by their free press claims that tiktok is flooding millions of american users with tiny -- chinese communist partyrchers at rutgers university finding "the more time really users time spent used on tiktok the more positively they viewed chinese human rights record and china as a travel destination". tiktok tells fox the flood experiment was clearly engineered to reach a false predetermined conclusion peer the apps chinese owners are set for a supreme court showdown on friday as they fight a law forcing the sale of their u.s. operations. let's bring the former republican congressman mike gallagher who served as chair of the select committee on the tcp now i distinguished fellow and had of defense at palantir technologies. mike gallagher welcome it is good to see you again. thank you for joining us this afternoon. what is the reaction to the wreckers study and how valuable is it to how we need to understand whether or not tiktok should be banned in the united states? >> it's incredibly valuable a cat think it was so unique about the initial and cri analysis that came out in august is they use the me

collective action problem that exacts a horrible cost from our children and is controlled by the chinese communist party, or at least the communist party has access to it. now, it's, this is an untenable situation. - the debate over internet regulation is not a new one. in fact, william frank buckley, jr., on the original "firing line," hosted a debate right after congress passed the communications decency act of 1996. - oh, great, tell me about it. what did he say? - so i'm gonna have you take a look at this exchange between none other than arianna huffington and susan estrich-- - wow, a blast from the past. - about the topic of internet regulation. take a look. - okay. - i'm calling for a partnership. i'm calling for a partnership of government, of the industry and of parents. and the truth, susan, is that, when you have a 12-year-old, as i have a 12-year-old goddaughter who is an expert in using the internet, she can get anywhere she wants. and unless you're prepared to have somebody there with her the whole time to stop her from doing that, she will, no matter what ground rules you place as a mother

. >> national security, how much will be on the chinese communist party? is. >> that is litigated in the courts right now. i don't have anything to add i'll let. >> in washington last week the relations here. >> i don't have anything to read out your. >> suggesting the french troops deployed to the end. i'm not aware of any things like that. >> obviously you know defeat isis and syria remains but i don't think there is any truth to those reports. one more and that i have one more thing to add at the end. >> the troop numbers, there have been numbers not only in movement but they may be planning the u.s. troops that are there, has there been any change? >> let me address the question on the structure. i think i talked about this but i can be more clear here. the u.s. is not setting up any permanent structures. in terms of this posture, no exchanges. terms of this administration, no changes to force posture and the mission they are therefore still remains. very quickly, it's friday so i want to take a few minutes to express gratitude for those who have suppo

the chinese communist party leaders are dancing in the streets and biden did it all while refusing to even meet with us to learn the facts. our employees and communities deserve better. what do you think of that response, what is interesting about response to you? guest: both sides are going to be making their statements now. it's look, when the steel was first announced as an idea, last year, my gut reaction studying this initially for a while was that could be a great opportunity, good for the workers, good for the company, good for the u.s. steel industry. it has that fresh injection of capital, fresh technology, new innovative production. also a really good, strong tie to cycle a strong steelmaker and a very strong allied country like japan. and notwithstanding any credible national security threats, it should be up to the company to decide what they want to do and if they think it is a win-win based on the market conditions, then it is a win-win. it's not surprising he is saying this. there's also been some reports that there has been some extra lobbying on the case by the unions

officers, when i see an ndaa of $900 billion and don't see us in a confrontation with the chinese communist party, the defense budget is too big, i'm adamant that defense budget needs to be cut. >> would hegseth do at that, steve? would hegseth do that? >> when the people tell you here the problem is entilements. they're missing the point. entitlements is a contract with the little guy. they're not going to give us their social security or medicare until they see the political class and donor class actually get their arms around discretionary spending. to get your arms around discretionary spending we have to start with the defense budget and we have to have a revolution in military affairs, that's why pete is so important, revolutionary military affairs and flows through how we have to pay for this. i'm adamant, n.a.t.o. has to pay more and the gulf em rats, and we can't have two carrier battle groups in the red sea, keeping the suez canal open, japan has to step up to the plate and people say for years we haven't done things. you've got to rethink this. if you cut discretionary spending, to ret

