Hey, remember when the biggest political story in America was Hillary Clinton coming down with a case of pneumonia (then stumbling out of a memorial service and then informing people she was ill)? Well, Jimmy Fallon does. On Monday's Tonight Show, he greeted Clinton, then put on a surgical mask, and when Clinton laughed and gave him a high-five, he quickly whipped out the hand sanitizer. If Clinton was annoyed, she hid it very well. "I am not contagious, just for your information," she said, laughing. "Nothing like a little rest when your doctor tells you to and you don't do it."
Fallon asked Clinton about her break from the campaign trail, and Clinton portrayed it as helpful. "So I took a few days off, and actually, I think it was kind of good," she said. "I got a chance to sort of reflect on this crazy campaign that we're involved in, and decided that I'm going to talk about what I think needs to happen to help people and try to stay away from a lot of the negative, insult stuff that goes back and forth, and I feel really good about that because, you know, this is a really consequential election." Which may be the rare thing Clinton and Donald Trump agree on. Watch below. Peter Weber
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