By Brett H. McGurk, CNN (CNN) — Secure rooms in the US Capitol are cavernous compared to the White House Situation Room. They are designed for full committees or larger gatherings, not intimate discussions. On Nov. 20, 2024, Jake Sullivan and I had gone to one of those rooms to brief our successors two weeks
It's been almost a year since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Brett McGurk, Biden's former top Middle East adviser and hostage negotiator, described in his book Brink how the negotiations reopened after months of deadlock, and how Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff also participated in it.