Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) admitted on Tuesday that the Democratic Party&#8217;s media strategy was outdated at best — and that Republicans, according to an assessment laid out by Fox News host Jesse Watters, had their number.
Watters raised the issue during a recent broadcast of &#8220;The Five&#8221; on Fox News, where he described in detail how information got to the people in the new conservative media ecosystem.
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Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign against the left…What you&#39;re seeing on the right is asymmetrical… Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions… <a href="https://t.co/EccQutLW0J">pic.twitter.com/EccQutLW0J</a>
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&#8220;We are waging a 21st-century information warfare campaign against the Left and they are using tactics from the 1990s,&#8221; Watters said. &#8220;They are holding tiny press conferences, tiny little rallies. They’re screaming into the ether on MSNBC. This is what you call top-down command and control. You get your talking points from a newspaper and you put it on the broadcast network and then it disappears.&#8221;
He went on to describe the different strategies currently being implemented on the Right — strategies developed in part because the Left has long had a stranglehold on legacy media outlets in the United States.
&#8220;What you’re seeing on the Right is asymmetrical. It’s like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it. And by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it. It’s free money. And we’re actually talking about expressing information. They are suppressing information,&#8221; Watters continued.
Murphy responded to the Fox News host in an X post, conceding that his assessment was correct and arguing that Democrats needed to find a way to break out of their old habits if they wanted to win.
&#8220;This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality — and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years — we are cooked,&#8221; he said.
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This is true. And until the left builds an infrastructure to confront this reality &#8211; and stops acting like political communication is still just buying millions of TV and digital ads every two years &#8211; we are cooked. <a href="https://t.co/U0ZMhFULTl">https://t.co/U0ZMhFULTl</a>
&mdash; Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1891833231739068870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senators Meet For Their Policy Luncheons On Capitol Hill

Dem Senator Admits Fox News Host Has His Party’s Strategy Nailed: ‘We Are Cooked’

Dem. Senator Admits Fox News Host Has His Party's Strategy Nailed: 'We Are Cooked'

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Former President Donald Trump said during an interview this week that airstrikes against Mexican drug cartels are &#8220;absolutely&#8221; on the table if Mexico does not rapidly put an end to the fentanyl pouring into the U.S.
Trump made the remarks during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters broadcast on Tuesday after being asked if he would still follow through on the idea pushed by Republicans during the presidential primaries.
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Mexico is going to have to straighten it out really fast or the answer is, absolutely. They&#8217;re killing 300,000 people a year with fentanyl coming in.&#8221;
The former president highlighted China&#8217;s role in the fentanyl epidemic, saying that all of the precursors to make the drug come to Mexico directly from Chinese manufacturers.
&#8220;And China, by the way, will do what they have to do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re gonna do it just like I had to deal with President Xi. But then Biden never took it over, that we&#8217;re gonna give the death penalty to anybody sending fentanyl our way. And that was part of my negotiation. They never did it because nobody forced it on our side.&#8221;
&#8220;Death penalty for drug dealers, death penalty for people that send fentanyl into our country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And that would have made a big difference. But you know what happened? Nothing because when Biden came in, nothing happened. And I don&#8217;t know why he&#8217;s so soft on China, but boy is soft on China.&#8221;
He added that Mexico will be given &#8220;a very short period of time&#8221; to control the situation, or they will face consequences from the U.S.
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WATTERS: Are strikes against the cartels still on the table?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Absolutely. <a href="https://t.co/3rywIej7FC">pic.twitter.com/3rywIej7FC</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1815910972697240022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

Donald Trump And J.D. Vance Hold First Joint Campaign Rally After The RNC

Trump: Military Strikes Against The Mexican Drug Cartels ‘Absolutely’ On The Table

