company tiktok as we talked about testifies before that house energy and commerce committee. we will bring you that and the fallout from it. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. is it only wednesday? yeah. "jesse watters primetime" starts right now. hey, jesse. >> jesse: hey, bret. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: i'm a big boxing fan with a mike tyson guy growing up. love tommy morrison, too bad what happened to him. roy jones jr. was my guy, heavyweight champ with the fastest hands. i wasted too much money buying may weather pay per view. i love all the trash talk. that's what got all the drama going. >> i want all of america, i want the whole world to see me destroy this man after two short rounds because after this fight he is going to have to donate what's left of his body to

science. there won't be much, that i can guarantee. >> jesse: boxes and politics a lot a like. jabs one guy feeling another one out. sometimes you feel guy come off the mat and win. sometimes talking trash in the ring. first round of the 2024 republican primary we saw trump test desantis' defense. jab here, jab there. see what gets through. get his distance down. and now we are in round 2. and desantis is starting to let his hands go a little. watch. >> what is your favorite nickname trump has given you so far ron desanctimonious or meatball ron. even he went off meatball ron. >> i don't know lou to spell desanctimonious. i don't know whether a it means. i kind of like it's long and it's got a lot of vowels. we can go with that. that's fine. can you call me whatever you want. just as long as you, you know, also call me a winner. >> jesse: that sounds like a line that desantis has been working on. good line. good line. desantis for the most part has been quiet. he has been dancing around the

ring, doing his thing. but desantis has found something that he thinks he can use. it's the term winner. trump's whole career has been about winning. trump puts winning above everything. winning is the trump brand. now desantis is saying you lost, my brand now. >> do you think you can beat biden? >> i think so. >> so you are running then. >> no. i didn't say that i just said i think i could. i mean, if you look at florida. >> who would be harder to beat biden or donald trump? >> i don't know. >> jesse: ron is definitely running. and these guys are on a collision court. and piers morgan has a little tom king in him he teed up desantis heavily. >> people have been quite of house house trained. diet coke to his whole coke. you heard this. what are the differences between you. >> i mean, there is a few things. obviously the approach to covid was different. i mean, you know, i would have fired somebody like fauci. i think that he got way too big for his britches. and i think he did a lot of

damage. >> jesse: fauci is going to be a big issue in the republican primary and desantis is trying to get to the right of trump on covid. trump is going to have to defend the fauci situation, the initial 15 days to slow the spread. and remember the vaccines ended up being controversial. we checked and to fire someone like fauci, a civil servant is not like firing your defense secretary. you can do that in a meeting. you have to build a case. the whole process would have taken months. i'm not saying he shouldn't have fired fauci. i'm just telling you the facts. trump just came outer with an answer on the covid issue, releasing a statement in part ron desantis is finally admission is he in the race by beginning to fight back now that his polls have crashed and he has no other choice, florida has been successful for many years. long before i put ron there. it's amazing what ocean and sunshine will do. surprise, ron was a big lockdown governor on the china virus.

sealing all beaches and everything else for an extended period of time. florida was the third worse in the nation for covid-19 deaths. other governors did much better than ron because i allowed them this freedom and never closed their state. so those two are going to be duking it out over covid policy for a while. but desantis didn't stop there. he hammered the team i'm no drama ron. >> i also think just in terms of my approach to leadership, you know, i get personnel in the government who have the agenda of the people and share our agenda. you bring your own agenda in, you're gone. we are just not going to have that so the way we run the government is, i think, no daily drama, focus on the big picture, and put points on the board and i think that's something that is very important. >> jesse: some republican voters got tired of the trump show, personnel drama in the trump administration for a lot of reasons and desantis is betting on trump fatigue with those people. you never know how that is going to shake out because americans love drama.

it just becomes a problem when it gets in the way of governing. trump has to promise it will staff the white house better next time. desantis is going to capitalize on the confidence factor who is the betters about. ron is going to say i know who to hire and fire. i would build a better team. again that goes directly at trump's brand, the businessman. these are not really big policy squabbles. this is all about tone and management, right? so these two pretty much agree on most policies which is why this is getting purge so fast. these guy also get their most traction with policy fights, maybe more boring but, more important. let's take a look at the polls. trump has been really climbing in the polls lately. this monmouth poll from this week shows trump up 41-27 on desantis. same poll pretty much flipped just from three months back. trump was at 26 and ron was at 40. that's a big reversal. now, another poll this week shows trump is up 54, 26. doubling desantis' support.

