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Mark Warner: “If they end with a deal where the algorithm remains in…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Mark Warner Discusses Tariff Impacts on Local Businesses and TikTok Divestiture

Published | Video Starts at 03:28

But you adding this additional 75 days, that is completely against, against the law. And then as you just pointed out, If they end with a deal where the algorithm remains in Beijing, I got to tell you, I was a tech guy, I don't know how that would work and I think the whole episode would be a scam. And I'm looking for my, my Republican friends who joined me in this effort to actually raise this concern. You know, our national security should not be used as a, a trading item in this tariff war. (03:28–03:40)

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Asserts that a deal allowing TikTok's algorithm to remain in Beijing would be ineffective and a scam.

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