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump revealed more details about his phone call with President Joe Biden after the attempt on Trump&#8217;s life during a campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.
Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), sat down with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6358900508112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> host Jesse Watters for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-director-resigns-amid-uproar-over-trump-assassination-attempt?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that aired on Monday, and Trump told Watters that he had a &#8220;nice conversation&#8221; with the 81-year-old president after the shooting.
“He said, ‘You’re lucky you turned to the right,’” Trump said of his chat with Biden.
Last week, Biden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-reveals-what-he-said-trump-phone-call-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News&#8217; Lester Holt that he had a &#8220;very cordial&#8221; conversation with Trump after the assassination attempt.
&#8220;I told him how concerned I was and wanted to make sure I knew how he was actually doing,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;He sounded good. He said he was fine, and he thanked me for calling.&#8221;
&#8220;I told him he was literally in the prayers of Jill and me, and his whole family was weathering this,&#8221; the president added.
Trump was shot in the right ear after he slightly turned his head to look at a chart on illegal immigration statistics. Analysis of the shooting and the path of the bullet has shown if Trump had not moved his head at that moment, the bullet would have likely hit his brain.
The 20-year-old shooter gained access to a roof fewer than 150 yards away from the stage at Trump&#8217;s Pennsylvania rally on July 13 and was spotted by Secret Service snipers 20 minutes before he fired upon the former president, according to law enforcement officials. While Trump expressed his gratitude to the Secret Service agents who rushed to his aid on the stage after he went down, he questioned how the gunman successfully got multiple shots off at such a close distance.
In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112836289155893843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, Trump blasted the White House over the assassination attempt, writing, &#8220;The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!&#8221;
Trump also told the Fox News host that Secret Service agents wanted to put him on a stretcher after he had been shot, but he told them that he was fine to stand up and walk on his own.
“They had a stretcher, and they wanted to put me on a stretcher,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/after-trump-was-shot-he-argued-with-secret-service-agents-about-being-put-on-stretcher-743415" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And I said, ‘I’m not going on a stretcher.'&#8221;
“I said, ‘I’m telling you, I’m OK. I’m fine. I’m going to get up. I want to get up. I’m not going to be taken out on a stretcher,’” he added.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was grilled by Congress on Monday over her agency&#8217;s failure to prevent the assassination attempt on Trump. During the hearing, Republicans and Democrats urged her to resign, and she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-director-resigns-amid-uproar-over-trump-assassination-attempt?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Tuesday that she would step down from her position.
“Somebody should’ve made sure there was nobody on that roof. That roof was a dead aim right onto the stage,” Trump told Watters. “And they said they didn’t have the manpower for it, which is crazy. A hundred thirty yards is like sinking a one-foot putt. It’s considered really close.”
“You have to answer: why couldn’t I have stayed off the stage for five minutes while they do their work?&#8221; he added. &#8220;Why couldn’t, you know, how does a situation happen where a roof that’s plainly in sight from the location where I was speaking … why would somebody not have seen that?”

Trump Reveals What Biden Told Him After Assassination Attempt

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Former President Donald Trump spoke more about the assassination attempt and the security lapses that led to the shooting, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-reveals-he-spoke-secret-service-director-cheatle-wants-know-how-would-be-assassin-got-roof" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> Fox News&#8217;s Jesse Watters in an interview that aired Monday night that it&#8217;s &#8220;crazy&#8221; that the Secret Service didn&#8217;t have more manpower at his Pennsylvania campaign rally.
Trump survived the July 13 shooting after a bullet hit his right ear, while three other people were struck by more gunfire, including firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed. The 20-year-old shooter gained access to a roof fewer than 150 yards away from the rally stage and was <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted</a> by Secret Service snipers 20 minutes before he opened fire, according to law enforcement officials.
&#8220;Somebody should&#8217;ve made sure there was nobody on that roof. That roof was a dead aim right onto the stage,&#8221; Trump told Watters. &#8220;And they said they didn&#8217;t have the manpower for it, which is crazy. A hundred thirty yards is like sinking a one-foot putt. It&#8217;s considered really close.&#8221;
&#8220;You have to answer: why couldn&#8217;t I have stayed off the stage for five minutes while they do their work? Why couldn&#8217;t, you know, how does a situation happen where a roof that&#8217;s plainly in sight from the location where I was speaking … why would somebody not have seen that?&#8221; the Republican presidential nominee added.
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112836289155893843" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the &#8220;Biden/Harris administration&#8221; over the assassination attempt in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday morning, writing, &#8220;The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!&#8221;
Trump also told the Fox News host that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/secret-service-director-resigns-amid-uproar-over-trump-assassination-attempt">resigned on Tuesday morning</a>, came to see him after the assassination attempt. The former president said his meeting with Cheatle &#8220;went very nicely,&#8221; adding that he believes she was given &#8220;false information&#8221; about the slope of the roof the shooter was perched on. Cheatle said last week that the roof&#8217;s slope presented a safety risk.
&#8220;I noticed that she [Cheatle] said, well, this is a slope[d] roof where you think of like a barn where you have, this thing had just a little &#8212; a little upswing in it, a few degrees. This was a not &#8212; it essentially was a flat roof,&#8221; Trump said.
Cheatle was questioned during a Congressional hearing on Monday and was urged by Republicans and Democrats to resign after she dodged answering numerous questions on how the would-be assassin was able to fire multiple shots at the former president.
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Trump Says It’s ‘Crazy’ That Secret Service Didn’t Have More Manpower At Rally