so, momentum is on trump's side right now but it's early. a lot of republicans are rallying to the flag as the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg looks to indict the former president. this is bigger than politics. republicans know this isn't just an attack on trump. this is an attack on all of us. and desantis is in kind of a tight spot here. >> you also repeated twice you didn't have any knowledge of hush money being paid to porn stars. was i right to feel there was a slightly censorious tone to that, that kind of thing is just not anything you would ever get involved with. >> well, i think there is a lot of speculation about what the underlying conduct is. that is purported to be it. yeah, the reality is just that's just outside of my wheelhouse. that's not asking that i speak to. >> jesse: desantis is making the calculation. he knows big donors going to get skittish about backing a guy booked and fingerprinted. corporate america won't like to associate with a guy facing

prison time. desantis doesn't want to associate himself with any of that. and is he waiting for it to play out to his benefit. now, the risk is this: trump is going to paint you as a donor puppet. >> let me talk quiet. >> out of time. out of time. [boos] >> that's all of his donors and special interest out there. [laughter] [boos] >> it is. and, by the way, let me just tell you we need a ticket. you can't get them. you know who the tickets? donors, special interest, the people that are putting up the money. [boos] the rnc told us we have all donors in the audience and the reason they are not loving pee. [boos] >> the reason they are not -- excuse me, the reason they are not loving me is i don't want their money. >> jesse: desantis lane is different than jeb bush's lane though. he was a wider lane and he is younger than trump and has a big career ahead of him. but he has to be careful here.

remember, trump is a billionaire and he has tons of earned media attention that can harvest a lot of money. so desantis doesn't have that kind of money and can't get the same amount of attention. negative attention, positive attention, trump gets a lot of attention. but he will be able to raise a lot of money from big donors, maybe more from corporate america. but desantis isn't some shill for corporate interest either. you see what he has done with disney. this is going to be a competitive primary. trump is still the big dog and the first debate will tell us a lot. if desantis has enough punching power to take the throne. >> let's turn it over to dana perino, my co-host on "the five" and co-anchor of "america's newsroom." so, he was asked about the nickname, desanctimonious. and he had a clever line about that. did you think he pulled it off. >> dana: i think he is blowing it off in a way that is not like what happened in 2015 and 2016. 2015, trump nicknames were shocking, they were mean, some

people loved it, some people hated it. and and now after several years point others didn't have for the benefit of time. >> it does look like fauci is going to be an issue. and desantis is going to get to the right of trump on covid and fauci to say that i would have fired fauci, if i were president. in hindsight is 2020. probably would have been a good move. at the time, do you think that was possible? jess. >> dana: at the time no, i don't think it was possible at the time. i think president trump will have to defend his actions. he has done a fairly good job of that and when you think about what florida did in covid vs. other states now trump will say hey, i saw him with a mask. i tried to see him get people to have the vaccines. what trump can say you haven't been president. you don't know what it's like. i have actually played in the big league. fauci now is more unifying to the right than hillary clinton. [laughter] >> jesse: that's true. is he going to be a big issue in this primary. >> dana: yeah. >> jesse: one of the things, this is like the second or third

time ron hit this theme no drama ron. i'm going to keep my head down, i'm going to work. i'm going to put wins on the board and i'm not going to have a lot of personnel 2kr5u78. do you think that's going to get traction? >> dana: remember what biden said vote for me over trump because i will not make your blood pressure rise in the morning. everything is going to be calm around me. desantis is saying you can get all the policy wins that you want with me without the drama. i don't know if that will work but that is something he will try. remember he said i don't care what you call me as long as you call me a winner. >> jesse: right, the hush money porn star line hit a nerve with the trump people. you understand why. desantis had an opportunity, when he was asked about it at his press conference earlier this week. some people didn't like the way he handled it. his people say he handled it perfectly. where do you think he is coming from with this indictment? his posture? >> i think that as have you heard it said, is he threading the needle as well as he can.