tiktok has repeatedly denied any potential influence by the chinese communist party and has said thataw violates the first amendment free speech rights of its users. project liberty put in a bid on thursday to buy the assets he previously was the owner of the baseball team the la dodgers. boeing is donating $1 million to incoming president donald trump's inauguration. the plane—makerjoins a host of major us companies donating to the event, including ford, microsoft and meta. boeing previously donated the same amount to the last three inaugurations, including trump's first one back in 2017. now the latest on the wildfires in los angeles. officials are warning most of the fires are still uncontained. more than 9000 structures have been damaged or destroyed. according to some reports, the damage incurred could cost up to $150 billion. the bbc�*s north ameria business correpondent ritika gupta has more on the economic cost from this disaster. wildfires engulfing swathes of los angeles are expected to be one of the nation's costliest natural disasters. it will likely cause tens of billions

and he is not going to let them fall into the hands of, for instance, the control of the chinese communist party i admire that. >> is there an indication that you have that the chinese are intent on invading greenland? >> it's not about invasion. that's not how they do it. they do it through things like debt trap, diplomacy. so in 2017, the chinese communist party flew the then greenlandic premier, his government, his top ceos over to beijing, rolled out the red carpet, had the c-suite meetings and tried to pull them into their belt and road initiative. no american company, no american government was doing that. china was doing that. and so they were on it. when i tried to get a high level visit in 2018 to go to greenland for a ceremonial occasion, one of their big anniversaries, i couldn't i couldn't get any interest from the state department. but when president trump focused on it, he said, we cannot have this. denmark can't afford to develop or defend greenland. so i really am excited about this next step for greenland, since they have been talking about going independent for decades. finally

the fact that some are okay with the chinese communist party running tiktok is hard for me to understand. >> he suggests that you're okay with the chinese communist party running tiktok the intelligence community produced absolutely no evidence that the chinese government is compromising this information. >> it provided no information whatsoever. what we have right now is something completely different. it's a lot more than just cat videos. it's 7 million businesses who use it. it's 170 million americans who use it every single day. and in many ways very dependent upon it as part of their lives to make a living. there are people in california on sunday. if this gets cut off, they won't have a way to make a living. they won't have a way to generate income for themselves. that's what we're talking about. we need the supreme court to have more time in order to decide this, to create an extension. donald trump is asking for an extension for more time so that he can work on this issue as well. that's what my legislation intends on attempting to achieve, and i'm going to do that with senator b

and to your point about where the chinese communist party stops and starts, it's hard to tell with a company like huawei. and if huawei has an obligation to share information, under chinese law with the chinese communist party, and they are creating global networks and our information is going over those lines, and our allies that we are sharing information with, that's jeopardizing our information, that's jeopardizing our troops. all of these things are basically put at risk with respect to that. and so this is just why you are so correct, senator, in terms of making sure that we are balanced in terms of where we are investing in terms of the global threat landscape pandemic, you know, 5g, ai. i don't want to say all roads lead to china, but a lot of them do. sen. sasse: what are the technical fields that you are most concerned about them being at or equal to us in terms of plotting against us? a generation -- i think eric schmidt, the former executive chairman of google, regularly talks about a tech generation as being 18-ish months. what technical fields are you most concerned abou

they are as concerned as we are about the chinese communist party being able to control tiktok.tok thrive and flourish but that means we want bytedance to sell tiktok. caroline: you've heard the evidence. we have also heard from bytedance that it is very difficult to separate and selloff and they are saying we are going dark on sunday if this is upheld. you will not be able to access this app. does that worry you for the user base? >> this is called negotiating tactics. at the same time we hear this we hear that thanks to your reporting at bloomberg the ccp is entertaining a sale of the company. we in the congress do not have to legislate around the priorities of the chinese communist party. their decision-making is up to them. our law requires bytedance sell tiktok and i hope they comply with the law soon. caroline: would you like elon musk to be that purchaser? rep. krishnamoorthi: i will not make any decisions about who should be the purchaser. let the free enterprise system decide that. suffice it to say i think your previous guest is from the mccourt school in georgetown an