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Fox News host Jesse Watters tore into President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, on Tuesday night following his conviction on multiple felony counts earlier in the day stemming from gun crimes.
Jurors convicted Hunter Biden, 54, on charges of lying to a federally licensed firearms dealer, making a false claim on a federal firearms background check form, and being in possession of an illegally obtained firearm. Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison and up to $750,000 in fines.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no contrition at all by the Biden family. Hunter didn&#8217;t show any remorse, he was smiling afterwards,&#8221; Watters began. &#8220;His father&#8217;s not ashamed, wouldn&#8217;t even gently condemn his son&#8217;s actions. Hunter&#8217;s committed more crimes than we can count and all Biden says is he&#8217;s &#8216;proud.&#8217; The reason Hunter&#8217;s broken the law for 30 years and not paid the Piper is because of his dad. If every time I screwed up, and my dad&#8217;s response was, &#8216;I&#8217;m proud, son, I love you,&#8217; I&#8217;d keep screwing up. Bailing somebody out over and over again doesn&#8217;t mean you love them.&#8221;
&#8220;Hunter was kicked out of the Navy for cocaine on an administrative discharge instead of a dishonorable one because his dad greased the brass,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Hunter got caught with cocaine at the Jersey Shore way back in the 80s, and the senator&#8217;s son had his record expunged. When he left his crack pipe in a rental car, police investigated and dropped the charges. When he put 20 grand on his dad&#8217;s and American Express for Russian escorts, the Secret Service cleaned it up. When he lost his laptop, the FBI and CIA covered it up. When he owed millions in back taxes, his sugar brother footed the bill. When he needed money for alimony and child support, daddy&#8217;s donors bought his dopey art. His dad&#8217;s own Justice Department tried to make the gun and tax case go away a year ago today. What makes you think Daddy won&#8217;t save him again?&#8221;
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Watters later added: &#8220;Whistleblowers have testified that investigators were blocked at every turn from following leads that led the Joe. The CIA and FBI and the Treasury Department&#8217;s are all in on the cover up. A strong case could be made for Trump prosecutors to investigate money laundering racketeering, bribery, foreign lobbying conspiracies.&#8221;
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WATCH: Jesse Watters: Hunter Biden has “committed more crimes than we can count.”
Watters adds: “The reason Hunter has broken the law for 30 years and not pay the piper is because of his dad. If every time I screwed up and my dad&#8217;s response was ‘I&#8217;m proud, son, I love you,’ I… <a href="https://t.co/7jsvGPBtpK">pic.twitter.com/7jsvGPBtpK</a>
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Visits “Jesse Watters Primetime”

Jesse Watters Rips Hunter Biden Following Guilty Verdict: ‘Committed More Crimes Than We Can Count’