here's the thing. if you are going to take on the frontrunner at some point you have to take him on. you can't just always be defending him because you think he should be the frontrunner as well. i thought that he showed a little bit of a willingness to punch at trump but to also say yeah, but this indictment is ridiculous. >> jesse: could he have tried to big dog it and say, listen, if the president needs any help down in florida, i got him, anything he needs, you know, kind of rise above it, was there an opportunity there that he missed? >> dana: i don't know. because i don't know -- we don't know ron desantis enough on a national level to know how he is going to respond to these types of things. now, he did a whole book tour and his polling numbers went down. that's why i think this week he has decided to sharpen his edge just a little bit. >> jesse: so these more direct lines of attack, you believe are in response to this monmouth poll or any polling because he was up about, what? 15, three months ago and now is he down 14, 13, something like that. what happened?

>> i'm not exactly sure. i don't know why all the great publicity he god for the book number one best seller in the nation. going out and doing audiences in nevada, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, all of those states that made a lot of sense, i don't know why they went down. he also says that he is not worried about winning the primary right now for the presidency. he has a legislative session where he wants to get a lot of wins on the board. he has a super majority. they are going to help him get a lot of those wins. a question i have is, let's say that he does get a lot of wins and that that helps him goat a two-man race in the g.o.p. primary. if he were to win the nomination, do those legislative wins in florida help or hurt him in a general election? >> jesse: he has a lot of woke stuff going on down there in florida. i didn't see it coming in the mid terms. i any i lost a lot of money. >> six week abortion ban bill in florida that could generate a lot of attention across the country. >> jesse: still very early.

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>> jesse: alvin bragg canceled the grand jury meeting that was supposed to happen today investigating trump's bookkeeping. sources tell fox bragg canceled the meeting he is having trouble convincing the grand jury that trump even committed a crime. it could be because of one of bragg's star witnesses michael cohen a lawyer locked up for perjury. cohen admitted the payment was made to hide stormy accusation from trump's wife, not voters. so it's not a campaign finance violation. and today "the daily mail"

exclusively obtained a letter from michael cohen's lawyer to the federal election commission that says this, are you ready? quote: neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction. neither reimbursed mr. cohen for the payment directly or indirectly. so cohen said trump had nothing it do with anything. that's case closed. michael cohen's former lawyer testified he ripped cohen's credibility to shah reds and said bragg is hiding evidence from the grand jury. listen to this. >> today, after giving all those materials to the manhattan district attorney's office, out of 321 emails, they cherry picked six emails to ask me about. i told them to ask for the entire packet. and i held it up. i said there is 321 emails. you need to see each and every email which follow in chronological fashion and give you the life history of michael

cohen dealing with our firm. >> jesse: again, prosecutors are playing games. bragg's other star witness is a porn actress stormy daniels remember back in 2018 when stormy said she never had an affair with trump but then went out on the media tour with her hand out? by the way, last year? remember, judge ordered stormy to pay trump 300 grand after tried suing him for defamation. trump paid stormy -- actually, no, stormy paid trump. and stormy's lawyer michael avenatti sentenced to prison for stealing from clients. these are the credible people this whole case is based off. even the establishment media isn't sold on this case. the "new york times" today, points out that slick wily, sleeping with the intern, set a precedent that democrats aren't even following. quote: clinton scandal established a general principle that presidents are above the law, minor infraction, covering up tawdry sex. if a potential trump prosecution

requires overteenage mutant ninja turtle that principle, then prosecutors might as well appear in court wearing democrat party campaign paraphernalia. looks like doesn't care the case was dead end. doesn't care that the last kaye dropped the case because it's so frail. even bragg didn't bring the case when he first took office because he knew it didn't have legs. now trump is running so bragg is prosecuting. just to show you how stupid this thing is, obama had a bookkeeping issue in his presidential campaign, was he arrested? no. >> former president's campaign find $375,000 for violations that included reporting corrections on the wrong date, missing filing deadlines for disclosing donations and not acting quickly enough to return donations that exceeded the

