TikTok sues feds over ban, Stormy Daniels takes stand in Trump trial, House investigates special counsel Jack Smith, Biden denounces rising U.S. antisemitism, FAA investigates Boeing for falsifying inspections | May 7
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- TikTok sues federal government over new law banning company from U.S.
- Adult film actress Stormy Daniels takes stand in Trump “hush money” trial.
- House launches investigation into special counsel Jack Smith in Trump classified documents trial.
- Biden denounces rising U.S. antisemitism after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
- FAA investigates Boeing for falsifying inspection records on 787 planes.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Godstein and this is the Daily Signal Top News for May 7th. |
| 0:07.0 | Here are today's headlines. Social media giant Tik-Toc and its parent company Bitants filed a lawsuit against the US federal government on Tuesday. |
| 0:28.0 | Last month Congress passed a bipartisan bill that President Joe Biden signed into law forcing Tic Toc's Chinese owner to either sell the company within a year or lose access to the United States. |
| 0:41.0 | Those who've argued in favor of the law say that the app can spy on Americans and is a national security threat. |
| 0:48.0 | Parent company Bightances headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their data available to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Texas Republican Representative August Flueger spoke to the Daily Signal in March about why |
| 1:04.7 | Tic-Toc is so problematic. |
| 1:07.6 | This isn't about the content that's being posted on Tic-Toc, he said. |
| 1:12.0 | It's about the conduct of the company that controls TikTok that makes the decisions that has a narrative that's able to use Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the platform. |
| 1:24.0 | Tiktok's lawsuit argues that the bill is a violation of the First Amendment's |
| 1:29.0 | right to free speech. |
| 1:31.2 | For the first time in history, Tik-Tock wrote in the lawsuit, Congress has enacted a law that |
| 1:36.7 | subjects a single-named speech platform to a permanent nationwide ban and bars every American from participating in a unique online community |
| 1:46.4 | with more than 1 billion people worldwide. |
| 1:50.2 | The lawsuit demands that the court block Attorney General Merrick Garland from enforcing it. |
| 1:55.3 | Tic-Tic-Toc also argues that the law will effectively cause the social media website to shut down. |
| 2:08.7 | Adult film actress Stormy Daniels took the stand Tuesday in the New York hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. |
| 2:11.0 | Trump has pled not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. |
| 2:16.8 | The charges in the case are related to alleged payments made before the 2016 presidential election to silence Daniels about an alleged affair |
| 2:25.8 | with Trump. |
| 2:27.7 | According to CBS News reporting on the trial, Daniels testified Tuesday that she met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada in 2006. |
| 2:37.0 | She said he invited her to his hotel suite where they spoke for two hours and then had sex. |
| 2:43.0 | Trump has denied that. |
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