Antony Blinken: “What they most fear about us is our network of allies, because they do not really have them.”

In the Middle East, we're standing with Israel in its efforts to ensure what happened on October 7th never happens again.

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

That statement is incorrect.

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.