maximum campaign contribution amount. this was considered a civil violation. obama's campaign violations were not deemed intentional or considered enough of a serious offense to p.e. pursue litigation with the department of justice. >> jesse: there you go. you see the double standard where trump has classified docs he gets his door kicked in. when biden have docs they let his lawyers mail them back. when trump cuts a check they want him fingerprinted when obama sketchy checks and fines them he pays a fine. how insane is it? i'm starting to get irritated. i don't know if you saw me earlier. i'm starting to get annoyed. grocery unjust and another assault on everybody. >> yeah. well, you know, nobody is above the law the law should never become a political weapon. what have you proven in the last three or four minutes? the chief witness, michael cohen's own lawyer said he is lying he was convicted for

lying, how do you get here from there. i'm begging and urging this prosecutor, don't do this to the country. don't jeopardize the rule of law for the nation as a whole. there is a better way to do this. we'll have an election about trump. but they have turned the law upside down. this is like a drunk driving going from one ditch to the other. this is falling apart before our eyes. to prosecute president trump in light of everything you have just said would be weaponization of the legal system. it would set a bad precedent in the country. it would come back to haunt us for decades and i hope and pray they do not do this in new york. >> jesse: have you talked to president trump about this? how is he feeling about this deal? >> well, i think he is sad. this is the only -- this case is the only case in new york history, new york city history where they used the laws as they are using now against president trump. he does believe they are trying to ruin his life. he does believe it's never

ending, all about destroying him because they're afraid of him running successfully as president. we left out one detail. why is bragg doing. this despite all the hurdles to a successful prosecution. this case has become a joke. a guy in the office wrote a book called people vs. trump and he wrote a book to the left for the left saying that the manhattan d.a. gave up a good case against trump that folded like a cheap suit and this guy, bragg, is running scared because of that book by the former prosecutor that's what is driving this. >> jesse: only took a book to bragg to act. i will have to write one myself. >> there you go. >> jesse: you get this stupid case in new york. you get a case in georgia where a giggling wicken is running the grand jury. and then you get the document case that's a wash because biden has a worse off situation, where are we with everything, senator? >> well, i think you are going to see an unending, unfolding series of legal challenges to president trump that will have a

backlash to the public at large. he is stronger today than he was last week because most republicans and fair minded people see this as an overreach. this is an effort to destroy him political i. it's not based on solid evidence. it's based on, you know a vindictive spirit toward trump in new york and other places. president trump will be stronger at the end of the day but the damage done to the law may last for decades. we are setting a precedent here that it doesn't matter how you get somebody you don't like, there are no rules when it comes to donald trump. and what i fear is that it will turn into no rules toward anybody in the future that you don't like. >> jesse: i think you are absolutely right. this is going to do long-term damage for this country. senator lindsey graham, south carolina, thanks as always. >> thank you. >> jesse: coming up. have you ever watched fauci cry? stay with us. ♪

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♪ ♪ jess jets the two hour pbs special on dr. fauci which we paid for debuted last night. and "primetime" took one for the team. we watched it so you don't have to. and it was exactly what you would expect from a documentary that was shot two years ago about dr. fauci starring dr. fauci. it was boring but we found some nugget. for starters we had no idea fauci was such an emotional guy. he actually cried watching biden's inauguration. >> what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus. ♪ i once was lost ♪ but now i'm found ♪ was blind ♪ but now i see ♪ [cheers]

>> jesse: fauci had someone film him cry. kind of girly. i don't know scientists with emotions. i don't, i'm sorry. but it wouldn't be a fauci documentary without lies and that's exactly what we got. the guy still refuses to admit he funded gain of function research in wuhan. >> there is a number ever experiments on viruses how are you going to know whether or not they are capable of infecting humans unless you examine them which means doing something under certain circumstances make a pathogen more transmissible or more pathogenic which some people refer to as gain of function research. >> jesse: yeah, did he it. the another thing the lab leak theory is funny. >> the working on was not only sars co-v two it would be molecularly impossible for them to turn it into sars cove 2.

