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Vice President Pence at the Munich Security Conference--I was not there, but I read his remarks--said there needs to be consequences for what the Russians are trying to do.

I think the transparency of what has happened is necessary for the American people so that when they make their judgments about future, whether future elections or whatever, they understand that there are outside forces trying to influence…

I can absolutely say that I have no other obligation except to follow the law on that.

I want to make it very, very clear to all elements of the intelligence community that our job is to do our job, and our job is not to formulate policy, our job is not to influence intelligence in any way for political reasons; our job is…

I certainly will make sure the IC produces the intelligence access that you need to do your job.

Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nations' cultures and elections and so forth.

I think this is something that needs to be investigated and addressed.

I think it's our responsibility to provide you access to all that you mentioned.

I do think it's at least worth discussion relative to the situation that might occur where we might have to, hopefully with some special authority, might have to go outside that.

I thought perhaps we ought to at least have a discussion about what do you do in a situation when you have the necessary intelligence to know that something terrible is going to happen to the American people in a very short amount of time.

I absolutely support that. That is the law.

We cannot afford to be behind the curve in terms of development of both the offensive and defensive capacities that we put up into space.

Agility is critical in this time of rapid technological change.

I absolutely believe that is my responsibility and the responsibility of the IC, to provide what this committee needs to do its oversight properly.

I dreamt, I believed that life was a beauty, and I think that's what I was looking forward to. I awoke and found that life is a duty.

Yes, where appropriate.

You will have the unique challenge of working for a President who has said comments that I believe at times have denigrated some of the work of the intelligence community.

We are a 100 percent behind you.