So encryption has a very positive effect and is needed.

I do, and I've made that clear to the President and to his advisers, that that is where I stand.

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.

I absolutely support that. That is the law.

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

Agility is critical in this time of rapid technological change.

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 want to do everything we can to make sure those private rights are secure.

702 is designed to go after foreign bad guys. It's lawful collection.

Finding that balance so that we don't take away private rights and at the same time use the necessary tools to determine what the bad guys are trying to do, that's important.

I think that conversation has been going on, needs to continue going on.

In the end, we follow the law, whatever it is, regardless of our personal opinions.

If we didn't learn anything from these incidents, then shame on us.

I couldn't agree with you more. A lot of my colleagues have heard me talk when I was a member of the committee about finding that balance.

What was happening, there was the so-called stovepipe process. They weren't sharing information with each other the way that they should.

Our job is to provide the truth, and power goes to those people who are in a position to make those determinations, make policy, make corrections, make laws, et cetera.

It's my privilege on behalf of Pres. Trump to express the strong commitment of the United States to continued cooperation and partnership with the European Union.