I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I just figured, for the most part, mainstream networks stopped using [mistress word]. Those are small brush fires. The election made me realize we've got forest fires that we collectively need to be focused on.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.