topping our tech lead today, the biden administration has an ultimatum for tiktok in the united states. either the chinese-owned parent company needs to sell its stake in the u.s. version of the very popular social media platform or tiktok will be banned. this comes after more than 20 states and the federal government banned the app from official government devices over concerns that the data collected from users phones would, could end up in the hands of the chinese government. axios senior media reporter and cnn media analyst sara fischer joining us. tiktok already on more than 100 million american phones, including my daughter s. would china s devestment matter?
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i know it s been a busy week, but we have been following some other big stories you may have missed. on wednesday, president trump toured an apple plant in austin, texas, with ceo tim cook and the president claimed he personally opened the facility. well, that s not true. that facility has been operating since 2013. we also learned that facebook ceo mark zuckerberg attended a previously undisclosed dinner at the white house with trump and facebook board member back in october. and after an incredible fallout from a bbc interview, prince andrew is stepping away from public life and most recently it s been reported he s being cut off by the royal family. he discussed his relationship with convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. we re joined by dillon, senior media reporter. this is your big scoop. he has tried to play himself as
john bolton s dismissal to warnings about hurricane dorian. i have a reporter for the new york times and nbc senior media reporter. dillon, talk to me about this line of attack, about how the democrats and the media are conspiring against the president. is there something the media or the democrats should be doing to push back? well, look, first of all, what i would say is the democrats are attacking the president and reasonably so, as julian castro said in last night s debate, that s politics, that s what the democrats should be doing. i think the media has been doing more than its fair share of scrutiny on the president and this administration and i think you could argue that most of that is commensurate with a lot of the sort of abnormal aspects of this presidency. what i would say, though, what i thought about particularly watching the split screen between last night s debate and president trump s remarks in baltimore, is this question of brand engagement. how are the institution
cnn released a statement saying we are gratified with this result, and we look forward to a full resolution in the coming days. our sincere thanks to all who have supported not just cnn, but a free, strong, and independent american press. i want to bring in white house correspondent jegeoff bennett, pete williams, senior media reporter, dylan byers and political analyst and former white house chief of staff under president george w. bush andy car. pete, i want to start by having you walk us through this initial ruling. what does it say? it s round one to cnn in this court battle. what the judge basically said here is that the way the white house handled this denied jim acosta a fair chance to try to get his press pass prevent his press pass from being suspended. in the legal language denied him due process by simply taking it away without giving him a chance to say, hey, i really should be able to keep this. after the court victory, acosta