had been under a doctor s care for an emotional disorder. law enforcement also revealed that the shooter s parents cannot think that 28-year-olds should own weapons. the disturbing details putting a renewed focus on the nation s gun laws. president biden pointing some fingers at the same time. i, again, call on congress to pass the assault weapons ban. this should not be a partisan issue. it s a common sense issue. i want you to know who isn t doing it. who isn t helping. ahead, i ll talk to a tennessee state representative who rushed to the scene after the shooting. why he says thoughts and prayers are never enough. plus, former vice president mike pence in iowa fueling more 2024 speculation, even as both he and his former boss face a major legal blow. a federal judge has ruled pence must testify in the justice department s probe of donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the latest on how pence is responding. and a perfect storm of devastation in missi
injured. he should be okay. president biden now planning on visiting mississippi, that sort of detail came up during a scrum with reporters. someone asked him if he was planning on coming. he said yes. we don t know the day that he s planning on coming. we don t know where specifically he plans to visit, but this is obviously the hub of the damage, so it would make sense. a lot of people waiting on those federal resources to make a difference in what they re seeing in their day-to-day here. perhaps that visit might instill some confidence in that process. and it always takes so many resources for the president to travel to a disaster area. you ve got to find that sweet spot where you re not taking away from the recovery effort. i know that s part of what they re working on there. maggie vespa down in mississippi. thank you for your reporting. up next, time s up for tiktok on government-issued devices anyway. as the u.s. debate intensifies over banning the popular chinese-owned app
functionally different from any social media platform. there are tens of thousands of apps that have take in as much data as tuck tok that have less scrutiny. reporter: but it s almost impossible to look inside any social media company because while the u.s. requires transparency about financials of public companies or safety recalls in cars, it does not mandate any data transparency standards. it s just about anxiety about the role these platforms are playing and not having enough data to know if things are true. reporter: chinese law require they cooperate with intelligence services, but in his testimony last week, the ceo insisted tiktok is not controlled by the chinese government. bottom line is this. american data stored on american soil by an american company overseen by american personnel.
fox news legal analyst on all that. where do you think it goes? oh, gosh, well certainly they are saying to these big companies how long do we have to wait and give you so many chances to self-regulate? we have already neil: [inaudible]. you have cambridge analytics where 87 million americans there about allegedly their data was taken and used for the 2016 presidential election. you have that. you have also the ftc who stepped in and fined facebook 5 billion dollars because of the privacy concerns where the data for all the users. i mean there s 2 billion facebook users. the data has to be protected somehow. so the legislators neil: they are trying to get ahead of it, right? facebook just announced that tens of thousands of apps over data privacy abuses. so they are trying to look like they are handling this themselves, but we have gotten beyond that. i think we have gotten beyond that. and the expectation from the users and those of the
transparent, clear, in pedestrian language just once this is what we will do with your data. do you want this to happen or not? so i think that this is being blurred. i have think you know what i mean by it. are you aware of other third party information mishand lynnings that have not been disclosed? no but we re investigating everything. what does that mean? it means we re going to look into every app that had a large amount of access to data in the pass before we lock down the platform. you aren t aware. there are tens of thousands of apps. i only have four minutes. was your data included in the data sold to the malicious third parties? your personal data? yes. it was. are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy?