good evening, bret. this is a major step in the ongoing battle over tiktok and the growing attempts to limit its use or in this case, to ban it entirely. montana s law now signed by the state s republican governor prohibits any downloads of tiktok in the state and would find any, quote: entities, meaning an app. store or tiktok itself $10,000 per day for each time someone, quote, is offered the ability to access the social media platform or download the s enforce somebody scenes open question. ban come back increasing concern lawmakers nationwide and fbi and other agencies over tiktok, which is owned by a chinese tech company called bytedance. officials worry that the company could share data on american citizens with the chinese government. now, the montana ban, the first of its kind in the nation, seems certain to face legal challenges from tiktok, from those who provide access to the app. from businesses that use tiktok for advertising and f aclu who said the ban is unco
it s not insurmountable. i did have the opportunity to go into mexico with congressional delegation a number of months ago. and we were able to speak to those leaders both in the navy and army and with foreperson minister and point out we need more assistance when documents pushing back against china and the precursors coming into mexico. they did state that they would step up and really push back against precursors, track where those precursors are going. that s why it s important that we continue to work on these relationships. relationships matter. they matter in the united states senate. they matter as well when we re all fighting against fentanyl. bret: secretary blinken has said when he talks to china he makes clear that this is a major issue for the u.s. and they come back and say it s demand problem in the u.s. on the drug side. look. there s a demand problem but that s not an excuse. i mean, china has in the past