Antony Blinken: “The paramount goal is to get the hostages back.”

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.

The bottom line is this: We want Ukraine to win.

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.

The U.S. government was concerned Beijing was considering augmenting its support for Russia with 'everything from ammunition to the weapons themselves.'