important to you for a long time. we discussed it in our meeting. as we discussed then, i think this is one of the most difficult issues facing the country. there's a balance, obviously, that has to be struck between the importance of encryption, which i think we can all respect, when there's so many threats to our systems and the importance of giving law enforcement tools they immediate to keep us safe. i don't know as an outsider and nominee before this committee what the solution is. i do know we have to find a solution and my experience in trying to find solutions is that it's more productive for people to work together than to be pointing fingers blaming each other. that's the approach i have tried to take to almost every problem i have tackled. that's the approach i would want to take here in working with this committee, with the private sector. one advantage having been in the private sector is that i think i know how to talk to the private sector. i would look for ways to try to