Antony Blinken: “Your State Department on the morning of October 7 sent out a tweet telling Israel not to engage in military retaliation.”

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

Today, Secretary Blinken said that, now, they mostly want to see is 'people being able to return their homes.'

The response we got was unfortunately not the yes that we were looking for. A yes that virtually the entire world has given.