President Donald Trump didn’t quite give embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his full vote of confidence during an interview on Tuesday.

When asked by ABC’s Terry Moran if he had 100% confidence in Hegseth despite the Signal messaging scandal and other embarrassing reports, the president deflected.

“I don’t have a hundred percent confidence in anything, OK? Anything,” Trump said, calling it “a stupid question.”

Moran pushed back, saying it was an “important position,” but Trump wouldn’t budge.

“Only a liar would say, ‘I have a hundred percent confidence,’” Trump said. “I don’t have a hundred percent confidence that we’re gonna finish this interview.”

“We will,” Moran assured him.

Trump never did give Hegseth that full vote of confidence, but did offer some praise.

“He’s a talented guy. He’s young. He’s smart, highly educated,” Trump said. “And I think he’s gonna be a very good defense, hopefully a great defense secretary, but he’ll be a very good defense secretary.”

Hegseth shared highly sensitive military information in a group chat on the Signal messaging app in which a journalist had been accidentally added by national security advisor Michael Waltz. He reportedly shared intel in a second Signal group with his wife, brother and others. Hegseth also reportedly had an unsecured internet line set up in his office so he could use Signal on a personal computer there, according to the Associated Press.

Moran asked Trump if he took Hegseth “to the woodshed” over those issues.

“I had a talk with him, and whatever I said I probably wouldn’t be inclined to tell you,” Trump said. “But we had a good talk.”