Were covering all the latest on Hillary Clinton and her campaign at bloombergpolitics. Com. Well see you tomorrow. Coming up, hardball with Chris Matthews. Sick day lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Hillary clinton is in chappaqua resting from a weekend that wasnt supposed to go this way. Diagnosed with pneumonia on friday, she decided to, as they say in bigtime sports, play hurt. As can often happen that turned out to be a bad call. Under the hot sun of sunday morning her condition turned for the worst. You can judge the pictures for yourself because video surfaced of clinton waiting to get into her van after leaving the ceremony early yesterday. She was unsteady and clearly
required support. She seemed to be losing her footing there. She went to her daughters apartment next, later emerging and waving to the crowd, unfortunately, a second decision was made to keep the whole matter from the public. Thats when a bad day took a turn for the worst. The Clinton Campaign put out word because of the heat down at that ceremony for 9 11 secretary clinton left the occasion earlier than scheduled. Her people now say keeping what actually happened secret was, as they said, a bad call. Here they are. I think that in retrospect we could have handled it better in terms of providing more informati information. We put priority on making sure she was okay. As soon as she got into the vehicle she was alert the whole time and was telling staff that she was fine. I do think that in those 90 minutes that elapsed we could have gotten information out more quickly, and thats on the staff. Thats on us, and we regret that. It wasnt until sunday evening, however, that the campaign disclosed that clinton had been diagnosed with
pneumonia on friday to tamp down concerns, of course, her doctor put out a statement she was recovering well. Two questions, one i think can be resolved with quickly if dealt with honestly, Hillary Clintons health prognosis. If her pneumonia is of the type that can allow her to continue at the robust pace needed, is it okay for her to keep being a candidate . Thats a question for the doctors themselves. The other question yesterdays incident raised can only be answered by the voters attention to the candidate. Are they willing to accept her instincts for controlling information about herself . Are they open to giving her other strength as a possible president to live with her propensity to release news only when releasing it is the only option . Are they ready to accept rolling disclosure admitting to the truth only when the truth is out in the public already. When theres an iphone airing showing you being lift ed ined car. This afternoon clinton tweeted, thanks to everyone who has
reached out with well wishes. Im feeling fine and getting better. She said like everyone else, anyone who has ever been home sick from work, im just anxious to get back out there. See you on the trail soon. Thats Good Campaign flakry. We do wish her well. She has canceled a trip to california for a fundraiser. Bill clinton will go in her place. That makes sense. Both the Clinton Campaign and donald trump are both promise ing additional medical information soon to be released later in the week. Well believe it when we see it. Lets watch. It is our intention that in the next couple of days well be releasing additional medical information about Hillary Clinton. Weve been in touch with her physician this morning to get those materials together. Were going to be releasing that to further put to rest any lingering concerns about what saw yesterday. Last week i took a physical, and ill be releasing when the numbers come in. Hopefully theyre going to be good. I think theyre going to be good. I feel great. But when the numbers come in ill be releasing very, very specific numbers. Im joined by nbcs kristen welker. Let me ask you one simple question thats going to linger. Did the Clinton Campaign intend to keep secret for whatever reason her pneumonia prognosis from pry dfriday until it becam obvious there was something wrong . I think you have a couple problems, chris, behind the scenes. One, all of the controversies that were being spun up by some republicans questioning secretary clintons health and, number two, the 9 11 memorial. I have been told by democratic sources close to the campaign, close to secretary clinton, she was not going to miss the 9 11 memorial. She was a senator on september 11th. This was personal for her. So i think there was a sense in the campaign that the candidate was feeling pressure from all sides and thats part of what delayed it. And you also had secretary clinton saying she could power through. She wasnt coughing on saturday. And so she felt as though she
could go to the memorial. Based on my conversation with sources, there was an intention to at some point divulge the information to the public. The question is when, how would that have happened, and would we know at this point if we didnt have that video . Those remain open questions. The campaign obviously pushing back on that, but it does feed into the broader questions about transparency. I think thats why youre seeing her Campaign Officials come out today and say, hey, we could have done a better job. I anticipate when secretary clinton gets back out on the campaign trail, chris, she will need to address that headon to put this criticism to rest. You know, the problem for me out there im not a big part of the story. Im a minuscule part of it. Just one of the people commenting on the campaign. Ive been saying theres no real evidence of Hillary Clinton having a Serious Health problem. We were arguing that with former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani as recently as thursday and he was saying, oh, no, look at the internet information, which is not very valuable, of course. In fact, not reliable. But look at all the coughing
