When you look at difficulties that we know that they are having with respect to the transport, with respect to the extraction, I think it's fair to say they are no longer able to make money the way they used to be able to, (IS) has cut salaries to its fighters in Raqqa by up to 50 percent.

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The number that we had been giving previously until about early this year was $500 million a year off of oil sales. I think they're substantially less than that now, i think they probably make about half of what they previously made.

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That prevents them from taxing, it also prevents them from profiting from oil sales because I think the vast majority of their oil profits are from oil sold internally within ISIL-controlled territory.

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We could target any North Korean government agency; we could target any North Korean government official ... we could apply sanctions with respect to any individual or entity who is providing them, in turn, material support.

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