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Speaker 1: Welcome to the buck brief. Let's talk about the upcoming

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Speaker 1: ban of TikTok for a second. Here there could be

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Speaker 1: according the Washing Post here to save TikTok from the

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Speaker 1: ban under US law. He's exploring quote unconventional ways to

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Speaker 1: saying it will help him reach an adoring audience throughout

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Speaker 1: his second term. So I'm not alone here. I like TikTok.

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Speaker 1: I think it is a very good content platform. And

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Speaker 1: I don't even really post on TikTok. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: should change. Well might get shut down a few days.

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Speaker 1: This is, I think, an opportunity because all that we

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Speaker 1: millions of Americans. Right, that should be pretty easy to do.

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Speaker 1: TikTok says it's already effectively done, and that there really

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Speaker 1: app that is TikTok is overblown. I keep saying this,

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Speaker 1: of TikTok meta meaning Facebook, Instagram, Google or alphabet and

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Speaker 1: a lot of members of the Senate and the House,

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Speaker 1: for example, who get money from these companies, and even

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Speaker 1: more than that, know that there's a tremendous amount of

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Speaker 1: skew the conversation. So here's what the Post is reporting

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Speaker 1: on this. Back to TikTok. Trump is in mulling waste

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Speaker 1: including an executive order that could unravel the Biden administration's

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Speaker 1: nationwide ban of the app. Now scheduled for Sunday. He's

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Speaker 1: expressed a keen interest in being seen as rescuing a

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Speaker 1: platform on which he's told he's widely admired. Look, a

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Speaker 1: great way for TikTok to be saved is by Trump.

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Speaker 1: It's for Trump to feel like a lot of maga

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Speaker 1: people are on TikTok and they love Trump. He has

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Speaker 1: a fourteen million follower TikTok account, and Trump said I

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Speaker 1: I agree with him, and I think that that's something

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Speaker 1: that shouldn't be forgotten here. I think that this is

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Speaker 1: a company that, especially now, was probably willing to listen

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Speaker 1: platform that allows more commentary. Look at it under COVID,

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Speaker 1: it was bad. I got shut down. I tried to

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Speaker 1: start posting on TikTok under COVID. It was bad. They

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Speaker 1: were not helping me at all. They shut me down,

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Speaker 1: and I got strikes and everything else. So there's still

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Speaker 1: there's woke mind virus at TikTok, but that's American base.

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Speaker 1: That's not a Chinese problem. So the Chinese are not

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Speaker 1: creating the woke mind virus and putting it on TikTok.

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Speaker 1: It is American employees of the company who are doing that.

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Speaker 1: So I remember, Biden is the one who signed this

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Speaker 1: law that says that the app's owner, Byte Dance out

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Speaker 1: an immediate ban Supreme courts letting this proceed. So it

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Speaker 1: TikTok chief Shoozi Chew in Singapore flew tomorrow lago in

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Speaker 1: the platform. And you know, look, I think there are

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Speaker 1: not be banned if it's foreign owner executes a qualified divestiture,

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Speaker 1: which is a type of transaction that gives the president

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Speaker 1: broadly way to define it. Look, I think that having

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Speaker 1: another really good option. Bloomberg said that Chinese government officials

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Speaker 1: had discussed Elon Musk buying it, but TikTok has rejected

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Speaker 1: But I also think that there's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: I don't have a lot on the confirmation herea with

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Speaker 2: Senator Herona, I wish you had met with me. Had

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Speaker 2: But what we would have discussed is that it is

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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing how they want us to forget about

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Speaker 1: what they've done and their role in all of this

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Speaker 1: of the pure weaponization, an unconstitutional appointment of a special

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Speaker 1: counsel to go after someone who's a political rival. What

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Speaker 1: greater abuse of the DOJ can you really think of

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Speaker 1: what you just saw the Bided administration engage in. And

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Speaker 1: go after Liz Cheney. Pembony's not going to fabricate some

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Speaker 1: what it was turned into under Biden. The way that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna call it a buck brief here more tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Shields High