donald j. trump for the entire hour on camera right here on "hannity." >> that's all the time we have left. in the meantime, let's not your heart be troubled. let's give a warm welcome to the great laura ingraham. >> hi, everybody. >> hi sean. [applause] >> may i make an announcement to the audience? >> laura wants to make an announcement to the audience. >> i would make everybody in the audience tonight gets a football and a free beer. [applause] >> everybody have a football, holdup your football. >> okay, you got to give them beer. sean has a keg but don't worry,

it is light beer so y'all would be fine. [applause] >> great to see everybody. sean, great show. >> i love you, too. have a great show. >> i am laura ingraham. this is "the angle tonight. the tiktok party. mr. china came to washington today and it was quite spectacle. >> we have heard important concerns of unwanted foreign access u.s. data and potential manipulation of the tiktok u.s. system. our approach have never been dismissed of any of these concerns. >> can you do surveillance of other americans? >> we'll protect the u.s. user data and fire it off of foreign access is the commitment we give to the committee. >> i want to hear you say that neither tiktok employees can

target americans with similar techniques as you did with the journalists. >> i don't agree with the characterization. that's a commitment that we'll not be influenced with any government. >> the doj is investigating this surveillance right now. a ban is a short way to address tiktok. the data privacy is the only way from stopping tiktok from happening in the united states. >> your parent company can access user's data, yes? >> we have to be specific. >> yes? i am not asking after project. i am asking now, yes? >> some user data is public, congresswoman. >> what's interesting to me is you have used the word transparency over half a dozen times. the interesting thing is parent company have gone out of their way to hide an air brush, corporate structure ties to the ccp.

>> that was wild. now, it was back in july of 2020. i don't know if you remember this but i pressed the former cia director and trump's secretary of state, mike pompeo on the threat posed by tiktok. >> should we be considering right now, tonight a ban on chinese social media apps especially tiktok? >> i don't want to get in front of the president but it is something we are looking at. >> would you recommend people downloading on your phone tonight or tomorrow? >> only if you want your information in the hands of the chinese government party. >> one month after that interview aired, president trump signed an executive order that would have banned tiktok in the united states. in june of 2021, biden reversed the ban. since the intel of assessment of tiktok, it had only got worse.

>> that's a loaded gun. >> why had biden reverse course? first because china owns biden. biden's record, his family is making big money there. biden's team is doing everything in his power to suck up to chia daily. so, why would biden risk offending his benefactor over some stupid app? china's army of high-paying lobbyist and consultants, and former congressmen, they're crawling capitol hill flexing their muscles and making their case. these people were what trump referring to when he said draining the swamp. they're fine selling out the country as long as that monthly checks does not bounced and

there is that senior staff at tiktok itself. >> do you agree that the chinese government has persecuted the uighur population? >> if you use the app - >> that's not my question. >> it is concerning to hear about all the human rights abuse. >> i think you are being invasive. it is a pretty easy question. >> congresswoman, i am here to describe tiktok and what we do as a platform. >> and tiktok had a public policy. you saw him sitting behind mr. chew today in the hearing with a smug look on his face. here he was three months ago on cnn. >> do you acknowledge the chinese government has these

uighurs information -- >> you can find all these contents on tiktok. why don't you acknowledge that? >> i am not an expert on what's happening in china. >> how is beckerman different from any members o f the senior party at this point? as as as long long tiktok is o the ccp has backup on information. p rp>> engineers currently access of u.s. data. >> this is a complex topic. >> it is not complex, yes or no, do they have access for user data? >> the answer is no. >> today there is some data -- >> yes, we heard from the ranking member and he does not

see that project texas is going to be useful. >> well, this is ludicrous. at think time of day or night, now and a year from now, president xi or any ccp officials can demand user data, and he'll be given user data. in fact, even chew could not deny top staff are in fact members of the communist party. >> logic would tell us there are fair number of the employees of the chinese communist party at least a dozen or so who have access to this data. is that so? >> again, like i said -- i can ask one or two people. we don't have a policy. >> so sleazy. even though we knew china was stealing users' data, we allowed tiktok reach to mestasticised. this begs the question, why did

