U.S. TikTok Ban Could Begin Within Hours
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:32.0 | Happening now, a looming ban on TikTok could become a reality within hours after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously clears the way. |
| 0:41.3 | Tonight, President-elect Trump suggests he may step in to save the popular app, telling CNN the decision is ultimately up to him. |
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| 1:26.8 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States |
| 1:28.7 | and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the Situation Room. |
| 1:40.4 | Tonight, time is running out for TikTok now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a law that could shut off the site for 170 million Americans as soon as Sunday. |
| 1:52.1 | CNS. Paula Reid reports on the high court decision and whether soon to be President Trump will give TikTok a reprieve. |
| 1:59.9 | A unanimous Supreme Court allowing TikTok to be banned in the U.S. as soon as Sunday |
| 2:05.9 | amid bipartisan national security concerns over the popular apps linked to China. |
| 2:12.3 | No! |
| 2:13.5 | TikTok had argued the ban violated the First Amendment, but the justices disagreed, writing, |
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