part of that story happened again before the election. payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. so from the transcript, congressman jackson lee asks hope hicks did mr. trump ever direct to you make public payments about the hush money payments during the campaign? ms. hicks, i was directed to make a public statement denying that a relationship existed. o between fl trump and a woman named karen mcdougal. >> jackson lee polls up. did you ask the president whether that was true ms. hicks, not to my recollection. do you believe her? >> i don't believe her, because that was such a huge fact that she was repeating on behalf of donald trump. and it turned out to be a massive lie. now, we also did ask her about the hush money payments when she realized that it was a lie. she was not able to talk about that, because she got that information while she was at the white house. and they objected to everything about her tenure at the white house. but she confirmed that essentially donald trump