it was so direct it's kind of like you have chevrolet and a motorcycle and you say i wanted to make that chevrolet into the motorcycle. no matter what you do into that chevrolet you are not going to make it into a motorcycle. like, what are you talking about? >> jesse: something bad happened in the wuhan lab and he knows it. we still can't get a straight answer from the fauci master on anything. and "primetime" doesn't trust him. take the vaccines for example. we showed you footage of him last night going door to door in d.c. pressuring people to get the shot and lying to their faces telling them no, no, no, no, no. you are not going to get covid if you get the jab. you shouldn't just get one. you should get four, maybe five. no i'm not just saying that because i get royalties from the vaccine company. doesn't sound good, does it? conveniently enough, that was brought up on capitol hill. the ceo of moderna was in the hot seat for some questioning by the senate. listen. >> moderna recently paid nih

$400 million. do you believe it creates a conflict of interest for the government employees who are making money now off of the vaccine to also be dictating the policy about how many times we have to take the vaccine? >> indeed rerecently made -- $400 million payment to the nih for -- not related to covid but covid vaccine to prove our work. >> he just admitted fauci made bank off the vax. the faucis and pfizers and modernas are businesses. they are there to make money. remember? and that's what today's hearing was all about. moderna made $20 billion in profits from the vaccine which we paid for to produce the taxpayers. they want more money no more mandates demand for the vax gone way down. now they want to jack up the price four times.

quadruple it. but bernie wasn't having it. >> my question to you is given the facts that you have made billions of dollars, that your company has made huge profits, on behalf of the taxpayers of this country, will you reconsider your decision to quadruple the price of the vaccine? >> the volume we had during the pandemic gave us we won't have anymore. that is what is different. >> jesse: that's a no. and, get, this moderna wants a taxpayer funded bailout if they get hit with lawsuits. why would they be worried about lawsuits? here is rand paul? >> is there a higher interest or a higher incidence dense of myocarditis among adolescent males 16 to 24 after taking your vaccine. >> working closely with the cdc. >> pretty much a "yes" or "no." is there a higher incidence of myocarditis among boys 16 to 24 after they take your vaccine. >> the data shown from the cdc

show that there is less for people who get the vaccine who get the infection. >> i spoke with your president this last week he readily acknowledge until private there is increased risk of myocarditis. the fact you can't say it in public is quite disturbing. >> jesse: kentucky senator rand paul joins me now. senator, are you getting the feeling that these vaccine ceos are not being honest about their vaccines? >> to put it lightly, yes. about the only truthful thing he said was the demand for the vaccine is going down so he has got to raise the price. the demand is going down, of course, because the virus became less lethal. most people have immunity from being previously vaccinated or previously infected. i didn't find him to be forthcoming or honest particularly about the myocarditis risk. most of the rest of the world doesn't give this vaccine to anyone under 12 and anybody watching this program if your kid has already had covid he doesn't need a covid vaccine.

and anybody under 12, unless they have special health problems, i don't think they need a vaccine either. so the thing is they are not being honest because obviously they are self-interested and they love the mandates. the mandates -- the cdc is now saying your kid at 6 months should get three vaccines for covid. something that is not deadly and most people are getting young people are getting naturally and surviving. >> jesse: do you think it's fair for someone like fauci to get roightses from vaccine that the government is mandating people take? >> well, you know what he told me when i asked him in committee the same question he said it was none of my business. it was none of america's business that there was a law that protected him from not having to divulge his -- any of his royalties, but now we know not just individually still won't tell us what they get individually but 400 million in total goes to nih even if it's dolled back out in grants, that makes themself-interested. many of these people are policymakers. so fauci was in charge of dispensing all the money, billions of dollars, but he was

also in charge of making policy at the white house. he was the senior guy at biden's white house telling us he was for vaccine, ear musks, goggles and three masks all coming from fauci. he is also getting $400 million over there. so no, it is obviously a conflict of interest. but so is the investigation as to where the virus came from. if it came from the lab and he funded the lab, do you think he is not going to try cover up the fact that it came from a lab that he funded? and on gain of function research he finally he says yeah, we have to increase the transmission of the infections something some call it gain of function research. yes, it is gain of function research. and why are we paying for it to be done in china? we shouldn't be. >> jesse: we are doing it in china it's so risky we didn't want it to happen he. oops, it came here anyway. when you see this guy who is supposed to be kind of a bipartisan american scientist cry when a democrat is natural gas rated, dolls that change your opinion of him? >> i just couldn't help but

