Us from washington with additional reporting. Sanjay, lets get your reaction to the news that not only secretary clinton has pneumonia, but this kdiagnosis came on friday and the public didnt learn about it until just now. That was a bit surprising, especially given there was a statement made after she had this episode where she had difficulty getting into the van. No mention of the pneumonia at that time, just saying she felt overheated, attributing the symptoms to that. The diagnosis of pneumonia typically involves, besides doctors visits, typically involves bloodwork, chest xrays, things like that. This is typically done in a clinic or hospital or Something Like that. Its a diagnosis that can be treated. Shes on antibiotics which means a bacterial pneumonia. But its a serious diagnosis. The doctor recommended rest, recommended obviously staying well hydrated because there is a real concern about dehydration. Youve got the fever. The bacterial infection itself can cause the dehydration. So it makes sense to fit this stuff together, but it still feels like there is a beat missing here. We got information late and it still seems incomplete. M. J. Lee, to you. You were with secretary clinton on friday. You were at the press conference that she held. You know she had a very, very busy schedule on friday. Are you hearing anything else from the campaign at this time . The last statement i believe we received from the campaign was hours ago from nick merrill who said she overheated. Now the doctor saying the pneumonia diagnosis. Anything else official from the camp . No word yet from the campaign after this doctors note was released. We do not know if clinton will continue with her california trip tomorrow. She was set to fly out to San Francisco and then go to l. A. She had multiple fundraisers and events planned for this week, a big west coast swing. And i think the other question that the campaign potentially needs to address and certainly will be asked about a lot is why the campaign didnt disclose on friday, which is when the doctor says clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia, why the campaign didnt make this public on that day. I think today, learning that she was overheated, dehydrated, that sort of seems to explain why she seemed to stumble. Some Law Enforcement officials said she appeared to even faint as she was getting into the van. But i think the question about why the pneumonia diagnosis came on friday, but she didnt actually disclose that information to the public until today, i think thats a question that the campaign will have to answer or will certainly be asked. And jeff zelany, to you, because you have been talking to a Senior Adviser to the clinton camp that says her california trip scheduled for tomorrow is now up in the air. They are making a, quote, serious evaluation of her schedule going forward. But you noted, jeff, that we know less, you said to me just a few moments ago, about Hillary Clinton and donald trump in terms of their health. We have a number of other president ial candidates known about them in the past. How so . Its really striking, Hillary Clinton 68 years old, donald trump a year older than that. Hillary just turned 69 in a months time. Theyre the oldest candidates and whoever goes into office will, in fact, be the oldest president. In the range of Ronald Reagan but slightly older, i believe, if my math is correct, and we know less about their Health Records than recent president ial nominees. Not in time. Of course, there have been president s who have kept their Health Officials secretive over the years as we know from history, fdr and others. But in recent president ial campaigns from john mccain to george w. Bush to barack obama to mitt rocmney to george h. W. Bush and others, dukakis and others, they have released full medical records. In this case that isnt the case. Hillary clinton has been more forthcoming than donald trump. Donald trump has released a letter from his doctor that was viewed with suspicion by many a medical worker who said he would be the healthiest president of all time, but Hillary Clinton has only released a statement from her doctor, has not released medical records. We do know she was treated for that blood clot at the end of her term as secretary of state in her term, 2013, and we have not received medical records that have allowed experts like dr. Sanjay gupta to look at them. John mccain invited people to come into a room in arizona to inspect the records for a couple hours. That has not happened in this case. American voters know less about the health and vitality of either nominee at this point, and theyre the oldest nominees of anyone in our history. It is something to take note of on both sides, that we simply have been given less information. In an era that transparency is called upon, we dont have that information, and knowing she was diagnosed friday, she will have to answer some questions that will have to be answered in the next several days. You said to me that its a good idea for both candidates to release their medical records, just to be fully transparent with the public, but you also noted something important, that both these candidates have been examined by their personal doctors, not an independent board of physicians. Its a point thats come up in the past as well, not just with these two candidates. Mr. Brinkley brought this point up as well. The fact there is a friendship still within these personal doctors and these candidates. Certainly with dr. Trumps doctors letter, talking about him being the healthiest president ever, it was just in glowing terms. It wasnt an objective letter. I think the public deserves objective letters on both sides, objective information as to the sort of editorial thing that might come from someone who has a sort of friendship connection. So the idea of someone having a board of doctors or allowing medical records to be seen even by a group of reporters, i think, is important. I think doctors and journalists are similar in this way, poppy, you always want to get more information, certainly. Having a diagnosis on a friday and just hearing about it on sunday after an episode, the sort of feel is that you may not have heard about it, after it was sort of forced upon. And i think the sort of information is important to know. Its an eminently treatable diagnosis. Thats the sort of thing a lot of people would want to know. Absolutely, sanjay. Dr. Sanjay gupta, stay with us. Jeff zelany working his sources on this as well. Stay with us, we have a lot more ahead. This is political. We are 58 days away from the election, so how could an issue with clintons health we now know shes been diagnosed with pneumonia how could that affect her in terms of the optics of all of this. Lets talk about it with josh king. Hes the founder of the. Shes napping, where is she, where is the energy, they point to a coughing episode, if you will. The facts are the facts. What we know is she overheated and we know from her doctor she has pneumonia. But if she doesnt get on that plane tomorrow to california, what are the options for her and her campaign . Well, poppy, a president ial campaign in the last 18 months is the most grueling imaginable. This is what you have with candidates 67 and 68 years old. We havent seen this since 1981 when president reagan took office. President clinton, president bush, president obama, these are people in their late 40s, early 50 years old, much more vigorous and ready to