Article snippet: Secretary of State MORE and said he would not discuss a “hypothetical” about the appropriateness of conditioning foreign aid on political investigations, despite the host noting that Mulvaney said it had, in fact, occurred. "I will leave it to the chief of staff to explain what it is he said," Pompeo said. "I’m telling you what I was involved with. I’m telling you what I saw." Stephanopoulos pressed Pompeo on whether it would be appropriate for the White House to make aid conditional on political investigations. “I'm not going to get into hypotheticals and secondary things based on what someone else has said,” Pompeo said, prompting Stephanopoulos to respond, “Well, except it's not a hypothetical. We saw the chief of staff, the acting chief of staff right there.” “You just said, ‘If this happened.’ That is, by definition, a hypothetical,” Pompeo countered. Mulvaney said in a press conference last week that Ukrainian aid was delayed while the White House sought an investigation into the 2016 election. There is “going to be political influence in foreign policy,” he said. “Get over it.” Mulvaney has since walked back the comment, saying, “There was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election.” Pompeo also defended the involvement of MORE in Ukraine diplomacy, telling Stephanopoulos that “private citizens often are part of executing American foreign policy” and again refusing to discuss “internal deliberatio... Link to the full article to read more