"I believe that anyone listening to what you said in that briefing could only come to one conclusion," Wallace said, playing a video clip from the news conference in which Mulvaney listed three reasons for why aid to Ukraine had been withheld, rather than the two he brought up on Sunday: corruption in the country, whether other countries were participating in support of Ukraine and “whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our Department of Justice.”

Wallace then quoted a senior Justice Department official who said the withholding of aid in regards to a department investigation was “news to us.”

Mulvaney, though, did acknowledge he could “absolutely” see how people took his words “the wrong way,” but continued to emphasize he “never said it was a ‘quid pro quo.’”

“What should put this issue to bed is that the money flowed without any connection to the DNC server,” Mulvaney insisted to a doubtful Wallace.

Mulvaney also “absolutely, positively” denied having offered his resignation to President Donald Trump after the controversial news conference.

"I'm very happy working there,” Mulvaney said. “Did I have the perfect press conference? No, but again the facts are on our side.”