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After three days of resting at home, Hillary Clinton is set to return to the campaign trail for her first public appearance since her pneumonia diagnosis.

Today the Democratic presidential nominee who released additional medical information from her doctor Wednesday saying a recent physical was normal and she is in excellent mental condition will hold a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then attend the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute dinner in Washington, D.C.

Clinton gave a thumbs up as she boarded her flight this afternoon. Before take-off, she also made a brief visit to the back of the plane to say hello to the press traveling with her.

"Welcome back to 'Stronger Together,'" she exclaimed, referring to her campaign plane. "I'm doing great, thank you so much," she replied when asked how she's feeling.

Clinton did not take questions, but told reporters she would hold a press avail following her Greensboro event. Chatting casually, she then said she was disappointed the TV show "The Good Wife" had ended, but that she was excited for another one of her favorites series, "Madame Secretary," to begin again soon.

Clintons return to the trail is sure to come with additional scrutiny and questions regarding her overall health.

Donald Trump, who has thus far remained quiet about his opponents recent diagnosis, has questioned Clintons health and stamina throughout the campaign. And his campaign is unlikely to let up.

Why in the world did Hillary Clinton lie to everyone and conceal such an important fact for two days, saying she was overheated and dehydrated and then, of course, hours and hours later after, unfortunately, her health became the biggest trending story of the day, not the 9/11 fallen, why wait all those hours? Trumps campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said during an interview on MSNBC this week.

If this is about transparency and medical records and health conditions, then why was she so furtive in the business of concealing here? Conway added.

Earlier this week Trump had stayed mum about Clinton's health, saying he hopes she recovers. But last night at a rally in Ohio, he said she was lying in bed and questioned her stamina, saying, I dont know folks. You think Hillary would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this?

On Sunday, Clinton, 68, left early from a 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City, where she was seen struggling to walk as she was assisted by aides into her van.

Her campaign first released a statement saying she felt overheated at the outdoor event. But after video of the incident surfaced online, the campaign released another statement from her longtime doctor revealing that Clinton, who had been battling a cough the preceding week, was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.

A statement from her doctor released Wednesday said a CT scan revealed that Clinton had a noncontagious bacterial pneumonia and that she was instructed to take the antibiotic Levaquin for the next 10 days.

Following further advice from her doctor to rest and modify her schedule, Clinton canceled her plans to travel to the West Coast early this week, which included an appearance on The Ellen Show and a speech on the economy.

Clinton also phoned in to a fundraiser she had been scheduled to attend in San Francisco on Monday. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, filled in for her at her Hollywood fundraisers on Tuesday and a campaign event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Clinton, according to spokesman Nick Merrill, spent all three days off the campaign trail at her home in Chappaqua, New York, where a steady stream of flowers were seen delivered to the house.

During this downtime, Clinton tweeted, emailed and texted her supporters to update that she was feeling fine and getting better. She also caught up on reading briefings, made calls and watched President Obamas Tuesday campaign event on TV, Merrill said.

In an attempt to reassure voters and to downplay questions over her health and transparency, Clintons campaign insisted recently that the presidential nominee has no other undisclosed condition. It also released an additional two-page statement from Clintons longtime doctor on Wednesday stating that she continues to remain healthy and fit to serve as president of the United States.

Clinton has played down her illness.

Asked during a phone interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper this week why she did not reveal her pneumonia diagnosis before Sunday, Clinton explained that she just didnt think it was going to be that big a deal.

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The moment she took the stage, Clinton addressed the topic that has overwhelmed headlines since Sunday: Her health. She acknowledged to the Greensboro, North Carolina, crowd that being forced to stay at home following her pneumonia diagnosis at such a crucial moment in the election wasn't easy to stomach.

"As you may know, I recently had a cough that turned out to be pneumonia. I tried to power through it but even I had to admit that maybe a few days of rest would do me good," Clinton said, after walking out into a school gymnasium to James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)." "I'm not great at taking it easy even under ordinary circumstances, but with just two months to go until Election Day, sitting at home was pretty much the last place I wanted to be."

After grudgingly following her doctor's orders to slow down and rest to recuperate from pneumonia -- and watching Donald Trump seize the spotlight and pull even or ahead in some key swing states such as Ohio -- the Democratic presidential nominee has signaled she is eager to make a feisty comeback at a crucial moment in the election.

One of the last times the public saw Clinton, she was being helped into a van by her security detail, her knees buckling and body slouching over as she lost her balance.

Clinton said she spent the time at home reflecting, as she mused that "the campaign trail doesn't really encourage reflection."

"It turns out, having a few days to myself was actually a gift," she said.

With less than two months until Election Day, polls have begun to tighten. In Clinton's absence, Trump and his surrogates were free to relentlessly attack the former secretary of state with relatively little pushback. Trump particularly zeroed in on Clinton's in artful comments from last Friday night, in which she described half of Trump's supporters as being in a "basket of deplorables."

