reporting from germany and the president s trip to the g 20. thank you john. with more on this we have rick - from advisor to for us ambassadors to the year. thank you so much for talking to us. i want to talk about the meeting with china s president. the first time that you met. president trump seemed rather optimistic but the two countries working together to put a stop to north korea s nuclear program but then last week north korea test launched a missile not previously seen by the us analysts. certainly a strong message. what happened between that so-called you know, conversation that the president had with china s president? well, not enough has happened. what we need to be able to do is really grab the chinese attention. we have not really implemented really a tough sanctions such as banking sanctions. i think that would, if we could do banking sanctions, on china for you know really all of the companies that are, chinese companies doing business with
i would suggest that we put very tough sanctions, go after banking sanctions immediately, with any country that is doing business with north korea. that would grab the country s attention, and the calculus will be different. leland: as you pointed out, you make it clear that the decision to do business is a decision to not do business with america. that would be a big change in u.s. foreign policy. i appreciate your time. enjoy the rest of your for the joy. thank you. molly: president trump promised to make america s voting system was free of fraud, but so far, dozens of states are ignoring requests from the government looking into this problem. why? congress is out for the holiday, but there is no break in the battle for health care. what are the options now being considered? we will discuss. (hard exhalation) honey? can we do this tomorrow?
comes to the diplomatic maneuverings. we haven t yet put in serious sanctions on any country that is doing business with north korea. that includes china. they are banking sanctions. their oil sanctions with other countries involved. we are giving foreign aid to some countries in africa, who continue to do business with north korea. there s a whole bunch on the table if we calculate that this is a serious threat. if we do calculate it, then we should take serious action. leland: nu laid out why it is. recent polling shows, 56% of americans say, the president is not being tough enough i north korea. you just laid out a number of viable options that the president can order essentially unilaterally when it comes to the sanctions. why has it not taken them, and what is holding him back now? first look, if if we were going
contributor. the question is, what will the consequences be? i agree with the previous speaker and the assistant secretary, that china has to do more. a moral argument to china is not going to cut it, that has been the problem. channel does a $2.5 billion in trade with the north koreans. that is 90% of the north koreans economy. this is a serious situation, we need to do what the top two diplomatic maneuvers are, which are sanctioned either oil or banking sanctions. banking sanctions will get china s attention immediately. we don t need to make a moral argument, we need to tell china that if they don t start changing the behavior inside north korea, we are going to implement banking sanctions, that will get their attention pretty fast.
country that gets this. the missile defense system, china is unhappy about that. in terms of sanctions, if we rank up the sensation in north korea, china won t be happy with that and have an impact on china and to do increased banking sanctions would in many ways be catastrophic. last week, the yun sentence a council resolution to contest it done by north korea. china didn t abstain that. i couldn t see why we re putting all our eggs in a basket on china. i don t see them stepping up until something else happens.