In Thursday’s press briefing, the White House just admitted to a charge it’s been vehemently denying for weeks. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney conceded Thursday that the administration did in fact withhold congressionally-approved funding from Ukraine to push the country to investigate “the corruption related to the DNC server” in the 2016 election.

When challenged, point blank, by a reporter who said that what Mulvaney was describing was a textbook definition of a quid pro quo, he declared, “We do that all the time with foreign policy.”