Hello TPM members and welcome to the weekend.

As the House steadily deposed witnesses for its impeachment inquiry behind closed doors, providing only a few new details in the way of leaks, the White House made news right out in the open. White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that President Trump’s decision to hold up aid to Ukraine was linked to his push for the country to investigate a conspiracy theory about 2016 election meddling.

Here’s what happened in Prime this week: