how is the experience on a clapper different from tiktok? bita: one of the first thing that will differentiate us, we are 17 and up. we want to make sure there's a place for adults to connect with one another without the interference of underage individuals. when you go to tiktok, instagram or facebook, you sadly have to come across those under age accounts, and it can be frustrating for an adult that wants to make those adult friendships of any type to want to connect, not use tiktok or instagram or any of those platforms. our platform is for those over the age of 17. also we are creator-centered, so we don't have any ads on the platform. we focus on promoting creators and helping them grow in ways to monetize, and you can monetize as soon as you join clapper. going back to the ad situation, we partner up with creators and build those partnerships, but we will never be having ads on our apps. that is one of the big things that will differentiate us from tiktok. sonali: you think about both sides of the equation, national security concerns c

larry: you know we can agree that c clapper was a liar. i will never convince me about snowed en. snowden. >> i'll keep working on that. larry: all this business about trump, cutting spending. stopping funding of guy die, and again new deal, and the misnamed inflationl reducre-- reduction act, he is determined to shrink the work force, newspapers say he won't. "washington post" in the lead, he will do it, you know he will do it i know he will. >> he is all in, i will do everything to support him on cutting spending biggest danger to our country, somewhat of a fight between conservatives and libertarians it is from within it is the debt, we have to prepare ourselves but that is not our real danger, the danger is from within, destroying the currency and country through debt, it is ak ac accumulating, we have a ream problem all entitlement programs are broke, they suck up all revenue, budget we vote on military and nonmilitary, d d dis creationnary is a third of spending that all borrowed. this problem is bigger than most people can even fathom. larry: i think you are right, agree wi

good, identify the problem because beyond brennan, beyond clapper, it goes beyond so many people you about from the trump administration and the only way we are ever going to break the log jam is if we don't accept the projection, they the radical left have told us we are the ones who hijacked law enforcement agencies, are we the ones that sent law enforcement to house of worship? that was one. are we the ones that told parents that you will be dictated the agenda for your children's education? that was them. but they did it in the name of america and apparently since they have the mainstream media they are getting away with it. here is a kicker about the media, they serve an invaluable purpose in our constitutional republic and so they -- large portion of them have and there is no deep state. there are no government gangsters without some of the corrupt actors in the media who continue to print the lies about donald trump's success, about our movement and about america first mission. and so what i said in the conversation is up to us, we have the greatest leader we could ever ask fo

larry: it is a big deal and clapper afters lier. all those 51 together were liars, former intelligence guys. >> absolutely. larry: we can agree on that, but you'll never convince me about snowdin being i faithful. >> i'll keep working on you, larry. larry: he's not ann jell ick fo america. let's move on, all the business of trump cutting spending and stopping funding of dei and green new deal and the misnamed inflation reduct act and mr. tram subpoena doing this and not backing off and coming to shrink the federal work force and we probably agree with that washington post in the lead and he'll do it, senator, he'll do it and i'll do it. >> he's all in and i'll do everything to support him on cutting spending and digest danger to our country and it's a fight between conservatives and libertarians and the biggest danger to our country is from within. it's the debt. it's not foreign invasion and we have to preparerses and defend our country militarily, but it's not our real danger. it's from within to de-troy the country from debt and

downloads of rednote, clapper increased for x and 10 x in the past week.re other apps that are not social video are related to social shopping but appealing to tiktok's mobile users. there is one called real short, which shares short form video entertainment series specially created. that has seen a surge in usage. kelly, right now these companies are relatively small with all the attention on them and people looking for tiktok alternatives, they are really growing. >> it goes back to who will benefit if this does take place. that is why i am watching the shares of snap and meta, even google getting a hard read on that but the traffic or the ad dollars, will those flow into those business models or maybe some of these upstarts? >> i think primarily the ad dollars will first move to meta, second to youtube and third to snap. i believe that will be from a dollar standpoint the three largest beneficiaries. i do think this is a moment where there is an opportunity for smaller companies who are still, maybe just a couple dozen employees, some of them have been

