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It says i must say, this is first of all, thank you for sharing this. This is a pretty comprehensive can i read it to you real quickly . I will try to quickly interpret it. Cholesterol weighs 63, 230 pounds. Cholesterol is 169. Hdl is 63. The lousy ldl cholesterol is 94. Those are good numbers. Triglycerides are 61, the amount of fat in your blood. The psa like the other letter published earlier,. 15, very low. Blood pressure is 116 over 70. Thats good, 116 over 70 . Yeah. I have always been lucky with blood pressure. I have always had very good blood pressure. All right. Lets bring in cnns chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. You also have a physical copy of Donald Trumps doctors letter in your hands. Do a dr. Oz no, do a dr. Sanjay for us. Well, its interesting, first of all, i just got to tell you, the tone of the letter is completely different. It sort of ends with mr. Trump is in excellent health. Hes using the same doctor. The same doctor, harold bornstein. This letter dr. Bornstein wrote september says mr. Trump is in excellent physical health as compared to before where it says he would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. It also, to be fair, has much more objective data in here now. Its still a single page letter. Here it is. It talks about a lot of these lab results, in particular really focusing on the heart which i think is what oz is obviously a heart surgeon but also, thats one of the biggest concerns, certainly, for anybody of mr. Trumps age, how is your heart health. It has a fairly detailed sort of at least test results of the heart. The only thing, we have talked about this, this is an interpretation by somebody of a summary of test results. This is not these are not medical records. Its how someone is interpreting the medical records. It is still a snapshot of donald trump today . Thats right. A snapshot in time. Again, that becomes important if you are trying to look back over time, figure out how someones health has been over time as opposed to just now. But it looks like this letter certainly suggests he is healthy for his age. I want to play a bit more of dr. Ozs show with mr. Trump for our viewers, because he talked about a lot. He talked about a colonoscopy, about his testosterone levels. You say the audience cheered. The audience cheered about the testosterone levels. Lets may the bit, you wanted to know about the cholesterol levels. You had a colonoscopy performed july 10, 2013 which was normal. Calcium also was low at 98. My goodness. Ekg, chest xray on april 14th was normal. Normal echocardiogram was done, was normal. Testosterone is 441 which is good. Maybe Hillary Clinton will release her levels of estrogen. Did you ever think as part of a president ial campaign coverage, you would hear about testosterone levels . Hillary clinton released part of her medical records yesterday. Supposedly she will release more today. She had a ct scan on her lungs, in march she had a ct scan on her brain. We know a lot about her past health issues. So what mr. Trump is doing and what mrs. Clinton is doing, is it on an equal Playing Field . You know, i would still say secretary clinton has released more information overall. Its more in depth, its talking about going back a little further in her health history. You are getting a little more of the past as well. Here again, you have a very very sort of current snapshot. An important snapshot but a snapshot in time. With regard to secretary clinton she had a ct scan of the brain done earlier this year. Very relevant, because in 2012 she hit her head after fainting and there was concern, is there a persistent problem, persistent brain injury. Theres no indication of that. They released again the summary of those findings and showed no abnormalities in the ct of the brain. She had a ct scan of the heart as well that showed no evidence of heart disease. These things are important as well. Donald trump also talked about how he takes care of himself. He says he eats a lot of fast food, probably needs to lose a few pounds, right . Heres what he said. If elected at age 70, you would be the oldest person to ever enter the oval office. Why do you think you have the stamina for the job . Just about the same age as ronald reagan, and hillarys a year behind me. I would say just based on my life. I have had i actually, i dont know if this makes sense, i feel as good today as i did when i was 30. And you mentioned golf because i have been a good golfer over the years. I have won a lot of Club Championships and things. Thats a good mentality bus eca to win a Club Championship you have to be very strong up here. When i play golf, i feel that im maybe a better golfer today than i was 15, 20 years ago. I dont know what it is. I hit the ball as far. Maybe the equipments a little bit better. I always say the equipments better, the muscles are a little bit worse. But whatever it is. I hit the ball as far, hit the ball better. I putt just as well. That has to do with the hands. You cant have problems with Hand