Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rebuffed an invite to go on the Fox News show “Jesse Watters Primetime,” calling its host a “pervert.”After a Fox News producer approached Ocasio-Cortez outside the Capitol about appearing on Watters’s show, the New York Democrat said the host has “sexualized” and “sexually harassed” her on air. “He has engaged in horrific, sexually exploitative rhetoric,” she said, in a video taken by Migrant Insider’s Pablo Manríquez. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementOcasio-Cortez specifically referenced Watters saying in October that she wanted to “sleep with” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. And I’m sorry, you can’t have him,” Watters said on Fox News’s “The Five” in October. Watters has long criticized Ocasio-Cortez, saying in 2023 she “has a history of lying.” Ocasio-Cortez has not appeared on Watters’s show since it launched in January 2022.

Source: Fox News January 09, 2026 06:29 UTC