Jesse Watters: ‘Things Happened, and I Regret That It Happened’

By Mark Joyella 

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly defended his correspondent Jesse Watters Monday evening, saying “Watters was confronted in Washington over the weekend by a far left zealot who hectored him and provoked a physical confrontation.”

O’Reilly asked Watters about the incident which happened at an after-party hosted by MSNBC at, ironically, the U.S. Institute of Peace. “So you got drunk… I heard something,” O’Reilly joked, describing the encounter between Watters and “some far-left guy” at a White House Correspondents’ Dinner after-party as “a dustup.”

Elsewhere, it was reported that “punches were definitely thrown,” after Watters was approached by Huffington Post Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim, who used his cell phone to record video as he–in his words–“ambushed” the “ambush guy,” a reference to the interviews Watters does in his Watters World segments.

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“I was friendly at first, and then he started getting a little obnoxious,” Watters said Monday night. “Things happened, and I regret that it happened, and that’s all that it is.” Watters told O’Reilly that he “never punched” Grim.

Earlier, The Huffington Post published video of the beginning of the encounter. The HuffPo story reports after the video ends, “fisticuffs ensued.”

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