now you have the obama repeal and replace. we need to focus on these things. you have to choice to what you cover. i understand you have to cover this. i appreciate you covering the issue s that matter to the american people. julie: absolutely. we try. thank you very much for talking to us. appreciate it. we re gonna head back to the white house press briefing now. we are waiting for sarah huckabee sanders to come out, but let s listen to the secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin. it is one of the president s top priorities for economic growth. i think the people of america understand that. that we need economic growth and we re committed to doing that. i expect that healthcare hopefully will get done, but regardless, we are committed to gettings tax reform done. yet so many questions, i forgot your first one. let me follow up with you on tax reform, if you don t mind. paul line has said things are on track. why should the american public believe that things are actually on t
what happens withal assad in iran. they want a foot hold in that region. we can t allow them to do it. this team, they re focused on making sure they win not just the conflict tactically but strategically as well. julie: you talk about syria and the warning against assad. regarding the potential of them launching another chemical weapons attack against his own people. yeah. julie: does it look like we re making any leeway there? we made leeway in that our words matter. julie: it s about time. it s about time. this white house has restored that. julie: that s something nobody is talking about it. for the record, we actually talked about it. good developments this white house has brought to the world, making it more stable. julie: i d like to focus more on that. truly. thank you very much for coming in today. all right. that is gonna wrap it up for today. boy, what a big hour for us. of course, we have continuing coverage here on fox news
programs. you ve seen we ve used sanctions in other areas. we will continue to use these. so not withstanding anything congress passes, i can assure you this administration and the treasury department will use sanctions to the maximum amount available by law. we don t need congress to tell us to put on more. we re gonna do more whether they tell us or not. we have plenty of those on as well. again, thank you, everybody. pleasure to be here. thank you, mr. secretary. at the top of yesterday s briefing you heard from tom homan and john huber about how important the two immigration bills the white house will be voting on today are in our efforts to secure the border and protect our communities. this morning secretary kelly spoke about kate s law and the sanctuary for criminals act on the hill.
quite small, not even sure greece are necessarily going to use that. i think the significance was more a stamp of approval. again, there s no direct cost to the u.s. or the taxpayers. and we re supportive of the imf. although we re look at our contributions to the imf like we look at all contributions very carefully and making sure we re spending the taxpayers money properly. clarify which entities are being sanctioned. the paperwork sent out said shipping to chinese individuals, does not mention the bank of dandong. is it four toll entities? there s two different actions. there s a thin action against the bank of dandong and then there are the three sanctions as you pointed out. a relief from which part of the treasury? you will see. the loss will be released on the bank. communications in advance to
nuclear and ballistic missile programs. the united states will not stand for such action. this will require u.s. banks to ensure that the bank of dandong does not access the financial system directly or indirectly through other foreign banks. this action reaffirms the treasury department s commitment to ensure that north korea is cut off from the u.s. financial system. in addition, the department of treasury s office of foreign asset control hass sanctioned to individuals and one entity for their continued support of north korea s activities. while today s actions are directed at chinese individuals and entities, we look forward to continuing working closely with the government of china to stop illicit financing involving north korea. we are in no way targeting china