Antony Blinken: “I could not agree with you more. I think this is among the top, if not the top challenges that we face.”

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 have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

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 need for U.S. global leadership--and cooperation with allies and partners--has never been greater.