Movement if youre going to be a good putter. But just as an indication, i think im a better player today than i was 15, 20, 30 years ago. Okay. Does that say anything at all about his Overall Health that he plays golf well . No. Hes talking about his forms of exercise saying he doesnt really exercise much, golf is his exercise and campaigning is his exercise, getting up there and giving speeches. Look, it is grueling to be doing 18 months of campaigning, flying all around the country, getting up there and giving speeches. I dont know that its a form of exercise, necessarily, but it is a way for voters to look at a candidate and see how are they performing physically and also cognitively. I want to ask about this, too. Last night, at a campaign rally, donald trump said in canton, ohio, he was standing in a room that was 122 degrees, it probably wasnt quite that hot. Im sure it was warm. He said that he had the stamina and he asked the audience whether Hillary Clinton would have the stamina to do that same thing. Would she . Yeah. And she has. I saw that as well and it was one of those strange sort of, i dont know if she could do a rally like this. Shes done plenty of they have both been campaigning for a year and a half now. So shes done plenty of events like that. I think its sort of a strange way to question someones health. They both have been at this for some time. Its a rigorous, its demanding, no question. I dont know how hot it was in the room but these events are challenging and they have both done them. So bottom line, Donald Trumps vitals appear to be fine but there is one slight problem and that would be his weight. Because didnt they mention bmi, too . Yeah. I think they say, here it says hes 63 tall and weighs 236 pounds. If you calculate the bmi on that, its just 29. 5. 30 is considered obese. So hes definitely overweight and talked about the fact he needs to lose weight. Probably needs to stop eating the fast food. All those things im sure hes been counseled on. That was probably one of the biggest red flags. Hes on a cholesterol lowering medication. His father lived into his 90s, her mother into her late 80s, died in an accident, he said. Pretty good genes, he points out, as well. Thanks so much. You got it. So Hillary Clinton hits the campaign trail for the First Time Since pneumonia sidelined her, leaving the airport near her home en route to north carolina. Jeff zeleny is in white plains. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Hillary clinton is going to leave her home in chappaqua today in just a couple hours or so, and return to the campaign trail as you said. You can see her airplane is here behind me here on the tarmac. Shes eager to get back to campaigning, of course, because the campaign and the race frankly has tightened since she left campaigning. Its been a week since shes been in a battleground state. We know her diagnosis on pneumonia came last friday and then she revealed it on sunday. But really, they are trying to get beyond this and get back to campaigning. So much talk about medicine this morning. So much talk about medical records and disclosure. Secretary clinton was on the tom joiner Radio Program that aired this morning in an interview with cnns don lemon. Shes trying to move beyond the medical records to transparency of a different kind with tax returns. Lets listen. I think i have worked very, very hard to be more transparent than not just my opponent, but really in a comparison to anybody who has run. The medical information i have put out and we are going to put out more, meets and exceeds the standard that other president ial candidates, including president obama and mitt romney and others have met. My tax returns are out there, 40 years of transparency about my tax returns. So i think that the real questions need to be directed toward donald trump and his failure to even meet the most minimalistic standards that we expect of someone being the nominee of one of our two major parties. We have heard this fight back and forth. As you know, over the last several days, as we have been talking about who is more transparent. Dr. Gupta is right in the sense that she has released more medical information and certainly more tax information. Im told by her advisers shes not going to get this a tit for tat with donald trump over who has released more information but they do plan to push the tax returns as a way of disclosure here. Quite frankly, carol, the Clinton Campaign knows it has some ground to make up after shes been off the road for a couple days. So she will be going to greensboro, north carolina, and on to washington, d. C. For a speech tonight. But that first debate, some 11 days away, the top priority for the Clinton Campaign, im told, is to keep their candidate healthy for that first debate. Jeff zeleny from white plains, new york. Thank you. Lets talk about that angle. With me, cnn politics executive editor mark preston, columnist for the daily beast, Patricia Murphy and Christopher Rowland from the boston globe. Welcome to all of you. Lets talk about tax returns, because donald trump