we even need a congressional hearing at this point no matter what chew says about corporate firewall and transparency. he ultimately answers to the ccp. he slips off and he knows just like other ceos he could be disappeared over night. >> in principles, we want to provide a good experience for users in general. we put in more restrictions to make sure our teenagers get better experience. the majority of the people using our platform using it for a positivity experience. >> yeah, the uighurs are having a positive experience. when we didn't want to answer the questions -- >> would you commit to not selling your data to anyone? >> i can get back to you on the specifics. i don't have the specifics. congressman, i need to check on these specifics. i need to look at the specifics of the report, congressman and i can get back to you on that. i want to be precise and i will

get back to you. >> all day long. mr. chew labored to reassure the committee that tiktok is working hard on their new corporate plan to court off the operation from prying on. >> we have design project texas to protect users' interests and moving for ward here in tust. the protection is storing american data on american soils and looked out by american personnel. >> now, let's scramble this day off and all out. tiktok proposed a $1.5 billion corporate organization, kept on referring it to project texas. very clever and insisting all data would be stored in the tust. as he said those servers would be run at americans at oracle. after studying that proposal, the committee on foreign investment said, that proposal failed to address the data vulnerability issue. only getting the company out of chinese hands would address that

problem. >> any organizations or citizens shall support or cooperate and also tiktok employees that live in china must cooperate with chinese intelligence when they are called upon. >> first, congressman, i am -- >> there are employees of yours and they are in china. >> we built something where we take that data out of reach. >> even democrats didn't seem to be buying it today. >> mr. chew is creepy and not credible. >> i believe that the beijing communist government was still controlled and have the ability to influence what you are doing. you are trying to give the impression that you are a good actor but the commitments that we would seek to achieve those goals are not being made. >> throughout the day and it was very long and getting hammered

by both parties. the london and harvard educated mr. chew kind of kept his cool. he knew in the end that biden would never sign a bill banning tiktok. it was a few weeks ago that the white house had come up a middle ground. that would nullify concerns of both parties in america of the country. so much for compromising with the chinese. hours before the hearing, china gave the symbolic finger to biden and saying it was rejecting the idea of selling tiktok. i wonder why? now, with the establishment ever learn that you can't meet china halfway on any issue like this. their aim is simple. it is to conner the united states in any way they ultimately can through influence, presence, what have you. and, this would mean it would be fine for many in the regime media, by the way, who seemed to

already given up on america. check out how "the new york times" facing the question whether to ban tiktok. "the new york times" now have tiktok account, meaning shutting down the app could appear to shutting down the spread of fact-based news to counter chinese disinfo.. well, "the new york times" will ever be a reliable counter to china is laughable. plus, remember all their efforts to counter, so-called covid misinformation? the only answer is to force biden's hand. congress must immediately pass legislation to ban the tiktok app in the united states, long since time. then, biden can choose to protect the priority of the ccp or the concerns of the american

people. that's "the angle," joining me now is josh hawley. thank you for being with us tonight. there are a few questions i know you had after watching today for the ceo were not asked in this very long hearing today. give me one of them. >> well, one of them is how many communist chinese party members can access american user data. we know the answer to that, laura. whistle blowers have come forward to my office and other offices and said the answer is virtually unlimited numbers. we know. it does not matter where you put the data, by the way, it matters who can access it. the members of a chinese party can access americans data right now. this is happening in the back door of beijing into our private lives and our personal security. we need to ban it. >> they didn't get really much of an answer. now, at one point chew tried to

convince congress that the ccp had just minimal access to these chinese companies. watch this. >> it is not controlled by the chinese government. it is a private company. 60% of the company is owned by global institutional investors. 20% is owned by the founders and 20% owned by the owners around the world. the board members, three of them are americans. >> senator, what do you have that? >> it does not matter who owns the company. it matters who controls it and influences it. there is no private company. every corporate is subject to china's security law which forces these companies to turn over any information the beijing government wants at the whim of the beijing government. that means america users data. that's why american journalists are being tracked by china. if you got tiktok on your phone,

