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china, tiktok is on the chopping block at least on federal government-owned devices. president biden is giving agencies 30 days to bar the chinese-owned app. jacqui: some republicans say the president is not going far enough, a bill to grant the president the power to ban it nationwide. plus, congressman michael waltz on the big picture china threat. john: we kick things off with peter doocy and peter, is the white house going to stop promoting the president s platform on tiktok? not yet, john. they do, white house officials do see a national security issue with tiktok, but they also see a lot of eyeballs. so look, as i mentioned before, the white house clearly does not does not use tiktok, but we believe in meeting the american people where they are and the reality is many of them,
millions of them are on this app. so we engage with people who are using their own platforms. tiktok s line about this reads, the ban of tiktok on federal devices was passed in december without any deliberation and unfortunately that approach has served as a blueprint for other world governments. these bans are little more than political theater. but democrats and republicans say there is way more to this than politics. so i don t understand why if we deem it s not it s dangerous enough to be taken off of our phones in congress, why the democrats would want to allow it to take place on our children s phones. that s primarily who uses tiktok. our children. republicans and democrats are raising concerns about tiktok. it will be very interesting to hear when president biden gets out of this closed door lunch with democrats on capitol hill
being with us. there are couples that started off their marriage perfectly happy but end up getting divorced, and maybe this is one of those cases. jacqui: china has been surprisingly bipartisan issue in the recent congress, hopefully it continues that way, it seems to by all the evidence we are reporting be a significant threat, but what strikes me about where this increased scrutiny over tiktok which absolutely should be looked at, so many other technologies china has. state and local police headquarters using chinese-made drones, surveiling large swaths of the country. john: and u.s. parts in the balloon. another foe since russia invaded ukraine, secretary of state antony blinken meeting with his russian counterpart lavrov in india. he urged the decision to pull out of the nuclear arms treaty
phones as members of congress, in my judgment it s too dangerous for the children s phones. that s the whole point of the bill. is it too risky to have on everybody else s phone, particularly our children? absolutely. i ve been pleased with the bipartisan consensus we see on tiktok and its threats, and this town, washington, you can walk down the street, disagree on the color of the sky but we all agree it s a serious threat posed by tiktok and what do we do about it? the congressman, and the legislation, a step in the right direction. the reality the only people it seems left in washington defending tiktok are those paid to do so. jacqui: tiktok is trying to make a few changes to at least show some good will. call for number three, they are proposing to limit daily screen time to an hour per day for kids under 18. rolling out a screen time dashboard, mute notifications, these are efforts, obviously, to try to curtail kids use of