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Matt Terrill: Former Chief of Staff for Marco Rubio says there is still more work to be done for peace in the Middle East · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A big peace summit underway in Egypt, hostages released, Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: prisoners handed over. So far, so good. Here's Trump addressing
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  Speaker 1: is Rael's parliament today. This guy's are calm, the guns
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  Speaker 1: are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises
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  Speaker 1: on a holy land that is finally at peace. Right
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  Speaker 1: Joining us this morning is Matt Tyrell, former chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff for Marco Rubio's twenty sixteen presidential campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Met.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good to have you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be with you, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I know that the photo ops are happening. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of grip and grinning going on. But is it
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  Speaker 1: too early to say this is a peace deal?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I think this is a piece deal. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: more work needs to be done. But the first step
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  Speaker 2: and getting to this piece deal was getting these hostages home,
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  Speaker 2: and it's great to see that happen here. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a really an amazing thing to watch. The first
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  Speaker 2: step to full peace in the region, really in terms
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  Speaker 2: of end of this war as well, was getting these
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  Speaker 2: hostages home. Obviously, more work needs to be done, but
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing President Trump already underway. And the bigger element
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  Speaker 2: of this is that this isn't just President Trump doing this. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: this would not be done, it would not be achieved
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  Speaker 2: without President Trump. What he's done has been brilliant. He
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  Speaker 2: put together a coalition of Arab and Muslim countries, for example,
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  Speaker 2: to come to the table, put pressure on Hamas and
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  Speaker 2: help make this happen. But ultimately, if it was of
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  Speaker 2: a President Trump's leadership, this would not be happening. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: you have a I think a great opportunity here to
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  Speaker 2: the forge lasting piece. But this is a piece deal.
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  Speaker 2: More work needs to be done, but a great dating
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  Speaker 2: thesag is home.
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  Speaker 1: There is a lot of talk this morning about who's
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  Speaker 1: gets the credit that kind of thing. How's it playing
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  Speaker 1: out in the media in America? Are they, you know,
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  Speaker 1: are those more left wing outlets happy to say this
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  Speaker 1: is down to Trump and congratulations mister President.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, you're even seeing Secretary former Secretary of State
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  Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris praise President
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  Speaker 2: Trump in terms of what he's accomplished here. I think
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  Speaker 2: Republicans and Democrats are like recognize that this was a
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  Speaker 2: major challenge and look, throughout my lifetime, I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: peace in the Middle East and you're seeing it now
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  Speaker 2: today with the return of these hostages. And what you've
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  Speaker 2: seen here is that this didn't happen overnight. You know,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump has been working on this for months, and
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  Speaker 2: even in his first term with the Abraham Accords, you
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  Speaker 2: saw him making progress and trying to get peace in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. But ultimately we saw on his second
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  Speaker 2: term here was him go to the Middle East and
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  Speaker 2: meet with leaders in Saudi Arabia, guitar the UAE. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's had relationships in the region but also also worldwide,
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  Speaker 2: and you're seeing those leaders today in Egypt shaking hands
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  Speaker 2: with the President Trump, you know, taking pictures with President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: This was a brilliant move by the president. He put
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  Speaker 2: together an effective coalition of world leaders to come together.
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  Speaker 2: Par took me those world leaders in neighboring countries to
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  Speaker 2: put the necessary pressure on Hamas and to help make
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  Speaker 2: this day happen. But it started with President Trump making
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  Speaker 2: these relationships happen. And it comes down and relationships. You know,
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  Speaker 2: negotiation is about relationships. And President Trump has strong relationships
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  Speaker 2: with these Arab and Muslim world leaders, strong relationships with
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  Speaker 2: leaders around the world. That on top of that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the bombing on Iran. You know that that was instrumental
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  Speaker 2: in helping you get here. So it's been a multipart
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  Speaker 2: pron approach by President Trump. The credit goes to him,
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  Speaker 2: the Secretary of Rubio, Steve Wickoff, Jared Kushner, Evanka Trump,
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  Speaker 2: but with so many other people within President Trump's administration
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  Speaker 2: who helped make this happen. It's been a team effort.
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  Speaker 2: But again I go back to only one world leader,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, could have gotten this done, and that
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  Speaker 2: world leader's name is President Donald J. Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, Matt. Matt Terrell, who's fullmer chief stopped
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