chinese people. what is the communist party trying to do with a.i. next. >> it is an example with 5g. share information under chinese law and thehe chinese communist party and these global networks and information going over those lines. it is jeopardizing our troops and all these things are put at risk respect to the. you are so correct in terms of making sure we are o balanced ad investing in terms of the global threat landscape pandemic. i don't want to say all roads to china but a lot of them do. >> what you most concerned about long-term plotting against us? a tech generation months, where you most concerned about? >> in terms of cybersecurity generally dying in, 5g1 of the things i'm most concerned about, investing the nsa, the best code makers and breakers in the world and you and i agree as a national treasure but china gets quantum first, we are in trouble that is looking forward in the challenges toward those technologies we need to rebalance. p >> i am a small government guy. that is a national treasure and lots of their work is made up by china and we are under investing. >

chinese people. what is the communist party trying to do with a.i. next. >> it is an example with 5g. share information under chinese law and thehe chinese communist party and these global networks and information going over those lines. it is jeopardizing our troops and all these things are put at risk respect to the. you are so correct in terms of making sure we are o balanced ad investing in terms of the global threat landscape pandemic. i don't want to say all roads to china but a lot of them do. >> what you most concerned about long-term plotting against us? a tech generation months, where you most concerned about? >> in terms of cybersecurity generally dying in, 5g1 of the things i'm most concerned about, investing the nsa, the best code makers and breakers in the world and you and i agree as a national treasure but china gets quantum first, we are in trouble that is looking forward in the challenges toward those technologies we need to rebalance. p >> i am a small government guy. that is a national treasure and lots of their work is made up by china and we are under investing. >

basically have a different view of china because they are not allowing adverse views about the chinese communist partyi want to point out that i always go back to his china does not allow tiktok in china. chinese kids cannot use tiktok the way that our kids and adults do. they have a different version that pushes out chinese history through their viewpoint and math problems essentially. they don't allow kids to spend 3-4 hours using their screens on tiktok all day. it says a lot. we will be watching this. the 19th is the deadline and mike gallagher, head of defence for palantir and former u.s. congressman, thank you. great to see you. >> thank you. >> martha: to push in california to put looters on notice. they are praying on victims of the crises. district attorney nathan hochman joins me next. >> it's just destroyed it. it's a disaster. it is armageddon. i've never seen anything like this in my life. >> it's hard to explain. two or three days goes beautiful and nice but today it's all smoky and burned out and you can see the burned cars and no houses and stuff like that. it reminds me back to afghan

the app down playing negative content related to the chinese communist party. ore rich edson is live in washington. hi, rich. >> good morning, dana. the study comes at a pivotal time for tiktok fighting a federal law requiring the chinese parent company to sell the app for halt operations in the united states. the institute at rutgers university said they created tiktok accounts mime micking those related to teenagers and the issues like the deadly crackdown and rule in tibet and compared that experience to those on american-owned apps like instagram and youtube. >> certainly tiktok is serving up far less information, search results, critical of the ccp than other platforms. we find this substantial association between time spent on tiktok and i would say unduly favorable views of china and the chinese communist party. >> it indicated tiktok users held more positive china's human rights record. they deny it dictates the american user experience. a spokesperson says this flawed experiment was engineered to reach a false, pre-determined conclusion creating fake ac

new study alleging tiktok manipulates its content by downplaying negative content about the chinese communist party more does the report say? it compares it to american-owned apps. at this is something especially compared to the apps ocho tiktok basically saying research at the network contained research institute at rutgers university say they created tiktok instagram, youtube accounts to mimic those belonging to american teenagers and use them to engage on "sensitive chinese communist party issues specifically to bet, tnm squares, change on" the results revealed critical of china made far less available on tiktok's planet was on instagram and youtube. the report says tiktok users held significantly more positive attitudes towards china's human rights record. >> it looks like tiktok is being exploited from the ccp propaganda and the propaganda may well be having an indoctrination like affect on heavy users have tiktok. >> tiktok ten eyes chinese government influence of american user experience. a spokesperson tells fox come on, a full's predetermined conclusion creating fake accounts that interact

