TikTok is controlled by China. We have to end that.

to Republican senator Marco Rubio senator thank you so much for joining us so the the Biden Administration is is saying very emphatically wasn't us we didn't do it don't don't blame us I mean you've got a moment here in Cuba where you could stand with the Cuban people and maybe try to bring about some change why doesn't the Biden Administration do that well I hope they'll be more forceful in that regard I think they've said that the Cuban government needs to respect the right of people to express themselves but I think we need to identify with their pleas and let me just make one thing clear there is no embargo on food there is no us embargo on food in fact last year Cuba imported over $300 million of food from the United States I think the were their second largest trade partner when it comes to food the reason why people in Cuba have no food is they have fertile Farmland there the reason why they're having any food is because Marxism doesn't work everywhere Marxism has been tried it's led to hunger and suffering and poverty and that's what's been doing to Cuba for 60 years show one Island over from Cuba of course Haiti is falling apart here's what the Florida governor Ronda santz said about it earlier today it has been like pulling teeth to deal with some of these federal agencies and the reality is you have an easier time getting into this country illegally than you do just to be rescued as a United States citizen how the hell does that make any sense so there's about a thousand Americans who are trapped in Haiti can't get out the state department for the most part is saying we've been warning you for four years not to go there now you want us to get you out I mean so private Enterprise like in Afghanistan is doing it again yeah so there's a couple things that play the first is I think that the administration needs to be more forceful leaning on how we go in and help get Americans out there's a couple problems the first is you got to land somewhere the airport is being constantly threatened and some on some days has been under the control of armed gangs and then you've got to coordinate with their government or what's left of it in order to be able to land somewhere and get that clearance you know and ter to make sure your planes aren't crashing into each other and the third complexity is a lot of people that want to get out a lot of American citizens they don't live near the airport they have to travel to get there which means they're going to have to go through checkpoints that are controlled by gangs and the fear is that now they become uh the targets of kidnapping so it's it's a really horrifying situation I mean some of the things we're learning about on a daily basis going on in in Haiti are apocalyptic are the kinds of things you see in horror movies yeah it's been like that for a long time so we got two problems we've got the problem of Haitian and the plight on the island and then we got the Potential Threat of hundreds of not thousands of Haitians trying to escape and make their way to Florida's Shores back in 1994 when Haiti was facing a crisis Bill Clinton pulled the trigger on sending in the 82 Airborne the crisis was resolved at the last second do we need to do something like that this time around well I I know we have contingency plans to do things like that but I don't anticipate that happening anytime soon I don't think there's a any strong push to have US military forces entering um there're supposed to be a group from Kenya that's coming but obviously they need to be able to have a police department or a government that they can link up with in order to provide security and look Haiti's 700 miles away from Florida so what we're talking about are very unsafe rickety boats that people would get in but right now they couldn't even do that because the gangs control all the access points to the ocean and so it's look it's horrifying there are no easy answers there I think our number one obligation obviously are for the American citizens that are there we have to have a plan to help get people out no matter what that takes and then I think there's after that it gets really complex uh there are not a lot of easy answers in Haiti unfortunately no that place has been a mess for decades want to ask you Qui quickly about the Tik Tock ban because the bill is there in the Senate uh Tom Tillis the senator from North Carolina got this phone call the other day listen here if you B Tik Tok I will find you and shoot you um that's people's jobs and that's my only entertainment and people make money out there too you know I'm trying to get rich like that anyways I'll shoot you and find you and cut you into pieces bye I mean it's just very frightening that you get a phone call like that but the flip side of that coin is that if what critics say is true and this is a tool for the Chinese Communist Party the infiltration to cause somebody to make a phone call like that has meant that the Chinese Communist party is succeeded beyond their Wildest Dreams in ingraining this potential spy tool into American society well what people don't realize is that Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company named bite dance Tik Tok is just an American company Tik Tok us bite dance doesn't just control Tik Tok it controls the algorithm which is the artificial intelligence engine that picks the videos you see and don't see and what we know for a fact is number one that the Chinese intend in a time of conflict to use social media to try to influence Americans so imagine those calls coming in saying America should not help Taiwan or America should not uh take on the Chinese you know because so that they they intend to do that using social media RIT large in the case of bite dance the Chinese company under Chinese law they have to do whatever the Chinese government tells them to do if the Chinese government tells them we want you to Target Americans with this message those are the videos we want them to be seeing they have to do it whether they want to do it or not so we should not allow a app that is own and controlled by the Communist Party of China to operate inside the United States now if someone else ends up owning bike dance or owning Tik Tok that's another thing I may still think the videos are annoying or whatever but that's free speech but what we can't have is the Chinese Communist Party controlling the algorithm that can drive people to make calls like that today but make calls in the time of conflict at in in the rate of a million millions of calls like that in the future and and manipulate American public opinion against the interest of our country