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china supplies something like 90, 100% of north korea s oil. clearly 100% of their jet fuel. basically beijing could throttle the regime. we have a lot of leverage on china if we re willing to sanction chinese banks that are participating in their commerce. that would rock the global system and tell beijing that we re serious about defending the american homeland. we haven t had the political well to do that. what trump was saying, that he was willing to do almost anything to push china in a better direction. gorden chang. great to talk to you. wish we had more time. thanks, shep. shepard: a showdown in the senate over president trump s pick to fill the empty supreme court seat. republicans do not have the votes to confirm neil gorsuch and our capitol hill team reports that gop leaders will probably use what they call the nuclear option to get that done. so what does this mean? for this and for going forward. that s coming up as we approach