LESTER HOLT (HOST): Tonight the Clinton campaign is hitting back hard on conspiracy theories being stirred up about Hillary Clinton's health. We get details from NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Tonight Hillary Clinton's campaign firing back at what aides call deranged conspiracy theories about her health. Critics claiming this is not just the candidate joking with reporters but something worse.
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SEAN HANNITY: It almost seems seizuresque to me.
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MITCHELL: A conservative website questioning whether she needs pillows to prop her up. And here's Donald Trump's new campaign CEO last week.
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STEPHEN BANNON: I'm not saying that, you know, she's had a stroke or anything like that, but this is not the woman that we're used to seeing.
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MITCHELL: Then this blast from the candidate Monday.
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DONALD TRUMP: She also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS.
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MITCHELL: All of it despite a two-page medical report from Clinton's doctor a year ago concluding she is in “excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States,” fully recovered from a concussion in 2012. Clinton's report more detailed than this note from Trump's doctor saying, quote, “if elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Perhaps the most outlandish claim about Clinton, allegations that this secret service agent was carrying a device to give her injections. The truth, according to the secret service, that is a standard flashlight. Clinton's reaction, a hearty laugh.
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Clinton, a year younger than Trump who, if elected, would be the oldest person to ever take the oath of office. Andrea Mitchell, NBC news, Washington.
