Matt Bradley

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417 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Sep

Matt Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Here's the Scoop · U.S., Israel and Hamas At Odds Over Disarmament Deal, Nancy Guthrie Notes · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And like you said, Yasmin, exactly as you described, it might have worked before, but it's not working now.

And all the parties involved know that they don't have to do that this time.

Well, there's this points that were laid out right by the Board of Peace, which, by the way, is an almost moribund administrative body.

It has no teeth.

It has no money, as we know from the Financial Times reporting a couple of months ago.

So there's nothing behind it.

But they released some bullet points describing the process by which this would happen.

But then again, as with everything else.

that we've seen from the Trump administration, from the Iran MOU to the October 2025 ceasefire.

It takes the big prize up front, and then it kicks the rest of the details, the can, down the road.

And that means that negotiators have to actually come up with the details, and that is, well, as they say, it's where the devil is.

Again, I want to file this under what I just described, the Kevin Costner school of build it and they will come, you know.

But as you noted, Yasmin, that just isn't the case anymore.

It might have been the case back earlier on in his term when everybody was grateful to have this new voice who was bursting through the walls and changing the paradigm and

Now, unlike before, when President Trump was new in his second term, now they don't have that feeling that maybe this is new.

Now it's old.

The habits are old.

The build-it-and-they-will-come didn't work.

And now everybody knows better.

And so they're not going to be quite as conciliatory to that really, really ramming-it-through kind of approach that has just led to constant misunderstandings and failure and, frankly—

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