ricketts: yeah.i think that will be a key thing for us to be able to reach out and find new ways to be able to recruit, because if we don't have our people in the u.n., we are just leaving it open to communist china to do what they are doing. i look forward to potentially another round of questions. chair risch: thank you very much, senator ricketts. senator coons. sen. coons: thank you. my welcome to your family, to matt and to sam, who i hope matt and to sam, who i hope will hearing in person. i enjoyed our conversation and look forward to working with you. i will continue briefly on the conversation you were just having with senator ricketts. i think our global network of alliances and partnerships and our values are critical to our strength, stability, prosperity, security, and we got a global network of allies. china does not. they have nervous neighbors, they use coercion, but they don't have genuine allies as we do, so they have made a concerted effort to use the u.n. system to advance their i

but this is what senator ricketts was talking about earlier about american innovation. this is what senator graham was talking about earlier. there's some people who are working hard on reducing emissions countries, um. and there are that are not. senator graham mentioned china and india is exactly right. you never heard this from john kerry, but the leader in the world in the last 20 years on reducing global emissions was the united states of america, the bad guys in terms of incre look at china through the roof. this is a fact. now, i've asked some of the biden administration epa officials, hey, why do you think this happened? i think we're the leader. it would be great if you said it as we are. and they would always come back. let's see. epa reds, wrong answer. the reason this happened is because of the revolution in the production of natural gas. where we have switched to natural gas as a more cleaner burning source of energy, and when we export natural gas around the world. ms. selden, what do you think that does to global emissions? brings it down, senator. it doe

this is what senator ricketts was talked about earlier about american innovation. this is what others talked about earlier. people work hard on reducing emissions inlk this country and senator graham mentioned china ande india. you never heard this so for the last 20 years on reducing global emissions was the united states of america. that's right. in terms of emissions. look at china, through the roof. this is the facts. we are the leader. they would always come back, no, let's see. epa, reds wrong answer. the reason this happened is because of the revolution in the production of natural gas. where we have switched to natural gas as more cleaner burning source of energy, and when we export natural gas around the world, mr. zeldin, what you thinkto that does to global emissions? >> it brings it down. >> does. these are facts. so my colleagues i wish my good friend senator whitehouse with you because they don'tar like ts chart because it goes against their narrative. and then narrative that is of the facts is that when you've all the above energy including a big dic

ricketts, aye. the clerk: mr. banks, aye. the clerk: mr. cruz, aye. the clerk: mr. wicker, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. lankford, aye. mr. gallego, no. the clerk: mr. fetterman, aye. mr. durbin, no. the clerk: ms. cortez masto, no. ms. baldwin, no. mrs. shaheen yoiks mr. markey, no. mr. kelly, no. mr. schiff, no. mr. cotton, aye. mr. blumenthal, no. the clerk: mr. murphy, no. mr. hawley, aye. the clerk: mrs. britt, aye. the clerk: mr. justice, aye. mr. risch, aye. mr. grassley, aye. the clerk: whitehouse, no. mr. husted, aye. mr. welch, no. mr. tuberville, aye. mr. bennet, no. the clerk: mr. kennedy, aye. the clerk: ms. hirono, no. the clerk: mr. scott of south carolina, aye. mr. booker, no. the clerk: mr. sullivan, aye. the clerk: ms. slotkin, aye. the clerk: mr. coons, no. ms. cantwell, no. the clerk: mr. cramer, aye. the clerk: mr. hoeven, aye. the clerk: mr. hagerty, aye. the clerk: mr. cassidy, aye. mr. young, aye. the presiding officer: the yeas are 59, the nays are 34. the nomination is confirmed. mr. thune: mr. president. the presiding officer: th

ricketts: mr. president. the presiding officer: the chair recognizes the senator from nebraska. mr. ricketts: i ask unanimous consent that the senate resume legislative session and be in a period of morning business for debate only with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. ricketts: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 46, -- to the consideration of s. res. 45, at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 45, supporting the contributions of catholic schools in the united states and celebrating the 51st annual national catholic schools week. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. ricketts: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding

can you commit to senator ricketts point to work with us and the private industry on innovation that can help power america, power our allies, produce american energy and at the same time lower emissions. >> crabsolutely, american innovation has been critical and it will be critical going into the future. that's something pres. trump has often spoke of . and i believe it's one of the reasons why we saw so much support for him this last november's election. >> in alaska i talked to pres. trump about recently we have a large-scale lng project that would increase, would reduce our trade deficit by billions by exporting cleanburning alaska natural gas to our asian allies to clean burning alaska gas to americans. and would produce thousands of american jobs. can i get your commitment to hopeless work on that large-scale lng project it will help continue these global emission reductions? >> i would welcome the opportunity if confirmed to be up to work hiwith you on this and other issues. >> i have another map i want to show you. you and i talked about this issue of leaded aviation fuel or

chair graham: senator ricketts. sen. ricketts: thank you. my colic next to me from louisiana has already referenced federal spending, roughly in 2019 and $6.9 trillion in 2024. president biden's proposal was for $7 trillion. we greatly expanded federal spending, recklessly expanded it. including a number of areas that my colleague from virginia was referencing. areas that were expended during covid and never brought back down to 2019 levels. that reckless spending has led to four-year high inflation. we talked about that as well. in your opening remarks, he remarked how americans are worse off today four years later after joe biden because of his reckless spending. contributed to this inflation. that is not the only thing that contributed to how americans are being hurt by the policies of this biden administration that just left. one of the other areas they have been hurt by his the regulation. you have mentioned some of the bureaucracies out of control. throwing a 77-year-old in prison for building bonds. if you look over the last four year

ricketts. mr. risch. mr. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of souths. carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. she he. miss slotkin. mrs. smith. mr. thune mr. tillis. mr. turberville. mr. vane. hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. >> a quorum is present. a quorum is a president present. how to preserve the leadership time is reserve the senate will be in the period of morning businesspe with the senators permitted to speak and they're in for up to 10 minutes each. the majority leader will then calling up. i'm not going to read. [laughter] majority leader. >> not a present asking a subset of the sea of consideration as friends one comment which was submitted earlier today. >> clerk for pope reports a resolution for. s >> s rez one to establish a committee to inform the president of the united states a quorum in each house is assembled. >> is an objection to the proceeding that objection will proceed to the measure the rental

ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. the clerk: mr. young. the vice president: a quorum is present. the vice president: a quorum is present. under the previous order, the leadership is reserved. the senate will be in a period offed morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the majority leader will then begin calling up -- the majority leader. mr. thune: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to consideration of s. res. 1, which was submitted earlier today. the vice president: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: s. res. 1, establishing a committee to inform the president of the united states that a quorum of each house is assembled. the vice president: is there

i'll now yield to senator ricketts. mr. ricketts: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. ricketts: reserving the right to object. the chinese communist party is our chief foreign adversary in the world and the only external existential threat to our nation. they threaten our freedom, our prosperity, our security, and our very way of life. when i was governor of nebraska, i was the first governor to ban tiktok on state devices, because ever the threat it posed. why did i do that? well, because xi jinping said that he wants to replace us as the world leader. dictators tend to say what they're going to do and try to do it. we should take him seriously. tiktok is one of the ways he is trying to do it, trying to undermine what we do around the world. the chinese communist party wants to replace us. tiktok is one of the ways they are trying to influence our downfall. as many as 150 million americans use tiktok. 52% of them say they regularly get news through tiktok. and we know that the ccp uses tiktok to slant the news. thi

a hard line stance when it comes to the issues tiktok arkansas senator tom cotton, nebraska pete ricketts out with the joint statement saying now that the wall has taken a legal base for any kind of extension of effective date for tiktok to come back in the future but deals must agree to a sale that satisfies the laws qualified investor requirements by severing ties between tiktok and communist china house speaker mike johnson is supporting the true divestiture of tiktok. what are your thoughts on this? >> i will say i think the law forcing tiktok down is an abomination. it's a complete violation of our free-speech rights, the fact that it went 9 - 0 and the supreme court is terrifying. it means her government contract and any social media app at any point time in the guise of national security. i believe at some point this'll be well priced against top supporters away the laws for the war on terror have. that being said what trump is saying that your u.s. company operating in china, the chinese government will force you into a joint partner a partnership or the best teacher with a local