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Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jordan B. Peterson</a> said that he will move to broadcast publicly the social media training he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-peterson-unloads-on-canadian-court-after-it-backs-psychologist-org-attempting-to-censor-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered to undergo</a> by a ​​psychologist governing body that targeted Peterson for criticizing transgender ideology, climate alarmism, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian</a> government. 
Peterson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/jordan-peterson-plans-broadcast-court-ordered-social-media-training-public-decide-themselves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Jesse Watters on Thursday that he hoped to film or audio record all sessions of the court-upheld social media training. Last week, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-peterson-unloads-on-canadian-court-after-it-backs-psychologist-org-attempting-to-censor-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled that</a> the College of Psychologists of Ontario could mandate Peterson to go through a so-called “specified continuing education or remedial program.” 
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to do everything I can to make all of this as public as I possibly can,&#8221; he told Watters. &#8220;I have done that from the beginning. I released all the documents that included the charges, so to speak, that the college has levied against me. I want to make this 100% transparent and let the public decide for themselves who exactly is acting, let’s say, in an unprofessional capacity.&#8221;
&#8220;My plan is to make everything that&#8217;s done to me public and if I can do that by filming, well, then, I&#8217;ll do that,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Everything that happens is going to be made public. It is absolutely necessary.&#8221;
The College of Psychologists is not punishing Peterson for any interactions with patients; rather it is censuring, fining, and attempting to “reeducate” him for public comments he made, including on social media and during podcast appearances. 
Some of Peterson’s supposed offenses, according to the College of Psychologists, included retweeting Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s criticism of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, criticizing a former senior Trudeau aide, and expressing opposition to the idea of the Ottawa police taking custody of the children of Trucker Convoy protesters.
Other supposed offenses do not involve direct criticism of the Canadian government, such as Peterson saying on Joe Rogan’s podcast that accepting radical gender theory is a sign of “civilizations collapsing,” calling climate change models unreliable, and criticizing Sports Illustrated for putting a plus-sized swimsuit model on the cover.
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Peterson told Watters that he wouldn’t back down from speaking out, especially on the negative impact the transgender movement had on young people. 
&#8220;I’m perfectly willing to state that I am stating my opinions on Twitter and social media in my professional capacity,&#8221; Peterson said. &#8220;So, for example, the comments I made about Ellen Page, you know, I’m not the least bit happy about what the sadistic surgeon butchers are doing to minors, and I’m also not very happy about narcissistic, let’s say, celebrities parading off their new, surgically enhanced body and enticing young women, for example, into becoming sterilized and butchered, so I think I have a professional obligation like all therapists and all physicians to say very clearly that this is 100% absolutely not acceptable.&#8221;

The Self-styled “Professor Against Political Correctness” Jordan Peterson Speaks To The Cambridge Union

‘100% Transparent’: Jordan Peterson Says He Will Move To Broadcast Mandated Social Media Training

Jordan Peterson Says He Will Move To Broadcast Mandated Social Media Training

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Fox News announced on Monday that host Jesse Watters would take over the 8 p.m. timeslot that was vacated after host Tucker Carlson was ousted from the company in late April.
The new primetime schedule will feature Laura Ingraham at 7 p.m., Sean Hannity at 9 p.m., Greg Gutfeld at 10 p.m. and Trace Gallagher hosting the news hour at 11 p.m.
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Just in: Fox News overhauls primetime
Laura Ingraham at 7p Jesse Watters takes over Tucker timeslot at 8 Hannity at 9 Greg Gutfeld moves to 10 Trace Gallagher does news hour at 11p
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“Fox News Channel has been America’s destination for news and analysis for more than 21 years and we are thrilled to debut a new lineup,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/media/fox-news-taps-jesse-watters-succeed-ousted-host-tucker-carlson-key-pri-rcna91163">stated</a>. “The unique perspectives of Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Greg Gutfeld will ensure our viewers have access to unrivaled coverage from our best-in-class team for years to come.”
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” Fox News said in a statement announcing Carlson’s exit on April 24. &#8220;We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor. Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.&#8221;
A source informed The Daily Wire that Carlson&#8217;s staff was unaware that he would be ousted and only were apprised of the news when Carlson sent an email. Carlson’s ouster followed Fox News settling a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for almost $800 million; Carlson was expected to testify if the lawsuit had gone forward.
In the immediate aftermath of Carlson’s departure, the stock of Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News Channel, plummeted $1 billion.
In the first quarter of 2023, &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; ranked as the highest-rated program in cable news in the younger 25-54 demo, averaging 3.2 million viewers, 443,000 in the demo and 299,000 in the 18-49 category. In that same period, Fox News “The Five” averaged 3,058,000 viewers, “Jesse Watters Primetime” averaged 2,670,000 viewers, “Hannity” drew 2,505,000, and “Special Report with Bret Baier” drew 2,200,000.
Watters joined Fox News in 2002, where he worked as a correspondent for “The O’Reilly Factor” doing man-on-the-street interviews. In 2017, he became the host of “Watters’ World” on Saturday nights and was also chosen as co-host of “The Five.” “The Five” is now Fox News’ <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-news-names-jesse-watters-to-replace-tucker-carlson-as-anchor-of-8-p-m-hour-75a72fce">highest-rated program</a>.
Brandon Drey contributed to this article.

