Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney tried to rewrite history in an interview on Fox News Sunday and host Chris Wallace was having none of it. Mulvaney tried to insist several times throughout the interview that reporters misinterpreted comments he made at a Thursday news conference about President Trump conditioning aid to Ukraine on launching political investigations. But Wallace repeatedly exposed Mulvaney with his own words to demonstrate that what he said was not what he claimed.

Wallace asked Mulvaney why he had said “that aid to Ukraine depended on investigating the Democrats.” But Mulvaney denied he ever said that: “Again, that’s not what I said. That’s what people said I said.” The acting White House chief of staff went on to claim he said “there were two reasons that we held up the aid,” listing corruption concerns and pressuring European countries to give Ukraine more aid. But Wallace fired back saying that Mulvaney actually cited “three conditions” on Thursday. “Not only did you say that investigating the Democrats was one of the three conditions, not two, that you would just said that you would talk about, investigating the Democrats was part of the quid pro quo,” Wallace said. Mulvaney denied that was the case but Wallace continued to press the point: “I hate to go through this but you said what you said.”

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney joined us live to respond to his remarks on U.S. aid to Ukraine. #FNS #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/MeGhGXeCqK — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) October 20, 2019

Mulvaney tried to argue that while the president had mentioned the Democratic National Committee server “from time to time” it ultimately ” wasn’t connected to the aid.” Wallace said that”anyone listening to what you said in that briefing could come to only one conclusion.” There was so much back and forth and Mulvaney continued to say he didn’t say something he said to the point where at one point Wallace shot back: “You totally said that.” Mulvaney then repeatedly said that the important part is that he didn’t use the term quid pro quo “because there is not a quid pro quo.”

Exclusively on FOX News Sunday Mick Mulvaney responds to critics of his press briefing appearance. Mulvaney says "his language never said quid pro quo" in regards to his remarks on U.S. aid to Ukraine. @FNS pic.twitter.com/zsgmqDwOq1 — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) October 20, 2019

After lots of going around in circles on the issue, Wallace asked Mulvaney whether he had offered his resignation to Trump due to the criticism he received over the briefing. “Absolutely not,” Mulvaney said, insisting the issue wasn’t even discussed. “I’m very happy working there,” Mulvaney said. “Did I have the perfect press conference? No. But again, the facts were on our side.” CNN reported on Sunday that some Trump insiders were working to push Mulvaney out before Democrats decided to move forward with their impeachment inquiry. Top aides, including Jared Kushner, were reportedly already looking for a potential replacement for the position. Now those efforts have taken a back seat with the White House focusing its energy on impeachment.