Fox News host Jesse Watters said on Wednesday that New York might be in better shape if the state were to dump current Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul and bring back disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was also a Democrat.

Spitzer earned a reputation for holding financial services professionals accountable and rooting out corruption while serving as attorney general of New York — becoming known as the “Sheriff of Wall Street” before he became governor in 2007. He won in a landslide, earning 69% of the vote — but resigned after serving less than two years following reports that he had patronized a prostitution ring.

Watters referenced Spitzer during Wednesday’s broadcast of the network’s popular afternoon panel show “The Five,” during a conversation about Hochul’s refusal to reinstate medical professionals who were fired for failing to comply with vaccine mandates even though the state has since dropped the mandates.

Judge Jeanine Pirro quoted Hochul, who explained her decision by claiming that healthcare professionals who did not have the COVID vaccine were putting patients at risk of developing COVID while they were receiving care.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul says she won't hire unvaccinated healthcare workers despite the mandate being overturned:

"I don’t think the answer is to have someone who comes in who is sick be exposed to someone who can give them COVID-19."pic.twitter.com/qy6UICxGd4

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 24, 2023

After airing a clip of Hochul’s comments, Pirro and her co-hosts discussed the fact that the vaccines have been proven to not stop transmission of the virus.

“She doesn’t know that vaxxed and unvaxxed can still transmit the virus? She doesn’t know that, and she’s the governor?” Watters asked. “I mean, what an idiot. Let’s say I go into the ER with a gunshot wound, and I’m bleeding out, you think I care if the nurse is unvaxxed? I think bullets are more dangerous than the ‘rona virus.”

Watters went on to tie in bail reform and the state’s still-rampant crime problem, saying, “We’re [more] afraid of people getting shot than we’re afraid of COVID at this point.”

That was when he suggested New Yorkers might fare better under the leadership of former Governor Spitzer, saying, “I don’t care if he sleeps with escorts. He was smart.”

The maker of the popular children’s toy L.O.L. Surprise! OMG Dolls was granted a mistrial this week when a federal judge ruled that prohibited testimony on cultural appropriation was introduced during proceedings.

Toymaker MGA Entertainment is currently involved in an intellectual property dispute with rapper T.I. and former teen pop group OMG Girlz. The company sued OMG Girlz, rapper Clifford T.I. Harris, and Xscape singer Tameka “Tiny” Harris, mother of former OMG Girlz member Zonnique Pullins, per Bloomberg Law. 

The lawsuit sought a declaratory judgment that OMG Dolls didn’t infringe on the intellectual property rights of the former band. This was after MGA received a cease and desist letter demanding they stop selling the toys.

The OMG Girlz performed from 2009 to 2015. They countered that the toy company had misappropriated their name and likenesses plus sought damages. They claimed the dolls were copies of OMG Girlz and were “intentionally designed to trade on the OMG Girlz’ likeness and brand.”

The OMG Girlz further alleged cultural appropriation, saying MGA Entertainment and its CEO Isaac Larian were using the dolls “to misappropriate the likeness of black female artists.” 

Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California barred testimony about the alleged racist cultural appropriation.

The trial began on January 17 and was abruptly halted this week following the introduction of prohibited statements mentioning cultural appropriation. Jurors heard a woman testifying she “did not want to support a company that steals from African Americans and their ideas.” 

According to court documents, Judge Selna agreed that the woman’s testimony regarding cultural appropriation was considered a “rant” and was prejudicial against the defendant, MGA Entertainment. 

T.I.’s lawyer, Erin Ranahan, tried to get Judge Selna to reconsider, claiming the testimony didn’t help their case. But ultimately, the judge declared a mistrial.

Pullins had previously posted photos of OMG Girlz next to images of OMG Dolls, asking her Instagram followers to weigh in on whether they saw the resemblance. Most of them agreed that the dolls have a similar look. 

“Two things will not be disputed: Isaac Larian and MGA have sold a lot of OMG dolls,” Attorney David Scheper said during his opening statements. “And the OMG Girlz and their family have never asked for permission, never given permission and never made a penny from all those sales.”

“This case is about greed. That’s what it’s about. It’s a shakedown,” MGA attorney Jennifer Keller refuted.