CNN —On a Friday morning in April, Fox News talk host Jesse Watters walked onstage to a room stuffed with hundreds of insurance executives and agents. Watters — who Fox News this week promoted to the all-important 8pm hour — began his interview with Rusbuldt at the Renaissance Washington hotel as expected. “It was an epic meltdown afterward,” one of the people familiar with the matter told me. “The organization went into damage control.”The chat between Watters and Rusbuldt, which continued on after the appalling remark, had immediate consequences. When asked for comment on Wednesday, a Fox News spokesperson told me that Watters had “no recollection” of the events.

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