that deal, we'll see how much it values triller joining us now is triller ceo. mahi de silva.elcome. >> pleasure to be here >> there's been some controversy over exactly how many users triller reaches and exactly what its relationship has been with, for example, music publisher starting with the users, how are you measuring user reach and user engagement from here? >> yeah, user engagement for us is how we help creators help post content, you know, on our apps, on our web experience but also on every platform that they publish content on, including platforms like facebook, instagram, youtube, twitter and others >> right but how many users -- how many users does triller have? >> so in terms of monthly reach, we've talked about in the press release, we touch north of 750 million users on a global basis. >> are you counting, therefore, people who see content that was created via triller creators but not necessarily engaging with triller's platform i'm trying to understand how you measure users and therefore the value of the platform itself versus just where content is being seen

you'll hear more when triller's ceo joins you, maria, in the 8:00 hour. back to you.isting four members of the u.s. federal commission on religious p freedom this week, in response to sanctions announced from the biden administration targeting companies and politicians accused of contributing to the human rights abuses against uyghurs and the ethnic minorities in the xinjiang region. nadine nansa and yurima, james carr and mary turkle are barred from entering china. joining he me now, nuri turkle. thank you for being here. before we get into today's story, give us a sense of what you know about the uyghurs, your family was actually subject to the atrocities. is that right? >> thank you very much. good morning, for having me on. i, as you've been informed in my previous conversation with you, that i was born in re-education camp during the height of the cultural revolution. i never thought which be talking about this -- thought i would be talking about this almost daily in the last three, four years to remind the world this is what is happening in china under xi jinpin

blackstones blockbuster announcement comes one day after tiktok rival triller made its own announcementy to dive into the public pool via reverse merger with sea change international, that deal valued at about $5 billion. 2021 though no doubt was the year of the spac, blank check deals took some 600 companies public this year alone , in a fox business exclusive, spac research founder and overall spac guru, ben quasn ick is joining us, am i right it was about 600 or was it more because i know in late august it was 589 of these companies that had gone via spac >> yeah, there were just over 600 spac ipo's this year, remember this is management teams raising capital to go into a trust account and to go out and find an operating business to take public, so ultimately each of those is going to try and consummate their own business combination as an actual operating business. liz: and these 600-some companies valued at about 400 billion in enterprise value, right? do you foresee 2022 being the same, shrink a little bit, or bigger? >> so it's going to be really hard to match the ipo activity th