president is stunning. now, think of the near nonstop negative coverage trump s given by the regime media. so i m thinking to myself today imagine if this poll looked like if the press were even a smidge fair. in other new york times polling data spells doom for the democrats as well. in the generic ballot republicans now hold a four-point lead over democrats, that s a five-point swing towards the gop since september. it s devastating. and perhaps most significant and there s a lot of significant stuff in this poll, the biggest shift came from women who identifyed as independent in september they favored democrats by 14 points, now independent women backed republicans by 18 points. i thought that was a typo but it s not. and on top of that, almost two-thirds of americans believe we re going in the wrong direction. 64%. now, at this point, i think it s good to remember where things looked back in june and july after the court overturned rowe and liberals were really hopeful ev
she shinning pinning began the coronation that will launch a third and likely lifetime term. it took an event this level for the media to wake up to the reality of what this all could mean. the new york times admitting a decade ago many prominent hoped he would usher in openness and reform. today many believe he created a to tear tarn estate. and it all but carne fees an era of confrontation with the united states. it s not just the american media waking up something is happening inside china we haven t seen in decades. protesters are making bold criticisms of xi. go on strike at school and work remove national dictator and traitor another reading we want food not pcr we want freedoms not lockdowns. we want reform not a cultural
is far faster than we anticipated so the threat is much more needed to than probably we would have forecast two or three years ago. i think the idea that you re just going to negotiate with the north korean regime and they are somehow going to stand down on some of this, i think that s a fantasy. the fact is his nuclear arsenal is really the insurance policy to keep him in power. he is not going to stand down on that so you re really left with providing really serious pressure political, economic and military. i think you have to at a minimum have a credible threat of force but there s a lot we can do on the economic front that we haven t done. we ve done some sanctions but we haven t done things to say banks in china that lander money to north korea, so there are things we can do that the president could do that i think really would hurt and i think if you can starve kim s regime of the money then that makes his rule less secure but i think ultimate
really hit chinese banks that i think would make a big difference. trish: we ve only done one right? the treasury department only at the end of the day you have trish: sanctions on one. he s going to need to have a good relationship with the united states economically if he wants to continue his rule and i think there s decisions on that am dog up in the fall, so i think that would make a difference but we ve not really done that yet. trish: can i ask you why? what s taken so long? by the way china we haven t even talked about the intellectual property theft stealing 200 to $300 billion worth of our creativity every year from american companies. you talk about these sanctions on banks we ve only seen one bank sanctioned what s taking so long? well i think there was an interest by the secretary of state to try to engage in more diplomacy. i m not sure there s much of an opening for that at this point so i think we do immediate to engage in coercive measures economically po