In a more reflective speech than normal, Clinton admitted some of her shortcomings, including having "a tendency to over prepare" like "a lot of women."

"I sweat the details whether we are talking about the exact number of lead in the water in Flint or how many North Carolina kids are in early enrichment programs or the precise interest rate on your student loans, right down to the decimal."

And even though the Clinton campaign disclosed more information about her health on Wednesday, its initial decision to not immediately reveal the candidate's pneumonia diagnosis until late Sunday -- well after she left the September 11 memorial and briefly disappeared from reporters assigned to follow her -- has raised a slew of fresh criticism about the lack of transparency.

Clinton returned to the campaign trail with a rally in Greensboro and will follow up with a speech at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus gathering in Washington in the evening.

In Greensboro, Clinton spoke about the issue of "how we lift up our children and families," in remarks that marked Clinton's second in a series of "Stronger Together" speeches -- part of a broader effort to inject more of the candidate's personal story into the narrative.

"One upside to Hillary Clinton's break from the trail was having time to sharpen the final argument she will present to voters in these closing weeks," communications director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement ahead of the speech.

But if Clinton is trying to change the subject away from her health, Trump may make that difficult. After largely staying away from commenting on Clinton's recent health episode, he took a swipe at his opponent's stamina at a rally in Canton, Ohio, Wednesday night.

"I don't know folks -- do you think Hillary Clinton would be able to stand up here for an hour? I don't know," Trump mused.

Clinton was originally scheduled to travel to the West Coast on Monday, where she planned to deliver a message aimed at millennial voters in California and Nevada. And her remarks in Los Angeles on Tuesday were meant to about a more inclusive economy.

All of those plans fell through when Clinton stumbled at the 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday, and it's not clear when the campaign will reschedule those events.

Clinton declined to address when her running mate Tim Kaine knew about her pneumonia diagnosis, as she faced questions about the nature of her partnership with her running mate on her first day back on the campaign trail.

In a news conference following her remarks, Clinton was directly asked when she informed Kaine that she had pneumonia. Her doctor made the diagnosis Friday, but the public did not find out about it until Sunday.

"My senior staff knew and information was provided to a number of people. And look -- this was an ailment that many people just power through and that's what I thought I would do as well," Clinton said, not addressing the specific Kaine question. "I didn't want to stop, I didn't want to quit campaigning, I certainly didn't want to miss the 9/11 memorial."

Another reporter followed up, asking how often Clinton speaks with Kaine and how she views her relationship and working partnership with her running mate.

Clinton said she communicated with Kaine as late as Wednesday night and referred to him as a "great partner" and great future vice president.

"We've communicated but I'm not going to go into our personal conversations and I feel very comfortable and confident about our relationship," Clinton added.

Kaine has also been asked about his knowledge of Clinton's diagnosis, and suggested in Dayton on Monday that he was in the dark until Sunday.

"I don't want to talk about her and my conversations, the content of them, except just to say that I reached out to her as soon as the incident happened on Sunday, as soon as I was aware of it," Kaine said.

When pressed to clarify if he didn't know about Clinton's diagnosis on Friday, Kaine responded: "I can just say, I'm not going to get into the content, but we talked yesterday after the incident happened."

Clinton is sending a message by choosing North Carolina a state her campaign believes is a must-win for Trump -- as her first stop back on the trail. Trump has a 5 point lead in Ohio and a 3 point cushion in Florida, according to a new CNN-ORC poll released Wednesday, meaning the Tar Heel State is increasingly important for Clinton as well.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008, while Republican nominee Mitt Romney won in 2012. Clinton's top aides believe North Carolina may be more solidly blue than typical bellwethers like Ohio because of the abundance of African-American and college-educated white voters.

North Carolina has a larger than average number of college-educated whites, buoyed by growth of college and post-college white voters in the Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill area.

Democratic pollster Geoff Garin said North Carolina is Clinton's "best chance" to win a state that Mitt Romney carried four years ago.

"Polls consistently have showed her holding a narrow plurality in the state, built on strong support among African-Americans and an ability to win over some better educated suburban whites in the Charlotte area and the Research Triangle who liked Romney but find Trump out of sync with their values," said Garin, who advises the pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA.

Thursday's visit is her fifth since she clinched the nomination on June, while Clinton's campaign and her aligned super PACs have spent close to $15 million advertising on TV in the state. And by the time she visits on Thursday, Clinton's Tar Heel State operation will have 33 organizing offices in the state.

Clinton has so far struggled break away from Trump in states like Nevada, New Hampshire and Ohio, which have smaller than average numbers of college educated white voters. While Trump has led with white voters, those with college degrees have rejected Trump in larger numbers than past elections.

