weapons. i think the meeting between president trump and president xi was consequential. they now realize the threat north korea with nuclear weapons can provide to china itself and the role china can play. china will do what they believe is best for them. what the role china can play is sanctioning north korea in a bigger way than we can do it. 85% of the economy of north korea is directly linked to china in terms of china buying coal from north korea and china supplies oil to north korea. so china can play a consequential role in the decisions being made in north korea. >> shannon: one of your senate colleagues, senator marco rubio talked days ago about this saying the people of north korea, there are millions of people suffering and living in substandard conditions. they're already suffering horrible economic situations. and that the government is funneling a lot of funds into