republican party is once again siding with lawless insurrectionists mob. crimes. today, bragg s office responded calling that republican letter unprecedented and writing, quote, the letter only came after donaldok trump created a hmvuit(sáqxd expectation that hd be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact is illegitimate basis for congressional inquiry. ñrcongresswoman zoe lofgren,ñi e served on the january six committee and she joins me now. odzcongresswoman, it s great to see you. what is your reaction at this9■ point to all of this coming from kevin and!u■ marjorie taylr greeneq involving ashley?;■ babbitt s mother and those insurrectionists who are now ini jail? á well, i don t know. i mean, i wasn t in on the meetingçó between babbitt si] mother and the speaker. ñiobviously, this woman was killedq. itn( sad and she lostc her life because she wasxdu researched. so, we laid everything out. the videos, the doc
lot of mothers of young black men killed by police out there who would love to sit down with the speaker of the house and talk about police reform. so, why don t y all just call the speaker up and ask for a meeting? or is mccarthy only interested in throwing red meat to the part of his base that s sympathetic to the mob? or trying to make amends with them, after he said babbitt s shooting was justified just a few weeks ago? one of the first things marjorie taylor greene said that ashley babbitt was murdered. do you think ashley babbitt was murdered or you do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. for her part, ashley babbitt s mother said she spoke to mccarthy about those comments, specifically. i called thought speaker mccarthy was delightful and i know i would imagine you were upset when he said that the cops who shot your daughter was doing his job. did you discuss that specifically? we did. and wh
at really sending off this chilling reception and i think it really did not work. i think what you saw when you watched the hearing today with the tiktok ceo was that a lot of the lawmakers just seemed to have made up their minds about how this is going to go before he even, you know, stepped foot in the room and sat down in the seat. it seems like the ceo was asked as well about some of your reporting. let s take a listen to that. a current tiktok employee told forbes that nearly anyone with basic access to company tools, including employees in china, can easily look up the closest contacts and other sensitive information about any user. why would a current tiktok employee say this if it was not true? it is a recent article. i have asked my team to look into it. as far as i know, we have rigorous data access protocols. there s really no such thing. he disputed the conclusion of the article. how do you respond to that?
sensitive information about any user. why would a current tik+ employee say this if it was not true? it is a recent article. i have asked my team to look into it. as far as i know, we have rigorous data access protocols. there s really no such thing. he disputed the conclusion of the article. how do you respond to that? he did dispute the conclusions of the article, but we are very confident about what we reported, and we are very confident about our the focus of the story was about india, which banned tiktok almost three years ago. the app has not been accessible there since basically the middle of 2020. but what i found in this investigation is that company wide employees at both tiktok and bytedance, in both the u. s. and china, can still access pass user data from users from india. the indian government, you know, the requirement once they
but you are going to have to pack up your toys and go home now. enough is enough. i m not sure putin will do that obviously. bret: putin, the actions in ukraine, obviously, will be a focus here at the reagan national defense forum, kimberly. as will china and maybe more so. here is the back and forth on tiktok. and the concern about this. the problem that we have, you know, can really requires third party verification and requires transparency. we have rigorous data access protocols such that only a team made up of u.s. residents can have access to that u.s. data. bite dance, which owns tiktok is saying no, no, the servers are kept in the united states but in the fine print, they still have a back door right out to beijing. bret: it seems more and more that this is becoming a real national security threat or at least it s being talked about it more. kimberly if you want to have a