FOX News Rundown EXTRA: Jesse Watters Is Ready For 'Primetime'

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Daily News, News, Politics

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

He's Jesse Watters and his world about to get a bit larger. The co-host of "The Five," who you may remember from his "Watters World" man on the streets segments, was recently named the host of FOX News' 7 p.m. eastern slot. Earlier this week, Watters joined host Jessica Rosenthal to speak with him her about his career and how he planned on making his new show stand out from the cable news crowd. Watters shared some stories about his early years at FOX News and why he thinks his ability to tap in to what he calls a new grass movement has helped his success. Due to time limitations, we could not include all of the interview in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire conversation with Jesse Watters and hear more of him looking back at his life and giving his take on the current state of politics and media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
0:01.7	Five questions, five minutes a day, five days a week.
0:04.3	Take the quiz every weekday at the Quiz dot Fox
0:07.3	and then listen to the Quiz podcast to find out how you did.
0:10.2	Clay, share, and of course listen to the quiz at the quiz dot Fox.
0:15.0	This is the Fox News rundown extra.
0:18.0	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:22.0	This week we spoke with Jesse Waters. Yes, that Jesse Waters from Fox News.
0:28.0	He's been named the host of the 7 p.m. Eastern Time slot on the Fox News Channel. He went from labeling tapes here
0:35.0	at Fox to doing his man on the street interviews in segments entitled Waters World.
0:39.2	Since then he's had his own show on Saturday night and is a co-host of The Five, which airs at 5 PM on the channel.
0:47.2	He will be keeping his co-hosting slot.
0:49.5	Waters tells us what he plans to bring to the 7 PM show, but also what motivates him, what he thinks Americans
0:55.0	want to hear him talk about, and his role in the national discourse as a cable news television
0:59.9	prime time host.
1:01.8	We often have to cut interviews down for time during the week, but we thought
1:04.4	you might like to hear this full interview. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe to the weekday
1:08.5	rundown podcast, if you haven't already. Now here's Jesse Waters on the Fox News rundown extra.
1:18.8	Okay, so you just want to start? Yeah, whatever you want. Let's go. Okay, let's do it.
1:24.1	So, Jesse Mazzletov, you got that prime time slot. What's the plan? Like what do you plan to bring that's different or unique to you and I know that's not a very
1:34.0	different or unique question but what's what's the what's the show going to be like?
1:38.0	My brand is my connection to the audience how I establish that connection on the factor,
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