China could become more suspicious of Vladimir Putin and could distance themselves from him. Wolf, he is not without risk in this equation either. Brian todd reporting. Good report. Thanks very much. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin Burnett Outfront start s right now. The breaking news, bill clinton speaking out about his wifes health. His explanation for her health scare tonight. Trumps running mate refuses to call kkk leader david duke deplorable. And open for business tonight on pennsylvania avenue, yes, lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront, breaking news, bill clinton speaking out to cbs news, insisting his wifes health care was little more than the effects of dehydration, ensuring shes ready to get back
to campaigning but saying this has happened before. This as the Clinton Campaign spent the day scrambling to explain the health care. Spokesman admitting the campaign should have provided, quote, more information more quickly promising to release for detailed medical records soon. Clinton, herself, tweeting she was just taking off for a sick day. She said like anyone whos ever been homesick from work, im just anxious to get back out there. So y see you on the trail soon. Joe johns gobegins our coveragen chappaqua, new york. The candidate, herself, has been behind closed doors. Reporter erin, she has been behind closed doors all day. Pardon me, fire engine passing behind me right now. We havent seen her, we dont expect to. The campaign has both suggested that some mistakes were made in the way all of this was handled, at least in terms of public information. But also indicating that the story we heard late yesterday is
the story that they stand by, that she was diagnosed with pneumonia on friday. Continued to push through or power through as has been said. Then on sunday at the 9 11 memorial in new york city became dehydrated and since has become rehydrated with the help of a doctor. Apparently on about botntibioti. Sheses not expected to leave here or at least to go and do a lot of active campaigning out in the west as she was originally planning to do. Going to stay close by while president bill clinton, the former president , tfills in in california as well as nevada on wednesday and thursday. So we await what the Campaign Says will happen next, and well let you know. Erin, back to you. All right, joe johns, thank you very much. One of the questions tonight is, of course, how this will affect the campaign. Brianna keilar is outfront. Reporter Hillary Clinton is out of sight, resting up as she
tries to kick a bout of pneumonia. Clinton canceling a trip to california today after abruptly leaving a 9 11 ceremony sunday when a bystander shot this video of clinton stumbling and being helped into her van by secret service. My understanding is she did not lose consciousness. Reporter after clinton paid a visit to her daughter, chelseas, apartment, she appeared in better shape. A Beautiful Day in new york. Reporter but her campaign concedes it should have been more upfront about her condition. Retrospect, i think we should have provided more information more quickly. Reporter clintons doctor diagnosed her on friday, days after an extended public coughingfy f coughing fit explained at the time as seasonal allergies. Every time i think about trump, i get allergic. Reporter fridays pneumonia diagnosis wasnt made public until sunday. The health scare follows months of donald trump questioning her physical fitness. She didnt go to louisiana. She didnt go to mexico. She was invited. She doesnt have the strength or the stamina to make America Great again. Reporter trumps response to clintons illness, subdued even as he insinuates something more could be going on. It was interesting because they say pneumonia on friday but she was coughing very, very badly a week ago. Even before that, if you remember. This wasnt the first time. So its very interesting to see what is going on. I want her to get better. I want her to get out there. I look forward to seeing her in dae debate. Reporter Clintons Campaign is batting away unfounded claims from trump surrogates that she never fully recovered from the concussion she suffered in 2012 which caused a blood clot between her skull and brain. The reality is that the pneumonia is the extent of what she has been diagnosed with. There are no other undisclosed conditions. Theres nothing that happened yesterday that was caused by or related to what happened in
2012. How are you feeling . Now, the campaign is saying that clinton is going to be releasing more medical information this week, erin. Its also important to note as bill clinton is going to be filling in for his wife at some of these fundraisers, she is tonight going to be addressing donors via a teleconference, so trying to kind of make her presence known. And also bill clinton did just speak a short time ago to charlie rose in an interview thats going to air in its entirety a little later. In it, he actually says over the years on more than one occasion, Hillary Clinton has gotten dehydrated as we saw yesterday. And he says that when pressed, that this was dehydration, nothing more. He said if its more than that, its news to him. All right. Thank you very much, brianna. Outfront now dr. Sanjay gupta, chief medical correspondent, practicing neurosurgeon. David gergen who served as adviser to four president s, reagan and clinton among them. Brianna just referencing what i mentioned at the top of the
show, bill clinton saying this had happened before. Let me just play for you exactly how he said it in that conversation with charlie rose. Well, if it is, its a mistery to me and all of her doctors. Rarely, more than one occasion over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing happened to her where she got severely dehydrated. She worked as a demon as you know as secretary of state and as a senator and in the years since. But more importantly, shes on a grueling campaign. Yeah. And you know what thats like. I do. Shes older than you were when you ran. She had 2 1 2 hard days before the day when she got dizzy. Today she made a decision, which i think was correct, to cancel her campaign day. Right. To take one more day to rest. Is it possible she will be away for weeks from the campaign trail . No, not a shot. Sanjay, so what do you say . I mean, operative line there is, over the last many, many years, the same sort of things happened to her when she got severely dehydrated. Sort of saying dont worry about it because its happened before . I think thats what hes saying, saying, look, its not as big a deal, this has happened before, shes obviously recovered. At the same time, hes saying, look, this has happened before. The image people are left with of her trying to get into that van. The fact that thats happened before is probably not exactly what he was tryinging to c ingi this wasnt as big a deal i think as people may think. What else do we need to know . Im sure you have a lot of questions. Especially now that hes coming out and saying this has happened before. Theres not a lot of information here. Thats the striking thing. Sometimes within medicine, you know, you feel like youre getting inside baseball a little bit but we know she has pneumonia. We found that out two days after she was diagnosed. We still dont know what type of pneumonia she has. Thats important because it can be theres pneumonias then there are pneumonias, can be
