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