. >> the clappers and the brennan's and the comey's of the world will always lie.cute them for lying to congress. >> do you plan. >> to investigate. >> james comey? who's on your list? >> i have no intentions of going backwards. there may be a full fledged investigation into those in congress who aided and abetted this corrupt criminal activity. >> you say. >> you're going to. >> ferret out the. >> deep state. >> no one, yes. >> or no, that did not break the law will be investigated. >> so which is it? is it listing names and vowing to investigate them, which is what you just heard. and it goes on like that? or is it the semi distancing but ultimately pretty vague statements he made today. and remember, when pressed on the enemies list, which pam bondi was able to say no, no enemies list, he said, well, we're not going to look backwards. you don't need to be a lawyer to know that all criminal investigations look backwards, because this ain't tom cruise, minority report. you don't prosecute crimes that may occur in the future. so his non-denial semi distancing state

records i think people will see how damning the evidence is against hillary and obama and biden and clapper and brennan and all these other people who politicized and weaponized intel agencies to take out president trump. that's number one. it's kind of amusing he picked the weakness case possible against president trump. the hush money case. it is not a crime to settle a nuisance claim. it is routine in business to settle nuisance claims with a nondisclosure agreement. that happens every day. i have been a lawyer for nearly 20 years. i have done that routinely. i didn't realize i was commit ago felony by settling a nuisance claim with a nondisclosure provision in that agreement. or hush money provision. it's certainly not a campaign finance violation. the prior manhattan d.a. declined to bring these charges. the manhattan u.s. attorney declined to bring these charges. the democrat manhattan u.s. attorney. the democrat federal election commission declined to bring these charges. alvin bragg himself, who campaigned on getting trump, declined to bring these charges. it wasn't until matthew wa

mike morel, clapper, all these guys signed that letter telling the american people something that wasate weeks and days before the most important election we have so this is appropriate, glad donald trump did that executive order and a host of others that he did because that's good policy. stuart: you are involved in politics daily basis that's what you do a political kind of guy. did you see this level of shock and coming on day one, these executive orders, the stuff he has done it is a revolution? did you see it coming? >> we thought it would be and one thing about donald trump, i say this all the time. i think we make the job too complicated. it is simple. when you tell the voters what you're going to do when you ran for if they elect you go do what you said. no one does that better than donald trump, dated in his first term ended in on his first day of his second term and when he told us he was going to do this stuff weather was pardons or the 51, border security, executive orders, he told us he is going to do it and did it in a way that the big and bold and so donald trump like a

one is clapper. flip is about monetizing product reviews. and real short is short form entertainment. the short form video series. all of them have seen a surge in usage in the past couple of weeks and would be expected to continue to grow if this ban goes into effect. >> thank you very much. >> biden press secretary karine jean-pierre put out this statement. it will fall to the next administration, which takes office on monday. the white house have reported that they are going to punt on this over the weekend and let the incoming trump administration deal with this on tuesday when washington gets back to work. back to you. >> what does that mean? that biden issued some sort of order? >> that means he will not take any action to enforce the law over the weekend. that means tiktok will be up and running, unless tiktok makes the decision to shut it down. it will be up and running when trump takes office on monday at noon. so, look. there are legal things here. there are national security things here. the political never late here, joe biden is

emails more likely part of the big russian disinformation operation prominent figures like james clappersigned that letter days before the 2020 election pair humor there is also social media effort to suppress information and stories about the hunter biden laptop. it cast doubt on emails reported by "the new york post" time president biden to his son's business dealings. trans-executive orders says the intel officials "willfully weapon as the gravitas of the intelligence company to manipulate the political process and undermined our democratic institutions. with that we bring in the chairman of the house intelligence committee republican congressman rick crawford from arkansas. chairman get to have you. thank you very much for being years. >> i appreciate it. >> martha: i want to take us back to 2020, this is from the presidential debate. and of october shortly before the election win this bombshell story dropped that hunter biden's laptop had emails and 51 intelligence officials reported antennae blink and was one of the orchestrators of putting together that list right before the elect

