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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The House passes a bill that could ban TikTok. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) joins to discuss the future of the bill as it heads to the Senate. Former Fulton County Assistant District Attorney Darryl Cohen explains a Georgia judge’s decision to dismiss three counts against former President Donald Trump in the election interference case. NBC News Correspondents Shaq Brewster, Steve Patterson and Blayne Alexander join as part of NBC's "The Deciders" election series from battleground states Wisconsin, Nevada and Georgia to highlight key voting groups that will be influential in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday a congressional crackdown on Tik-Tok, House Lawmakers
0:06.8	overwhelmingly Pat's legislation to ban the app unless its Chinese owner sells it,
0:11.0	Tik-Tok intensifying its lobbying campaign, and the fight now goes to the Senate.
0:16.0	Plus, a judge drops three of the 13 criminal counts against former President Trump in the Georgia election
0:22.0	interference case, and the decision
0:23.9	over whether the district attorney will be disqualified from the case now
0:27.3	lose. And game set rematch. Voters react as President Biden and former President Trump
0:33.7	officially clinch enough delegates to win their party nominations. It sets up a
0:38.2	long knockdown drag-out fight for the White House. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Yami Schausendor in Washington where
0:57.2	lawmakers in Congress today voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill that would ban
1:01.2	the popular app Tik-ic-Toc,
1:03.1	unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company, Bight Dance.
1:06.5	The House passed the bill with widespread support
1:08.9	from both sides of the aisle,
1:10.2	and the vote comes after a classified House briefing yesterday.
1:13.6	U.S. intelligence officials worried the Chinese government could use the app
1:17.4	to influence millions of users and access their personal data.
1:21.0	Still, some notable lawmakers including the top Democrat on the
1:24.9	House Intelligence Committee, voted against the legislation. He cited First
1:28.4	Amendment concerns. Also voting against the bill, two of the most diametrically opposed lawmakers you can find,
1:34.5	Far Right Firebrand, Marjorie Taylor Green, and the leader of the House Progressive's
1:38.9	Pramilla Jayapal. Take a listen.
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