Bill Clinton: 'Almost certain' Hillary is healthier than Trump

It is "almost certain" that Hillary Clinton is in a healthier state than Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton said, while adding that the public cannot know for sure until the Republican nominee releases his medical records.

Trump's campaign has said that he will release his records later this week, with an appearance on "The Dr. Oz Show" scheduled for Thursday.


"Well, first of all, it — it'd be refreshing if there were just one thing in life where he disclosed more than she has. But I don't think there is so far, not even one," Clinton told Charlie Rose in an excerpt aired Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."

Rose remarked upon "people" saying that Clinton's health, between her cough and medication to her diagnosis of pneumonia, has become a campaign issue.

"They think everything's a campaign issue," the former president remarked. "I think her lifestyle and her underlying indicators — blood pressure, the amount of exercise, the everything else means it's almost certain she's in better health than her opponent. But we don't know, because he hasn't disclosed."

Rose pressed, "But if he does, she would be forthcoming immediately."

"She hasn't been not forthcoming. She's already disclosed much more health information than he has. I saw the interview with his doctor. I'm sure that you did, too," Clinton said, referring to the NBC News interview last month with Trump's physician Harold Bornstein, who said he wrote his report of Trump's health last December in five minutes.

Clinton continued, "So let's get a little serious here. They'll do the right thing. Just wait and see. And she's — she's gonna be fine. And they'll do the right thing."

As far as his own health, Clinton remarked that "to my knowledge" there was no reason for concern, when asked about his vegan lifestyle and weight loss since leaving the White House in 2001.

"And I just had a physical not very long ago and I passed with flying colors. I — there's nothing I can do about the fact that I am now the oldest man in my family for three generations," he said. "But my great-grandfather lived to be 76 and I have lots of, you know, medical advantages over him, the state of health care and treatments. So I feel great. Every day I feel great. I just get up and hit it."