Antony Blinken: “the State Department needs a workforce that is representative of the United States of America and an organizational…”

I can't go into the details of our conversations today except to say that our Egyptian counterparts were in communication with Hamas as early, as recently as a few hours ago.

Where we are our now is not in a good place. What we've seen in the last weeks and months is Iran is actually moving forward with this program.

In an era of renewed great power competition we must present the strongest possible offer.

Because of the actions we have taken the United States is stronger economically, diplomatically, and militarily than we were 3 years ago.