bloody conflict between two rivals turns even deadlier. they are using intelligence and surveillance tools to help national convoys of cars get to the port in sudan where american military ships are standing by. the u.s. evacuated all its government employees from sudan over the weekend and suspended operations. blinken called the move the only feasible option given that hundreds have now been killed and thousands more injured in the fighting. kylie atwood starts off our coverage from the department where officials insist there is to plan to put military boots on the ground in sudan. reporter: with the violence only getting worse, the u.s. government is looking for ways to support american citizens who remain in the country. we would like to help as many americans go as possible, but we want to be able to do so in a way that is fundamentally reduced overall risk, not
1E and Wakefield Research determine more than half of IT workers would turn down an otherwise desirable position if they knew the company used surveillance technology Over the last several years,
we have developed incredible abilities to track illicit money and money laundering. we can use those same tools against the cartels, just like we can use the same surveillance tools are used to track down people like usama bin laden, here we need to track down cartel leaders, as well, it simply takes leaders in washington who are committed to protecting american people from this great threat. john: the pressure is rising. we will see if the biden administration is prepared to react. senator, thanks for talking with us. sandra: thank you, senator come appreciate it. john: when you put it in the national security perspective, the threat to this country and of the number of americans who died from the drug trade, it is so much more than it was in the past and it really does raise this. sandra: and this idea sort of snipping away at them rather than getting to the root of the problem, that is where lawmakers like lindsey graham are going with this bigger discussion we are now havin
using. yeah. and this china is the great bipartisan force, i think, in american politics right now. you saw it around the chips act. now you are seeing it around tiktok, not just the kind of content that s on it. it s the ability for it to be a national security threat and the ability for china to collect tremendous amounts of information on americans and what s on their phones other than what s on tiktok. have you even heard concerns about chinese cranes. these giant construction cranes that can be surveillance tools. so i think that there is washington right now is really seized of the threats that china poses and it sounds like they are going to do something about it. bret: marc. think about it tiktok the chinese communist party can read your key strokes passwords. bret: what rubio was asking about. they can get all your passwords and text messages. they can track all this information. and if you remember a few years ago the freakout we had over the nsa surveillance progra
national security issues and i was proud today that we had 12 senators, six democrats, six republicans that says this rules based comprehensive approach will allow the administration to take action up to and including banning tiktok and i think we could use it for that. but, the what we need is a system in place that will take care of not just tiktok but other future foreign based technologies coming out of countries like china that pose national security threats. bret: i want to talk to you about the national security threat. you see a lot in the position that you are in. there has been a lot of talk about these chinese cranes in different parts of the country in a lot of our ports that they would possibly be used as surveillance tools for the chinese. are you seeing that? listen, i think one of the things that we have not done a good job on is if we in the intelligence community find