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Fox News host Jesse Watters grilled Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during an interview on Wednesday for supporting a bill that he did not realize that he had co-signed.
The RESTRICT Act, which was created by Congress to effectively allow the Secretary of Commerce to ban TikTok and other foreign threats from the U.S., has faced backlash in recent days over what the bill could mean for Americans&#8217; freedoms.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s try to get some answers out of the Senator Lindsey Graham, who supports this and is here now,&#8221; Watters said. &#8220;You got to be kidding me, Senator. Did you read this?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I don&#8217;t think I support the RESTRICT Act,&#8221; Graham said.
&#8220;You don&#8217;t support this?&#8221; Watters asked. &#8220;Because you are named as one of those supporters [and] this is garbage.&#8221;
A couple minutes later Watters appeared to take a swipe at Graham, saying: &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s like Fetterman when your chief of staff does all your work for you.&#8221;
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<blockquote>JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS HOST: Let&#8217;s try to get some answers out of the Senator Lindsey Graham, who supports this and is here now. You got to be kidding me, Senator. Did you read this?
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): Yeah, I don&#8217;t think I support the RESTRICT act.
WATTERS: You don&#8217;t support this, because you are named as one of those supporters? Because this is garbage.
GRAHAM: Is this the one with John? There&#8217;s two bills out there. One allows a review of businesses that are connected to China, gives the Secretary the ability to protect our data. Is that the RESTRICT Act?
WATTERS: We got S686, right here. March 7 and we got a bunch of Republicans supporting it. Because this thing is crazy town. You don&#8217;t want the government looking into your private phone?
GRAHAM: No, I don&#8217;t and they can&#8217;t.
WATTERS: If they have a hunch you&#8217;re colluding with the Russians, we remember how that turned out.
GRAHAM: Yeah, no. Well, the Constitution trump&#8217;s a statute. So let me come back and, you know, give you a better explanation. Here&#8217;s the problem as I see it. China is the parent company of TikTok. And my nieces like TikTok. I don&#8217;t mind them using TikTok. I just don&#8217;t want the Chinese government to seize all their data and manipulate the information America sees for political purposes. China is helping drug cartels in Mexico. China is not a friend. Chinese espionage is at an all time high against American business interests. So I want to push back against China, but within a constitutional framework, you&#8217;re right about that. So you made these allegations, and I&#8217;ll come answer better next time.
WATTERS: I mean, because on Congress.gov, you&#8217;re listed as one of the co-sponsors of this thing. Maybe it&#8217;s like Fetterman when your chief of staff does all your work for you, but Senator, you got to go back and talk to these other senators about this. This thing is nuts. And it&#8217;s gonna get abused like it always does. So we got to clean this up. Can we clean this up?
GRAHAM: Well, yeah, I mean, number one, yeah, I owe you a better explanation [than] I&#8217;m giving you. John Thune has got a bill to make sure the Secretary of Commerce can deal with this, not just TikTok. But the general idea that China, we&#8217;re under attack by China. Now, that&#8217;s a fact. Chinese Communist Party is stealing American data, espionage against American businesses is at an all time. According to the FBI, it&#8217;s the number one challenge they face. China&#8217;s providing drug precursors to make fentanyl in Mexico that&#8217;s killing Americans. So yeah, I&#8217;m definitely going to push back against China being able to steal your data, but I want to do it in a constitutionally sound manner. So the problem is real with China, but the solution can be more damaging than the price.
WATTERS: Don&#8217;t push back on the United States&#8217; citizens for something China is doing.</blockquote>

