only medical report that
Speaker 1: has been released in the context of this campaign by
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a short and curious one by a
Speaker 1: doctor who proclaimed all of his test results to be
Speaker 1: very positive, which is not always what they're looking for
Speaker 1: in the test results, and uh, you know, proclaiming to
Speaker 1: be like the healthiest nominee for president ever. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions on both sides because of
Speaker 1: the Clinton campaigns handling of this, more but a focus
Speaker 1: has been on her. But if the Clinton campaign manages
Speaker 1: as they're seeking now to do, to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more forthcoming and sort of she's control of the narrative,
Speaker 1: they may be able to put pressure on Donald Trump
Speaker 1: to disclose much more himself. Margaret is I just want
Speaker 1: to play devil's advocate here. I mean, it is the
Speaker 1: press making too much of this, and mainly because there's
Speaker 1: nothing else going on in the campaign at the moment
Speaker 1: that right now, nothing else at all, only like you know,
Speaker 1: isis and well that's what I mean. In other words,
Speaker 1: you know, there are all these issues, but here we
Speaker 1: are talking about whether the doctor said, you know, eight
Speaker 1: hours six or whatever it is, is that does this
Speaker 1: make any sense? Right? And I think one of the
Speaker 1: major criticisms that she's based, and one of the interesting
Speaker 1: sort of questions political questions, is could they have just
Speaker 1: nipped all of this in the bud by either disclosing
Speaker 1: on Friday that she wasn't feeling well, had come down
Speaker 1: with pemumonia, was being treated, but was going to go
Speaker 1: ahead with events, or if if she felt as it
Speaker 1: now seems that she did that you know, okay, she
Speaker 1: was sick, but she was, she'd seen her doctor, she
Speaker 1: was getting medicine, she was okay to push ahead with
Speaker 1: those events. Then, certainly on Sunday at the nine eleven memorial,
Speaker 1: once she left, they could have disclosed that she had left,
Speaker 1: They could have disclosed why she had left, and she
Speaker 1: could have come out herself as she did yesterday in
Speaker 1: front of her daughter Chelsea's house, and said at the time,
Speaker 1: which she did not, Hey, I have pneumonia. I wanted
Speaker 1: to be here to uh, to honor you know, the
Speaker 1: men and women killed on nine eleven, But I should
Speaker 1: have taken my doctor's device and I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1: She didn't do any of those things. And it is
Speaker 1: the handling of the situation that raises so many questions
Speaker 1: about her health, but about her tramp market I'd like
Speaker 1: to ask you just quickly about thirty seconds. But to me,
Speaker 1: much more lasting and interesting is that she called half
Speaker 1: of Trump's supporters deplorables. Who was she referring to? Does
Speaker 1: she mean people who are don't have a high school education?
Speaker 1: What was the context of that? That seems to me
Speaker 1: that could have more lasting damage than her pneumonia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Trump campaigns betting on it. There's an ad
Speaker 1: that they were putting up now just to that effect.
Speaker 1: But the clumsily, clumsily the point that she now sounds
Speaker 1: that she was trying to make was that, uh, there's
Speaker 1: so many examples of different sort of the slivers of
Speaker 1: anti immigration attitudes, issues with women, Uh you know, uh
Speaker 1: that if you put all those together, they represent a
Speaker 1: huge chunk of the Trump electorate. That was her point.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the percentages that she wishes she
Speaker 1: could redo it too. She probably wishes she'd never said
Speaker 1: anything like that at all. Margaret Tall, and thank you
Speaker 1: so very much politics reporter for Bloomberg News. I'm Kathleen
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