those clearance revoked officials include former director of national intelligence james clapper.ormer national security advisor john bolton. first of all u trump is not kidding around with this. this is a stab at more than just their clearances. a lot of people clear them for lives and go on tv and spout their messaging with clearances. we don't know where they are getting their information. not potentially we know exactly where they are getting it. >> yeah, i think that this is in line with the changes at the pentagon. i think he is sending a message across the intelligence community. your job is not to be involved in domestic politics. it is make sure other countries aren't involved in domestic policy but to keep us safe and no what is happening around the world. we live in a posture now as our reach tentacles across the world have shortened and been retracted. you know, some in president trump's tent say it's the way it needs to be. some in president biden's tent says it is where it needs to be and several say it isn't. the fact is we don't have the reach we had when it comes

appearance on this program and 2020 when he told us the facts about the laptop when john brennan and james clappere democrats were telling us it was russian disinformation right before the 2020 election. here is ratcliffe. >> it is funny that some of the people to complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing intelligence. unfortunately in this case it is adam schiff the chairman of the house intelligence committee as you pointed out on friday said that the intelligence community believes that hunter biden's laptop in the e-mails are part of a russian disinformation campaign. let me be clear the intelligence community does not believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that, we shared no intelligence or chairman schiff or any member of congress that hunter biden's laptop as part of a russian disinformation campaign, it's simply not true don't drunk the intelligence community into this, hunter biden's laptop is not part of a russian disinformation campaign it's clear that the american people know that. maria: ratcliffe has been a truth teller from

for former obama cia director, john brennan, former obama director of national intelligence, james clapper panetta, a few things we're expecting the president to do today. that's not all 200 but just a little taste there. cheryl: thank you so much. there's so much on the agenda today, besides the pomp and circumstance with the ceremonies. the senate will be back in session today. it will be an interesting day for everyone. brooke, thank you so much. president trump said this last night during his victory rally in d.c. watch this. >> you're going to see executive orders that are going to make you extremely happy, lots of them. lots of them. we have to set our country on the proper course. by the time the sunsets tomorrow evening, the invasion of our borders will have come to a halt and all the illegal border trespassers will in some form or another be on their way back home. cheryl: mike lee e your reaction to the day ahead and of course all of these executive orders, many more than we expected initially. >> well, cheryl, i think there's a couple parts to this and i think one of them that a

officials who claim hunter biden's laptop was russian disinformation, the officials including james clappern brennan all pushing the false claims on the mainstream media after trump's first term. often while bashing the then former president. but as it turns out the doj knew hunter's laptop was real as early as 2019. the new york post broke the laptop story back in october 2020. and big tech was front and center in president trump's inauguration yesterday. elon musk, mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos, all the big guys, tim cook, all sitting just behind trump, all close to the group of former living presidents but some of the mainstream media were beside themselves when they saw who was invited to the main event. listen. >> apple's ceo tim cook. >> how is this happening? >> only in america. >> how is this happening? why are people with tons of money up on the dais, with cabinet nominees and family members. >> i think they're up there for the very reason you probably think they're up there. >> meanwhile, open a.i. ceo sam atman is responding to senators elizabeth warren and michael bennett who both

of the cia, leon panetta and john brennan, and the former director of national intelligence james clapperthree men served in those roles under former president barack obama. but trump also revoked the security clearance of his own former national security adviser, john bolton, with whom he's had an acrimonious relationship for years. on top of that,