tommy ricketts, the ceo and cofounder of bezero, on the back of that $32 million raise. with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ pes are still calling each other rock stars. you're a rock star. we're all rock stars. oooo look look at my data driven insights, i'm a rock star. great job putting finance and hr on one platform with workday. thank you! guys, can you keep it down. i'm working. you people are (guitar noises). hand over the air guitar. i've got another one. tom: happy monday. big week in terms of earnings. we have big earnings from europe. we had ryanair earlier and the banks and luxury space in europe. the focus stateside will be on the four out of seven mag seven companies reporting, including apple, meta and microsoft. the question continuing around valuations and whether the data from these companies can justify the stretched valuations, because when you have that competitive threat out of china with deepseek. this is the view 12-month forward profit margin estimates for the mag seven companies. you see the crocodile-mouth shape versus the equal weighted forward 12 mon

>> let's discuss with republican senator pete ricketts of nebraska. senator, thank you so much for being with us. would you be comfortable with sending u.s. troops, as president trump suggested yesterday, he is considering to take over what is effectively sovereign land. >> well, i think you all are missing the bigger picture here of what president trump is trying to do. he's thinking about the long term security of the western hemisphere. we know, for example, that russians are now chinese, are looking at the arctic and how they can exploit that. that obviously concerns not only us, but everybody in the western hemisphere. and he's thinking about our long term protection. same thing with regard to panama. we know that the chinese communist party and the people's republic of china has positions, owns ports on both sides of that canal, and that puts us at risk in a potential conflict. so he's thinking about the long term security, and he's starting a negotiation. and that's what this is about. i guarantee you there's a lot more people today thinking ab

ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- banks, barasso, blackburn, budd, daines, ernst, fischer, graham, hagerty, hyde-smith, johnson, justice, kennedy, lee, lummis, marshall, mccormick, moreno, mullin, ricketts, rounds, scott of florida, sullivan, thune, tuberville, wicker, and young. ms. hassan, no. mr. blumenthal -- ms. slotkin. senators voting in the negative -- mr. husted, aye. senators voting in the negative -- baldwin, blumenthal, collins, coons, cortez masto, duckworth, durbin, hassan, kaine, kelly, kim, lujan, merkley, murray, padilla, reed, schatz, schiff, slotkin, and wyden. mr. crapo, aye. mr. cotton, aye. mrs. mr. coburn and mr. cornyn, aye. ms. murkowski, no. mr. warner, no. miss also. the clerk: ms.

> i am glad you mentioned the legal perspective because we heard from senator tom cotton senator rickettsegal side of this saying law risks bankruptcy for a any company who violates it now that law has taken effect no legal basis for extension on effective date, again, as you can see showing you -- the seen live pictures of donald j. trump about to be 47th president of the united states today now exiting suv, with wife melania, i want your reaction to this, one of the things donald trump said last night was government upper if 50-50 pro polo proposal 50 he% ownership is it government or company owning 50% of tiktok in new proposal from president-elect trump? >> um, yes, i heard that as well. sometimes, as we know, with the president you've got to distinguish signal from annoys, bombastic an interesting idea unfortunately, not provided for in the law the law is specific, that there can be no chinese upper, however,, trump could appeal to congress modify it would again, have to go back and be amendment. to allow 50% ownership with china, but the problem also to deal with, is the order last

cotton and ricketts say the law that was backed by supreme court on friday and upheld, the law risksruptcy for any company that violates it. there is no legal basis for extengsz of effective date of tiktok. they say bite dance has to agree to a sale. donald trump says do a 50/50 split. i will have kevin o'leary joining me today. we'll talk about that with him. david marcus writes in opinion section, china played with tiktok. if tiktok was a fun app some entrepreneur came up with, and somebody offered them 20 billion, why not take the profit and run? i want to ask you about the approximately library, that is your expertise, not mine. >> todd: this is unchartered territory, when it comes to nationalizing this app, a lot will need to be figured out and this is where donald trump will come into play. there is a deal here, there are parties with deep pockets. it becomes what is that thing and will china give up the algorithm, that is where money is and what remains to be seen. don't mischeryl, you are hosting today, have a great day. bring in co-host of big money show taylor riggs. not ju