no, it gave the lie to to what the chinese communist party was saying chinese people couldn't handle, weren't ready for democracy and also gave the lie to people like lee kuan yew said, you know, chinese innately an authoritarian leader. funny how. it's always the leaders who say that and. i mean, i think most of you have probably been to and you know what a vibrant, open society and whatever the problems it's one where there's freedom and jimmy was part of developing that and pushing that along and and yeah again he was i think a he is a bit of a romantic he's a bit of an idealist. he somehow thinks things are to happen kind of faster than than they then they will. but you know, of course, a lot of us that china would inevitably keep opening up and we've been early. yeah no i remember when i happened to be in taiwan when magazine first published and it was so different than other publications in taiwan, which were very staid and usually politically connected and next and, then apple daily was so not politically connected and willing to sort of, you know, pull down the covers on whoev

speaker, standing up to the chinese communist party, it's a no brainer. and standing up to communist china means standing with taiwan. mr. speaker, taiwan's security and economic prosperity are important to the united states and the rest of the world. why? because if anything were to happen to taiwan, the effect on the global economy would be devastating. here are the numbers. taiwan is the united states' seventh largest trading partner, 10th largest export market, and eighth largest source of imports and, yes, taiwan is the biggest trading partner without a deal with the united states. today taiwan is and will remain one of our most strategic partners and allies in the region. this is not only because of our shared values of democracy, peace and freedom, but also our economic ties. as communist chinese partners -- as communist china continues to threaten america's interests, we must do all we can to strengthen our partnership with taiwan and that's why, mr. speaker, we need hrment r.3 -- h.r. 33, the united states-taiwan expedited double-tax relief act.

maria: are you saying you're not worried about the chinese communist party gathering information fromiktok on user data, isn't that one of the issues. >> i'm worried about meta, google, tiktok, anybody taking my data i make informed decisions about what i use so i don't have to share my data. if you don't want to use it's a free country, don't use it. maria: let me switch gears about next week's confirmation hearings is the homeland security committee overseeing on wednesday for kristi noem dhs secretary, russ vought of the office of management and budget and all week cabinet confirmation hearings for pam bondi, doug burgum, pete hegseth, marco rubio, duffy, stephan again right, what are your expectations for the hearings and confirmation of trip under president trump's cabinet. >> in the past some minority party has not obstructed a handful of high ranking cabinet members to be approved in the first week and i'm hopeful the secretary of state as well as the department of homeland security will be approved on the day of the inauguration or the day after or that week as well as a few o

>>>>we welcome the chinese communist party into the global order, and they took advantage of all of itss, and they ignored all of its obligations and responsibilities. instead, they have repressed and lied and cheated and hacked and stolen their way into global superpower status. >>>>other trump picks, including john ratcliffe for cia, are in confirmation hearings today as the senate moves to put the president >>>>elect. and still ahead at noon and streaming on cbs news bay area. why the fda is now banning something that's been in our food supply for decades. plus, a ban on tiktok could just be days away. we hear from a bay area con the first time i tried to quit vaping, i told myself that it was like a mountain that i had to climb over and once i got to the other side, it would be clear, but i couldn't make it over. what really got me to quit was my little sister. i saw her vaping so i was back in the mountain, but this time she was up there with me. it's weird what you can do for others that you won't do for yourself. this is what joint pain looks like. when you keep moving with aleve

circuit court of appeals repeatedly said, the ccp, the chinese communist party has stolen tens of millionss through the anthem hack, the equifax hack, or the hack of the office of personnel management. this is a loaded gun in terms of their access to millions of tiktok users personal data. we don't need to wait for a smoking gun and a dead body for congress to act. and that's what it did. >> you have a little more knowledge, i think, than most about these issues, because you are a lawyer as well. i think you went harvard law, so there's that. so i want to ask you about something else in the courts today, and that is president elect donald trump. he's a convicted felon, but there is no jail time. there is no fine. he won't face any further penalty. and i wonder what you make of that. and if it sends a signal about the criminal justice system, it does. >> it's dissatisfying. on the one hand, for others who convict, who are convicted of similar felonies, chris, as you know, they were sentenced to jail time. and so it's unfair that he would get a much more preferential sentence compared to the