including on that list, former dni james clapper, the former directors of the cia, also john bolton. what's your reaction to that? >> i love it. i mean they aren't accused of it. they actually did. they willfully and knowingly mislead the american people, lied to the american people for political gain to put their thumbs on the scale to help joe biden get elected and to hurt donald trump and say that the hunter biden laptop was russian misinformation when in fact they knew it wasn't so they knowingly and willingly lied to the american people. they abused the trust that was put into them and i think the thing that trump has gone is first of all you knowingly lied and mislead the public and we know the security clearances are vital for them in the private sector making money so he's setting the record straight saying you're not going to have your security clearances. you've abused that privilege, so it also comes down to, liz, the fact that these intel officials thought they were better than the american people. they thought they were better than the duly-elected president at the time,

clapper, claire duffy reported out that there were 1.4 million over the last week. think since wednesday, and over 600,000 on lemon8 as of monday. that is also a chinese app. in fact, that's run by the exact same folks who run tiktok. i mean, what the heck is going on out there? >> i mean, you don't need to own an app to get on there and, you know, fill it with whatever propaganda you want to fill it. i mean, so the whole thing does, you know, separating separating from the ban. yeah. um, it tiktok use has exploded in the u.s. i mean, exploded, it's absolutely exploded. >> and more than that, people are addicted. it's like crack to young folks. i mean, you take ages 18 to 29. how many of them are visiting the site? at least daily? we're talking 44%. in 2014, 2015, it was 0% because tiktok did not exist. look at that rapid growth. my goodness gracious. >> i'm disturbed. yeah, you should be, i am disturbed. okay, so trump used to dislike tiktok strongly. now he's done a 180. and there's a reason why. >> yeah, i think there's a pretty good reason why young people love

jim clapper was in the defense intelligence community for decades, and he served in the obama administrationor seven years or so as director of national intelligence. dan coats, senator dan coats, he was in the intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee. these are people with experience, but also with tremendous integrity, people that you knew that were going to carry out their responsibilities, irrespective of how the political winds might be blowing. and they needed to have that objectivity and honesty in order to ensure that the president of united states, as well as policymakers, really understand what the situation is globally. and so tulsi gabbard doesn't have the executive experience. she doesn't have the intelligence background. and she also lacks, in many respects, the common sense because of what she has done in terms of visits to syria and things that she has said, you know, over the past several years, which which, you know, quite rightly raises questions about loyalty to the efforts of the united states in that role. >> so, well, this is why we need a hearing. joh

of the cia, leon panetta and john brennan, and the former director of national intelligence james clapper. all three men served in those roles under former president barack obama. but trump also revoked the security clearance of his own former national security adviser, john bolton, with whom he's had an acrimonious relationship for years. on top of that, the president ordered that bolton's secret service detail be pulled, despite the fact that officials have determined that bolton remains under threat from iran. i spoke to ambassador bolton in the last hour. here's what he said regarding the trump administration ending his security detail. >> i don't believe anybody is entitled to anything from the government, but if you're if you're going to allow people across the board really to be exposed to the seriousness of this threat without protection, it's an incentive for us adversaries to take advantage of it. and so, so now, having read the news that the coverage has been lifted, there's no question in my mind but that the that the that the actual possibility of them taking action is real.

and then finally at number three, clapper, that is american owned. but the bottom line is there are a ton of people who are worried about tiktok going, adios, amigos. so they're running to new apps. many of them are running the new apps over 5 million. and two of those apps, the top two are chinese owned, which i kind of feel like defeats the entire purpose of this whole thing of potentially banning tiktok. >> yeah, i mean, this one in particular, a lot of people going to to this particular one. yes. i do want to ask you about donald trump. donald trump was sort of the originator of this idea of the ban. he was going after them. and he's really changed, has he not? >> yeah, he he has really changed. he's really changed. and you know, now of course, donald trump is potentially going to save tiktok. and i guess the question is why does donald trump feel like he has permission from the republican base to do so, given, of course, the republican base is filled with a lot of chinese hardliners. i mean, think of tom cotton, right? senator from arkansas. how

