Tsirkin on the capitol hill, and our brian chungs here with me in new york, and with us, lindsey gorman, Senior Fellow for emerging technologies, alliance for securing democracy, and also Senior Adviser in the biden white house. Julie, this could be a rare bipartisan vote, why the urgency now and what does this bill do . Reporter yeah, its rare indeed, ana, every time we talk about, we talk about how things arent going well here on capitol hill. But here you have overwhelming support from republicans and democrats to pass forward this crackdown of tiktok essentially, this bill, as you laid out, would force the Parent Company of tiktok to divest to an american company, not only tiktok, this bill would force any app, any Company Owned by a foreign adversary to do the same or else tiktok is banned from the app store, from any platform here in the u. S. If that doesnt happen within six months here. Not everybody is on board, right, you did have a small percentage of young House Democrats h
it seems like a lot of republicans, there s not a ton of dissent about releasing this memo. most republicans are on board with this with the exception of a few. what s your sense from over there? reporter: yeah, hallie, it s striking. when this retreat breaks up in the next hour or so, republicans will leave without a consensus position on immigration, without a consensus position on how they ll pay for the president s infrastructure plan, and without a consensus position on how they re going to fund the government beyond next week, but they do seem to have arrived at a consensus position on this memo, and that is to release it. you saw house republicans leading the way on this, calling for the memo s release. some senate republicans who are typically more cautious about things like this reluctantly following suit, all under this idea of transparency, that the reason to do this is for an oversight purpose, they say, and for transparency into how the executive branch is doing its job.