by for just a minute we have there's an inker fessor cutter university's center for gulf studies juan cole is here in the studio with me on set to talk about to talk about donald trump and the speech we're going to ascertain we'll come right back to you in just a moment standing by live in dallas present all thank you very much for joining us so is james was laying out there there are various world gray mess with many countries some of which donald trump wants to be part that he doesn't but. even when he pulls out of these things there are approximately ten eleven current world agreements that everybody else is moving forward with while the us is not can can it be america first as he says if you're not actually participating in these things no of course not trumps the discourse on economics is very confused and self-contradictory on the one hand he's actually a globalist in many ways and fortunately professor pause as you can see right here donald trump has just taken the microphone. for many many years to discuss how we can advance prosperity security and peace i'm here today to represent

turkey and syria on turkey's expanded campaign in the north of syria in fact we can now speak to juan cole who's a professor of history at the university of michigan who's joining us here on set in doha good to see you again thanks for joining us so let's look at this operation that's going on in the north of syria turkey saying that it will not stop until its stablished a security zone along the border than whites and will they be able to do so. well probably they can establish a security zone in the sense that they will chase out the y.p. g. forces the people's protection units of the kurdish militia from anywhere nearby the turkish border on the syrian side but their long term goal is unknown and it's a little big as to why they've launched this operation it came after the united states the trump administration announced that it wanted to establish its thirty thousand strong police force that would be armed and equipped by the united states and it seems possible that this is turkey's way of pressuring the united states the same what do you make of the u.s. is reaction so far to what is

so i don't know if you heard just a moment ago juan cole said that he thought that that he was relatively even handed particularly for how unpredictable donald trump could be is that how it seemed to play to you and to others there. yes so i think that is how it will be seen and perhaps most importantly in the white house by the white house officials we're just outside the hole where the speech ended a short time ago we had the secretary of state to listen come past rex tillerson and see the minutia in the treasury secretary both said it was an excellent speech a short sort of short time ago the president leaving departing this trip on marine one flying over our heads and the white house will be pleased with the way this went this was president trump in scripted form staying on the also key to staying with the script and the script that clearly being the work not just of the president but key members of his chief from trying to send the america first message but in a way that will be acceptable here. most of the other leaders we've heard from this week the political and business leaders t