much more serious depending on what the cause of the pneumonia is. Did she have a chest xray . How much of her lung is actually involved . Former president clinton is saying shell be back in a day based on what . Based on is there some sort of medical criteria for that . Shes being treated with an antibiotic. What is this antibiotic . Those become relevant, erin, when trying to determine how someone is going to recover, when shes going to recover. I have no doubt this is treatable. Its very treatable. But the real question is hows it going to be treated, how long is it going to take . Whats the impact, then, ron, of the incident, itself, and look, you know, join go through the history here, we know shes had blood clots before three times. Bill clinton was the person who came out last time and obviously said it took her six months to recover from one that was in her skull. The video, look, its startling and its upsetting. Okay . Weve all seen it. I sort of watched it again and again. Your heart goes out to somebody. You think what is wrong . This is someone who wants to be commander in chief. Every level, its startling. Ron, does this episode hurt her with voters. I think if this is it, not much, or at all, really. If shes sick, has pneumonia, she gets treated and shes better, we move on. If theres nr indications of ill health as the Campaign Goes on, this raises the stakes. Bill clintons language is very strange. They are attributing what we saw to pneumonia. Depending how you interpret what he said, hes saying Something Like this has happened before. Presumably, shes not had pneumonia before. Theres another round of questions based on what he said. If you have one candidate, 69 on election day, inauguration day, another candidate whos going to be 70 on inauguration day, there is clearly a need for more information about their health than we have received so far. If nothing else, this is going to catalyze that. Sanjay, what do you say before i bring in saying it happened before, presumably not linked to pneumonia, does that raise more questions neurologically . There are Different Reasons people become dehydrated
clearly. Ron brings up a great point, this time it was related to a mo pneumonia. Shes on a thyroid medication. A your body. There are other reasons for it. It didnt seem to any the former president was suggesting shed had pneumonia many times. No, no. This is a little unclear by what he meant exactly when he said this has happened before. Right. Does he mean the kind of, you know, the wobbly incident . Right. Exactly what is it that has happened before . Right. What is it . Were going to be talking about that tomorrow i guess. Im sure we are. David gergen, when you put all this in context, you have donald trump saying he had his physical, going to put out the detailed numbers. His tests were friday. He obviously now must do that. Right . There is no question. I mean, obviously both of them to need to do it. He has to do it whatever the results are. Both of them are in a race to clear the record. Yeah. There are really two stories
here with regard to Hillary Clinton. One is the story of about her pneumonia, is she going to get back on her feet quickly . Will she be back on the campaign trail . What will we see . Theres the second bigger story, that is, are we going to know the truth about her larger medical situation . And will they be giving they said they were going to disclose some records now. We dont know what records. I think the next big milestone is when they release those documents and make them available and then we can listen to sanjay and he can tell us, we have enough to make serious judgments about her Overall Health or we dont. If people like sanjay conclude we dont, shes going to have a real serious political problem even though she may by all appearances look good. Its interesting because i think the Biggest Health issue i think david is referring to probably dates back to 2012 and this injury to her head. The concussion. The concussion. A brain injury. That also led to this blood clot, as you mentioned, between her skull and her brain. I mean, certainly someone who
has a brain injury like this, you do worry, is it going to have any longterm impact . What we hear from her doctors, what is in her medical letters, that was tested a year later, her brain function was tested. Everything returned to normal and that that clot thad ro had , a summary based on the doctors interpretations. I think when you release all the medical records, really dive into this and see how do they test this, what do they find, whats the impact . Likely its going to be nothing because thats what her doctor who knows her best to this point has concluded. I think, you know, being able to see this will be important. We know less about Donald Trumps health at this point. Thats right. Of course, well see what numbers we get this week. That probably will only just start to answer some of the serious questions people have. Thank you, all. Next, new questions about the Trump Foundation. Did the trumps use 20,000 of money from their foundation to buy a portrait of donald trump . And, protesters at the opening of the newest luxury trump hotel. Our his hotels losing business
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who supports trump, took to twitter with this superhero style image proudly touting himself as one of trumps deplorables. Even today trumps running mate, mike pence, declined to use that term to describe the former ku klux klan leader. Donald trump denounced david duke repeatedly. When we dont want his support and dont want the support you call him a deplorable . No, im not in the name calling business. Reporter now, even as donald trump was defending his supporters, there was an incident with one of them tonight at his event in north carolina. The man appeared to get into an altercation, hitting and appearing to shove a number of the protesters who were there. Now, my colleagues who were on the ground for that event, Jeremy Diamond and gray have been reporting even though they were escorted out, the trump supporter who hit them was
allowed to stay. Thank you, sara. I want to talk about that video in a moment. Jackie, first of all, clinton says she regrets now using the word half of Trump Supporters. Not taking back deplorable, irredeemable. Lasting damage or not . This is not going to go away for her. Shes been sending biden, been sending bill, been sending them to talk to tell. Those are the people she has to worry about thats really alienating at the end of the day because if they dont go and read the entire remarks, that little snippet sounds like shes talking about anybody. Karine . I disagree. I dont think this is going to hurt her at all. Weve been watching the election cycle for the past 15 months. There have been an element of his supp