WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's former aide Hope Hicks sat down with the House Judiciary Committee for nearly eight hours on Wednesday to answer questions about her time in the White House.

The former White House communications director, the first senior administration official mentioned in former special counsel Robert Mueller's report to appear before Congress, was subpoenaed because of her proximity to Trump. Most notably, the committee members wanted to know about several episodes described in the Mueller report as attempts to thwart the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But throughout her marathon testimony, Hicks did not answer many questions related to her time in the Trump administration. Two White House lawyers were present during the testimony and often interjected with a quick "objection" to lawmakers' questions.

Infound it "odd" that Corey Lewandowski, Trump's former campaign manager, was asked to deliver a message to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to "unrecuse" himself from overseeing the Russia investigation.

Hicks was asked several times to read portions of Mueller's report, such as an incident where Trump told Lewandowski to tell Sessions that if he delivered the remarks the president wanted, he would be the "most popular guy in the country." However, when asked to verify the account, Hicks did not.

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In another instance, Hicks was asked about a portion of the report that described her as trying to "throw herself between the reporters and the President" in order to stop parts of an interview Trump