Antony Blinken: “I believe strongly in Congress' traditional role as a partner in foreign policymaking.”

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 will make, as we have, other arrangements in other places to make sure that we can conduct the necessary missions to ensure our security.

We have done and we will continue to do everything we can to, if we can do it, develop the information and share the information.

We can use these instruments to facilitate the private sector playing the role.