While Obama lost college-educated white voters by 14 points, national polls in August found Clinton up by 10 points with the group.

But as polls tighten, so has Clinton's advantage with that group. CNN/ORC polls released Wednesday found that Trump actually leads by 9 points among the group in Ohio and 8 points in Florida.

Clinton knows she needs to be on the trail in order to seize back momentum she had earlier this summer. And she says it's been difficult to follow her doctor's orders.

"I was supposed to rest five days -- that's what they told me on Friday -- and I didn't follow that very wise advice," Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday night. "So I just want to get this over and done with and get back on the trail as soon as possible."

CNN's Betsy Klein contributed to this report.

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CBS Evening News edited out what sure sounded like a Freudian slip and a lawyerly correction when Bill Clinton was talking about how often his wife collapses from dehydration.

Shes been well, if it is its a mystery to me and all of her doctors, because frequently, not frequently, rarely, but on more than one occasion, over the last many, many years, the same sort of thing has happened to her where she got severely dehydrated, the former president said of Hillary Clinton, who is seeking the office he once held.

The CBS News website posted video showing the exchange, and Clintons mid-sentence correction. But when the exchange with Charlie Rose occurred during the nightly newscast, the frequently, not frequently, rarely part edited out.

For folks who wonder if the public is being told all there is to know about the former secretary of states health, Clintons full sentence seemed to hold a tantalizing clue. By the time other news channels, including Fox, picked up the comment, the slipup was gone.

The Daily Caller was first to compare the ex-presidents full statement to the one that aired, and NewsBusters followed up with a side-by-side comparison.

CBS backpedaled Tuesday and included the full quote on their morning newscast. NewsBusters claimed it was only the latest example of deft editing by the liberal media to make Hillary Clinton look good, or her opponent, Donald Trump, look bad.

"The clip in question from former President Clintons interview with Charlie Rose ran in its entirety on CBS THIS MORNING, CBSNews.com and on CBSN, CBS News 24/7 digital streaming news service," Richard Huff, Executive Director of Communications for CBS News, said in a statement. "One clip that ran on CBS Evening News was edited purely for time while on deadline for the live broadcast."

Last month, CNN edited Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway speaking on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos, to make it appear that Conway promised Trump would refrain from personal attacks. In fact, Conway said she didnt approve of personal insults by candidates, but made no pledges on behalf of Trump.

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In an in-depth interview with Charlie Rose that aired Monday night, former president Bill Clinton addressed concerns over Hillary Clinton's diagnosis of pneumonia, saying there was "nothing more to know" about the candidate's health and even questioning the fitness of her opponent.

"I have talked to her doctor, who is extremely competent and who has been in touch with all the people who help her, you know, with all other things over the years," Clinton told Rose on Monday night.

"There is just nothing there. All of her health indicators are good. She's very strong. She's exercised a lot. And unlike me, she sleeps well at night. I mean she sleeps long hours, or by my standards anyway."

There's "nothing more to know," Clinton said.

Concerns arose on Sunday after a video surfaced of Clinton appearing unsteady and nearly collapsing after abruptly leaving a 9/11 commemoration ceremony in New York. Earlier last week, the Democratic hopeful had to halt a speech due to a coughing fit her campaign later attributed to "allergies."

On Sunday, the candidate's doctor released a statement saying she had been diagnosed with pneumonia and that she would be cancelling a planned trip to California.

The former president played down the health concerns, while also using the airtime to take a swipe at Republican candidate Donald Trump -- who has yet to release detailed health records.

"They think everything is a campaign issue," he told Rose. "I think her lifestyle and her underlying indicators from blood pressure to amount of exercise, to everything else means it's almost that she is in better health than her opponent. But we don't know because he hasn't disclosed."

During the sit-down, Clinton also talked about how he views the election this year and the advice he gave his wife on how to win.

"I said you know, this is the time when there is a lot of resentment and small wounds. And you're not a demagogue," Clinton said.

"You just have always been the grown up in every room. That's why the people who work with you are so loyal to you, because you always make something good happen. And you are going to have to take a big gamble that you can win as yourself."

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Heres someone you may hear over the next few days: Bob Torricelli, the New Jersey Democrat who dropped out of his Senatere-election race in October 2002.

Torricelli was hamstrung byan investigation into some shady fundraising practices, which meant his Republican challenger was suddenly deemedlikely to win. Democrats panicked, dropped Torricelli, and dusted the mothballs off retired Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who took his place and easily won on Election Day.

So why are we talking about Torricelli? Could it be that Hillary Clinton, under pressure regarding stories about her health, mightpull a similar maneuver, and let someone elserepresent her party inNovember?

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On the face of it, thatseems absurd, doesnt it? Clinton is still the odds-on favorite to win, for one thing. And if she collapsed (or stumbled, to use the Democrats preferred terminology) just because she has a touch of pneumonia, then why would she drop out? Some antibiotics, a few days rest, and shell be fine.

