U.S. has made contact with Syrian rebel group, Blinken says

American officials have been in direct contact with the terrorist-designated rebel group that led the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. Blinken was the first U.S. official to publicly confirm contacts between the Biden administration and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS. LiveNOW's Andrew Craft spoke about about the latest in Syria with Joe Truzman from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

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