On Monday, Watters, a Conservative commentator on Fox News, gave audience members at the Right-wing Turning Points USA conference tips on how to "ambush" the Chief White House Medical Adviser to surprise him during interviews about his involvement in gain-of-function research.
"You got to ambush a guy like Fauci ... you got to be respectful because they'll turn the tables on you and you can't have it blow up in your face," he told the audience.
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Watters then proceeds to claim that if they encounter Dr. Fauci to "first introduce yourself" before hitting him with the first question, which can't be one with a "yes or no" answer.
"Now you go in for the kill shot. The kill shot? With an ambush? Deadly. Because he doesn't see it coming," Watters said.
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"This is when you say," Dr. Fauci, you financed risky research at a sloppy Chinese lab, the same lab that sprung this pandemic on the world. You know why people don't trust you, don't you?" Boom! He is dead!," Watters conveys to the crowd, who cheers.
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He recommended to the students that once they got the conflict clip they could send in the footage to Fox News and other Conservative websites and networks and it would be famous.
"Imagine Tucker Carlson teases it out of the A block, "Coming Up: Brave college student confronts lord Fauci at dinner," he said. "Get us that! that's what we want."
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A shocked Dr. Fauci reacted to the remarks on Tuesday during an appearance on CNN's New Day, calling Watters comments "horrible" and saying they were "a reflection of what goes on in society."
"The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask," Fauci said.
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"And for that you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a kill shot to ambush me? I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?" he continued.
Fauci told host John Berman that Watters should "be fired on the spot," but said that it was "very likely" Watters would go "unaccountable" at Fox News.
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People online had a similar response to Watters' comments, calling it "unsuitable and dangerous."
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"The incendiary, dangerous, violent rhetoric against Dr. Fauci continues at AmericaFest. Fox News host Jesse Watters tells them how to go after him to harass him in public: 'Now you go in with the kill shot - deadly. Because, with an ambush, he doesn’t see it coming,'" one person tweeted.