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Russia and china signed on to last month's sanctions and while both governments condemned north korea's luke nuclear test, neither government allows willing to have additional sections. if so they can pressure north korea with sanctions outside appearing earlier this morning treasury secretary into to the u.s. is considering that option. >> i'm going to draft a sanctions practiced package to send to the president for strong consideration. anybody wants to do trade or business with them would be prevented from doing trade or business with us. will work with our allies, with china, but people ne...

Congress to deny kim jong-un and the cash needed. what can congress do? you have a lot on your plate. what could get done? >> i think we would pass additional sanctions if the president asked us. but he already has the authority to turn to china and say either you do business with north korea or the united states, but not both. that would mean were going to eyeball to eyeball with beijing. he would have to be able to unite the american people, something he hasn't been able to do. the best way to pacify the american people is to sound tough and just sanction a few individual companies. that won...

Inexplicably. there was another threat the president made say he is considering stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. that was talking about china who is north korea's biggest trading partner and ours too. $650 billion of trade with china in the year. that seems to be pretty unrealistic. there is room for more sanctions but stopping all trade with china? >> china has been a huge proble problem. >> absolutely. >> 90% of north korea's trade is with china. they do these piecemeal things. if we care about keeping, constraining them, we have to do secondary sections a...

Trim package to send to the present first on consideration. anybody who wants to do traitor business with them would be prevented from doing trade or business with us. will work with our allies, with china, the people need to cut off north korea economically. this is unacceptable behavior. >> looks like it'll be the united nations security council and nikki haley has called for an emergency meeting for 10:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. >> molly: you're a truly remarkable day. as john mentioned, un ambassador, nikki haley called for the emergency security council meeting first thing on monday mor...

Administration is actually going to respond to this administration. >> seema, to you now, the president tweeted this morning the united states is considering in addition to other options stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. of course, that means china. that's not going anywhere, is it? >> no, of course not. the united states and china, i think we do hundreds of billions in trade every year. if we were to cut off trade with china, our economy would be in turmoil, the global economy would be in turmoil. i think the comments from steve mnuchin later in partnering w...