Welcome everybody. The debate over banning Tik-Tock or forcing its sale by bite dance its Chinese parent company is generating

some bizarre political bedfellows and also bizarre political opponents.

None stranger I I think, than Republican Senator Rand Paul being interviewed by Fox News host

Brian Kilmead of Fox and Friends.

During the interview, Rand Paul accuses Brian Kilmead of defaming Tik-Tock an allegation

that is so bizarre that Brian Kilmead looks visibly confused. There is much to talk about.

We've been talking on the bonus show

about the potential of a Tik-Tok sale.

Let's look at a little bit of this exchange

and then talk about some of the most important questions that exist here.

They've offered and actually have transferred most of their data to Texas to an Oracle Cloud,

which they have review of the data by Oracle to make sure it's being controlled here and to set this up

Rand Paul mostly defending Tik-Tock Brian Kilmeade the one who is less

thrilled with the defenses there but it's to what's called Ciphius.

Ciphius is a procedure where foreign-owned government countries

are trying to work to have American boards.

They've also worked with the government to try to do that. I know about the Texas

project and I wish it was effective but it isn't. We put a billion dollars into it or they did.

But they did, he could not assure you. Brian an opinion that's your opinion no no

nobody thinks the Texas project did no but if nobody thinks let me finish

nobody thinks the Texas project is up and running and is effective.

The same thing is that you say nobody, let me just finish.

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