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The time with foreign policy. and i have news for everybody, get over it. there is going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> that admission or confession if you will shocked the nation's capitol including individuals in the white house and mulvaney was quickly ordered to clean it up. he issued a statement claiming he had not said what he very clearly said. congressman francis rooney of florida, a former diplomat said in response to the attempted walk-back, quote, it is not an etch-a-sketch. how on life could you do those things when you just said it right there on national tv, unqu...

Would change their policies on immigration. i have news for everybody. get over it. there's going to be political influence in foreign policy. >> hours later, mulvaney said his previous comments were misconstrued. ellison barber has more on capitol hill. ellison, i went in to the mark zuckerberg interview having seen the press conference. came out and saw the statement. what happened in between? >> yeah, it was a whirlwind. some republicans on capitol hill are singing that mulvaney's remarks weren't a good thing and that they are worried and not necessarily buying the walk-back. francis rooney...

House to garner that attempt at a walkback yesterday? >> well, i think that we're all still trying to figure that out. there was a school of thought that this was, you know, an attempt at a clever strategy, sort offed a mi ed a miladmit i to something, figuring this is coming out anyway, try to pretend like there is no big deal here and we'll just talk about it openly. but that seems not to have been the case. i mean, it was such a weird thing. the theory i just offered sounds kind of crazy, but there was no better explanation and pretty soon we saw basically the justice department saying, who...

And they were, of course, on recess last week and they're back now, but you imagine that the white house may have actually heard from some of these republicans and that's why you saw the walkback from mick mulvaney, but the problem is a, it's on camera and the transcript that the president had with the lead aer of ukrain there is a quid pro quo and a favor for a favor and mick mulvaney was in some ways underscoring and reinforcing what was clear in that transcript and even what's clear from the text messages that we've been getting and volker releases some of the things from sondeland, as well...

Place over approaching 50 minutes in the briefing room earlier today from the chief of staff, mick mulvaney, who himself acknowledged -- acting chief of staff, this was the first time as acting chief of staff that he has briefed reporters, is this real walkback in the way that the white house is defending this phone call. you'll remember, we've heard from the president repeatedly that there was no quid pro quo. today, there was an acknowledgement that there was, in some form, a quid pro quo, as has been alleged all along. katy? >> peter, i know that he said that biden wasn't a part of this, bu...