Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

Today's episode is a follow-up to last week's TikTok congressional hearings.

When I see it, the camps are pretty set right now. You have almost the entire

right slash Republican party

firmly opposed to the status quo and then the other end of the spectrum you have the left-end of the Democratic Party

represented by representatives AOC and J. Roboeman who are firmly opposed to a ban of TikTok or a forced sale from by dance to an American company.

That leaves the center left up for grabs in terms of what happens next both in Congress and the Biden White House.

With that in mind, I spoke with Adam Kovacovich, founder and CEO of the Chamber of Progress, the main center left

in his group for the tech industry.

Looking at the TikTok issue from this perspective, I think we'll help guide what the next steps look like, though Adam is pretty firm in believing that the congressional hearings

while entertaining and oftentimes insightful, slash depressing other times.

The main action is going to come from the Biden administration and the CIFIAS process that we get into during the discussion.

And I just want to give a quick shout out in case you missed it.

Sog and I released our latest AMA episode for our supercast subscribers last Friday.

There was a preview put up, but if you'd like the full Q&A discussion, you can go to re-alignment.supercast.com

or click the link at the top of our show notes. Hope you all enjoy the episode.

Thank you for linking them, for supporting the podcast with Adam Kovacovich. Welcome to the re-alignment.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'm really glad to talk with you.

We'll obviously get into the post-op on the TikTok hearing, but I'd like to start with something around ideology because this podcast is called the re-alignment.

So something we're focused on here is how are various movements, institutions, individuals thinking about the problems of the day.

You describe your work and the broader work of the Chamber of Progress as like center left progressive in that sense.

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