any informative information as it relates to a number of topics that are sensitive to the chinese communist partyit's flawed. the past studies have been flawed. they're trying to get the supreme court to intervene, to say that that ban is in violation of the first amendment. explain to parents, to users out there who might really enjoy the entertainment that tiktok provides, why they wouldn't want it being run by the chinese government. >> well, i mean, so just to give you a broad overview of our report, we emulated the user journey of the average american, searching for topics sensitive to the chinese communist party. and it would be very difficult to find that information. and it seems like based on evidence that we found in our research, that the ccp, or rather, tiktok, has the ability to suppress information that they don't want american users to see. and while the focus of the conversation around the tiktok ban or sale in the united states is focused primarily on data privacy, which is an important aspect of this debate, tiktok also has the ability to act as a persuasive technology that can

you were to think about in terms of your time as the director of national intelligence, the chinese communist party continues as a whole of government to, in fact, influence, undercut the united states and drive wedges between not only us internally inside the united states but with our friends and allies around the globe. you have called this a once in a generation challenge in your "wall street journal" opinion piece this past december. you quote, at a quarter, the intelligence is clear, beijing intends to dominate u.s. and the rest of the pan economically, militarily and technologically. director wray just this past week once again in worldwide threats hearing process and the quote again, i don't think there's any country represents a more severe threat to our innovation, , our economic security for our democratic ideals including details that they open a new counter espionage investigation on china every ten hours, every ten hours which is a thousand 300% increase in economic espionage cases in recent years. so here's the question. without preamble. is the regime in china i competitor for the u

speaking to the bbc — he pushed back on the idea from the chinese communist party that banning tiktokcompany has first amendment rights. of course, its users have first amendment rights. however, there's no first amendment right to harm our national security, and that's why congress acted in the way it did, which is allow tiktok to continue to survive but not under ccp control. because if ccp continues to control it, it will have access under its national security laws to the data of 170 million people. we know that it has repeatedly stolen tens of millions of americans�* records, data, including in the anthem, equifax and office of personnel management hacks, and it's only a matter of time before they did the same with tiktok and so, that's why congress acted. there's been a different reaction from tiktok influencers, including nadya 0kamoto. she's the cofounder of august, a period care lifestyle brand. i asked her what she makes of concerns about about national security. they're frustrating to hear, especially as a content creator, where this platform has been such a powerful tool f

we passed out last congress, which pushed back on, frankly, the chinese communist party screwing us at our own ports. my bill on lidar, my bill on american farmland that has tried to take a comprehensive look at the chinese communist party, but it's going to cost more than a dollar. >> okay. well, if you want to really do this, and this is also the era of doge, which was just about funding, is doge going to be a part of this? >> well, every single ship has to be doge approved. every single ship that goes through there is paying, on average, 50 or $60,000 in transit fees. this is a revenue source. >> listen, dusty, i understand how trade works. i'm just saying. doge is is trump's big thing, which i still don't understand how it's going to work. and hopefully you can break it down to me one day. >> one of the other elements of this, the gulf of mexico, it is the gulf of mexico. >> trump-vance wants gulf of america, the gulf of mexico, as it's been known for hundreds of years at this point. >> by the way, congresswoman plaskett, the idea that we would then go ahead and let's acquire all t

officers, when i see an ndaa of $900 billion and don't see us in a confrontation with the chinese communist party, the defense budget is too big, i'm adamant that defense budget needs to be cut. >> would hegseth do at that, steve? would hegseth do that? >> when the people tell you here the problem is entilements. they're missing the point. entitlements is a contract with the little guy. they're not going to give us their social security or medicare until they see the political class and donor class actually get their arms around discretionary spending. to get your arms around discretionary spending we have to start with the defense budget and we have to have a revolution in military affairs, that's why pete is so important, revolutionary military affairs and flows through how we have to pay for this. i'm adamant, n.a.t.o. has to pay more and the gulf em rats, and we can't have two carrier battle groups in the red sea, keeping the suez canal open, japan has to step up to the plate and people say for years we haven't done things. you've got to rethink this. if you cut discretionary spending, to ret

i hope it sends a strong message to the chinese communist party and bytedance to divest itself of tiktoksurvive-— allow it to flourish and survive. ~ . , ., ., ~ allow it to flourish and survive. ~ . .,~ ., survive. what did you make of the arguments _ survive. what did you make of the arguments that _ survive. what did you make of the arguments that tiktok - survive. what did you make of the arguments that tiktok put forward today saying that this law basically forcing it to other divest from bytedance or cease operations altogether, is an assault on freedom of speech here in the us? as you know, none of the justices believe that bytedance, as a ccp—controlled company, has first amendment rights. of course, its users have first amendment rights. however, there is no first—amendment right and that's why congress acted in the way it did, which is allow tiktok to continue to survive but not under ccp control. because if ccp continues to control it, it will have access under its national security laws to the data of 170 million people. we know that it has repeatedly stolen tens of millions