spells shes had. When you covered, did you see any extreme coughing that would suggest pneumonia . Well, that cough that we saw about a week ago in ohio in which secretary clinton really struggled to catch her voice and to catch her breath. It was a coughing fit that went on for over two minutes. It was quite notable. She tried to joke about it. She said im allergic to donald trump, but being there in the crowd, you knew that the cough was significant. Now, of course, she said that was a cough due to allergies, but now we have this diagnosis. The Clinton Campaign, part of why they want to release the medical records, is to make the point the only thing that is wrong here is pneumonia and this is obvious ly something that is treatable with antibiotics. Worth pointing out, chris, a number of her Campaign Staffers also got sick with serious colds, and i know at least two of them who also had pneumonia. So it does seem as though theres something going around the Clinton Campaign. Other than the coughing spell i didnt see any signs she was
dealing with something serious. I didnt know you were doing so much work on the medical front. We have during this campaign. Trump has also promised to put out his latest medical report from last week, his examination. Thank you, kristen welker. This morning president obamas rm toer chief of staff, former chief strategist, rather, david axelrod, ripped them. He said antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. Whats the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy . It was a tough comment by axelrod about the Clinton Campaign which means clinton. Joining me is jonathan allen, a great book about hillary, and heidi wrote a story today. I will get to the biographer here. What does this say in all fairness objectively . Does Hillary Clinton have a penchant for privacy . Beyond the usual normal american penchant to keep your own
personal health to yourself. Well, the answer to that is yes but is this going to be a case that mag if i nice that and makes it a deal breaker for the American People . Probably not. You can look a weak breaker . Maybe. You can look at the pieces of this and what brian fallon said and put this together and figure out what happened here which was she knew on friday she was sick. She thought i can take the antibiotics and power through this and well see what happens on monday. That didnt exactly work out. Do you think she was ever going to disclose if she could get away with it . Who knows . Given the narrative that was already out there and being pushed by the way, i dont think many people know this this had been going on for many months. The National Enquirer wrote a piece saying she would be dead in six months. Theres been stuff out there thats been circulating. You shop in safeway, you read the stuff in those papers. Unfortunately for her, this takes some of that stuff mainstream. These people feel empowered. How are they going to jump
this to a serious question of Health Beyond pneumonia . I had it five or six years ago. It is very let me put it clearly. Ive had malaria and pneumonia, pneumonia felt worse. I got steroid to get through it. What are they called . Steroid, yeah. And it was great. Did you hit a lot of home runs the next season . No, no. It was only three or four days. It took Something Like that to shake you out of the very bad feeling you had. Its not cripple. Its just bad. I think it really depend on what the Clinton Campaign does from here, theyll release more medical records. Thats very important right now. The problem is they werent being forthcoming. Does this make rudy look right . No. Explain why it doesnt. He was hint iing all last week d before about how you have to go on the internet, you see how bad her sick neness is. Theres nothing on the internet worth reading. He kept talking about the coughing spells. Thats all they had. Four years ago, three years ago, karl rove went out and said she had brain damage. Remember benghazi flu. Youre getting further out. Is cough a sign of pneumonia . Im not a doctor. I may have stayed at a holiday inn express. I never said you were. Just last week, as i said, former mayor Rudy Giuliani brought up concerns im not sure if thats the right word about recent coughing fits. Lets watch. Do you think there were any signs of illness last night by the former secretary of state . Signs of illness . No, but i thought there were the day before when she coughed for about, i dont know, 15 minutes, and then coughed on the airplane and she spit something up. I dont know whats wrong with her. They kind of hide her. Mayor, mayor, mayor. Have you got any evidence besides i dont. Do you have any evidence shes ill . I dont. All i see are these incidents of her coughing all the time. I dont know what it is. And ive seen her in several other situations she didnt look healthy. I say this in the crassest possible way, score one for rudy. They did say the coughing suggested something more serious
than just, you know, you had a cold. They didnt have anything until now and, as you noticed today theyre not talk iing abo it because they think there actually might be might be a kernel of truth to it. Its important for the Clinton Campaign to come out with something and back up what brian fallon said there is no underlying condition. Why did they run on this thing months ago . Why have they been ranting on the topic of health care not health care of her health . Yes why did they get on to this thing . Look at who some of her advisers are. This is a tried and true tactic. Didnt they try to do the same thing in 1988 with dukakis . They said he was seeing a shrink. Its the power of the suggestion. They even had reagan say, you know, an invalid, right . It helped create the impression and that was it didnt create pneumonia, though. Thats gratuitous or serendipity