jr. Told the tribune review in pennsylvania something very interesting about why donald trump will not release his tax returns. He said that donald trump doesnt want to release his tax returns because they are 12,000 pages and they would make financial auditors out of every person in the country and donald trump jr. Says that would only detract from his dads message. Thoughts, christopher . Well, i mean, i think the Financial Press and the American Media and the public is perfectly capable of weeding through the 12,000 pages and understanding what the bottom line is on Donald Trumps taxes. Its clear that he probably pays a very low level and i think that thats been widely reported based on his real estate dealings and Hillary Clinton wins on transparency when it comes to taxes. She has released all her taxes and he has not. So its clear why this morning she wants to change the subject from Health Records to tax records, because thats where s she does have more transparency than the candidate who has problems with transparency. Going back to this statement from donald trump jr. Because im trying to understand what he means by this, does he mean voters couldnt look at his taxes and why release anything so why release them anyway . First, its important to note this is the first time we have heard anybody from the trump camp say this. I think this is probably why he hasnt released his tax returns. They have been saying hes not releasing his tax returns because hes under a routine audit. Theres no reason not to release your tax returns, theres nothing that the irs is telling him that you cant release it because its under audit. I think this is the real reason and its because they dont want people going through his tax returns. But that is how transparency works. Hes saying we dont want the American People to go through and start to pick apart our tax returns. Theyre not going to understand the tax law. Again, thats what it means to be open and to disclose the information thats pertinent to this campaign. Within first of all, nobody is going to go through, most people are not going through 12,000 pages but they can see the relevant information. They can see to whom and how much he has given to chart. They can certainly see his tax rate. They can see who hes doing business with. Its very very Important Information and i think to write it off and just say oh, those are just my tax returns, really its a window into his entire financial situation right now thats critically important. The other thought i had is i know our taxes might not be as complicated as Donald Trumps but every american does taxes and there are a good number of people who spend a lot of time doing their taxes and they make sure they understand what theyre doing because after all, its their money. Yeah. Look, what it comes down to on this is that i dont think donald trump ever planned on releasing his taxes. While he said that he is under audit, i guess we will take him at his word, he could release his taxes. We understand that. We know that. Clearly he wants to keep his business private, his business dealings private. To the point of what we heard his son say today, thats probably the most honest answer we have gotten so far. Bottom line, they dont want the campaign to be distracted from the way that donald trump is trying to win this election. And if he puts out those 12,000 pages of tax returns, then quite frankly, theres no doubt they will give political ammunition to the Hillary Clinton campaign for something. They will be able to extract something out of that. Thats why we havent seen them and will likely not see them. I have to leave it there. Thanks to all of you. Handing out supplies to flood victims, crossing the border for a sitdown with a foreign leader. Could team trumps push for these kind of moments be pushing him into the lead . Thats next. Its not just a car. Its your daily retreat. Go ahead, spoil yourself. The es and es hybrid. This is the pursuit of perfection. Tmom didnt want another dog. She said its too much work. Lulus hair just floats. 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Cnns sara murray and the rest of the media have been usherd into the room where trump will deliver that speech so she joins us by phone. Reporter good morning, carol. We are just waiting on donald trump at this point, expecting him here in about a half hour. He will not be laying out brand new policy but will give a better sense of what his Economic Vision is, tying together some of the policies and sort of giving his campaigns estimate on what this would do for Economic Growth and for job creation. All of this is coming against a pretty positive backdrop right now for donald trump. A cnn orc poll in ohio, for instance, shows donald trump in the lead at 46 , if you look at the fourway race. Hillary clintons at 41 . Obviously the rust belt strategy is key for Donald Trumps path to victory in november so those are certainly numbers the campaign is react ting to very positively. Moving to florida, you see a dead heat, trump at 47 , clinton at 44 . This is in a fourway