those chinese communist bankers approved millions to go to hunter's firm. and those bankers work for the chinese communist party, which oppresses their people, cheated american workers for decades, and covered up a deadly virus. to this day. hunter controls a 10% stake in that firm. and joe biden's done more than look. the other way on china. he said the chinese aren't our competition. come on, man. they're not bad folks. come on, joe. talk to the folks in middle america who lost countless jobs to china while your son was getting rich with them. but there's more fact there have been numerous press reports that have shown other close biden members benefited from joe's 47 year political career. joe biden was point on iraq, the president of a construction firm met with biden's team in the white house and then who did they hired to build thousands of houses in iraq? joe biden's close family member, who you guessed it, had no in the industry and no experience in iraq. a company official bragged that it helps to have a family member of the vice president, his partner. the family member put it more bluntly by saying t

they use these private company, the chinese, you know, communist party uses these companies as a wayd, you know, for military purposes, essentially, in panama. explain what they're doing is and how they're positioning themselves in the panama canal. >> well, the key background, rachel, is when we gave the canal back to panama, there were two treaties signed. and the treaties made clear that a panama must remain neutral. it can't start working for china or any if other country. president trump seems to be warning them that they're close to or maybe have already crossed the red line for not being neutral anymore because of the treatment of our shipping and our naval ships going through, the payments having to be made, and also the to-china attitude. the -- pro-china attitude. the chinese give contracts to manage ports, how ships come in and out, how things are done in the port. they've done that for both sides of the panama canal, and this company's quite close to the chinese communist party. so that's president trump's concern. he's warning panama, very specifically used the word warn

this is about the fact that we would allow the chinese communist party this kind of access to propaganda channels. we would never have let the soviet union buy up the cbs evening news and the wall street journal. the fact that some are okay with the chinese communist party running tiktok is hard for me to understand. >> so donald trump just days ago posted on social media, quote, why would i want to get rid of tiktok? what do you think about that? >> well, he really is talking about the content there. he sees that too many traditional social media platforms have sometimes in a deliberate way, push back against conservative voices, including donald trump's. so he understands that tiktok has been a, in some respects, a platform that's been friendlier to him. and so, listen, i get it. if we're making an argument about content, clearly the first amendment really, really matters. and we want to have platforms where people are able to say good things about donald trump, bad things about donald trump. but this is fundamentally about whether or not we want an adversary to have this much control

you were to think about in terms of your time at the director of national intelligence, the chinese communist party continues as a whole of government to influence, under cut, the united states and drive wedges between not only us in u.s. but with our friends and allies in the globe. you have called this a once in generation challenge in your "wall street journal" opinion piece that past december. you quote, intelligence is clear, beijing intents to dominate u.s. and rest of planet economically, militarily and technologically.nd director wray this past week says, i don't think there and country that pro that -- pre70s' more severe threat. every 10hi hours. which ask 300% increase. ineses cases. here is the question, with that. is the regime in china's competitor for u.s. or is it an adversary, what worries you most about china? they are interrelated in terms of the questions. >> davider to first question, china is both. they are an adversary and competitor, but they should be more of a competitor less of an adversary itan is the other way around right now. we want to compete with china, f we want t

that chinese communist party does not care what your pronouns are they care about whether you can putarheads on foreheads that is what pete hegseth is focusing on when he talks about increasingl lethality, we have highest education military, and powerful we have not won a war in 80 years, this is time for a change. that change's name is pete hegseth who will follow donald trump's lead as commander in chief, and make sure that the united states of america and our allies are protected from all enemies, that are trying to destroy the nation. larry: you know kevin, i think it is important we have to remedy all of the appeasement and dpail failures of past 4 years, i am sorry more did not come up today, i am sorry very democrats will not talk about it, so about it. they have to learn hard way they don't control senate or presidency or the house. or the policy, okay. but, you know, afghanistan was sense the beginning of the end, retreat from afghanistan was beginning of end of biden presidency, he never achieved popularity numbers, it all down hill from there he appeased vladimir putin. don