some of them, like clapper, are u.s. based. they've gained more than a million users in just a week. but some of the other ones, like lemon8, that's also owned by bytedance, and it could be impacted by the ban in the future. so where will users go? how will businesses be affected? those are two key questions going forward. >> yeah. and brian, i mean, trump did put on truth social that he has been speaking with chairman xi jinping of china about all of this. and i suppose if he does delay this ban from taking effect, i mean, one could argue that he is doing xi jinping a huge favor here just as soon as he's coming into office. i mean, there has been a lot of sound and fury up on capitol hill from both sides of the aisle, quite frankly, over the last couple of years about the dangers of tiktok and how it opens up the floodgates of americans data to the chinese and trump would be doing xi jinping a solid here, wouldn't he? >> after coming out five years ago and calling for a ban. we're only here today talking about this because tru

and then flip clapper fan base, a number of these other apps that are also short form video creatorse money. so it'll be really interesting if we do see this ban go into effect, whether any of these ends up being sort of the winner over the mainstream apps that we know of. >> yeah. again, this is just such a huge difference from what almost everyone thought this was going to be, which was, you know, you won't be able to put the new app on the phone. it would get a little bit of clunky over weeks or months, but not i can't get in to watch my cat videos as of sunday. i mean, i think 170 million people are in for a big surprise now. the inauguration is monday and as you said, we just don't know how this is going to change or what will play out here. >> yeah, it's a really good, good question a big question. and again let's talk about that second option there that bytedance could sell tiktok yesterday. we are seeing reports from bloomberg, from the wall street journal that chinese officials are now considering elon musk as a possible new american owner for at least part of the u.s. opera

clapper is another one of those big platforms that says it's gained 1.4 million users in just the pastk. so really, this race to become the tiktok replacement 1.4 million. >> wow. all right, claire, thank you so much for that. let's get some more perspective from theresa payton. she was a chief information officer in the george w bush administration. she's now ceo of fortalice solutions. okay, theresa, for young people who love their tiktok, i mean, love their tiktok. and you're well aware of how much they love it, but they just don't get why china having their personal information is such a big deal, or being able to have influence over them with this algorithm, potentially explain it. >> i mean, they're young and so they don't have the experience of understanding that if i really can understand your patterns of life, that i can probably using software algorithms like the one in tiktok and other social media platforms for that matter, i can with pretty good certainty, predict what you're going to do next. probably even more accurate than you can for yourself, because i'm looking at yo

i think what so many of these guys did, whether it's brennan, clapper, comey, mccabe, strzok, barr, haspelrule and law breaking. and i don't know that it ever gets to the level of treason singularly with any of them. but what you have is a build up of so many actions by the deep state that it becomes borderline treasonous to allow those people and their activities in a collective fashion, ever to be applied to the united states. do you? did he work for you? do you know him? i do know him. he was in the counterterrorism section when i was part of the time that i was the principal deputy, and later the acting assistant attorney general for national security. and so there were times when he participated in briefings of cases and things like that. and, you know, ironically, i or maybe not ironically, when because he had a public defender background and had had experience with the death penalty. that's one of the reasons that he was at. >> at. >> for a brief period of time, the department, the. >> national. >> security division, he was one of the cts counterterrorism section attorneys assigned

comey, andrew mccabe, 51, former top intelligence officials included including john brennan, jim clapperthe medi, mark zuckerberg, president biden, president obama, kamala harris, hillary clinton, adam schiff, nancy pelosi. it's a list no one wants to be on, but it actually has lots and lots of other members having covered the fbi. i mean, how would in normal times, an fbi assess the threat environment? >> well. >> those people have been identified by trump. and i. >> i mean, i guess what i'm saying is christopher wray testified before congress in september of 2020 that the greatest threat facing the country was domestic violent extremism. and his sworn testimony goes on to say, and in that bucket, the largest category is white supremacist ideological ideology. you now have a group that alex wagner just described, doing interviews on camera saying, quote, i would die for the man. i would have died for him on that day. i mean, with christopher wray as the only the most recent fbi director to have testified and identified and named the problem, and for alex wagner to have this fresh, you k

