Antony Blinken: “I am grateful to the President for the privilege of this nomination and I am grateful to two past chairmen of this…”

We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.

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

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

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.