Biden White House says enforcement of TikTok ban will fall to Trump
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Today, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, as soon as Sunday. |
| 0:09.2 | The justices ruled that free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national security risk. |
| 0:17.2 | With just three days left in office, President Biden has said that the enforcement of the ban will now fall to the incoming Trump administration. |
| 0:25.1 | Our White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez, has been covering this and more and joins us now. |
| 0:29.5 | So, Laura, let's start with this TikTok decision. |
| 0:32.0 | And we should say for the unfamiliar, it's not the content that's the issue. |
| 0:35.5 | It's the ownership and this judgment by U.S. officials and lawmakers that that presents a national |
| 0:40.5 | security threat. |
| 0:41.3 | How is the Biden administration going to handle this? |
| 0:43.4 | So the White House issued a statement today. |
| 0:46.1 | And in it, it said that President Biden believes TikTok should remain available to Americans, |
| 0:51.0 | but simply under American ownership or other ownership that addresses the national |
| 0:55.5 | security concerns identified by Congress in developing this law. |
| 0:59.9 | So as you said, it's about the ownership. |
| 1:01.9 | President-elect Trump said in a true social post today that his decision on TikTok will |
| 1:06.8 | be made in the not too distant future. |
| 1:09.0 | He has to review the situation. |
| 1:10.6 | So ultimately, Jeff, as the current White House said, |
| 1:13.5 | this is ultimately going to have to be implemented |
| 1:15.6 | by the incoming administration. |
| 1:17.9 | And I saw today, Laura, |
| 1:18.9 | where the CEO of TikTok, |
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