00:00There are reports, rather, that the UK is not sharing targeting intelligence.
00:09Yeah, a couple points. The United States, there's reasons why we have those assets in the region,
00:12and that is to collect intelligence, and we're actioning on that.
00:15Obviously, I won't go any deeper when it comes to intelligence matters.
00:18I did see a CNN report yesterday. I'm not going to go into great detail than to say that it's a false story.
00:23It's a fake story. And what's happening now is people with a business card that has a government email on it
00:28to become sources because they don't know, they're not even in the know.
00:31So they either have an agenda or they want to make themselves important.
00:34And it's been a plague of story after story that's either inaccurate or misleading,
00:38and that falls in the category of both that story does.
00:40Isn't your assessment that Russia does not really want peace?
00:44Well, 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,
00:50and obviously the Ukrainians aren't going to agree to that.
00:53So what we see now is they continue long-range strikes into Ukraine,
00:57obviously to degrade their electrical grid and try to, you know, demoralize the country or what have you.
01:06And, you know, they've made some gains in Donetsk, and they're losing 7,000 soldiers a week,
01:107,000 dead soldiers a week from Russia's side.
01:14So as of now, I mean, that's the assessment we have to make.
01:16They've made a demand that Ukraine can't agree to, and so we're sort of where we are at this point.
01:21Mr. Secretary, I was told by the European representative on foreign policy, Kayakalas,
01:30that it was discussed, the Venezuela military operations were discussed.
01:35Not with me.
01:36No one raised it. I mean, no one in the meeting raised it.
01:39It was raised in meetings.
01:40Not with me. They didn't raise it with me.
01:43They may have raised it among themselves, and they all came now from SEALAC or whatever they were at.
01:48But it didn't come up once in any of the gatherings that we had, either last night or today.
01:52And will the Saudis get a security deal that is better than the deal that Qatar previously got?
01:59Well, we're still working through all that.
02:00I mean, obviously, all that will be announced just prior to or during the visit.
02:04But we'll have some good agreements to sign with them.
02:07A lot of progress has been made since the president's visit there.
02:09So we're working through that.
02:10I feel good about where it's at.
02:11There's still a few things that need to be tightened up.
02:14Nothing has happened in this entire process that has impeded our ability to identify drug boats and strike them.
02:20Without getting into details on the, you mentioned the story.
02:23Without getting into details, you'd like details.
02:25Okay, go ahead.
02:25You mentioned the story the other day is fake news.
02:28It's a fake news.
02:28Has there been no change then in U.K. sharing of intelligence?
02:32We have very strong partnerships with the U.K. and other countries.
02:34Again, nothing has changed or happened that has impeded in any way our ability to do what we're doing,
02:39nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we're doing in any realm, and that includes military.
02:44It clearly was a terrorist attack.
02:46It was a car loaded with highly explosive materials that detonated and killed a lot of people.
02:51But I 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.
02:59But clearly, I mean, we're aware of the potential that it has, and so we spoke about that a little bit today, the potential that it has to become something broader.
03:06But I think we're going to wait to see what their investigation reveals.
03:10We've offered to help, but I think they're very capable in these investigations.
03:13They don't need our help, and they're doing a good job.
03:15But, 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.
03:22We don't expect it to.
03:23We'll do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen.
03:26All right, let's get out of here before they ground it.
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