Donald J. Trump

all these corrupt rural families.

You won't have any argument there from me about the corruption of the Gulf Emirates.

But President Trump is pretty adamant, kind of a break with traditional American foreign policy, that this was not, he's not in the business of rolling out democracy through the Middle East and even said other things about people have their own cultures and those cultures have to develop over time with their economics.

uh it's not that trump is a fan of hamas it's not that trump is going to invite hamas to the white house anytime soon but he'll deal with them he represents he knows that they represent a perspective that they have an armada of palestinians underneath them and uh that they need to be brought to the table too and you see you see time and again a desire to just work pragmatically with who is there um i would contrast that and again uh

you know he has uh sort of uh changed throughout his political career but netanyahu was a very close ally of the george w bush white house and what was the george w bush white house perspective regime change regime change regime change that is not trump's instinct in the slightest yeah hang on one second jack i know you got a bounce as we come upon the four o'clock four a.m eastern daylight time your thoughts sort of put this in perspective

Well, Steve, I think what the panel is saying here is right, that President Trump has come in and is repudiating both neoconservative and neoliberal camps here in terms of their schools of thought.

Notice he didn't do this using the infrastructure of the UN.

He didn't use the United States military to get involved in

any of the operations in Hamas or in Gaza regarding them, or perhaps some intel sharing.

But this was direct diplomacy and using economic strength.

And this is key because what do we see going on in the area is China is making a huge play for the newly reconstructed Syria to the north.

China's getting back to...

Aleppo and Palmyra, these classic historic cities that were hubs along the ancient Silk Road.

China is building its new Silk Road across the new Syria.

And so the United States is, of course, wanting to make sure they maintain relationships in the region as they look.

as those actors, Russia, China, now coming in as well.

So President Trump making a key point to understand that while the United States is putting its own interests first, it is not retreating from the rest of the world.

And so it's shoring up those relationships in the Middle East

And in fact, I would even say strengthening relationships with new partners because now you've got Qatar that is intrinsically – they are dependent on the United States now for their diplomatic efforts and Israel as well, quite frankly.

In their air base in Idaho.