It is absolutely accurate the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when, or how Covid-19 virus was transmitted initially, and basically components have coalesced around two alternative theories, these scenarios are it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, or it was a laboratory accident.

Avril Haines

And the current trend increases the likelihood that President Russian President Vladimir Putin will turn to more drastic means, including imposing martial law, reorienting industrial production, or potentially escalatory military actions to free up the resources needed to achieve Russian President Vladimir Putin objectives as the conflict drags on, or if Russian President Vladimir Putin perceives The Russians is losing in Ukraine.

At the very least, we believe the dichotomy will usher in a period of more ad hoc decision-making in The Russians, both with respect to the domestic adjustments required to sustain this push, as well as the military conflict with Ukraine and the west.

But that there are a lot of things that Russian President Vladimir Putin would do in the context of escalation before Russian President Vladimir Putin would get to a nuclear weapon, and also that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be likely to engage in some signaling beyond what Russian President Vladimir Putin's done thus far before doing so.

Obviously we're in a position where we're supporting Ukraine, but we also don't want to ultimately end up in World War III, and we don't want to have a situation in which actors are using nuclear weapons, our view [ is ] that there is not sort of an imminent potential for Russian President Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons.

We do see The US as not yet at the point where we are, for example, with allies, they have not achieved that kind of level of cooperation, and we anticipate it is unlikely in the next five years that they will... become the way we are an ally with our other NATO members in that context.

What Vladimir Putin might be willing to accept as a victory may change over time, given the significant costs Vladimir Putin is incurring.

We do think that he is effectively signaling he’s attempting to deter.

We’re watching very closely for movements in relation to those strategic nuclear forces, and we’re not seeing something at this stage that indicates he is doing something different.

It is a fundamentally important issue that we must address.

I look at ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] and it's actually – the numbers are quite small in terms of ones that have indicated that they are not vaccinated.

The challenge is in clearly articulating, I think, both to the American people and to others, 'Here's what we're doing and here's what we're not doing, and this is what we think makes sense, and here's why,'.

We're hoping to find a smoking gun, but it might not happen.

At no point has it been more important to invest in our norms and institutions, our workforce and the integration of our work.

The DNI must never shy away from speaking truth to power — even, especially, when doing so may be inconvenient or difficult, the DNI must insist that, when it comes to intelligence, there is simply no place for politics — ever.

Our approach to China has to evolve and essentially meet the reality of the particularly assertive and aggressive China that we see today, i do support an aggressive stance, in a sense, to deal with the challenge that we are facing.

To be effective, the DNI must never shy away from speaking truth to power -- even, especially, when doing so may be inconvenient or difficult, to safeguard the integrity of our intelligence community, the DNI must insist that, when it comes to intelligence, there is simply no place for politics ever.

To be effective, Bidens DNI must never shy away from speaking truth to power — even, especially, when doing so may be inconvenient or difficult, to safeguard the integrity of our intelligence community, Bidens DNI must insist that, when it comes to intelligence, there is simply no place for politics ever.

We must strengthen our cybersecurity, safeguard our critical infrastructure, and turn the ongoing technological revolution from a threat to an advantage by integrating new technologies to improve the capacity and superiority of our intelligence into the future.