think wonder what kind of tears he was shedding during the trump administration, during the trump inauguration? no, he is an obvious partisan and the thing is he was in office too long. i wrote a piece came out upon fox news today exarlg him to j. edgar hoover who was in office the same period of time became so powerful that he weaponized the fbi. this guy weaponized the naid. he weaponized it to get his supporters. if you would write a paper that supported his position, like four of these scientists did. my goodness it came from a lab and all of a sudden they changed their mind and got more threats. he used that grant-making authority who gets it and he weaponized government to get what he wanted and that was the cover-up. >> jesse: he should have been term limited out of there thank you very much. dr. rand paul, kentucky, for joining "primetime." hunter biden had a one eyed monthly moleinside the fbi.

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>> jesse: this week the big guy denied what his own said was true. the white house still continues

to lie and dodge for him, watch. >> house oversight says they have got bank records showing a chinese energy company paying 3 biden family members through a third party. what were they paid for? >> i'm just not going to respond to that from here. look, we have heard from house republicans for years and years and years how -- how -- the inaccuracies, the lies when it comes to this issue, and i don't even know where to begin to even answer that question because, again, it's been lies and lies and inaccuracy for the past couple years and i'm just not going to get into it from here. >> jesse: the bi binder is in impossible position feel bad for her. confirm what biden said and call her boss the liar or takes the side of the boss and lies. indicate bedingfield communication director worked alongside company rosemont seneca in 2015 when joe was vp.

i bet you didn't know that. she helped kill stories about hunter's shady business deals. america first legal has the email. they have known about this forever. joe biden can't deny it anymore. there is a paper trail show his families shady deals going back a decade. he had an fbi mole who he used to help his chinese business partners out. you remember the chi come who bribed hunter with $08,000 diamond? well, the guy at the fbi, the mole had one eye. he tipped the chai com off and told him the feds were coming for him and then the chi com fled back to china before the fbi could grab him. what about ashley biden's diary? we were told that didn't exist. but once a couple pages leaked out claiming joe took showers with his daughter. the fbi didn't dispute that they just raided o'keefe's house. something doesn't add up here

and the heat is now turning up on the bidens from another angle, too. joe biden's vex i can't tell assault accuser terra reed suggested she may testify in front of congress. watch. >> i'm hoping for justice. i did reach out and say i wanted to go under oath that i would testify in congress. i have received a response. we are going to meet and there is a possibility that there will be investigation into joe biden and i will go under oath and i will testify. >> jesse: wow. could something come of that the biden family sunday more pressure than they have ever felt before. up next, things are getting awkward between jill biden and dougie not so fresh. ♪ ♪ ♪

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cooler. nic cozier. first up. doug emhoff and jill biden pretty close after their kiss at the state of the union things must be getting awkward. dougie not so fresh greeted the first lady today. >> our amazing first laid, dr. jill biden. [cheers and applause] >> did you notice how dougie not so fresh really leaned to the outside. >> yeah, he overcorrected big time. you know, i mean, apparently in the green room people were chatting earlier before i got there they said she was wearing that same dress when they smooshed. >> jesse: do you think she wore that on purpose just to tempt him just to see if he would kiss again? i don't know. >> that's what all -- that's what everything kind of points to. that's what women do. they are so romantic. >> set a trap. look at that. >> jesse: he didn't fall for it. >> not this time. >> like, remember when you danced in high school and you were like this. far away as possible? >> junior high dances? >> you knew kamala was watching.

he wants to keep his job as second gentlemen. moving on, you have been wrong the whole time. forget all those spices, all natural ingredients baby and a little salt. >> this is what you view as seasoning and seasoning only. >> let me pose you a question. what does it come from granulated garlic what is that garlic onion powder if i it had douse my chicken in this rub and this rub alone the seasoning would be out. they wouldn't even be in there the fresh garlic or fresh onion or fresh bell pepper automatically not seasoning. let me say if you take a little off it's not because you need to add more powder. most of the time because you need to add more salt. >> jesse: defund the seasoning police. >> pretty much. she had that look in her eye. the point she is making instead of using cheap powder use the actual raw ingredient there is what she is saying.