ricketts: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to talk about the illegitimate court counteraction act that we voted on earlier in this chamber. the international criminal court was created to hold accountable war criminals, for example, in countries that did not have a system of justice, did not have the rule of law, and were incapable of holding those people accountable. in 2020, the international criminal court started investigating american soldiers' actions. this, despite the fact that we have a system of justice. we are governed by the rule. law -- rule of law. as my senior senator from nebraska just pointed out, we're not a signatory to the icc. we're not a part of that international organization. last year the international criminal court indicted israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. israel has the rule of law. israel has a system of justice, and israel is not a signatory to the icc. and yet they indicted him. the international criminal court is out of control. it's a rogue international organization. and

ricketts, mark zuckerberg and fritita had a dinner party and i talked to him for 20 minutes. great guy. we had the ceo of meta on the show. >> ainsley: what did he say? >> steve: did you ask him about zucker-bucks. >> brian: he said the oligarch speech he got angry. really? i grew up a democrat. i wasn't politically active. any person in silicon valley who think they are naturally democrats, joe biden blew it for them. the attacks. i was listening to podcast of joe rogan and said they used to call your people. he said, people? they would blast me. it was moving and he was talking to dan bongino, he was affable. different people, bruce blakeman. my favorite nato general secretary jens stoltenberg was there. lindsey graham and tilman was there. >> steve: party by guy that owns del friscos, what about ho hors deouvres. >> brian: i did not eat there, i didn't want anything in my teeth. you wouldn't believe the size of this mammoth thing. >> ainsley: i'll bet everyone was nice, because they are southerners. did brian participate and wear cowboy boots? >> lawrence: he did not. i'm

senator ricketts. >> thank you. welcome to the committee. thank you very much for stopping by my office so we could have a chance to talk before this committee. i appreciate your service to our country and look forward to the strong credentials you bring to the table to be our you and -- our u.n. ambassador. winston churchill said that the u.n. was set up not to get us to heaven but only to save us from hell. and we talked about the corruption going on there, the mismanagement and so forth. and you've mentioned already this concept that we have to have reform there. that's very important. we talked about how much american taxpayers into the u.n., $18 billion a year. and to put that in perspective, in 2022, that was more than 185 other member nations combined. chairman risch mentioned the percentages, 22% of their overall budget most recently and so forth. so we invest a lot there. we talked about these reforms. do you believe that we can leverage the money we are putting into the u.n. to drive the reforms? so, for example, can we say to the

ricketts: senator cornyn. sen.cornyn: as she pointed out, the united nations has a long and shameful history with regard to his treatment of our ally israel. you alluded, and i think quite appropriately, to daniel moynihan statement about the 1975 resolution basically calling zionism a form of racism. i think history has remembered that as a moynihan moment and i look forward to many stefanik moments during your tenure there at the united nations. i am pleased to support your nomination. i have a couple of questions. one about iranian nuclear aspirations and the other about russia. first let me start with russia. we know mr. putin does not honor any obligations with the russian federation dating back to 1994 with the budapest memorandum where he said they would protect ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for relinquishing their nuclear weapons. more recently, he has not only engaged in, provoked of a prior art -- barbaric attack of the quite in violation of that, but also annexation of belarus. what do you think our

april had infectious to the closest pneumonia, whooping cough, edema from starvation. ricketts and sco yes, this is as mazda will survive, searched for her daughter and found her mother mendoza was sent to barrack numbers . 16 doesn't, i'm not, i'm sorry. that was the hospital after the was the provisional one where my sister was born on my exactly notarized board. nina nora was born and april, done, and then we stayed for another 6 weeks of my dual credit. and so i did the math up to the middle of june. it was warm then and we had recovered a whole it. i got well enough to work on those even though from content. nora was given russian powdered milk and thrived on come to get there. my mother was also able to walk the buying to get and then we left the outfits camp and headed towards slovakia funding in towards trend to mikaya from french. her father's home town. they cover the 200 kilometers on foot all by hitch hiking. nobody in trend seen, talked about it, but everyone knew what had happened. a 1st mothers search to family members, but they were all that she had said, so she tried n

april had infectious to the closest pneumonia, whooping cough, edema from starvation. ricketts and scotia. yes, this is his mother who also survived, searched for her daughter and found her mother mendoza was sent to barrick. number 16, a dozen, i'm not them 3. so that was the hospital after the war, the provisional one where my sister was born, i might exactly notarize. good morning. nora was born in april dunbar and then we stayed for another 6 weeks of my dual credit. and so i did the math up to the middle of june. there was warm then and we had recovered a whole it got well enough to work on those. even though from content. nora was given russians, powdered milk and thrived on come to get the my mother was also able to walk to bind the gate. and then we left the architects camp and headed towards slovakia, pointing towards the trenches of mckyrie to trench. her father's home town. they covered the 200 kilometers on foot, all by hitch hiking. nobody in trenching talked about it. but everyone knew what had happened. a 1st month as such, 2 family members, but they were all dead sea hetze

