Someone not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party should purchase the video-sharing app TikTok, which was officially banned in the United States on Sunday, said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
"Well, I think it seems to me, if there's some other remedy than someone else purchasing TikTok who's not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, that you would have to have some kind of change in the law," Jordan said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
"And maybe that's where we need to go ... as long as there are the safeguards in place," he said, adding that he thought that's what Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., "was pointing out earlier."
Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser appeared on "State of the Union" prior to Jordan and said the app could be saved via a sale.
"We're confident that we can save TikTok, but also protect Americans' data and protect them from influence. Whether that's an outright sale, whether that's some mechanism of firewalls to make sure that the data is protected here on U.S. soil, that's what the president will be evaluating," Waltz said.
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