Chair Rodgers Joins Newsmax to Discuss Forcing TikTok to Separate from the CCP

joining us now Washington congresswoman Kathy McMorris Rogers congresswoman thanks so much for joining us this morning so why was this bill which as we know had bipartisan support so popular it this is important legislation to protect Americans to to protect American children from the Chinese Communist Party ultimately uh Tik Tok is is a is a tool that is controlled by bite dance and ultimately the Chinese Communist party uh and the legislation is a targeted uh very specific approach to protect us from these kind of tools these apps these applications that are controlled by Foreign adversaries that are collecting massive amounts of data and can ultimately use that uh as a destructive tool targeting America and American children and and the and the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed this bill that would that would force Tik Tok to make the choice as to whether or not it wants to remain controlled by bite dance and ultimately the Chinese Communist party or uh it would have to sale there would have to be a sale of Tik Tok and so the legislation is based upon National Security concerns that have been raised and the and the house took action yeah I want to go through some of those National Security concerns for people that are at home and maybe don't have Tik Tok um the algorithms on Tik Tok here in the US are designed to basically get as much user information as possible I think it's also very telling that Tik Tok in China does not allow the majority of content that Tik Tok here in the US allows uh it also floods users with just bad information especially during election years uh and many people in both parties have called it an Espionage tool for the Chinese government congresswoman I'm curious you heard the voicemail there that Senator Tillis got have you gotten any voicemails like that yes we uh the day that the the committee the energy and committee voted to pass this bill out of committee uh that morning Tik Tok blocked its users 177 million users in America from even getting on to the app until they called their member of Congress and we all were flooded by calls uh from individuals um some kids that didn't even know what Congress is they didn't they didn't understand what was going on and that was just that was just a small taste of what Tik Tok is capable of doing uh Tik Tok is collecting massive amounts of data on Americans all of these us 177 million users so they are collecting uh whether it's location data your contacts your search history uh just massive amounts of data and we know that this is how China uh operates in or how the CCP operates in China how they they collect data they surveil ultimately to control their citizens we cannot trust China to protect American user data or to uphold American values like freedom and that is why so many members overwhelming in the house 352 Republicans and Democrats believe that we must take action it really it really uh is important it is uh critical that we take action to protect America to protect American users uh our children from Tik Tok and other apps that are controlled by Foreign adversaries so what happens now does it pass the Senate we know that Joe Biden has said if it gets to his desk he will sign it I believe that the Senate needs to act the overwhelming vote in the house sent a very strong message to the Senate I know that yesterday the Senate received the CL a classified briefing and Senator Mark Warner Senator um Marco Rubio have come out in in support of this legislation other senators are also coming on board believing that we need we must take action yeah and we'll see congresswoman if if the Chinese BL this and the CCP has indicated that they would block any sale just in about 15 seconds what happens to Tik Tok if that happens is it still banned here in the US well Tik Tok will have a choice to make it's it they could they could choose to remain controlled by a bite dance and ultimately the Chinese Communist party or they would have they would have to choose to divest they would have to sell so the the choice is going to be up to Tik Tok and in uh the what the legislation says is in 180 days they would would be forced to sail or be banned in the United States so you would not be able to access Tik Tok on on Apple or Google or these other these other sites I the way I'm reading it I don't think the CCP is going to allow the bite dance sail that's what that's the way that I'm reading what's happening right now we'll see what happens in the Senate but if Joe Biden is indicating to Democrats in the Senate that he'll sign it you would think this would be more bipartisan but we will certainly follow this as it plays out over the next several weeks congresswoman MC Morris Rogers thank you so much for being with us we appreciate it good to be with you you too thanks