But lets for a moment entertain a hypothetical: what if its worse than pneumonia? What if we see another episode?

Clinton wouldnt be the first presidential aspirant to mislead the public about health woes. Jack Kennedy, for example, marketed himself as an athlete but was so plagued by various ailments that he might not have lived through a second term. (Were it not for the back brace he was wearing to keep him upright in Dallas, in fact, theres a chance Oswald never would have hit him with that second lethal bullet.)

So a certain skepticism is warranted about the physical fitness of presidential candidates. Yet Clintons health has been a forbidden subject for those of us in the respectable press, making it a story that existed only in the fever swamps of the internet. Talking about her physical fitness for the office would only mainstream theories that were unproven (or debunked, to use the medias preferred terminology as of a week ago).

It even had the taint of sexism: why imply that the woman in the race, who happens to be younger than her opponent, is the weaker one?

Then, of course, we saw her being dragged into that van by agents who seemed distinctly non-shocked that the candidate needed such assistance. We saw her feet limply drag along into the vehicle, although her campaign still insists she never lost consciousness and recovered quickly.

We were told she was overheated, then seven hours later,we were told it was pneumonia, diagnosedFriday.The pneumonia isnon-contagious, as she had embraced children that weekend, and therefore perhaps unrelated to the bug that had just swept her office. It also apparently wasnt that severe on Friday, the day she was diagnosed, when she seemed just fine.

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The cough last week? Allergies. It may haveled to the pneumonia, or had a hand in it. Dehydration is anotherculprit, were told, as the candidate has an aversion to drinking water.The important thing is, her campaigntells us, is that she feels great. Much better. Sheis always feeling great and better, they tell us.

The truth is itsprobably just pneumonia, which can be mild,and shell recover swiftly. The safe bet is still that she comes back in a couple days, does well enough in the debates, and beats Trump in November.

But its understandable to have a piece of nagging doubt about Clintons health. The video is disconcerting --the way she moves, the expressions of her handlers. After months of dismissingdoubts about her physicalfitness as expressions of lunacy, are we stillsupposed toassume that Clinton is as well as her campaign insists? Theres a sense theyre still being a bit dodgy with the facts, as with campaign spokesman Brian Fallons insistence to CBS News Nancy Cordes on Monday that she was helped into the van because she felt a bit dizzy.

The (somewhat charitable) mainstream media consensus right now is that the Clintons are locked in a cycle of paranoia that begets press suspicion that begets more paranoia. Lets assume that thats what were seeing here. And then lets remember what we saw on Sunday, those limp feet being dragged into the van.

In any event, the Democratic Party rules are pretty clear on what happens if she drops out; the DNC would fill the vacancy, and you assume Tim Kaine might be the replacement nominee, this years Lautenberg. Or perhaps Joe Biden. Shorn of all that Clinton baggage, either would be a formidable opponent come November. Either could handily beat Trump.

NPRs Cokie Roberts, among others, said Clintonspneumonia incident has the Democraticparty very nervously beginning to whisper about her stepping aside and finding another candidate.Chances are this is just to make sure they have a game plan in the very unlikely case that they have a vacancy, because after the DNC has made a decision, there would be many legal realities to consider, such as ballot rules at the state level and what individual electors can and cannot do.

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Again, itseemsfar-fetched that any of this could come to pass. But its squarely Clintons fault that we are talking about it to begin with. She hasnt released the kind of extensivemedical records that should be expected of presidential candidates of an advanced age, like John McCain, who set the gold standard for such disclosures backin 2008.Voters deserve far more information from Clinton and Trump about their health than we have now,the White House physician for George H.W. Bush, Dr. Burton Lee, told The New York Times last month.

Trump should release them too, of course hes a little older than Clinton, is likely clinically obese, and has what appears to bean awful diet. Should such a release prove too difficult -- McCains long tenure in the Navy made finding his record easier -- they can both submit to an evaluation from a panel of independent doctors, an idea Politicos Dan Diamondrecently floated.

Its true that, as in so many things this election season, theres a risk herein holdingClinton to a higher standard than her opponent. But despite Trumps obvious bad habits, it can be fairly reasoned that Clinton has a greater burden of proof when it comes to her health, what withher bloodclot and concussion a few years back, the at-times conflicting stories about both, the persistent coughing,andher thyroid condition.

He also hasnt gone completely limp on the campaign trail yet, at least not on camera. Of all the worries we have about Trump, his physical health, rightly or wrongly, is pretty far down the list.

Clinton maywonderwhy we keep asking. Its probablyall benign. But the numerous attempts to explain her ailments --allergies,overheating, dehydration, pneumonia --over the course of not so many days makes me wonder if theyll be any more explanations, and whether this is the last Clinton healthepisode well see before Election Day.

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