sean has a keg. but don t worry, it s light beer so y all will be fine. all right. great to see everybody, sean. great. love you too. anyway, have a great weekend. all right. i m laura ingraham. and this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. thanks for being with us. the tock party, that s the focus of tonight s angle. well, mr. china came to washington today and it was quite a spectacle. we have heard important concerns about the potential for unwanted foreign excess to u.s. data and potential manipulation of the tick tock u.s. ecosystem. our approach has never been to dismiss or trivialize any of these concerns. we will firewall, protect us data from unwanted foreign access. can you do surveillance of other americans ? we will protect the u.s. user data and file it all from all our foreign access is a commitment that we ve given to the committee. i want to hear you say with 100 percent certainty that neither vytenis nor tiktok employees can target other america
he hasn t. and that he doesn t really see that project . texas is going to be useful. now, this is ludicrous. at any time of day or night now. and a year from now, president or any ccp official can demand user data and he ll be given user data. in fact, even chu couldn t deny that top staff by dance are, in fact members of the communist party. logic would tell us that there are a fair number of your employees are members of the chinese communist party. at least a dozen or so who have access to this data? isn t that so? again, like i said, i can ask one or two people we don t have a policy, does it? because it s so easy now, even though we knew that china was stealing user data, we ve allowed tic tacs reach to metastasize. now there are a staggering one hundred and fifty million tiktok users in the united states . mr. chu is bragging about that
the report. congressman, i can get back to you on that. i want to be precise and i ll get back to you all day long. mr. chu labored to reassure the committee tiktok is working hard on their new corporate plan to cordon off the operation from prying eyes . we have designed project texas to protect us user interests and to move forward here in the u.s. again is the protection of storing american data on american soil by an american company looked after by american personnel now scrambling to stave off an all out ban. so tiktok proposed a one point five billion dollar corporate reorganization, kept referring to it called project texas. very clever, insisting that all data would be stored in the u.s.. and as he said , those servers would be run by americans at oracle. but just recently, after studying that very proposal, the committee on foreign investment said that that proposal failed to address the data vulnerability issue, only getting the company out of chinese hands would add
that problem. china s 2017 national intelligence law states very clearly that, quote, any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with state intelligence. in other words, byte dance and also your tick tock employees that live in china, they must cooperate with chinese intelligence whenever they are called upon. if the ccp tells bite dance to turn over all data that tiktok is collected inside the u.s.. congressman, first, i m singaporean. that s fine, but there are employees of yours and by dance s in china, we understand his concern. we build something where we take that data and put it out of reach. even democrats didn t seem to be buying it today. that mr. chu is creepy, not credible. i still believe that the beijing communist government will still control and have the ability to influence what you do. you re trying to give the impression that you re a good actor, but the commitments that we would seek to achieve those goals are not being made well thr
tiktok on your phone, china can track your location, they can track your keystrokes, they can read your phone messages, your contact list, all of this stuff. it s because the ccp effectively controls all major corporations in china and that absolutely includes tiktok. well, what s interesting to me is that mr. chu referred to the fact very quickly in his opening statement that the afp does not exist within china. so the afp does not operate within china itself. i was surprised that more of that wasn t made at the hearing itself. senator hawley, why if it s such a great app, why don t the chinese people have access to it? yeah, exactly. and the reason is , lura, this app is basically digital finial. that s what it is . it is not designed to make our lives better. it is designed to disrupt. it is designed to get into our kid s head. you look at the amount of suicide promotional material for example, that tiktok, it s off the charts. some of that was brought up at