go for this 18month marathon. These candidates are going to have Health Issues as they go through the final 58 days of the campaign and for the next four years. This is what we have when we have 70yearold people who are in the office of the presidency. So for secretary clinton now to take a few days off, if thats what she has to do, its not beneficial to her but you can imagine that by the end of the week, shell be back at maintaining the same vigorous schedule shes had for the last 15 or so months. Well see if she gets on that plane or not. If you look at president carter stumbling after president reagan, president bush vomiting in the lap of prime minister, itizawa, president clinton stepping onto greg normans house and having a latenight run to the hospital. These are what happens to candidates. Does it take a new campaign five minutes to figure out what their going to say or share with media . They need to figure out this campaign this closely. At the same time, what do you make of the silence . We havent heard anything that hes certainly been outspoken on Hillary Clintons health, and hes talked about her being off the campaign trail. He says she hasnt been. What do you make note of the notable silence. As dr. Gupta said, a 68yearold person standing in the middle of a ceremony in Lower Manhattan in a full pant suit can overheat. You can have a touch of pneumonia and not feel well, and then you can move on the next day and continue with your schedule. I think we can be quick to judge the severity of this and ba basically come monday, tuesday, we can be back with our normal schedule. I was out this morning. It was very hot, very humid and very uncomfortable. Weve learned a lot in the last hour. Thank you so much for joining us. You have lots of insight. Marking the anniversary 15 years later once this country was attacked on 9 11. Much more on that. Stay with us. Upgrade your phone system and learn how you could save at vonage. Com business were back with our breaking news. Hillary clinton, we just learned in the last hour, diagnosed with pneumonia by her doctor, her doctor releasing that statement after Hillary Clinton left a 9 11 commemoration ceremony early this hour after her Campaign Said she overheated. Lets talk about some of the political consequences here. Were here with jeffrey lord, former Reagan White House political director. Guys, thank you for being here with me. Thank you for having me. Youre welcome. We know she overheated and we know from her doctor she was dehydrat dehydrated, she has pneumonia. We know they are evaluating her planned trip to california right now. Just for you as a clinton adviser, youre taking this 68 days out from the election. I think she needs her strength, i think she needs to recover from the pneumonia, and having been a candidate myself, it is hard to pull a candidate off the trail. This is for the biggest political prize in the world right here and so most candidates dont want to shut down but ultimately have to because your health is first. I dont think it is going to have a negative impact because its a very treatable circumstance for her. If she gets her rest for three to five days, she can be back up bigger and brighter and stronger. A lot of us know this, we get the antibiotics and we try to power through, if you will. The problem is rest and the antibiotics usually treat what is the cold flu or even pneumonia for that matter. We have to see what the campaign decides. Shes a type a, a very hard driver, and this is a very important race and a very tight race. Jeffrey, look, the context this comes in is a context in which some Trump Supporters and surrogates have been. Theyre completely unfounded in any medical facts about her, but now there is this video and she does have a pneumonia, and the campaign knew about it friday and the public wasnt told about it today. How do you think youre candidate can best handle this . Number wo, i have no ideaed about her health. Im listening along with you to all of this and im astonished. And in my opinion the clinton team has just stumbled big time on this. We have no idea still what happened and i think thats a big issue. Number two, just as a political fact of life, interesting Richard Nixon hit his knee on a karn, he spent wo weeks for a knee in dekz. On september 26, that didnt go well por Richard Nixon. September 11 is the bridge between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. If you have a candidate off the trial and youre in a race, the timing is very krurl here because obviously if hes going to. Jeff zelany just reported that we know less about these two candidates, who are the less of the candidates. He noted we knew more about john mccain, tracks. We. Sketch, shouldalry clinton. Irt pr a year. Should she put her medical records out there . I think being transparent is super important, and if thats what donald trump will do and thats what the Hillary Clinton campaign wants to do, then they should do it. I think its a fair issue, though. But im not sure pneumonia or cold or flu would even be in her medical records, nor does it tie into a longterm medical condition that theyre having putting on the internet. Zds if im not mistaken, poppy, she said she would do that. I think theyre saying, if you release yours, ill release mine. Dont the American People deserve to know . Were getting this video today from Hillary Clinton and its not the first. Thatsly real problem . The key question, though. Youre a. Thats his decision. What can i tell you . Poppy, wed like to have a more detailed medical letter. 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Not only did she have a 10point lead nationally, she had like a ninepoint lead in pennsylvania, leading in florida, North Carolina and georgia. Now the tables have really, really turned. What do you attribute it to . I think every postconvention bounce, things are tightening up. I think both sides know this is going to tighten up and we can only rely on these polls for a certain amount of time. Theyre only as good as you take them on a weekbyweek basis. The real test is the debates are coming up which will be really crucial and people are paying attention to these races after september. And secondly that the Electoral College is the key. My client my client Hillary Clinton has five to six ways to get to 270 and donald trump has only one or two ways to get to 270 and thats where the real fight is going to be for both sides. Thats all that really matters. The electoral map is more challenging for donald trump right now. When you look at paths to 270, there is the blue wall. The democrats have won the last six elections. These polls are encourage to go your candidate but its not a big lead that he has. To be perfectly candid, poppy, things are happening at such a rapid clip out there that the polls take a while to catch up. Just within the last 24 hours, weve had this whole basket of deplorables comment from Hillary Clinton that i think is going to affect polls eventually, not to mention what weve been talking about listening to this afternoon with her health situation. So ill take these polls as they are. Right now they seem pretty reasonable to me. I expected that we would begin to see this once we got past the convention bounces. Thats where we are, and boy, buckle in. Hey, poppy, one other thing, if i may. If you look at those states that you put up, one of the significant things to look at for your viewers is that a lot of those states are red states that