and thank you, donald trump. reporter: with her position in the white house, hicks gained access to the world stage, taking part in this intimate gathering with the pope and also the japanese prime minister s state banquet where hicks stole the spotlight in her black tuxedo. her access to the president put her at the center of several key investigations too. on russia, she s been interviewed by special prosecutor robert mueller s team multiple times. just yesterday, she was in front of the house intelligence committee answering questions for about eight hours, admitting that sometimes she was required to tell white lies in the trump administration, but insisting she never lied about substantive matters. so much stuff goes through her as the conduit between outsiders and the president that she really sits in a particularly important seat for mueller. reporter: and hicks was also involved in the aftermath of don junior s meeting with a russian lawyer at trump tower last year. onboa
release, claiming the meeting was about adoption. we ve since learned it was really about dirt on hillary clinton. hope hicks also helped craft the initial white house response to allegations of domestic abuse by now former top aide rob porter, with whom she was romantically involved. porter denied the allegations and resigned. now the woman who rarely says a word in public will be taking her silence with her as she departs the white house. randi kaye, cnn, new york. more now on her departure which follows her testimony to the house intelligence committee. joining us now, a democratic member of that committee, congressman joaquin castro of texas. thanks so much for being with us. cnn is reporting tonight that hope hicks said that the kind of white lies she was talking about were things like telling people that trump was in a meeting when he wasn t or spinning news favorably for her boss. can you say anything more about what she meant by white lies? no, and the indication was basica
that it wasn t substantive stuff. actually because i heard congressman rooney about 30 minutes ago describe the question. the question was, has the president ever asked you to lie? it was not whether you ve ever lied for the president. what we re trying to get at, is is the president s actions and behavior in that question. her resignation does come a day after testifying before the committee you re on. do you think the two are related? quite possibly. also that the president may have berated her for being honest. i told a few people yesterday because they asked me what was your impression of her in and there was a point there when she was going through that series of questions that her face almost looked as if she was saying, you know, why did i ever get involved with these people, with donald trump? that was the sense you got. that was my sense when i was looking at her as she was struggling to answer these questions. why did i ever get involved in this? remember, she was not