I share your concerns that we run the risk of not using the authorities in a way that is important in keeping America safe if folks are afraid that there will be political retribution.

I've seen nothing to cast any doubt on the findings in the report.

My effort will be to understand it more fully, to make sure that I understand its impact on my role to keep America safe.

I have no doubt that the discourse that's been taking place is something that Vladimir Putin would look at and say: Wow, that was among the objectives that I had, to sow doubt among the American political community, to suggest somehow that…

Those who serve in or in support of the clandestine service deserve our gratitude and our highest respect.

I haven't seen the bad morale as you have described it.

It is very important that America, all of government, develop a policy with respect to this, and I promise I'll work alongside you to help develop such a policy with good intelligence.

I agree with you that that work has been good and robust and that intelligence I think is important to policymakers as they make decisions.

The nuclear powers are the ones that have the biggest threat to do catastrophic harm to the United States.

I do. I think that's incredibly important.

It is not lawful to outsource that which we cannot do.

So as you develop policies around encryption, you have my assurance that I'll always direct the people who work for me to comply with the law with respect to private communications.