race. But thats within the margin of error. They are essentially tied there. Certainly a turnaround from where Donald Trumps numbers were a few weeks ago and a positive one in the view of his campaign. We will let you get back to it. Thanks so much. The polls are tightening and trumps president ial moments might be driving the numbers. At least thats what his campaign hopes. They have convinced mr. Trump to take a break from his big ral rallies to create these president ial moments to show how much he cares. Thats why he visited louisiana flooding victims, why he met with the mexican president and visited that detroit church, why he wore his hat to the Ohio State Fair and most recently dropped by a flint, michigan africanamerican church. A president ial moment that did not go as planned. Hillary failed on the economy. Just like shes failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didnt work out. Nothing. Now Hillary Clinton mr. Trump, i invited you here to thank us for what we did, not give a political speech. Okay. Thats good. Okay. [ applause ] also at times mr. Trump was heckled inside of that church. Donald trump gave his side of that awkward moment on fox news this morning. When she got up to introduce me she was so nervous, she was shaking and i said wow, this is sort of strange. So she had that in mind, theres no question about it. Bother you . Does it bother you . No. It doesnt bother me. No. I mean, everyone plays their games. It doesnt bother me. Tell you what really made me feel good, the audience was saying let him speak, let him speak. The audience was so great. Okay. Again, the pastor said that she invited mr. Trump to her church to talk about the flint water crisis and his ideas of making sure that that never happens again to their community. Now you have both sides of the story. With me to talk about the poll numbers and more, patrick murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute and andy smith, director of the university of New Hampshire survey center. Welcome to both of you. Patrick, i want to talk about these president ial moments that Trumps Campaign is creating. Is that in part whats driving trumps poll numbers, you think . It seems to be in part. What trump is doing and not doing as well as whats going on with Hillary Clinton. We have seen a big shift towards trump particularly in the last week, as the news has focused on Hillary Clinton and her health and what shes hidden about her health, and not so much on donald trump. What we are learning here is that whenever the news is focused on one particular candidate, its bad for that candidate. In the past, its been focused a lot on donald trump. The more he has small moments rather than big moments and before he can have those little moments like in the church, but without coming back and trying to back pedal what actually happened and just let it go, the more he can let these things go, the better he seems to be doing in the polls. What im seeing in polling right now suggests that its more a sense of well, donald trump isnt as much of a buffoon or clown or somebody who is just not fit for office as we have been led to believe. The more he can do that, i think we will see his poll numbers improve. Specifically we are talking about the quinnipiac poll which shows the race tightening but the same poll shows people are voting against a candidate rather than for a candidate. So will dislike drive people to the polls . Well, its certainly a hobsons choice the voters are facing this year. Whether or not that will drive them to the polls i think remains to be seen. Its still a little too early to figure out what turnouts going to look like. But my sense is that its much more difficult to get people to the polls if theyre not voting for, positively for someone, than it is to get them to come out and vote against somebody. I dont think that particularly the voting groups that are less likely to show up, in particular younger voters, are going to come out in the numbers we have seen in recent years, mainly because they dont have anybody that they are voting for. They are just voting against. Got you. Also, i want to point this out, patrick, because the polls are one thing. The Electoral College is another thing, right . So as of today, the current cnn battleground map gives Hillary Clinton 273 electoral votes from states solidly or leaning her direction, to trumps 191 votes. So if the election were held today despite what the polls show, Hillary Clinton would win and she would win even if mr. Trump wins ohio, florida and nevada. He kind of has to flip a leaning democratic state, doesnt he, to get enough electoral votes to win . Yeah. The map is has always been stacked against him. What we are seeing is him building his support in some of those key states like our nevada poll yesterday showed a flip from what we had a couple months ago where we had clinton in the lead. Now we have donald trump, within the margin of error but still, momentum going in his direction. We have a poll coming out in iowa today that will show something very similar there. If he can