Antony Blinken: “I am of the belief that the GEC needs to take a primary, rather than secondary role when it comes to the way in which we…”

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 are working to do that. Obviously, in the countries that have been on the receiving end of coups, there are some limits that we have to abide by.

There is no question that countries around the world prefer to work with us.

We see, I think this committee sees, corruption as being one of the most poisonous things that undermines democracies.