Fox News host Jesse Watters wanted viewers of The Five on Tuesday to know that when he said on the show the day prior that generals in the Situation Room would “have their way with” Kamala Harris if she were to be elected president, he didn’t mean anything sexual, despite the suggestive phrasing.
“There’s been some attention to comments I made on the show yesterday about VP Harris,” Watters said to close out the opening block of Tuesday’s broadcast. “People are misconstruing my comments to mean something inappropriate. I wasn’t suggesting anything of a sexual nature. I was expressing my opinion that VP Harris’s current leadership style could be an issue if elected.”
After Watters made the initial comment on Monday, he was promptly called out by colleagues Jeanine Pirro and Dana Perino. Watters claimed then that he was only speaking “figuratively,” and “not in a sexual way.”
