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With that, mike, i'm certain that with your experience specifically with your involvement in the house select committee, benghazi, you understand how valuable intelligence can be to oversight. if asked by the committee, will you provide the raw intelligence and sourcing behind agency finished products and assessments if, in fact, this committee needs it to complete its job? >> it senator, i have been on the other side of this and i know how central it is to make sure you have all that you need to perform at your oversight function four intelligence collection activities and all the agency does...

Not longer. as you look at all of that, in your personal opinion, is vladimir putin and the russians looking at all of this and saying, we have done a really good job of creating chaos, division, instability in the american political process? >> senator, you put a lot into that but let me try to unpack it just a touch. i certainly want to make sure i talk only about my observations and judgments based on unclassified information, but i have no doubt that the discourse that has been taking place is something that vladimir putin would look at and say, wow, that was among the objectives that i ha...

Of time talking about how we handle encrypted devices for americans and for encryption here in the united states. my effort will be to understand it more fully, to make sure that i understand its impact on my role to keep america safe. and to work alongside you to develop a set of policies that achieve that goal while still achieving all of the goals that we have here in america. >> and spending some time in the house intelligence, seeing the relationship between the dni and the cia, what do you think you can do to advance the ability of the dni to do their originally stated job of coordinatin...

Using subpoena power, classified evidence, as well as open source information. and it ought to be as quick as possible. >> so you think it should look at the conduct and the motive, but not the financial questions? >> the financial question is a subject that ought to be investigated, but perhaps not as a part of this particular investigation. the reason is that we're talking here about criminality on the part of russia and the need for a better policy to deter and defend against this kind of cyberattack in the future. right now, our policies on cyberattack are quite bluntly, very lacking and f...

>> well, it's the u.s. and the western and the rest of the world's response. ukrainian officials have constantly said they want to see the world talk with a united voice, one voice to president putin because it is absolutely clear that president putin has significant influence over those separatist rebels or at the very least, and at the very least significant influence over his own military closing that border. so what has happened over the last weekend is that many of the european leaders have spoken to him in no uncertain terms, echoing what secretary of state has said, that this is a momen...