zuckerberg will be hosting along with todd ricketts who is, of course, the inventor of rickets.s gonna be a good few years for him, as well as fellow industrialist cornelius t. measles, theodore whooping cough, and phineas j. flogging a street urchin with your cane. these are the guys that biden warned us about, but truth be told, democrats have done precious little to prevent the rise of oligarchs. possibly because 83 billionaires supported harris. that's why biden's speech last night was the "geico presents the pfizer dire warning about the dangers of corporate influence" live from the crypto.com oval office, brought to you by slim jims new chile limon. "snap into caution!" [applause] everybody loves slim jim. every incoming president and vice president have official photo portraits taken for the occasion, and trump and vance just released theirs. let's take a look at the vice president-elect's. wow. nice. i love how that blue tie brings out the color of his dead soul. now let's take a look at trump's official inaugural portrait. gah! that is terrifying. is he trying to scare

zuckerberg is joining forces with chicago cubs owner todd ricketts and the widow of vegas business mogulmp donor sheldon adelson to host the event. meta donated $1 million to support trump's inauguration committee. zuckerberg is one of several tech leaders who are forging closer ties to trump as he returns to power in the north bay. new parking rules are now in effect in napa, which officials say will reduce congestion on city streets. they'll also have a big impact on unhoused people living in rvs, rvs, busses and trailers can no longer park in the same spot for more than four hours. napa is the latest bay area city joining san jose in restricting rv parking. after a supreme court decision last summer allowed cities to be more aggressive in their homeless response. the turf wars are back on the peninsula. this week, leaders in palo alto are set to discuss the future of artificial turf on city fields. the city council is set to vote on whether to fund a six month study. the pros and cons of fake turf. palo alto has three synthetic turf fields. the city put the replacement of one of them

i would like to get your take on the legal challenge we're getting from tom cotton and rickettes. >> terms of the 50% ownership interest, the joint venture potential and mehek, you could even probably speak to it but the fact is, 50% ownership of what? a joint venture of what? are we talking about the platform? are we talking about the algorithm? we know we're not talking about the algorithm. otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. so the question is, where does this actually go? and then just i guess the last question just on that thought, you mentioned that there was a timeframe, the 90 day timeframe and whatnot. the law actually does say potentially, i think the president could have a carve-out to where he could extend that just enough perhaps if there's adjudication, i think he may have an ace up his sleeve if he wants to do something. >> i have to agree with you there. if the president can show there's actual facts and actual people that are coming to the table and there is a deal that's going to secure national interest, national security interest, then we're

ricketts: great, thanks. we'll get into it in the second round of questioning as well. but i think it's really, really important that we get away from what the biden administration was doing with regard to trying to tip the scales towards their solution. that's how i interpret their delay on renewable fuels. we all want to reduce our impact on the environment and renewable fuels is one of the ways to do that and they wanted to push their solution to electric vehicles. electric vehicles can be part of the solution how we do that as well but we should focus on american innovation. and i appreciate the fact you mentioned this in your opening. american innovation is how we solve our problems in this country. so allow americans to innovate and find ways to reduce our impact on the environment. and i'll give you one example. last year, maybe it was two years ago, i was seeing a demonstration by a hybrid vehicle that for a $600 kit had been equipped to burn 85% ethanol and it was getting 38 miles to the gallon while reducing the amount of emissions that would have normally bee

zuckerberg is joining forces with chicago cubs owner todd ricketts and the widow of vegas business mogullson to host the event. zuckerberg is one of several tech leaders who are forging closer ties to trump as he returns to power. it's unclear if the list of tech billionaires on trump's inauguration vip list will keep their seats for the swearing in. zuckerberg, elon musk and jeff bezos were all supposed to be front row on stage for the ceremony, but that could all change now that it's been moved inside the capitol rotunda. trump has picked musk to lead a government efficiency department in his administration. meta and amazon have each donated $1 million to the inaugural committee. the change of plans for today's ceremony will also have a big impact on the many people who have traveled from all over the country to see the inauguration. they won't be able to gather outside the u.s. capitol building. abc news reporter lena howland is in the studio with a look at how some republicans from the bay area are reacting. good morning lena. >> good morning gloria. cold weather or not, many bay are

