Dividing a strategy to keep donald trump from clinching the three primary states indiana, new mexico and oregon perpetrating is from indiana we are following this story takes for being with us. A flurry of the emails from all three campaigns. What is behind the strategy . This is a strategy out of desperation for ted cruz and john kasich. Theyre looking at the remaining primary map to see that their chance to stop donald trump from clinching the republican nomination outright may be quickly disappearing and what kasich and cruz have decided is not to run against each other with the other has a pretty good chance or better chance to beat trumps one on one so in indiana ted cruz effectively is in a oneonone race and kasich has said i will not go hard but then in exchange ted cruz has ceded in mexico and oregon and declaring a oneonone there that those states are favorable to his centric brand of politics and he stands a better chance to beat trollop of course, a course with trying to keep him under that magic number of 1237 delegates. Host we will know if this is effective as a strategy but is it too little too late for the cruz kasich campaigns . That is why appearing that even at ted cruz own rally today spoke to a woman who wondered out loud if it was too little too late. You can look at this many different ways. With the january or february but the field did start to think in having an arrangement where certain candidates basically did not bother in other states. If it doesnt work you will hear more why didnt this happen six weeks ago . Is an unusual and urgent arrangements. In recent history it is unusual in general for openness of a political race to come together. One thing that is important it fuels the argument that donald trump is making that the Party Establishment is going behind closed doors to steal this from me and when this is in play in view played you that adds fuel. Host that is wrynecks question because he is running the antiestablishment campaign and it seems to feed into that. It really does. Up until now complains mainly were centered on the arcade in process not something that people understand or political Reporters Police understand so only on those grounds to say were working together to take down donald trump to make easier for them to digest. Host account where the primary is don june 7th so how will this play out . According to the plan that cruz and kasich set in motion is a cruz victory with indiana that shows pretty close so that is far from assured that even after today. Then a series of lessons with new mexico and oregon and john kasich would with those you have a situation depending on california it could keep trump under that magic number so essentially you can have micro primaries to make that possible for the states to split their delegates so if they are successful then it is somewhere below not at 1227 the somewhere below 1200 were they can make the case with the support he needs for the nomination. You mentioned earlier how one woman talked about a response to this strategy but what do you hear from the staff and those attending the events . This will sharpen the line in indian and there has been anxiety there was of. Cruz ad that was launched so clearly his allies are worried. That with this development to say they won the race is the choice of they have more credibility but indiana is a must win even if they dont necessarily say that out loud that would be devastating to ted cruz next week. Host covering politics from the Washington Post thanks for being with us. Join the conversation on facebook you and twitter. That secretary will probably give our delegate votes to the next president of United States. [inaudible conversations] and. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] gear we go. A mower guest is James Clapper director of National Intelligence this is the first visit with our group thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule. In the Family Business his father was a career Army Intelligence officer he drew upon intensive farms all over the world and that his future wife pat and in than a farm in Northern Virginia has surprising her dad was also in the Central Intelligence business working at the nsa. Growing up he would listen to the Philadelphia Police department to track operations. [laughter] began his military career in the Marine Corps Reserve transport to the rotc program and was commissioned to the university of maryland. He saw service in vietnam with his daddy was also on duty and that combat missions he rose to become a threestar general before retiring from the military in 1995. After several years of executive positions turning to Government Service service as the national gsp shall undersecretary of defense for intelligence before being stored in as the Fourth National director of intelligence in 2010. Al on to the mechanics. Thanks to our underwriter Northrop Grumman no live blogging or tweeting or finding of any kind while the practice is under way to give us time to let the best says there is no embargo at 10 00 when it ends. We will either kill several pitchers to all reporters as soon as a breakfast ends. If youd like to ask a question send me a subtle signal i will happily call on as we have time available. Given the key interest it myself to one question and ask you restrain the urge of a multiparty series of as many reporters can talk to our guest. I will give him the opportunity to make opening comments then we will move around the table. The floor is yours. This is precedentsetting. I have 270 days left. [laughter] the new book the president s secret describes ms humorous focusing on the daily brief but not as interested as some