Fauci says Fox's Watters should be fired for comments on him
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Fox News defended Jesse Watters after he used the phrase “kill shot” in a speech urging young conservatives to conduct a hostile ambush interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci
NEW YORK -- Fox News defended Jesse Watters on Tuesday after he used the phrase “kill shot” in a speech urging young conservatives to confront Dr. Anthony Fauci in public with a hostile interview.
Fauci, asked about it on CNN, said that Watters should be fired “on the spot” but predicted he wouldn't be held accountable for his language.
Fox said Watters' words had been “twisted completely out of context.”
Watters, a host on Fox News Channel's panel show “The Five” who made his initial mark doing aggressive interviews for Bill O'Reilly, spoke Monday to a group of college and high school conservatives. His audience booed at the mention of Fauci's name.
