no question about that. that's why we held up the money. >> that's it, that's why we held up the money. we held up the money to ukraine so the president could get this other thing he wanted from ukraine for his own political purposes. that led to these blunt headlines all over the country today. "the new york times," mulvaney says and then denies that trump denied aid as quid pro quo. mulvaney tries to walk back comments. mulvaney says holdup of ukraine aid was tied to trump's demand for dnc server. whether mick mulvaney was told today to go out and say that so he could be blamed for this thing or whether he freelanced it in the moment, the response wasn't good. the "wall street journal" reporting today, quote, white house officials expected mr. mulvaney to repeat the administration's message that the house inquiry was unfair to mr. trump and that there was no quid pro quo. one republican lawmaker telling "the washington post," quote, totally inexplicable. he literally said the thing the president and everybody else said did not happen.