Evelyn Farkas

Typically a note-taker will write notes about what the principal says in a fashion that does not embarrass their principal.

If Donald Trump were elected, I believe he'd be impeached pretty quickly or somebody else would have to take over government, and I'm not even joking.

I was urging my former colleagues … ‘Get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration’ because I had a fear that, somehow, that information would disappear with the senior people who left.

What sparked the recent violence was the airing on the internet of a very hateful, very offensive video.

I was urging my former colleagues, and frankly speaking, the people on the Hill -- it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people.

I was urging my former colleagues, and frankly speaking the people on the Hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration, because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left, so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy ... that the Trump folks – if they found out how we knew what we knew about their ... the Trump staff dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence.