During a State Department press briefing on Thursday spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked if the Trump administration has made a recalculation on the security threat posed by TikTok after it delayed the force divestment from ByteDance months ago.
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00:00MS NAUERT- Yes, Andrea Mitchell.
00:01MS NAUERT- And let me – one follow-up on that and then I'm going to ask you
00:05about Hamas and Gaza and Israel.
00:07MS NAUERT- Certainly.
00:08Is there any reevaluation of TikTok and its vulnerabilities, as was defined by
00:14the previous administration as a dangerous – for national security reasons – does
00:20the White House – well, does the administration have any reevaluation of TikTok in this context
00:26as you're cracking down on Chinese –
00:30MS NAUERT- I would say you'd have to – you'd have to send that question, ask that
00:35of the White House.
00:36What we do know, though, of course, is that we're serious about Chinese intervention here,
00:42if you will, the nature of what's driving, of course, this new visa vetting dynamic.
00:49But for that specifically – I know the President has spoke on it – you'll need to ask the
00:52White House.