predecessors to have discussions progressively who briefs the president power described the Intelligence Consumer and how they deal with the white house . I cannot be in comparison to any of their president because this is deal the one i have but with six Years Experience of president obama to be gracious and astute a faithful reader of the president s daily brief that in the past i know he does because of the references he makes that is supplemented by us session we have every day schedule permitting with additional briefing items that complement what is in the president s daily brief. I need each one has his own style and method of adjusting intelligence sodas president obama. That community is neglected. On the contrary with the oval office is the fact we have full range of interagency meetings from the National Security adviser that the president himself chairs the requires intelligence the nationalsecurity apparatus is driven by intelligence. So across the board that pervades the nationalsecurity apparatus. Where are you . [inaudible] clearly this is ongoing into military litigation handled in accordance with justice or a province should not comment specifically any espionage case by definition is serious. Asking about encryption Road Administration comply with those court orders . Are really can answer that the issue with encryption is people take those absolute positions i think were in the Intelligence Community that the director of the nsa has ben pretty consistent in support of encryption and somehow we need to find a balance. Of those technicalities or how we arrive there but that is characteristic of way to find to thread the needle with security in the context in that what we are still pursuing. So i will not take a position on the legislation for with the president said assuming the absolutist positions. Director i have the few more questions on the encryption issue. Former cia director has said that encryption is more of an issue for the lawenforcement community not the Intelligence Community. I cant hear. How much of the encryption and for the Intelligence Community nsa or cia and did day try to find fault abilities to help the fbi tracked . Elena speak to that latter point but i will tell you that that the snowden level revelations that the onset of encryption was accelerated by seven years and it has had and is having major profound effect to collect against terrorist. The most sophisticated by far user of the internet and the technologies that our available privately to end encryption. So that is a major inhibitor or plotting that is going on via others. With the growing availability with those of unbreakable encryption ins. Kristin . Talk about the 28 pages that are classified that was said on meet the press it could be several weeks before they could be declassified. Also what is going on right now or how much longer it might take. Can you talk about the speculation there is time from 9 11 . Back to the question. [laughter] or from under the bus, we are in the position of trying to coordinate interagency positions on the declassification of the 28 pages. That the white house told them that they hope to have it completed by june and i think that is a realistic goal. And i will just stand at that. First of all the current set up is, that building, that facility has one of the lowest Facility Condition indexes of any such facility in the Intelligence Community. Its very old. The building was historically preserved and goes back to the 40s. It has inadequate electrical and plumbing structure. Theres a Railroad Track behind it that we have no insight into whats in the Rolling Stock and its in the floodplain. Other than that its a good facility. To its credit, we did all it we could to sustain the building and the facilities and the quality of life for the employees there. It needs a new facility. Hes the director of nga and its his recommendation, because this process is not finished yet, his recommendation is that it be located in a site, another site in st. Louis. Obviously we knew from the getgo that one delegation or the other was going to be unhappy about this decisionmaking process. Since its not over yet, im not going to prejudice that one way or the other. I will simply say i have no basis for counter mandating his decision. Yes sir, given given your extensive background from a marine rifle man to a Lieutenant General of the air force and the head of the department and now director of National Intelligence. I know you dont aid into political matters, but giving your extensive background, im im wondering if you can tell us how important it is that there be a steady hand on the ship at state. Theres a lot of parties in the last several months and they all want to know about some of these candidates and whats going to happen to the United States. Their nervous and concerned. How does that affect your job . How relevant is it or doesnt it make any difference at all . Personally doesnt make a lot of difference to me because im out of here on the 20th of january 2017. Certainly you worry about rhetoric on the campaign trail. I think that history has been that once a president is inaugurated and his office and realizes the burden and response abilitys of the position, position, i think that has a tempering effect on anyone. I think it will here regardless of whos elected. The other, i would make, i am struck with how simple things are on the campaign trail and how those very same issues are very hard in the confines of the situation were in. Can you give us an example. Just about any example you want to name, there are far more complexities, policy policy and legal implications two things then would appear on the campaign