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’ The Five.

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.

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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“I don’t think that raising 2016 elections or Vice President Biden or these things I consider to be conspiracy theories that have been circulated by the Ukrainians” were “things that we should be pursuing as part of our national security strategy with Ukraine,” Volker said.

“We should be supporting Ukraine’s democracy, reforms, its own fight against corruption domestically and the struggle against Russia and defense capabilities and these are at the heart of what we should be doing and I don’t think pursuing these things serves a national interest,” he added.

Volker also claimed he was unaware of an alleged quid pro quo made by Trump in a bid to convince Ukraine to investigate Biden.

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