| | | | 'Overheated' Clinton has pneumonia | | Hillary Clinton appeared wobbly Sunday and stumbled as Secret Service agents helped her into a van to depart the 9/11 commemoration ceremony early. The Democratic presidential nominee felt overheated, her campaign said, when she left about 9:30 a.m. ET and traveled to her daughter's nearby apartment.
Clinton's doctor: She has pneumonia: Clinton's doctor, Lisa Bardack, said in a statement she'd examined Clinton once she was home in Chappaqua today: "Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow-up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia. She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now rehydrated and recovering nicely."
Worth noting: Her illness was not disclosed Friday.
Clinton's health is now an issue in the campaign -- impossible to dismiss, unlike the conspiracy theories some conservatives had been pushing -- writes The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: "Sunday morning changed the conversation in the race about Clinton's health. Or rather it will force Clinton to have a conversation about her health in the race."
Transparency problems spotlighted: CNN's Dylan Byers picks up on the problem today's events underscored: Neither Clinton nor Donald Trump has -- as previous nominees have by this point -- allowed for what's known as a "protective pool," a rotating group of reporters that travel with a candidate to provide a minute-to-minute account of their activities. Without a protective pool, Clinton was able to leave the memorial site without reporters, travel to her daughter Chelsea Clinton's apartment without reporters, and leave New York City for her home in Chappaqua, New York, without reporters.
Did the Secret Service break protocol? The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig and Anne Gearan report that it's against Secret Service protocol for a protected individual -- that's Clinton -- to wait on a vehicle. | | President Barack Obama laid a memorial wreath and spoke at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial this morning, marking the 15-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
With Obama today: Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford.
At ground zero in Manhattan were the two New Yorkers running to replace Obama, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Your 9/11 must-read: Politico's Garrett Graff put together a phenomenal oral history of Air Force One's journey in the hours immediately after the 9/11 attacks. The headline: "We're the only plane in the sky." | | Before the 9/11 memorials began, Hillary Clinton's Friday comment that "half" of Donald Trump's supporters fall into a "basket of deplorables" -- and her Saturday walk-back, saying she over-generalized and shouldn't have used the word "half" -- had dominated the weekend. CNN's Dan Merica, who covers Clinton's campaign, has a great look at how the moment happened and where Clinton goes from here. Some details from Dan's report:
The comment came at a fundraiser. When she took the stage to introduce Barbra Streisand at the New York event, it was only the sixth time her pool of traveling reporters had been allowed into one of her over 330 finance events. It may very well be the last.
What Democrats close to Clinton are thinking: "I think it's ridiculous that there's a debate about whether Donald Trump has a sizable bloc of supporters who are racists," said one Democratic operative close to the Clinton campaign who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly. "Hillary's detractors in the GOP and the press rip her for not telling the truth, and then when she does, they rip her for doing that. It's absurd."
No, this topic won't go away: Going forward, Clinton aides plan to force Trump to talk about racist elements behind his campaign -- like she did last month with a speech claiming far-right groups are having an outsized influence -- while framing Clinton's admission of a mistake as something Trump would never do.
The push-back from Clinton surrogates, per talking points Dan obtained, will be to suggest Clinton is being graded on a curve -- getting much more scrutiny than Trump's many bombastic remarks receive. | | "Of course it's legal. It's a war." -- Rudy Giuliani, defending Donald Trump's comment that the United States should have seized Iraq's oil on ABC's "This Week." Doing so would, in fact, have violated international law. | | | WaPo/ABC poll: Clinton up by 5 | | Hillary Clinton has a 46% to 41% lead nationally among likely voters, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows.
That's quite a different number from the two-point Trump lead that a CNN/ORC Poll found last week. Why the difference? It's mostly about the makeup of the electorate. Consider that the Post/ABC survey had President Barack Obama's approval rating at 58%, while CNN/ORC had it at 51% -- and that they found a 34% Democrat to 24% Republican split in how voters identify themselves, compared to CNN's 32% Democrat to 28% Republican split.
New swing state polls from NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist show New Hampshire, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia are all very close. | | Pro-Trump billboard magnate buys ads from himself | | From CNN's Theodore Schleifer: A billionaire backing Donald Trump is taking advertising into his own hands. Stephen Adams, a billboard magnate who made his fortune in a half-dozen different business ventures over the last five decades, is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into a pro-Trump campaign -- by buying his own ads in key swing states. He's spending $150,000 in North Carolina, $200,000 in Pennsylvania and $300,000 in Michigan.
More Trump charity woes: The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold looks at Trump's history of turning others' charitable gifts into his own, by cycling them through his foundation. One particularly brutal line: "In two cases, he has used money from his charity to buy himself a gift. In one of those cases -- not previously reported -- Trump spent $20,000 of money earmarked for charitable purposes to buy a six-foot-tall painting of himself." | | | Martin Shkreli was on hand to taunt Hillary Clinton outside Chelsea Clinton's apartment. ... Former CIA acting director Michael Morell says Vladimir Putin wants Donald Trump to win the presidential election. | | | Get the Nightcap, a comprehensive summary of the most important political news, delivered to your inbox daily. | | | | | |
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