Clinton campaign pledges more health information after pneumonia diagnosis

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• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  The questions are swirling in the presidential campaign this evening: How much do voters know about the candidates' health, and how much should they know?

  The issue leaped to the fore in the last 24 hours.

• WOMAN:

  She was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  The cable news banners told the story, Hillary Clinton's health front and center, after she appeared to stumble when she abruptly left Sunday's 9/11 ceremony in New York City.

  Hours later, her doctor said the 68-year-old Democratic nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia last Friday. The Clinton campaign pledged today that more information on her health is forthcoming.

  BRIAN FALLON, Clinton campaign Press Secretary: We're going to be releasing that to further put to rest any lingering concerns about what you saw yesterday. It really is the case that there is no other undisclosed condition.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Clinton scrapped a California trip, and instead planned to phone in to a San Francisco fund-raiser tonight. And late today, she tweeted: "I'm feeling fine and getting better."

  That left running mate Tim Kaine to take up the issue in Dayton, Ohio.

  SEN. TIM KAINE (D), Vice Presidential Nominee: I have just been on the campaign since July 22. Hillary Clinton has been on the trail for 18 months. Her energy staggers me. I have a hard time keeping up with her.

  (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump was restrained in his reaction.

  DONALD TRUMP (R), Presidential Nominee: But I just hope that she gets well, and gets back on the trail.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Trump has released little about his own health, but promised today he will be putting out more information as well.

• DONALD TRUMP:

  This last week, I took a physical. And I will be releasing when the numbers come in. Hopefully, they're going to be good. I think they're going to be good. I feel great. But when the numbers come in, I will be releasing very, very specific numbers.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Trump's main focus today was a different issue: Clinton's Friday night comments about his supporters. It's fodder for a new Trump campaign ad.

  HILLARY CLINTON (D), Presidential Nominee: You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables, the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.

• NARRATOR:

  People like you, you, and you, deplorable.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  And it was fodder for Trump himself on the campaign trail today during a speech in Baltimore.

• DONALD TRUMP:

  We have the support of cops, and soldiers, carpenters and welders, the young and the old, and millions of working-class families. These were among the countless Americans that Hillary Clinton called deplorable, irredeemable, and un-American.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Trump's next stop, one of the battleground states, North Carolina, this evening.