>> jesse: you don't cook you don't foe what you are talking about. >> i use montreal steak seasoning on anything. any kind of meat i will put that on there. >> jesse: especially for guys we don't have time in the kitchen for slicing tomatoes and garlic. >> exactly. >> jesse: we would cut our fingers off we have stuff to do. >> no doubt. >> jesse: finally squirrels aren't the only frightening scene. in l.a. one reporter gave her audience a scare when she collapsed. >> meteorologist alissa carlson joins us live in the studio. alissa, this is really is the calm before the storm. >> not again. 'ow. oh. >> so she went to the hospital with a head injury. and everything is okay now. has that ever happened to you. my boss will be happy. i have worked six hours straight covering severe weather before. and i have felt like i was going to faint. but i never have. she did. how terrifying is that glad she is okay. she has a neurological disorder

and she has fainted before. >> jesse: she has fainted before. >> jesse: she is a fainter. >> this happened to her before. she is a courageous woman for getting on tv every day and knowing she could faint at any moment. >> jesse: a lot of people are hoping you sometimes faint and hit your head when you are doing the broadcast. >> i think my wife is the number one. i know she is watching. i'm just kidding. >> jesse: tell her not to use so much seasoning next time. >> jesse: we have a window. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: take a look at this. again, we got a major update in the "primetime" madness. the nicknames are coming in hot. we're getting texts all around the clock, if you can see the elite 8 we have mini number one seed took down crooked. the giggling wick can the other advanced in the region. pauly p. a strong showing probably wipe the floor with dugy not so fresh. sticky sammy ahead of the

binder, wow, setting records. jimmy the chin against chinette. who do you like in the final four. >> i love dougie not so fresh. not so biased because we just did the story. giggly wick can fun to say. come on. then on the other side jimmy the chin i have a little european chin myself. >> jesse: got something going. >> jesse: you think chinette go down. >> yeah both chins are going together. sticky sammy. again, the alliteration is phenomenal. >> jesse: right. see how it shakes out later in the week. text us on friday we will announce our first ever final four. text mike from bakersfield, california. republicans have to keep a clean fight the way reagan did. don't load democrats with ammo in the primaries that they will end up using against us in the general election. do you really think donald trump can resist going after ron desantis for a year and a half? that's not happening. i think we learned that in 2016.

diane and ben from florida. oh, texting in as a duo. rockie and apollo parallel to trump and desantis in '24. they will fight it out a few times and eventually they will get along. we hope. we all hope it ends the way it did after 2016. you know, trump accused cruise of having a father who assassinated kennedy and then they all went back to being good friends. rick from long island, why can't ron desantis and donald trump just work together. they would make a great 1, 2, punch. dream ticket? >> slick wily a hard dog to keep on the porch. is he a hard dog. that is true. andrew from alaska. what kind of nickname do you think trump could give you if you decided to run for president? slippery watters, obviously, or dirty waters. depends on how crooked i was or

am. donna from miami, i had no idea fauci and i had something in common. i also cried during biden's inauguration. very good. those were not tears of joy. bill from iowa. fauci was crying during the inauguration because he knew he was about to become a very rich man. and he sure did. joe and janet from new jersey -- what a bunch of -- newlyweds? married couples? i love it. watched your window last night and got to say there is nothing better than a wood fireplace. yeah, i lost that gas fireplace debate and i lost hard. nighttime ashamed to admit it. scott from nebraska a yuppy gas fireplace? come on, watters, they are convenient, of course, if you are not splitting your own wood and using stick for cind ling you don't have a real fireplace. >> i have a fake fireplace. you are right my fireplace has a remote control that i can turn it on like that. dan from michigan, jesse, can

you have a camera crew film your hair routine? it would be a lot of tape. [laughter] we don't have that kind of time. that's all for tonight. dvr the show and get your picks in to "primetime." tucker carlson is up next and always remember i'm watters and this is my world. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. let's pretend for a second that our country had a news media that was interested in bringing you the news, not lecturing you about your moral inferiority, you're so bad, or lying to you in obvious ways. january 6th was an insurrection, guys. or forcing you to repeat whatever childish slogan they've come up with