Antony Blinken: “This Administration will not support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Bashar al-Assad.”

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.

We need to keep up this momentum. That requires a State Department budget that we fully resource.

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.

If Israel launches a major military operation into Rafah then there are systems we are not going to be supporting and supplying for that operation.