Rep. Mark Meadows Mark Randall MeadowsWhite House chief of staff knocks FBI director over testimony on election fraud Anxious Democrats amp up pressure for vote on COVID-19 aid Pelosi hopeful COVID-19 relief talks resume 'soon' MORE (R-N.C.) joined an NBC News reporter's live shot on Wednesday to defend President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE and insist that House Republicans were not "struggling" to stand with the president.

During a live broadcast Wednesday, NBC News reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell attempted to flag down the former Freedom Caucus chairman only for him to quickly breeze past her.

As Caldwell continued with her live report, she suggested that Republicans such as Meadows were "struggling" to defend the president, which Meadows apparently overheard.

"I'm not struggling on anything. The Republicans are not struggling on anything," he responded, quickly walking back into the camera's frame.

WATCH as @RepMarkMeadows pushes back on @MSNBC's impeachment spin in real time pic.twitter.com/ApEWpXAjUI — Kyle Drennen (@kjdrennen) November 6, 2019

Meadows continued in an impromptu press conference that it was getting "easier" for Republicans to defend Trump from the House's impeachment inquiry as more witnesses testified in the probe.

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"Actually, as we hear more testimony ... it's getting easier to defend the president from the standpoint of, 'there is no linkage between aid [and an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden Joe BidenFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick Bloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida MORE],' — in fact, what we're hearing today is that this is part of a broader analysis of foreign aid in general, it terms of what we should do," Meadows said.

"It wasn't just Ukraine where the aid was held up," he added.

Republicans have argued that the White House did not have an understanding with Ukraine that military aid would be held up unless Ukraine's government launched an investigation into Biden, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination.

Democrats have argued that such an understanding did exist, and that the mere attempt by Trump to persuade Ukraine's president to open an investigation into Biden constitutes an attempt to solicit foreign interference in a U.S. election.