U.S. Sen. James Lankford sat down with political analyst Scott Mitchell to discuss national security, online safety, cancel culture, government spending, and Oklahoma’s role in military defense.

Lankford said TikTok is a security risk for the U.S. and is pushing away “basic American values.” He explained the app’s parent company, ByteDance, is owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

“All the data from TikTok is directly transferred to the Chinese Communist Party,” he said. “They get unlimited access to that information, that’s all the numbers and access, contacts, everything else that’s connected with TikTok and that anyone gives to it.”

He said the Chinese version of TikTok focuses on education and national pride, while the American version encourages distractions. “The Chinese are defin

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