trail. Im not going to sitespecific examples at risk of fingerpointing one candidate over another. Let me give you a sense of where were going next. We have several other individuals. Subtly, i know we we need to keep it short. This is just my a test as how, as an old man, i can remember names. [inaudible] they were asking for a public estimate. Some of them have asked for it before but they believe its possible and theyre okay with a onetime Privacy Concern that would arise from such an estimate. Is it possible for you to give an estimate to them and you plan to do so publicly before 2017 . First i have to say the surveillance act is to the nations safety and security, this tool is a terrific producer of critical intelligence this country. If we couldve made such an estimate and such an estimate were easy to do an explainable without compromise, we we would have done it a long time ago. We are looking at several options now, none of of which are optimum, they all have drawbacks. The irony is as we pointed out many times, to actually render an accurate number, we we have to be more invasive and identify more u. S. Persons then we were to come up with an active number. Many people find that unsatisfactory, but that is a fact. We are looking at this, we were before i got the letter. I read about in the media before i received it, and we are going to do our best. Any methodology we come up with will not be completely satisfactory to all parties. Whos next . Thank you very much. Thank you mr. Director for doing this. The question is this, is there any evidence that isis or al qaeda are planning any actions in the coming month that would influence the u. S. Elections, and do they have, are they encouraged in any way by trump as a candidate . I cannot point to any evidence that would indicate a preference on the part of isis as to who is elected in our election. Whether or not they might do something that could have a bearing on it, well they could in particularly if they do something in this country. That would obviously have some impact. It could certainly influence how people vote in the election. Earlier this month the president address some of the security concerns online saying that it had a victory demand on government. When it comes to that philosophy , what expectations should americans have for Online Privacy to receive proper security . I think they should have reassurance despite the media because of the many safeguards, oversight by all three branches of the government, aggressive oversight, that we are going to be as precise as we possibly can be in exploiting the internet for foreign intelligence purposes. I often long for the house to invade the cold war where we had two Telecommunication Systems so that if we collected against the one dominated by the soviet union, there was almost assurance that we were not going to collect information on u. S. Purses. With the advent of the internet, everything is interconnected. So all those billions of innocent transactions by millions and millions of innocent people are all mixed up with various activities by nefarious people. So the challenge for us in picking out the needles from the haystack, hundreds and thousands of haystacks without in any way jeopardizing the privacy of americans. Believe me, we go to and have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that those rights arent infringed upon. By by the way, all of us are american citizens and i certainly care about, as does everyone else of our own privacy as well. Mi alright from the the monitor . Tell me about the dangers of Cyber Security and the response to unbreakable encryption. You said youre not an it person, but how do you ask that, how do you make the decisions . I would hope, i place great hope and confidence in the tremendous ingenuity and creativity that we have in this country. This is one case where there needs to be a partnership between industry and the commercial sector and the government. I dont know what the answer is. I would hope that the companies would devote some serious effort in terms of research, development and other alternative methods by which we can continue to safeguard the Security Privacy private security of people as well as ensuring the Public Security of this country. Do you feel we need unbreakable encryption for any reason . You mean impossible to break and its ensuring that the terrorist get a pass . Is that what youre asking . You probably know more about the definition than i do. Well in the history of mankind, since we been doing intelligence, ultimately theres no such thing, given proper time and application and the application technology. So again, i think your question gets back, and ill just answer it and repeat what the president said about people assuming absolute positions which is not helpful. Earlier this year north korea submitted underground testing for a Hydrogen Bomb. They suggest it was probably not a Hydrogen Bomb. Some people suggested it might have been a boosted bomb, a bomb that has characteristics similar to a Hydrogen Bomb. It would suggest a improvement in capability. Is korea on the road to creating a Hydrogen Bomb in the next five years . I cant say that. I will say aspirational he, the current regime in north korea which is one guy is very determined to portray to the world that north korea is in fact a Nuclear Power and he wants recognition of that. So despite some of the failures that they have recently incurred, they will, in, in my view, continue to press on to develop Nuclear Capabilities which i think probably, ultimately aspirational he would include hydrogen capability, but i certainly certainly cant describe a timeline. Wheres the Intell