US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has strongly condemned the recent Delhi car blast near Red Fort, calling it a 'clear terrorist attack.' He praised India’s 'very good' investigation, adding that New Delhi doesn’t need any outside help. Rubio also conveyed condolences to the victims while meeting EAM S. Jaishankar at the G7 summit.
00:00It clearly was a terrorist attack, and it was a car loaded with highly explosive materials that detonated.
00:05I think they're doing a very good job of carrying out an investigation, and I think when they have facts, they'll release those facts.
00:12There are reports, rather, that the UK is not sharing targeting.
00:16Yeah, a couple points. The United States, there's reasons why we have those assets in the region, and that is to collect intelligence, and we're actioning on that.
00:22Obviously, I won't go any deeper when it comes to intelligence matters.
00:24I did see a CNN report yesterday. I'm not going to go into great detail to say that it's a false story. It's a fake story.
00:32And what's happening now is people with a business card that has a government email on it become sources because they don't know.
00:37They're not even in the know, so they either have an agenda or they want to make themselves important.
00:40And it's been a plague of story after story that's either inaccurate or misleading, and that falls in the category of both that story does.
00:47Isn't your assessment that Russia does not really want peace?
00:50Well, we can only go by what we see. I mean, I think they've stated clearly what they want is they want the rest of Donetsk, and obviously the Ukrainians aren't going to agree to that.
00:59So what we see now is they continue long-range strikes into Ukraine, obviously to degrade their electrical grid and try to demoralize the country or what have you.
01:12And, you know, they've made some gains in Donetsk, and they're losing 7,000 soldiers a week, 7,000 dead soldiers a week from Russia's side.
01:20So as of now, I mean, that's the assessment we have to make.
01:23They've made a demand that Ukraine can't agree to, and so we're sort of where we are at this point.
01:28Mr. Secretary, I was told by the European representative on foreign policy, Kayakalas, that it was discussed, the Venezuela military operations were discussed.
01:41Not with me. No one raised it. I mean, no one in the meeting raised it.
01:45And it was raised in meetings?
01:47Not with me. They didn't raise it with me.
01:49They may have raised it among themselves, and they all came now from SEALAC or whatever they were at.
01:54But it didn't come up once in any of the gatherings that we had, either last night or today.
01:58And will the Saudis get a security deal that is better than the deal that Qatar previously got?
02:05Well, we're still working through all that.
02:07I mean, obviously, all that will be announced just prior to or during the visit.
02:10But we'll have some good agreements to sign with them.
02:13A lot of progress has been made since the president's visit there.
02:15So we're working through that. I feel good about where it's at.
02:17There's still a few things that need to be tightened up.
02:20Nothing has happened in this entire process that has impeded our ability to identify drug boats and strike them.
02:26Without getting into details on the, you mentioned the story.
02:29Without getting into details, you'd like details. Okay, go ahead.
02:31You mentioned the story the other day is fake news.
02:34It's a fake news.
02:34Has there been no change then in U.K. sharing of intelligence?
02:37We have very strong partnerships with the U.K. and other countries.
02:40Again, nothing has changed or happened that has impeded in any way our ability to do what we're doing,
02:45nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we're doing.
02:47In any realm, and that includes military.
02:50It clearly was a terrorist attack.
02:51It was a car loaded with highly explosive materials that detonated and killed a lot of people.
02:58But I think they're doing a very good job of carrying out an investigation.
03:02And I think when they have facts, they'll release those facts.
03:04But clearly, I mean, we're aware of the potential that it has.
03:08And so we spoke about that a little bit today, the potential that it has to become something broader.
03:13But I think we're going to wait to see what their investigation reveals.
03:16We've offered to help, but I think they're very capable in these investigations.
03:19They don't need our help, and they're doing a good job.
03:20But, yes, look, certainly there's some concern about events in the West Bank spilling over and creating an effect that could undermine what we're doing in Gaza.
03:27Because we don't expect it to, we'll do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen.
03:31All right, let's get out of here before they ground.
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