The clock is ticking on a potential ban of the popular social media app, TikTok.

In April, Congress and President Biden gave the app's Beijing-based parent company 270 days to

find a new owner or face a shutdown, arguing Chinese control of the platform was a national security

threat. The U.S. Supreme Court is right now considering a challenge

to the law, but barring any last minute changes, users will no longer be able to download TikTok

starting on Sunday. For his part, President-elect Trump has pledged to provide some kind of reprieve

from the ban. His national security advisor, Mike Walls, reiterated that on Fox today.

We will put measures in place to keep TikTok from going dark in the legislation allows for an

extension as long as a viable deal is on the table. And then, you know, essentially that buys

President Trump time to keep TikTok going.

We're joined now by Carrie Cordero.

She's a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

So with this January 19th deadline just days away, it appears members of the incoming Trump administration

and bipartisan members of

Congress are trying to buy themselves more time. What are the possible outcomes? Well, the law that

they passed last spring doesn't leave a lot of options. What they really needed, what was in the law,

was a credible buyer lined up and a willingness on behalf of TikTok to actually be sold to that buyer.

There's nothing out there right now that looks that that circumstance really occurs.

So the cleanest way for them to give more time for President-elect Trump once he comes into office

would actually be between now and Sunday, Congress passing a new law,

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