continue to build that momentum and have it spread into places like ohio and then pennsylvania or even New Hampshire, that could be enough to flip this map. So my final question to you, andy. How much faith should we put in these polls at the moment . As a pollster, i will say the most difficult thing in doing election polling is to figure out whos going to show up on election day. We simply dont know yet what that electorate will look like. A lot of the people we are seeing in both the quinnipiac polls and other polls dont like either candidate. As we get closer and closer to the election i think you will see both parties kind of lock down their supporters. But its those less engaged voters, more independent voters, that are less likely to show up. If this really devolves into a food fight of a Campaign Even more than it already is, i think we will see lower turnout and thats going to be hard to predict where we are right now. All right. Thanks so much for stopping by. Hillary clinton and donald trump face off on the same stage in the first president ial debate. We will have live coverage monday, september 26 right here on cnn. Still to come, she was caught in a bomb attack, pulled from the rubble and lived to tell the tale. Up next, the young syrians heartwrenching story of survival. Is it a professor who never stops being a student . Is it a caregiver determined to take care of her own . 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The aid is really desperately needed in all parts of this city. Through that area i was in, thats actually going to be one of the main corridors to try and get aid to the rebel controlled areas. We were just on that main road. You cant find a single building that hasnt been damaged or completely destroyed. We actually talked to a couple children who were Walking Around collecting tree branches to try to makefiresotheir parents could cook something or at least make tea. Many people there are living in houses that have been almost completely destroyed. We were in one familys home that had been hit by a bomb and they are still inside that ruin because they say they have nowhere else to go. So being inside this city, being in aleppo, you can really see the toll that six years of civil war have taken on this country and of course, specifically on the city. People are happy the ceasefires in place but of course, this war has been going on for six years. They say they wont get overly optimistic it might hold but they certainly hope the u. S. And russia can come to some agreement to continue to extend the ceasefire and maybe make it more permanent. Frederick pleitgen live from inside aleppo, syria this morning. Meantime, out of the rubble in syria, incredible stories of survival are emerging. Arwa damon is in turkey with that part of the story. Hi, arwa. Reporter hi, carol. We do know syrias a country filled with tragedy but it also has its fair share of heroes. This footage was shot by the activist group the aleppo media center. We have to warn our viewers they may find some of the images a little disturbing. Before the bombs, the siege and the war, he was an electrician. Before the death, the violence and the hunger, this 10yearold loved going to school. This is their story. Forever bonded together. For the last four years, mohammed has been part of a volunteer Emergency Response unit in aleppo. She had gone unnoticed in the chaos until mohammed happened to glance back. Barely alive, drifting in and out of consciousness. Doctors were able to stabilize her, but her younger sister yasmin ended up in turkey for treatment. The siblings communicate by facebook messenger. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] reporter but that is not an option for doha and the rest of her family. Turkey only opens the border for medical emergencies. She says she feels lost, her life in pieces. That is where mohammad, her savior, comes in again. He has built a playground for children and created a sanctuary for stray cats. [ speaking a Foreign Language ] its where we hear her laugh. Where in syrias battlefield, a childs gleeful cries are stolen moments. Carol, her younger sister yasmin has recovered. All things considered, fairly well. The family moved out of their neighborhood in aleppo and are living in another apartment where they basically only have threadbare mattresses. 