Good evening. I'm William Brangham. Jeff Bennett and Omna Navaz are away. On the news hour tonight,

the future of TikTok hangs in the balance after President Trump and Chinese President Xi

negotiate a deal to keep the app in the U.S. The Senate rejects stopgap measures to avoid a looming government shutdown.

And a leading historian joins the ongoing debate over how to interpret the U.S. Constitution.

We really have abandoned that very idea of amendment, the idea that it is our constitution,

and that we are the authors of it.

And by not changing it, we submit to possible abuses.

Welcome to the NewsHour.

After a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping today, President Trump said a deal to spin off an American version of the wildly popular social media app TikTok is, quote, well on its way. A Chinese company developed and owns the app,

which raised concerns in the U.S. over national security and data privacy.

Nick Schifrin begins our coverage.

From communicative cappuccinos.

To presidential pop, TikTok is a social media juggernaut.

As a piece of cake.

With nearly 2 billion global users, including 170 million Americans.

And thanks to President Trump, it turns out that TikTok has nine lives.

The young people of this country want it badly. The parents of those young people want it badly.

Despite a law requiring TikTok to be banned in the U.S. if it doesn't sever ties with its Chinese

parent company, President Trump now says he made a deal today with Chinese

President Xi Jinping to save TikTok.

We're going to have very good control.

We have American.

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