Trump To CNN: “I’ll Be Making The Decision On TikTok”

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A law that requires TikTok to find a new, non-Chinese owner or face a ban is scheduled to go into effect Sunday — and there is little indication the company is set to pull off a sale before then. That means 170 million Americans could lose access to a platform they use to find entertainment, news and community, or even run a business, after TikTok became the first new platform in years to pose a real competitive threat to American social media stalwarts like Instagram and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Follow every moment of this election across CNN.
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0:18.6	Breaking news tonight, TikTok's ultimatum.
0:21.6	The company says it will now go dark this Sunday unless President Biden intervenes immediately.
0:27.6	The shark trying to buy the company, Kevin O'Leary, will be my guest tonight.
0:31.6	Plus deportations as early as Tuesday morning.
0:35.6	The new report on how and where will be carried out.
0:40.0	And the private conversations that kept Joe Biden to drop out now revealed in a stunning
0:45.4	new book.
0:46.2	The authors will be here tonight on Laura Coates Live.
1:04.4	T minus 25 hours until the social media app used by 170 million Americans alone is set to go away.
1:08.7	And tonight, TikTok is threatening to go completely dark.
1:14.2	That is, unless the Biden administration gives it total assurance, it won't enforce the ban that is set to go effect on Sunday.
1:17.5	Now, the Biden White House has signaled that it will not impose the ban, but TikTok, they
1:22.6	want something more definitive.
1:24.3	It's a final Hail Mary for the Chinese Own Company after the Supreme Court hit it
1:28.5	with a potential death blow. All nine justices, let me repeat that. All nine justices today
1:35.3	back the law that bans it unless it sells itself to an American buyer by Sunday's deadline.
1:41.5	But hold your horses here because Donald Trump, he wants to save it,
1:46.9	even though he first suggested banning it four and a half years ago.
1:51.9	The president-elect will take office the day after that ban takes effect.
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