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Why do you want to join the cia . I would like to help my country make a difference in the world. The average test time is five hours. The aclu with the help of two other human Rights Groups has launched a campaign asking president obama to pardon snowden. As you know, snowden is accused of violating the espionage act but snowden argues his release of surveillance documents was not only morally right but left citizens better off. This really isnt about me. Its about us. Its about our right to dissent. Its about the kind of country we want to have, the kind of world that we want to build. Its about the kind of tomorrow that we want to see. Joining me to talk about this is ben wisener, snowdens attorney and director of the aclus speech privacy and technology project. Welcome, ben. Oh, no. I dont think i have audio. Can you say hello to me, ben . Yeah, carol. Can you hear me . Yay, i can hear you now. Terrific. We just played something that Edward Snowden said. He said that he did what he did for the best of the country and that the country ought to understand that. If thats the case, why doesnt he come back and as president obama suggests, go through a trial . You know, theres a problem with that. Edward snowden has been charged under a 1917 world war i era law called the espionage act. That law would not allow him to make his case to a jury. So he wouldnt be able to tell a jury of his peers that the disclosures and the work of journalists led to historic reforms, led to Court Decisions that reined in the nsa, led to the first congressional action in 40 years to put controls on nsa surveillance, that the president himself convened a Blue Ribbon Panel that recommended sweeping changes, that the former attorney general, eric holder, has said that snowdens actions served the public. All of this would not just be irrelevant but deemed inadmissable. He would be reporting for sentencing, not for trial. But is it realistic to think that president obama would pardon Edward Snowden when president obama has made it very clear he thinks what snowden did was wrong and that snowden is a spy . Well, i dont actually think president obama has ever alleged Edward Snowden is a spy. I dont think anybody charged under the espionage act. Let me say this. You have on your network all day long pundits who make predictions about what president s will or will not do. Im a human rights lawyer. What i do is instead of making predictions, i work hard to try to change the public conversation around an issue so that whats possible is expanded. Maybe today it seems unlikely that president obama will act in what we consider to be the Public Interest and the global interest, but if there is a massive global campaign, if prominent americans and world leaders, if millions of people around the world join this petition, i think that actually can change the possibilities here. President obama has always said to people in my community dont ask me to do something, make me do something, organize and mobilize and if this is the will of the public, the president will hear our voices. I think that some people might be a little suspect, a lot suspect, of Edward Snowden because hes in russia right now which is not exactly the United States best friend. No, thats right. I think unfortunately right now, theres two places where Edward Snowden can be. The first is where he is today and the second is in a maximum security prison cell serving decades in prison and cut off from the debate that he helped to launch. It serves no ones interests for Edward Snowden to be in russia. He didnt plan to be there. He was stranded there because our own government canceled his passport when he was trying to transit through there. His being there is an unnecessary propaganda gift to a regime that has been adverse airal to us. 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The family of sandra bland confirming this morning they will receive nearly 2 million in a settlement of her wrongful death lawsuit. She was found dead in her texas jail cell three days after she was arrested for failing to use her turn signal in july, 2015. The settlement also adds changes to procedures at that jail, including having a nurse or emt on all shifts. The woman pictured passed out in a car with her 4yearold grandson in the back seat is heading to jail. Police say she and her male friend had overdosed on heroin. In court this morning, she entered a plea of no contest and was sentenced to 180 days in jail. She was also fined 280 on a child endangerment charge. She was granted custody of her grandson just six weeks before police found her slumped inside of that car by the side of the road. Now the little boy will move to South Carolina to live with family members there. More olympic athletes now revealed to be the victims of Russian Hackers. The World Antidoping Agency says ten additional american athletes were targeted by the cybergroup fancy bears. Earlier this week, the hackers published information about four other u. S. Athletes, including gold medal gymnast simone biles and tennis player venus williams. The agency has not named the ten additional u. S. Athletes. Thank you so much for joining me today. Im carol costello. At this hour with berman and bolduan starts now. Hello. Im john berman. Im kate bolduan. A huge hour of breaking news ahead. Stay here. In a big day in the race for the white house, we are watching two live events. The first, the left side of the screen, just a short time from now Hillary Clinton will be making her return to the campaign trail following a threeday hiatus to recover from pneumonia. She is head tog a rally in north carolina. Will she talk to the press before leaving, before boarding the plane . We will take you there live. 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