Antony Blinken: “The administration continues to stress that Lebanon needs a president free of corruption.”

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

It is vital that we provide a better choice, and we do that by doing a few things.

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 assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.