byte dance owns tiktok and ccp owns byte dance, they can make you hand over that data, is that correct? data is here with an american company. ainsley: lawmakers grilling on capitol hill yesterday. here with his reaction, host of making money, charles payne. what is your reaction to what happened yesterday? charles: a lot of bobbing and weaving, he was all over the place. you can t justify something that is not justifiable. ainsley: can t trust them. charles: a lot of flailing, there were smirks and confusion. i don t think it works, this is instance you saw bipartisan pushback. i would say maybe, just maybe tiktok app could be banned, of
Am associated with is a way of dealing not just with tiktok but also the threats of the future. there is going to be another app or platform or technology that is coming in from an adversary country like china. we need to have a way of being able to respond. if that means banning or blocking that particular app, so be it. it may be mitigating it. itself got to be in consultation with intelligence community. we got to get more classified so the american people understand the threat that these types of ads post to their individual information and data. i think sometimes people do. they use these apps and think there is no consequences. when you are dealing with the chinese-owned company and byte dance owns tiktok. they are their own subsidiary of the ccp. any information the ccp wants from some of these companies, they re going to get it. the american people, you have to understand that and there is always going to be another one.