When in need, tell a joke

Sen. Hillary Clinton used her entrance on "The Tonight Show" (Channel 4, 11:35 pm) to defuse the mocking over her tale about dodging gunfire in Bosnia while First Lady. "I was worried I wasn’t going to make it," she told Jay Leno. "I was pinned down by sniper fire at the Burbank airport." NYT/The Caucus

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