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[applause] what i want to do very briefly is share with you some thoughts that are top of mind today for the fbi, and then i want to shut up and take questions bu but i will try to avoid answering from the great michael leiter. [laughing] and im determined not to make news for those of you who are following this. [laughing] first things, i want to talk very, very briefly about how the fbi is thinking about our Cyber Strategy can you hear me okay . How the fbi is thinking that our Cyber Strategy and that i want to talk about a unique challenge to all of her work in the form of ubiquitous strong...

Military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quorum is not present, but i asked committee to consider the 4,158 pending nominations, of these nominations, 503 nominations are two days short of the committees requirement. The nominations be in committee for seven days, i recommend the committee waive the sevenday rule to permit the nomination of these officers before the senate goes out for the october recess. Is there a motion to favorably report these 4,158 nominations to the senate . So moved. Is there a second . Second. All in favor...

I think there is something to that. The way i would summarize it would be to say the United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but the margins of our lead are contracting. And what that means in terms of policy is that big problems in the world cannot be solved without the United States, but the United States can no longer be solving them alone or be dictating to others exactly how they get solved. So the premium in these coming years for the United States, i think, as the leading power in the world, is going to be on Coalition Building and alliance management. When we thi...

The senate arm theed Services Committee that he didnt think they should be separate. This starts off with john mccain talking about military nominations. How are you, admiral . I would, since the quorum is not present, but we have pending military nominations, i would ask unanimous consent to waive the requirement for two more members to conduct the routine business for the 4,158 pending military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quorum is not present, but i asked committee to consider the 4,158 pending nominations, of these nominati...

Question, first. In terms of the input, my opinion the devil is always in the details. I would want to understand the specifics of what we are talking about. That is a good duck. It just doesnt crack. Lets move on, i want to ask you about the use of encrypted information by terrorist and criminals. The fbi director came before us and gave us stark testimony about going dark and how big the problem was. Did you believe the increased use of this kind of encryption and apps as you pointed out poses a National Security threat . Yes, maam, i am concerned the direction we are going, if we make no ch...