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I believe it is critical to ensure that contractors are not performing inherently governmental functions.

I believe that illicit financing is one of the critical transnational organized crime issues that we need to face.

The concern about efforts from foreign adversaries to ultimately exacerbate divisions that exist in the United States

I particularly appreciate your holding this hearing today in the light of the searing events of the last two weeks.

There are going to be moments when you--in your analysis--your agency's analysis is going to differ from the policy proclivities of the Administration.

We are expected to produce apolitical, unvarnished intelligence to the President-elect.

Over-classification and the classification system generally has been a perennial issue I have found in government in my experience, and one that does require some work.

The fact that you have not allowed those events to interrupt the work of the Committee on behalf of the American people...

This is a grave risk to our Government systems, to our critical infrastructure, to the private sector across a range of things.

He expects that the Intelligence Community will provide him with a political truth-to-power analysis.

I am also very grateful to Senator Coats for his kind introduction, for his extraordinary service, and for his wise counsel...

I am absolutely committed to this, and I know many of you have spoken on this issue with eloquence and passion.

It's an honor to be here before you today as the President-elect's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence.

I absolutely will follow the law.

I would say do not--do not come.

You can`t -- you know, this is a majestic power of the president. It`s a noble thing that Madison and others put into the Constitution about mercy. And it`s emblematic of the Trump presidency. He takes this noble thing and he perverts it…

The pardon power was put in the Constitution. It`s a kind of majestic thing, and presidents normally use it to wield mercy, to show there`s a problem with some sort of criminal conviction.

What these are going to require though is not simply, did you let someone in and didn't know? But did you have some sort of mens rea, specific intent to try to help these folks?