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Jesse Watters Torches Lindsey Graham Over TikTok Bill He Had No Idea He Co-Sponsored

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Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com.topic/jesse-watters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> said on Wednesday that New York might be in better shape if the state were to dump current Democratic Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hochul-wont-hire-back-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-despite-overturned-mandate-worker-shortage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Hochul</a> and bring back disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was also a Democrat.
Spitzer earned a reputation for holding financial services professionals accountable and rooting out corruption while serving as attorney general of New York — becoming known as the &#8220;Sheriff of Wall Street&#8221; before he became governor in 2007. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyregion/08york.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won in a landslide</a>, earning 69% of the vote — but <a href="https://www.npr.org/2008/03/12/88134976/spitzer-resigns-after-sex-scandal-pressure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> after serving less than two years following reports that he had patronized a prostitution ring.
Watters referenced Spitzer during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of the network&#8217;s popular afternoon panel show &#8220;The Five,&#8221; during a conversation about Hochul&#8217;s refusal to reinstate medical professionals who were fired for failing to comply with vaccine mandates even though the state has since dropped the mandates.
Judge Jeanine Pirro quoted Hochul, who explained her decision by claiming that healthcare professionals who did not have the COVID vaccine were putting patients at risk of developing COVID while they were receiving care.
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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul says she won&#39;t hire unvaccinated healthcare workers despite the mandate being overturned:
&quot;I don’t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick be exposed to someone who can give them COVID-19.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/qy6UICxGd4">pic.twitter.com/qy6UICxGd4</a>
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After airing a clip of Hochul&#8217;s comments, Pirro and her co-hosts discussed the fact that the vaccines have been proven to not stop transmission of the virus.
&#8220;She doesn’t know that vaxxed and unvaxxed can still transmit the virus? She doesn’t know that, and she’s the governor?&#8221; Watters asked. &#8220;I mean, what an idiot. Let’s say I go into the ER with a gunshot wound, and I’m bleeding out, you think I care if the nurse is unvaxxed? I think bullets are more dangerous than the ‘rona virus.&#8221;
Watters went on to tie in bail reform and the state&#8217;s still-rampant crime problem, saying, &#8220;We’re [more] afraid of people getting shot than we’re afraid of COVID at this point.&#8221;
That was when he suggested New Yorkers might fare better under the leadership of former Governor Spitzer, saying, &#8220;I don’t care if he sleeps with escorts. He was smart.&#8221;

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Fox Host Says NY Should Dump Hochul And Bring Spitzer Back: ‘I Don’t Care If He Sleeps With Escorts, He Was Smart’

Fox Host Jesse Watters Says NY Should Dump Kathy Hochul And Bring Disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer Back

