‘Everybody Now Knows I’m Circumcised’: Jesse Watters Dishes on Interview With ‘Compelling’ El-Sayed

Fox News host Jesse Watters reflected Tuesday on his fiery interview with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, calling him “compelling” and joking, “I guess everybody now knows I’m circumcised.”

Watters and El-Sayed sparred for roughly 25 minutes Monday on Jesse Watters Primetime, with the Fox News host pressing the Democratic nominee on a wide range of policy positions, including immigration, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, transgender athletes and gender-affirming care for minors. Watters also put El-Sayed on the spot over the exact amount of the federal budget, while the candidate repeatedly sought to steer the conversation toward affordability, health care and President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

The most memorable exchange, though, came when Watters asked whether El-Sayed, a doctor, believed it was acceptable for a parent to “slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off.” El-Sayed shot back by asking Watters whether he was circumcised, prompting the host to call it a “personal question.” Watters ultimately told El-Sayed that some of his positions were “straight-up wacky” and that he seemed “a little naive,” though the two agreed at the end of the contentious interview that El-Sayed could return for another appearance.

“Well, I guess everybody now knows I’m circumcised,” the Fox News host quipped on Tuesday’s edition of The Five. “Usually you look at the headlines, and if your headlines are all about your penis, usually you’ve done something very wrong. In this case, I thought the interview was fine.”

Watters continued:

He was compelling. He’s a confident guy, kind of a guy’s guy, but I don’t trust him. You know, I like him. I don’t want to like him. I like him for some stupid reason, but he’s not right for Michigan.

He wouldn’t take a stand on anything. I asked him about boys in girls’ sports, Green New Deal, reparations. He’s on the record as backing all of this, and he just dodges and wasn’t prepared — like, didn’t do his homework, didn’t know how many illegals were here, didn’t know the federal budget, didn’t know how much Medicare for All costs, but he does not usually sound like a politician.

That’s probably why he won that primary, but last night he did, and I expected more. But he wants to come back. I don’t know why he wants to come back. He wants to do it in the studio. I’m happy to have him in the studio, but he’s had three days in a row of really bad press. So if this guy wants to win that state, he needs to get his standing together and try to settle things down, because right now, it’s going down.

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