WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wouldn’t say whether it was appropriate to hold up military aid to Ukraine unless an investigation into the Democrat National Committee’s server was pursued, instead labeling it a “hypothetical” in an interview Sunday.

“I’m not going to get into hypotheticals and secondary things based on what someone else has said,” Pompeo told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

Stephanopoulos pushed back saying it wasn’t a hypothetical, pointing to comments made Thursday by White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. “The chief of staff said it did,” Stephanopoulos said.

Pompeo said he “never saw that in the decision making process that I was a part of.”

“I’ll leave it to the chief of staff to explain what it is he said and what he intended,” Pompeo said. “I can speak clearly to what America’s strategic objectives were in providing this defensive weaponry to the people of Ukraine.”

Pompeo also wouldn’t say whether he gave his blessing to President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s foreign policy freelancing in Ukraine.

“George, I’ve had one consistent policy as secretary of state, to not talk about internal deliberations inside the administration. I’m not going to change that policy for you this morning,” Pompeo answered.

Pompeo likened Giuliani to Sidney Blumenthal, a former Bill Clinton aide who worked at the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

As a private citizen, Blumenthal still played an influential role in U.S. foreign policy.

Before becoming a broadcast journalist, Stephanopoulos served in the Clinton administration.

“George, private citizens often are part of executing American foreign policy, you know that. You lived that,” Pompeo pointed out.

Stephanopoulos agreed, but noted that special envoys still get vetted through official channels.

“I don’t talk about internal White House deliberations,” Pompeo said again.

The “This Week” host then asked Pompeo if he received documents from Giuliani on Ukraine.

Pompeo said he did and passed them along to the appropriate person within the State Department.

“I never reviewed them,” he said.

The secretary of state also wouldn’t speak about the circumstances surrounding Maria Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, losing that job in May.

“She was withdrawn from her post a handful of weeks early,” he said, making light of the firing.

He also noted that ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president.

Pompeo has come under fire for not defending the 30-plus year veteran of the foreign service, who remains a State Department employee.

“I’m not going to talk about private conversations that I had with my most trusted advisers,” Pompeo said.

​Pompeo did complain that State Department lawyers have not been allowed to witness testimony given by officials to House members as part of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump​ launched after his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was revealed.​

“This is deeply unfair to the officers that serve under me. It’s wrong,” Pompeo said.

“We’re not able to protect the State Department. We’re not able to protect the United States of America. And Adam Schiff ought to be embarrassed by the kangaroo court he’s running,” Pompeo added, referring to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who has been at the forefront of the inquiry.

Pompeo did acknowledge that he would be open to testifying.

“I’ve said all along, I’ll do everything I’m required to do by law,” the secretary of state said.