china can track your locations and key strokes and read your phones and messages and contact list. all of this stuff because the ccp effectively controls all major corporations in china and that absolutely includes tiktok. >> mr. chew refers to the fact quickly in his opening statement that the app does not exist within china. the app does not operate within china itself. i was surprised that more of that was not made at the hearing itself, senator hawley, why? if it is such a great app, why don't the chinese people are access to it? >> exactly. the reason is this app is basically digital fentanyl. that's what it is. it is not designed to make our lives better. it is designed to disrupt and get into our kids' heads. you look at the amount of suicide promotional materials that's on tiktok. some of that was brought up.

as a parent of three little kids, i don't want my kids on tiktok. that app is by design to get into our kids' heads and by design to push this content to them. that's what they are doing here. that's why the chinese government won't allow it. they of course want americans to use it because they want to disrupt our society and they want a back door into everything we are doing and everything we are seeing and going. that's what tiktok is. >> senator, there was a question raised about how the data in the messaging can be manipulated, watch. >> is disagree with fbi director wray and nsa director when they say the ccp could have the capability to manipulate data and send it to the united states, do you disagree with their statement? >> the statement is could. >> do you disagree with that? >> no, i don't disagree with that. >> what about that? that's a pretty good moment.

>> that's the truth, the ccp has access right now to any data they want that belongs to us. that's why i say this is a back door for the beijing government into our private lives and into our personal security and the heads of our children. we got to close that door. the only thing to do, laura, is to ban it. you mentioned the biden administration, tiktok is not stupid. they went out and hired a pr firm that was founded by biden administration people. they are trying to purchase the democratic party right now. why are all these corporate media outlets rehearsing tiktok? tiktok is out there pushing this and buying influence of the democratic party. let's put it to a vote. let's just see what the tally is. let's see who's willing to ban this thing. >> senator, thank you very much. separate from the national security and data collection concerns is what tiktok is doing to our kids. >> last year a federal judge in pennsylvania found that section 230 protected tiktok from being

h hh hheld responsible for a a ten-year-old girl, participated in a blackout challenge also known as a choking challenge. section 230 was never intended to shield companies like yours from amplifying dangerous and life-threatening contents to children. do you consider this to be a good faith moderation? >> section 230 is very complex. >> yes or no? >> we are very focused on safety. >> joining me now, the founder of the law off movement. she testified in front of the senate committee about the harm of social media. thank you for being with us tonight, emma. do you believe what the ceo says that tiktok is very focused and is all about safety. >> thank you for having me. i think tiktok begins to take t

seriously when they begin to fall into the national landscape. a lot of these harms have been experienced for years across the platform, they can be seen in the case of the ten-year-old girl who sadly passed away before these tiktok challenges. i think a lot of these actions are too little and too late. >> well, tiktok's ceo touted some of the app's protective measures they claim that we are going to keep teens out of trouble. >> we spent a lot of time protecting teenagers. many of those measures are first for the social media industry. we forbid direct messaging for people under 16. we have a 16-minute watch time by default. we have parent tools so parents can participate in their teens experiences. >> emma, 60-minute rule. how many kids are abiding the 60-minute rule. does that work? i am just laughing because i

know it does not work. >> n > not many, laura. it is like when apple put on the screen time and you can easily navigate around it. any change to help protect children is necessary and welcome. it is like putting a band aid around a much larger issue here. we are facing an issue where online spaces are not safe. we need to take regulatory action to make those spaces safer because these companies can't self-regulate as we have seen. >> emma, how addicting of tiktok. you are of the generation, i see kids squirrelling it at the coffee shop, it seems like for hours. >> you know, laura, i can only speak to my personal experience and what i see around me. what i can say it is by far one of the most addicting a and -- that's the reason why i

am not on tiktok. it is one of the few platforms that i refused to go on and knowing that i will not be able to get out even as a digital advocate. >> thank you so much for what you are doing out there, keep it up. why has joe biden announced his 2024 run yet? newt gingrich has a theory. next. new york city. you have to have the skill and the drive to make it here. not all chefs are men. oh, she can't do that. she's a girl. women bring creativity balance into a kitchen. no one should go hungry. it■s a human right to know where your next meal is coming from. we're changing our community one bite at a time, and we're not done yet. if you can see her. you can be her.

the plan is for him to announce sometimes after the union address. >> the president has delayed the campaign after the state of the union. >> this decision won't be announced after the state of the union which is scheduled for the 7th, which is a couple of weeks now still. >> we still have no definitive answer from biden himself. well, now several prominent progressive dems arguing that biden should not run aside from his age and his commitment to the status quo.

biden's approval rating sits at 38%. joinings us now is newt gingrich, our former speaker of the house. newt, what's the heck is going on here? the state of the union was quite a while ago, was it? >> well, look, i think the gap between biden's fantasy world and the real world is getting wider. -- the fact is there are a lot of democrats who would like to run, none of them are particularly scared of biden. none of them are taking him on until something happens because he's the president, he's spending trillions of dollars and he has the entire machinery of the federal government. on the other hand, i suspect more and more democrats probably realize that he can't win the next election.

he's not going to be able to hide in the basement or the rose garden. we are going to see more things like the recent bank failures. we'll see more problems and we'll see more compounding effects of millions of illegal immigrants. all of this is going to pose a huge challenge. in 1964, lyndon johnson, won a enormous reelection writing off the tragedy of john f. kennedy having been assassinated. four years later, the opposition of johnson was enough that he announced he would not run for reelection. so, i think at the certain thing here, if you get into the first one or two primaries and anybody runs against biden and his 38% approval, what's going to happen in that primary? the odds are very high that biden is going to start losing. so, every month that goes by,

his cognitive problem gets bigger. every month that goes by, it is more embarrassing. the only thing that makes biden currently survivable is kamala harris is so much worse. >> speaking of which, newt. let me get into what reuter is getting in the tonight. they're saying kamala and biden having a complicated history. a point of tension in the relationship is that i don't think the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off of his plate, adding a fear of messing up led harris late to the game on important issues. newt, they seem like they're looking for a way out of the kamala tramp. >> laura, you can't set things up like this. you know kamala harris is a joke. every time you watch her, she's

laughing. every time she does an interview, it is clear she has no idea what she's talking about and despite every effort to train her. she's not trainable. this is a person who has 0 capacity for learning. she's the best insurance policy that joe biden could ever have because nobody is going to want to implement the 25th amendment no matter how bad biden gets. without him we'll get kamala harris and that ain't going to happen. >> on the one hand, he can't dump her. she's an african-american woman acceptable by the left. on other hand, he can't keep her. that's one of the dilemmas of this potential campaign. >> so, if you are someone like a gretchen whitmer or newsom in california, and throw in pritzker in the mix, why would you not throw your hat in at

this point? i think the most likely democratic nominee is governor whitmer of michigan. she's a woman and she's very liked on the left, she's done everything she could for laborer. she represents a key swing state. she's formidable as a potential democratic nominee. pritzker on the other hand, there is a huge difference of being a governor and being a presidential candidate. pritzker on the national state will be absurdity. you look at the things they have done in illinois, every single one of them is opposed by 70% or 90% of the american people. the most procriminal state in the country. >> he's a nightmare. >> you go to california, let's get serious. newsom can't survive east of the california border because the truth is he's a goofball who

runs the state that's not working. >> meanwhile, we don't know who's running the country right now. direct aim at congressman jim jordan. so congressman jordan is here to respond next. >> wait until you hear this next story of the january 6th incident. stay with us.

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>> it is a brush fact where the committee chairman says you guys have no authority here. >> they could have summed it up in four words. stay in your lane. >> joining us now is congressman jim jordan. >> look, they used federal dollars in the da's office and they're interfering an election. alvin bragg changed his mind once trump announced he was running. why did he change his mind? the only intervening event is the fact that president trump announced it. and also his two assistants who resigned and got the left all fired up and now bragg suddenly changes his tune. we would like to know because this has federal implications and congressional implications and national implications because interfering of the most

important elections we have, election for the president of the united states. >> congressman jen psaki had advice for democrats when they were messing up with the trump's investigation. >> trump's team wants all the public eyes to focus on alvin bragg and he sent out his signals to all the people. they are targeting the manhattan da. there are a range of cases and trying to get the spotlight off of just the manhattan da case. >> they're not going to take it because they have been doing it for seven year. it was the trump investigation and they want his tax returns and they want all his business records and they go after his children and now this case? she may give that advice but democrats, they said now for eight years that president trump was going to go to prison - they were going to put him in prison.

when they got his tax currents, nothing's wrong there. they found nothing. the department of justice would not take this case. the former da would not take this case. alvin bragg when he got elected, he would not take this case. rp we can't do a case where mil cohen is the star witness. the only thing that changed it is president trump announced he's leading in the polls and mr. bragg's two assistants. we want to talk to those two individuals and find out what's going on here. >> another issue that's bubbled up and it really caught my eye and the house think separate from this that it looks like the doj was colluding in a political offensive against parents? parents who were involved before the virginia's governors race and targeting one mother because she was quoted as "the right

wing members," what's going on there? >> we released a report two days ago and the key take away was this. one of the u.s. attorneys said this. this looks like a manufactured crisis. there was no basis for this. democrats said there were threats all over the country. no, there was not. and they would not use resources against parents. yes, they did. the northern district of georgia. democrats said there was no coordination between school board groups and the biden administration. the biden department of education prior to the initial letter from the school board associations, yes, there was. it was all in that report and done for political reasons. if that's not the weaponization against we the people, i don't know what is. >> parents, be ware.

this is what's going on in your country. >> if you think bragg is bad, what's happening to the january 6th defendants? maybe it was worse? matthew grays admitted a witness life spanned up months ago was secretly working as a government informant. joining us now is the woman who's following this cases closely than anyone else out there. julie kelly. of all the outrageous things i have heard in these prosecutions. that one kind of takes the kick. >> it really does, laura. just when you think the department of justice and fbi can't stoop any lower. they find a new bottom. the bomb shell this week that they had an fbi informant ingratiating herself with not only a few defendants in this case but with their attorneys and family members.

this fbi informant worked for almost two years at the start of the investigation, all the way through the beginning of the trial. this blindsided the defense team. they're going to call this individual as a witness for the defense today. the department of justice waited until the last minute to tell the defense team their own witness was an fbi informant. laura, this is one of at least 10 to 15 fbi informants who have been embedded in the proud boys months before january 6th and now afterwards as well. >> how many of them were actually working the crowd even before they enter the capitol or while they were in the capitol at all. do we know an exact number if there were any? >> we don't know a lot of details, laura. both of the department of justice and thanks to judge tim kelly have been successful in concealing details of the roles

of these fbi informants in this group. we do know from "the new york times" 2021 that at least one informant was with the group and the initial breach of the exterior barriers of the grounds went towards the capitol building with some of these proud boys and even went inside the building as well. so, laura, what this is starting to look like is the whitmer's hoax. you know what, laura, if this case, this seditious conspiracy case is so cut and dry, such a no brainer, why did the fbi and department of justice had to pull all of these dirty tricks before the jury if it is such a solid case. >> why was all the videos made available? if it is no big deal, make it available and let it all come out. julie, thank you for staying on

top of all these stories. we appreciate it. when another trans man pushes a woman from a sporting podium. well -- not literally but figuratively. when are feminists are going to say enough. the enraging story before we hear from riley gaines in moments. cole hauser is an award winning actor who has starred in good will hunting too fast, too furious and the current hit show yellowstone. beyond his impressive career, he is a proud supporter of the tunnel to towers foundation. i was able to spend some time with cole and his family to reflect on those who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedom.

i know how much you care about america and our veterans and all the things. but you have such a platform now. yeah. and to share that with us that we need to get the word out that we have to take care of these great heroes and their families. you know, as i started to be more and more successful, i was like, how can i help? but when i heard of the tunnel of the towers, and i met brandon in idaho and his family, i was like, wow. there's actually a charity where we know where the money's. going to go. we have 95.1% of every dollar goes to our programs. and i think brandon's a great spokesman for t2t and and his wife, shannon, has two daughters. i mean, oh, my god. they're just special families. so pretty much, if you put your life on the line, if something goes bad, they're there. that's awesome. yeah. they're incredible people, man. you saw all the stuff we put in these homes, right? i was i was blown away. and they deserve it. they earned it. this is not of course, we give them a mortgage free home, but look what they gave up. they gave up their bodies

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we have learned moments ago that a u.s. contractor was killed and five americans were injured after their base was struck by an iranian drone in syria. now in response of the pentagon's conductive, against the group of islamic revolutionary guards. we'll bring you more details as we have them. this should raise questions as to whether we should have americans there in the first place. now, this has been some banged up women's history month so far. it started when the white house gave out a women's courage award to biological male. last week usa today included a biological male on the women of the year's list.

after winning the race, tiffany wrote that the race made her feel like a superhero, maybe even superman since thomas is a biological male. you are sending a trend here? joining me now is riley gaines, a former swimmer at the university kentucky where she tied with swimmer leah thomas just last year at the ncaa championship, just last year. riley, i know you are not surprised by this but your reaction. >> you know we are seeing a trend, laura. we are seeing it being pushed by the media and being pushed by the left, we are seeing it being pushed by large woke organizations whether it is in sports or just within our everyday lives. i am not surprised. this is something that's hamming at a rapid rate around the country. like i said, it is bigger than just sports. we are seeing all over and we are changing the language we are using. we are no longer using terms like motherhood, or

breast-feeding because those are now deemed offensive. notice how this is always an attack on women. the men's category and men's decision and language is never under jeopardy, i wonder why that is? >> riley, the international government body for track and field is standing up for female athletes. this is from them today. >> the council today takes a decisive action to protect the female category in our school. to do so by restricting the participation of transgender and dsd athletes. none of these athletes will be eligible to compete in the world's athletic championship in budapest in august. >> your reaction to that. again, a little piece of good news. >> that's exactly what it feels like is a little piece of good news. this is huge. this is monumental really. it is always hard to be the first ones to take a bold step that goes against the woke fad,

like i mentioned. so, world athletics doing this is a huge first step in the right direction. the work and the fight to save women's sports is nowhere near being done. this protects e female athletes which is huge. these are the girls dedicated their entire lives to their sports. what about those young girls? what about those girls fighting for scholarship spots? we need to make it a priority to protect them as well. >> now, riley, i don't know if it was you who tweeted this out. i read it today, forgive me for not remembering. this whole issue of trans athletes will end when the women's final of wimbledon is won by a biological man. like that'll be it. people at that point will say we are done with this. do you agree it is going to take something that big to kind of break this monopoly of insanity?

>> i do. i think it is going to take something like that or it is going to take girls boycotting. i never want to place the blame on the girls or make the girls be the ones sacrificing their positions. that's what it is going to take. we need more women and girls, female athletes where they are competing against biological men to stand up for this. i know it is hard and it requires a lot of courage. >> riley, you have courage, and you are a true champion of this swimming community and for what truth feminism is all about. thank you for speaking out. >> a threat against canada? can it? the last byte explains it.

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. >> laura: joe biden must have seen his latest approval ratings so he decamped to canada. the move may be permanent.

>> we're staying. >> laura: promises, promises, joe. don't tease us, just go. we're stuck with kamala. remember it is america now and forever. check out the latest progress online. >> i love you. i love you. and you have happy thursday everyone. it's only been 23 hours but i missed you so much. watching you sleep on hidden camera just isn't the same. i love it when