Fox host: Imagine if Fox pushed a bogus story about the president's birth certificate just for ratings (They did)

Jesse Watters: Imagine if a Fox News producer said “they are pushing a bogus story about the president's birth certificate just for ratings, and the CEO is on board with it, that would be national news”

From the June 27 edition of Fox News' The Five:

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JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): I think the video sting is a big black eye for CNN, no matter how hard they try to spin it, but the core of the video is what everybody already knew, that CNN is biased against Trump, wants him to leave office, and they are pushing a B.S. Russia story for ratings and cash.

Now, if a Fox News producer was caught in a video sting saying that the company wants Obama impeached, and they are pushing a bogus story about the president's birth certificate just for ratings, and the CEO is on board with it, that would be national news. It would be national news, but this was buried just like everything else. I think the actual real scandal is these three guys resigning, which I think they did honorably for pushing a fake news story.

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): And also, the birth certificate is real.

WATTERS: You heard it here first.

DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): Yeah, I'm not sure that's -- I'm not sure that that's the best comparison.

WATTERS: No, it's an apt comparison so far.

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