on their part. Sunday donald trump was carrickriescally uncharacteristically silent about secretary clintons abrupt departure from the 9 11 ceremonies. This morning he called in to fox news and cnbc and addressed the incident. Here is what he said. I hope she gets well soon. I dont know whats going on. Im, like you, i see what i see. The coughing fit was a week ago, so i assumed that was pneumonia, also. I would think it would have been. Somethings going on. But i just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail. And well be seeing at the debate. Its interesting because they say pneumonia friday, but she was coughing very badly a week ago and 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 the debate. Where are we going on this . Look, if youre donald trump, this is the best moment that
hes had in the campaign in terms of discipline, right . He has been tweeting about her health. Hes been talking about it on the campaign trail saying she has no stamina and right now Hillary Clinton had the worst weekend of her campaign so far and, by the way, theres some competition for that. She has the worst weekend of her campaign and hes getting out of the way of a story that she does it not have control of. As long as there is not an Underlying Health condition with Hillary Clinton, weve already seen a lot of her records. This is doubleedged. He will have to release his full medical report right now. Right now all we have is a statement from a doctor saying he would be the healthiest. A doctor who had a fiveminute writing of that. Right. Were going to finish up this topic because we have a much bigger one coming up and thats this question of deplorables, the basket of deplorables and Hillary Clinton has done one of these snafus where you discredit a whole bunch of americans like 47 or people relying on, as the
president said, on their guns and religion. Every once in a while a politician makes a real mistake. I want to thank you. As i said, coming up, trump isnt talking about clintons health. Hes hitting her for her comments that half his supporters are deplorables. It doesnt compare to some of his own sugar plums. Plus, new questions about the trump foundation. Trump himself hasnt contributed anything to it in years. Instead, the charity regifted other peoples money. Isnt that nice, so that trump himself would get the credit for the giving. The hardball roundtable here on the need for transparency from both campaigns. Finally my election diary for september 12 with just two weeks to go before the first president ial debate. Do you believe its september 26 coming on strong this is hardball, the place for politics. Take on any road with intuitive allwheel drive. The nissan rogue, murano and wbr id wbr9140 pathfinder. Now get 0 apr for 72 months, plus 500 bonus cash. Sorry, captain obvious. Dont be. Ive got the hotels. Com app, which makes it simple to book a room for 500. Or 25, but it wont be here. You can stay with me. Thanks. Ive already lost enough today. b
we have new polling in states tt were not battleground at the start of the campaign. Lets check the hardball scoreboard. According to our own nbc news wall street journal marist wbrid wbr9740 polling, a onepoint lead in new hampshire. Thats a state that was expected to be close. Clinton held a wider lead in earlier polls. Anyway, next to nevada and close there, too, clinton up by a point over trump, another close one. Now to two red States Clinton has put into play. This is good for clinton. In arizona trumps lead over clinton is one point. Trump 42 41 . Nastily close. In georgia, a state republicans have won since 1996, trumps lead is three. Its trump 46 , clinton 43 . Another one close to catch. Well be right back. Discover card. Customer service maam. This isnt a computer. Wait. Youre real . With discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u. S. , le me, anytime. Wow. Is is a recording. Really . No, im kidding. 100 u. S. Based customer service. Here to help, not to sell. Fmale teacher and then name thelargest planet . T . Male teacher someone we havent heard from. Female teacher anyone else . Through internet essentials, comcast is on track to connect 3 Million People in need to low cost, high Speed Internet at home, helping to make sure that every hand in the classroom goes up. Male teacher okay, veronica. Amphibian. Male teacher excellent. Welcome to a brighter future. Welcome to it all. Comcast. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half
of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. [ lachter ] right . The racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. You name it. She just did. Welcome back to hardball. Donald trump is slamming Hillary Clinton for that remark, which she made on friday describing half of trumps supporters as, what she called, deplorables, a basket of them. Anyway, here is what trump said in baltimore today about that. She divides people into baskets as though they were objects not human beings. After months of hiding from the press Hillary Clinton has revealed her true thoughts. That was her true thoughts. She revealed herself to be a person who looks down on the proud citizens of our country as
subjects. The disdain Hillary Clinton he can pressed to millions decent americans disqualifies her from public service. You cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the american voter. And she does. Secretary clinton express the her personal regress but did not actually apologize. I was grossly generalistic, and thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. In other words not some other percentage. I love the way she took back half. The Trump Campaign is out to capitalize on what hillary wbr id wbr12455 clinton said. Here it goes. Speaking to wealthy donors, Hillary Clinton called tens of millions of americans, deplorable. You could put half into a basket of defloshls. b
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