Optics: Hillary Clinton appears before cozy fireplace, but what's she burning?

Brett T. | 7:21 PM on January 21, 2016

Daily Beast political reporter Betsy Woodruff was watching Hillary Clinton on CNN this afternoon, and she could really feel the burn. The burn victim was reportedly Brian Fallon, press secretary for Hillary Clinton for America, who has been embarrassing himself this week by claiming that Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III has been colluding with the GOP to leak damaging information to scuttle the Clinton campaign.

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Woodruff also noted that Clinton had somehow convinced the camera crew to give her interview the soothing ambience of a fireside chat.

https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/690296184771088385

@woodruffbets is she feeling the bern

— katemine (@garbagekate) January 21, 2016

@woodruffbets maybe this is the only way she can show warmth?

— Matt (@Crazy_Commuter) January 21, 2016

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@woodruffbets Are her emails in there?

— Chieftain Ole the Red (@mjolnir59) January 21, 2016

Emails. #PlsPrint https://t.co/GcnMWXlsue

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 21, 2016

@woodruffbets Just some papers. Nothing to worry our pretty little heads over.

— Ellen Anderson (@MochaLite) January 21, 2016

@woodruffbets her emails??

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 21, 2016

Emails. Like with a cloth or something. The cloth knows too much. https://t.co/brnqHd8kHl

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) January 21, 2016