leadership? that is a great place to turn after talk about iran. remember mention iran with a nuclear weapons program a country much bigger than the north koreans that would pose in a normative threat. the north koreans pose a real threat, they have a nuclear capability. we worked really hard trey we broke a lot of glass. the present to singapore and met with jeremy kim again at the board of the were not able to get them to give up a stick at wickham s stockpile pretty got them to give away nuclear testing and long range missile testing but it s not enough for this and off a lot of work to do. that country has been wracked with covid advertisement racked with enormous economic problems from bad weather and not enough rain. a drought inside the country. but make no mistake about it there still work work to do with respect to north korea. specifically keep going around the globe i have the former secretary of state and cia and house of intel. let s go to china.
house of intel. let s go to china. what are the prospects of us ever finding out the real origin of covid-19? and if you were sitting across the table from them, what leverage do we have two make them cooperate with an investigation? will traits going to be difficult with the commies chinese party does not wasn t happen. they began to cover-up at least by early january of 2020 for sure. someday there ll be some brave chinese person sneak out documents and paperwork with work from the lab. whatever it takes for us to know part i for myself and seen enough the most likely case it came from the laboratory in the chinese, sparta covered it up. they are conducting by weapons research that was really dangerous stuff. as far as i know that lab is still operating. and so we should, trey, it s your second question we should use every tool available and we have many.
break where people increasingly aren t watching commercials. what we have to do is make the public more resilient. we have to recognize that people lie, politicians lie, companies lie, people lie. we have a constitutional right in this country to lie. it s part of our freedom of speech. what we have to do is use journalism and education to make people smarter. i want to stay on freedom of speech. dillon, let s go to china. you and i talked about it yesterday, the standoff between the nba and china where adam silver defended the gm of the houston rockets for sending out a tweet on his personal account supporting hong kong and pro-democracy sentiment and china said absolutely no way. they ve now pulled tens of millions of sponsor dollars from the houston rockets. we know several events to be postponed in china right now where adam silver and the nba
pace in more than a decade. i think you re right to question softening growth here. hey, you look around the world. other western countries would love to be boasting about the kind of growth we re talking about here. it great news for americans. the risk, of course, is that the federal reserve decides to stamp on the brakes here and raise rates a little farther. and the other problem is trade and both of those are something that comes after the midterms. let s go to china. a couple days until midterms, the president say he talked to president xi by the phone and there are reports they were asked to prepare a draft trade agreement. the president denies it. what could be the reason for the sudden path to progress? what could be the reason, four days before the midterms? let s look at the progress here.
mention of north korea when he spoke earlier today at a summit. let s go to china. nbc kir si mons is there. what is the reaction to this test? i think everybody suspected that this test was coming. it was fairly widely known that the north koreas were preparing to carry out a sixth nuclear test. i think the optics are stunning to see the chinese president here in the city at the start of a major economic con presence and see president putin flying in for that and see their conference overshadowed by the test. that will deeply annoy them. the two leaders have made clear they re against u.s.