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Barstool Sports personality Francis Ellis bashed <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chelsea-clinton-claims-her-family-is-the-reason-that-fox-news-was-created/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> hosts <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/everyones-dead-watters-and-gutfeld-spar-over-drug-legalization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> and <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hilarious-and-sad-hollywood-a-lister-mocked-for-saying-tucker-carlson-haunts-her-nightmares/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> — and mocked the network&#8217;s audience as stupid — on a hot mic just days after making an appearance on Watters&#8217; show.
Ellis, who hosts Barstool&#8217;s &#8220;Oops the Podcast,&#8221; may have created new fodder for his own show with the comments that aired on Tuesday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Barstool Rundown,&#8221; accusing the network that has invited him on as a guest — multiple times — of &#8220;trafficking in hate.&#8221;
Mediaite obtained the unedited audio, which can be heard below.
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“They’re just trafficking in hate.” Regular Fox News guest, and Barstool Sports star Francis Ellis, caught on hot mic slamming Fox News, Fox News hosts, and the Fox News audience. (Via Mediaite and Barstool Rundown) <a href="https://t.co/9nPl9inG7G">pic.twitter.com/9nPl9inG7G</a>
&mdash; Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1600578062898196480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Co-host Adam Ferrone, after signaling the end of the show, asked Ellis about his most recent hit on Watters&#8217; show, &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime,&#8221; on Monday.
&#8220;He wanted me to talk about how Democrats in Massachusetts want to lower the voting age to 16,&#8221; Ellis answered, explaining that he had weighed in with a Q-Anon joke and one referencing &#8220;To Catch a Predator,&#8221; but that overall, he didn&#8217;t feel great about the segment. &#8220;I just couldn’t get my feet under me. And I was like, I’m trying too hard.&#8221;
The hosts then asked what Ellis would do if Fox News offered him a &#8220;man-on-the-street&#8221; gig — mirroring how Watters had started out on the air with former network host Bill O&#8217;Reilly — and Ellis claimed they had offered that and he had turned them down.
&#8220;But what if they offered you not just a segment, but what if they’re like, ‘Francis, we want you to do the eight o’clock to nine o’clock hour!’” Ferrone upped the ante, and Ellis said he would consider that.
But then Ellis pivoted to attack Fox News — and the hosts who have given him airtime — saying, &#8220;Look, I got home. I talked my wife about it &#8217;cause I was disappointed in myself and she was like, ‘Let’s be honest, like, do you want to be working with these f***ing people?’ She was like, ‘I watched the rest of his show — he’s a f***ing joke.’”
&#8220;This is still part of the &#8216;Rundown,’” Ferrone said, and another voice confirmed, &#8220;Still rolling, baby!&#8221;
&#8220;And then like, Tucker comes on and just screams,&#8221; Ellis continued. &#8220;It’s so weird. &#8230; They’re just trafficking in hate.&#8221;
Ellis did not stop the attack, instead redirecting it toward the Fox News audience — which he suggested was comprised of people too stupid to realize that he was intentionally screwing with them.
&#8220;I think last night I went into a place that I shouldn’t have gone to,&#8221; he admitted before adding, &#8220;No, because last night I was like, yes, the Democrats are like eating children beneath pizza shops. There are people watching that, who don’t know that I’m f***ing with them. They’re like, &#8216;Finally a young, handsome person is saying it!’”

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Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jesse-watters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> directed men to &#8220;put a ring on it,&#8221; suggesting that if more of them got married, more women would vote Republican.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jesse-watters-unloads-on-biden-over-student-debt-he-cant-steal-nancys-purse-and-start-bribing-people-before-an-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watters</a> was responding to exit polling data from Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections that indicated a hefty majority of single women broke for the Democratic candidates while married women and married men overwhelmingly voted for their Republican opponents.
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Fox&#39;s Jesse Watters: &quot;&#8230; But single women and voters under 40 have been captured by Democrats. So we need these ladies to get married. And it&#39;s time to fall in love and just settle down. Guys, go put a ring on it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cv70BxM47S">pic.twitter.com/cv70BxM47S</a>
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&#8220;Single women are breaking for Democrats by thirty points,&#8221; Watters observed, adding, &#8220;And this makes sense, when you think about how Democrat policies are designed to keep women single.&#8221;
&#8220;But once women get married, they vote Republican,&#8221; the &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime&#8221; host continued. &#8220;Married women, married men, go for Republicans by double digits. But single women and voters under 40 have been captured by Democrats — so we need these ladies to get married.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s time to fall in love and just settle down,&#8221; Watters concluded, saying, &#8220;Guys, go put a ring on it.&#8221;
According to a CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls/national-results/house/21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exit poll</a> — which surveyed over 18,000 voters — nearly 70% of single women voted Democrat on Tuesday. The Federalist&#8217;s Mollie Hemingway, like Watters, noted that this disparity gave Democrats a rather large incentive to promote policies that kept women single.
&#8220;One of the fascinating things about our ongoing political realignment is the massive political incentive Democrats have to keep women unmarried,&#8221; she said.
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One of the fascinating things about our ongoing political realignment is the massive political incentive Democrats have to keep women unmarried. <a href="https://t.co/M4xrcKLOhV">https://t.co/M4xrcKLOhV</a>
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1590426457763106816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Both Watters and Hemingway were right to direct the focus to Democrat-backed policies. Many welfare programs — and tax incentives that <a href="https://www.heritage.org/welfare/report/how-welfare-undermines-marriage-and-what-do-about-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disproportionately benefit single parents</a> over married couples, abortion-on-demand, and subsidized child care and health care programs — offer a number of financial benefits that not only cater to single parents, but diminish greatly or disappear entirely if those single parents ever marry.
Critics attacked Watters for his comments, however, claiming that he only wanted women to get married so that they would fall in line and vote the way their husbands directed them to.
&#8220;Good Lord. They are losing single female voters who are too intelligent to become Stepford wives to MAGA men, so their solution is to force them into the kitchen, barefoot, married, &amp; pregnant. This is the Christofascist playbook,&#8221; one woman <a href="https://twitter.com/HawaiiDelilah/status/1590726345121681408" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in a tweet.
Lindsey Boylan, the former aide who accused disgraced New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1590723898102140930" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;Clown behavior. These people are a joke. They hate women.&#8221;

‘Put A Ring On It’: Jesse Watters Tells Men To Get Hitched Because Married Women Vote Republican

Jesse Watters Tells Men To Get Hitched Because Married Women Vote Republican

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California Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-getting-rid-of-plastic-produce-bags/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> (D) called out Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jesse-watters-unloads-on-biden-over-student-debt-he-cant-steal-nancys-purse-and-start-bribing-people-before-an-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a>, blaming him personally for &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221; the alleged violent attack against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s husband, Paul Pelosi.
Newsom argued that Watters, among others, had &#8220;dehumanized&#8221; Speaker Pelosi — and he claimed that had helped to foster a climate where political violence seemed reasonable.
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Gavin Newsom Attacks Fox’s Jesse Watters for His Negative Coverage of Paul Pelosi and Its Dehumanizing Effect <a href="https://t.co/W11OnWdlFH">pic.twitter.com/W11OnWdlFH</a>
&mdash; Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index 🇺🇸 (@alexdatig) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexdatig/status/1587207933078556673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I’ve seen the dehumanization of Nancy Pelosi. I don’t think anyone’s been dehumanized like she has consistently. I watched this one guy, Jesse Watters or something on Fox News, and what he’s been saying about Paul Pelosi the last five, six months, mocking him consistently. Don’t tell me that’s not aiding and abetting all of this. Of course it is,&#8221; Newsom argued.
&#8220;They’re sowing the seeds, they’re creating a culture and climate like this,&#8221; the California Governor continued. &#8220;I mean, look online. Look at the sewage that is online that they amplify on these networks and in social media to dehumanize people like Nancy Pelosi and other political leaders.&#8221;
Watters responded during his Monday evening broadcast of &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime,&#8221; saying, &#8220;Gavin Newsom thinks if you mock a Democrat, it puts them on a target list. We’ve always said, Gavin’s biggest flaw? He’s not very smart.&#8221;
Newsom was far from the only person to blame Republicans in the aftermath of the attack. President Joe Biden argued that rhetoric from the far right was driving more people to political violence — and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell claimed that the man who allegedly attacked Pelosi was driven by the same rhetoric that had led to the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill.
CBS anchor Margaret Brennan took things a bit further during Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; asking Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) whether Republican ads blaming Pelosi for years of bad policies might be pushing more people toward violence.
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&#8220;I never saw anyone, after Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter —&#8221; Emmer said, but Brennan interrupted.
&#8220;I&#8217;m talking about right now!&#8221; she said. &#8220;It just is happening now.&#8221;
&#8221; — equate Democrat rhetoric with those actions,&#8221; Emmer continued. &#8220;Please don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;
&#8220;No, no, okay,&#8221; Brennan pushed back. &#8220;Looking at your candidates, Republican candidates have spent more than $116 million on ads that mention Speaker Pelosi by name in this cycle. If this is about the issues, why shouldn&#8217;t you make it about the issues? Why not depersonalize it?&#8221;
Brennan continued to argue that Republicans should refrain from naming Pelosi in ads in order to keep people from potentially targeting her.

Gavin Newsom Blames Fox News Host For ‘Aiding And Abetting’ Paul Pelosi Attack

Gavin Newsom Blames Fox News Host Jesse Watters For 'Aiding And Abetting' Paul Pelosi Attack

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