ever embrace american values. us lawmakers grilled the ceo of tiktok about the wildly popular platforms ties to the chinese government and digging in israel s prime minister vows to push on with a judicial overhaul , despite widespread protests and international criticism. zeye from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with john voyeurs. we begin with it for 10 airstrikes in syria that are having deadly consequences for u. s forces deployed to fight isis, depending on says the u. s has launched a retaliatory airstrike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the east . this happened after a drone attack on facility housing u. s personnel in the northeastern part of untr. in a response, u. s defense secretary lloyd austin. said the u. s. will take all necessary measures to protect its people and that no group will strike us troops with impunity. cnn s early even spoke with me a short time ago. a one way drone, essentially a suicide drone carried out attack i
. the harmful to children. one congressman called it a cancer amid warnings that it was potentially collecting data and spying on americans for china, many in congress and the violent administration are pushing to bend the app in the u. s tiktok s ceo, denied any link to the chinese government and said he s seen no evidence that beijing has access to user data . but his words and his promises did little to calm concerns. we get more details now from cnn since actually patreon. lawmakers grilling the ceo of tiktok today, accusing the social media company of spying on americans for china avails us all and the chinese communist party is able to use this as a tool to manipulate america as a whole platform should be banned . i expect today you ll say anything to avoid this outcome. the ceo sho chu, rejecting claims that beijing has any control over tiktok, the rich chinese parent company by dance and insisting that americans data is now largely stored on
ever embrace american values. us lawmakers grilled the ceo of tiktok about the wildly popular platforms ties to the chinese government and digging in israel s prime minister vows to push on with a judicial overhaul , despite widespread protests and international criticism. zeye from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with john voyeurs. we begin with it for 10 airstrikes in syria that are having deadly consequences for u. s forces deployed to fight isis, depending on says the u. s has launched a retaliatory airstrike targeting a group affiliated with iran s revolutionary guard in the east . this happened after a drone attack on facility housing u. s personnel in the northeastern part of untr. in a response, u. s defense secretary lloyd austin. said the u. s. will take all necessary measures to protect its people and that no group will strike us troops with impunity. cnn s early even spoke with me a short time ago.
minimize casualties. general eric perilla, the commander of us central command s that if there were further iranian attacks on us forces, there might be further us responses. in a store short statement this evening, he said, we are postured for scalable options in the face of any addition. final iranian attacks in terms of how frequently this happened, in fact, parrilla again, the commander of us central command, testified just earlier today. that there have been 78 rocket attacks or u a v attacks against us forces in syria just to beginning of 2021 by his count, john average averages out to nearly one attack every 10 days , but not all of them have this sort of tragic result. tiktok s future in the u. s appears to be more uncertain than ever despite or perhaps because of the company s ceo appearance before lawmakers to try and calm concerns. the chinese owned app is a threat to us national security. shuozhou was constantly interrupted by lawmakers from both sides. his answers they sai
app is to continue operating in the u. s the chinese government considers tiktok s algorithms and technology to be sensitive. and critical to its national interest. let s have a listen now to the china s commerce ministry spokesperson. champing pension, ignoring the products and services themselves and only proceeding from the identity of foreign investors, forcing the sale of tiktok will seriously damage the confidence of investors from all over the world, including chi united staw from that earlier package, ticktock ceo shows you choose repeatedly tried to allay national security concerns about the app as we know 150 million users in the united states use it every month. he said. tiktok was an independent company. it wasn t influenced by china, and in his testimony, john he tried to distance himself from ticktock. being associated with china, stressing that he is in