Fox News Host Jesse Watters downplayed the gravity of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump by calling this week's public hearings"cliques of people talking about their feelings" during a broadcast of Fox News'Watters was commenting on former special U.S. envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker's testimony before Congress, which took place Tuesday, with his co-hosts.
"I come back and a soap opera is on," Watters said."CBS jumps out of it, and I'm thinking to myself, what's the difference between this and a soap opera? It is a bunch of cliques of people talking about their feelings. They have opinions, they have concerns. You know what the bottom line was today? They asked straight up, was there a bribe? No. Did anybody ask you to bribe anybody? No. Was there extortion? No.
"And now I understand why Schiff lead with the witnesses he did," he continued, before calling the witnesses"small time" people who have"done nothing" "You can't have a phone call that everybody listens to, and everybody on the phone call, at least most of them say, yeah, it is fine, and then one guy freaks out and then goes and talks to the whistle-blower," Watters concluded.
Fox News Anchor Jesse Watters compared the arguments being conducted during Tuesday's impeachment hearings to a soap opera.Volker testified in Congress on Tuesday as a part of the impeachment hearings before the House Intelligence Committee. During his testimony, Volker declared that he didn't think the president's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky"served the national interest.
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