congress will look at that with with the leadership from president trump, senators tom cotton and pete ricketts released a statement a short while ago saying, now that the law has taken effect, there is no legal basis for any kind of extension by its effective date for tiktok to come back online in the future, bytedance must agree to the sale, so sounds like they're kind of agreeing with what you said, but yet to change the law to do anything different, but also just sort of philosophically is that the approach that you would like the trump administration even to consider? >> or do you think a actual sale is the safest way to go? >> well, the law says a sale, but. >> but what do you think should happen? >> well, what we want is we don't want china spying on americans. we don't want china influencing young people. and 170 million people who are involved on this app. so that's what we want. how that gets resolved, i guess we're open, open to different scenarios. but right now the law is the law. and of course you get these companies abiding by the law. they don't want to have a liability concern

republican party has become totally recumbent in the presence of trump, senator cotton and senator ricketts have sent made a statement that that under the terms of the law dealing with tiktok, there is no legal authority for trump to give a 90 day reprieve. and speaker johnson said essentially the same thing this morning. so we're headed for a real confrontation here between those who understand that tiktok is a threat to american national security and donald trump, and which is going to be which is going to be crucial because trump has already indicated china is going to be obviously, as it would have to be, but front and center for him. >> you know, you talk about that as a threat to national security. let me talk about a national threat to national security. that is, of course, much more tangible. and that is actually missiles. okay. trump saying moments ago he's going to build an iron dome missile defense system like israel has now. of course, for israel it's for short range missiles. it is because their country is small. it's for missiles coming in from close distances. it does not wor

i'm thinking of ricketts and tom cotton in the senate are very much still in alignment with this.tok has to go, but a lot of republicans are starting to now back off this a little bit as they see trump and they're trying to follow his bob and weave on this. >> yeah that's right. they see a political strategy here too for them. jessica, these are elected officials. they represent millions of constituents who love and use tiktok. they're getting letters from their constituents who are begging them to bring it back. and not just users, but small businesses who rely on it for a living. so they're feeling that political heat. but i will say the national security threat still stands, you know, so the supreme court deciding not to intervene on this kind of suggests and shows you that the first amendment argument, in light of national security concerns is not going to be one that holds. and so i'm very curious to see moving forward, if we do kind of back away from the tiktok situation, what precedent does this set for how we treat chinese tech in our overall national security plan? >> yea

. >> and there are senators, senator tom cotton, senator pete ricketts that that have voiced similar. they're saying they stand by this as well. do you are you all talking to the president's team? are you trying to nudge him in that direction? is there any sort of outreach? >> no, i haven't talked to the president's team. and the president's team has not spoken to me about it. and so i would hope that in the coming days, now that when they get on board that they speak to the republican members of the of the select committee as to why we were all behind this law and why we think it's it's necessary. and and the same thing on the senate side. and so, you know, i expect a robust dialog on this. and we may have differences of opinion, but, you know, we need to row in the same direction. >> i also want to talk about immigration. that's another bucket that he's really focused on. and executive actions that are planned for tomorrow. um including potentially that could lead to raids in cities across america. also the, you know, a variety of policies kind of tied into that. what's your expecta

it's a fascinating interplay because tom cotton, along with pete ricketts, came out with a blisteringtatement about this. and look, i will say this. i talked to a lot of folks in my party who are really very much against this app and they view, look, this right here, a law signed over by signed by president biden passed overwhelmingly in the congress, is the last chance to kill this thing. if it doesn't, then not only obviously does it survive, but republicans are gonna have to play on it because then it's not going anywhere. >> and it's interesting. we were talking about how jay six would be this interesting early test of trump, but it actually might be tiktok. and if you were watching the rally yesterday, the president elect was talking about how he's going to team up with the u.s., is going to team up with china, and america is going to make a lot of money off of tiktok, as if that were the issue, as if the issue were that china is going to make too much money. and if the u.s. can just sort of get a cut, it will resolve all the issues. it is a national security concern and is a nat