>> well, and clearly, griff, what we've got is an axis of putin working with the chinese communist party and the regime in tehran and all of them working with the billionaire who has rigged the elections in georgia. again, hey, donald trump doesn't like rigged elections for president and he, i'm sure, will realize there's a rigged election and that needs to be corrected. the people of georgia are so brave like the people of ukraine and one day like the people of iran. griff: thank you for being here and raising that topic that isn't getting as much attention. appreciate you bringing that up and we'll continue to follow that. >> again, what a great week to have, with the president's help, mike johnson become speak are of the house of representatives. god bless america and god bless donald trump. griff: we'll see where it goes, congressman, thank you. molly: fascinating interview. in less than a week, president-elect trump will learn his sentence in the new york criminal case after judge marchan denied another request to dismiss that case. cb cotton is tracking the latest for us. >> presid

>> because we have a deeper understanding of the role of the chinese communist party. these guys are everywhere. they manage, they control the ports on either end of the panama canal the atlantic in the pacific side. there are increasing number of american officials getting concerned. trey, you probably know 73% of the traffic through the panama canal is our traffic eitherfic, american imports or exports. itly is uniquely unique asset to trade relationships. the biggest traffic through there, american energy,duct liquefied gas and american egg products. donald trump wants to kill the trade deficit and if he does itp american bag products orroan e american energy that leads the way periods be when you when i whwas on the house intelligence committee haa trd took a trip to american panama canal for the reason she laid out and this is what i will do, congressman ioi willng nominate you for the nobel peace prize because if you can keep that fractiousep house together long enough to pass two bills, you deserve it. and again, most people were not watching when i was watching

know if that's possible if bite dances the chinese company and the worries can they cut the chinese communist partytrepreneur illness, frank has been on here and he wanted to. >> any deal if it were to come to pass would have to have the restrictions in their in order to suffice to the congress in the supreme court whatever the supreme court ultimately decides if they do what we think were going to do. i would add this i'm confused on the timing. by all accounts today is januarr in the law firm but i used to see the corporate guys working their tails off on deals months in advance before an ultimate deal would go through. if you have the different parties saying they're working on deals how deep into the deals must they be at this point if they're going to pull the trigger on something by jan january 19. it seems a little while to me to think this is going to happen as quickly. stranger things have happened. >> there is a ban in place when the band happened the band happens they have to make decisions before the ban takes effect. >> sunday. >> five days. >> and proud of our country for making the d

. >> we have a deeper understanding of the role of the chinese communist party. these guys are everywhere they control on either into the panama canal, the atlantic and the pacific side, their increasing number of american officials that are getting concerned. you probably know that 73% of the traffic through the pit of my canal is our traffic, american imports or exports, uniquely important asset to the trade relationships in the biggest traffic through their american energy financial gas and american act products donald trump wants to kill the trade deficit if he wants to do is go to be making act products in american energy that will lead the way. trey: you are correct. when i was on the house intelligence committee i actually took a trip to the panama canal for the reasons that you just laid out years what i'm going to do i'm going to nominate you for the nobel peace prize, if you can keep the fractious house together, long enough to pass two bills, you deserve it and most people probably were watching what i was watching. i saw you go into that room and when

my view is the chinese communist party made a horrible decision as far as what is in the best interestlong-term economic growth in china and a long-term improvement in living standards. >> well, that's absolutely right. because china's economy right now depends on exports. and the united states and the european union and even countries in the global south are now starting to tariff and otherwise restrict chinese purchases of chinese products. that is a death sentence for the chinese economy. and they need to have good relations with brussels, with washington, with all sorts of countries around the world and unfortunately xi jinping has allied himself with russia, with iran, north korea, and those are countries that by and large can't help the chinese economy. we can. but we won't because we are starting to see that china is an adversary and in 3450eu view mye actually an enemy. the point is, we are now seeing china in a very different light than we did five or 10 years ago. cheryl: that's why the conversation about the panama canal is so prevalent right now because of the chinese. >> y