james clapper lied to this committee in 2013 denying the existence of programs that facilitated the mass collection of millions of americans' phones and internet records but yet was never held accountable. unbeyond brennan's leadership, the c.i.a. used its power to spy on congress, dodged oversight and lied about doing it until he was caught and yet never has been held responsible. under biden, the f.b.i. abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil catholics who attend traditional latin mass, naming them as quote, unquote, radical traditionalist catholics. personally, just 24 hours after i criticized kamala harris and her nomination, i was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called quiet skies. sadly, there are more examples. the bottom line is this, this must end. president trump's re-election is a clear mandate from the american people to break this cycle of failure and the rep.pization and politicization of the intelligence community and begin to restore trust of those who have been charged with the critical task of securing our nation. if confirmed as d.n.i., i

we do not need another james clapper. like the fbi, we've seen our intelligence community weaponized to target opponents of the regime. the i.c. conspired to take down president trump in 2016 and 2020, and maybe most recently the election a couple of months ago. for that reason, i think tulsi is exactly the change agent we need leading our intelligence community. like bobby kennedy, tulsi switched her party affiliation because she saw the status quo as a threat to the american people and our constitutional rights. as director of national intelligence, tulsi will check her politics at the door, just like she's done the last 20 years serving in our military. she will come to dni without any bias. she will fix our broken intelligence community. and folks, it is broken. i look forward to confirming tulsi to dni. i urge all my colleagues to join me in voting for tulsi. she will play a major role in president trump's team and restoring faith in our intelligence community. mr. president, i yield the floor, and i notice the absen

records i think people will see how damning the evidence is against hillary and obama and biden and clapper brennan and all these other people who politicized and weaponized intel agencies to take out president trump. that's number one. it's kind of amusing he picked the weakness case possible against president trump. the hush money case. it is not a crime to settle a nuisance claim. it is routine in business to settle nuisance claims with a nondisclosure agreement. that happens every day. i have been a lawyer for nearly 20 years. i have done that routinely. i didn't realize i was commit ago felony by settling a nuisance claim with a nondisclosure provision in that agreement. or hush money provision. it's certainly not a campaign finance violation. the prior manhattan d.a. declined to bring these charges. the manhattan u.s. attorney declined to bring these charges. the democrat manhattan u.s. attorney. the democrat federal election commission declined to bring these charges. alvin bragg himself, who campaigned on getting trump, declined to bring these charges. it wasn't until matthew was de

and x videos are a bit like that now, but other than youtube shorts, if you were and clapper if it weren'tt and about 15 other apps, then yeah, exactly. how are you going to get your messages out there? and that message is i can eat a tide pod or whatever the stupid things they do. so, you know, yeah, it's free speech. yeah, it's a strange one, jonathan, because obviously. well, the funny thing is that a lot of people, a lot of influencers have gone to this other social media, chinese social media platform called little red book or something. it's i think that's i think that's another app. josh. anything ever. yeah.

and x videos are a bit like that now, but other than youtube shorts, if you were and clapper if it weren't that and about 15 other apps, then yeah, exactly. how are you going to get your messages out there? and that message is i can eat a tide pod or whatever the stupid things they do. so, you know, yeah, it's free speech. yeah, it's a strange one, jonathan, because obviously. well, the funny thing is that a lot of people, a lot of influencers have gone to this other social media, chinese social media platform called little red book or something. it's i think that's i think that's another app. josh. anything ever. yeah. >> well, i mean, that app you have to send your dna to, like beijing's doorstep. that's a very sort of extreme, you know, chinese. everything's in, i think, mandarin. it's very different to tiktok, but i'm i'm not sure tiktok is definitely going to come back. did you say it's back today? >> it's back. it was a self—imposed going dark. it wasn't. there was no ban. right. it was going to come into. right. >> but there was a little pop up which said like, oh, trump's going to