Trump security adviser doesn't rule out continued Chinese ownership of TikTok 

Washington — 

President-elect Donald Trump would not regularisation retired continued Chinese ownership of TikTok if steps were taken to guarantee that American users' information was protected and stored successful the U.S., incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz told CNN connected Sunday.

TikTok stopped moving for its 170 American users connected Sunday aft a instrumentality took effect banning the app's continued cognition implicit concerns that Americans' information could beryllium misused by Chinese officials.

Waltz, a subordinate of Congress whose assignment arsenic information advisor would beryllium taxable to Senate confirmation, told CNN the president-elect is moving to "save TikTok" and doesn't regularisation retired continued Chinese ownership coupled with "firewalls to marque definite that the information is protected present connected U.S. soil."

Trump has said helium would "most likely" springiness TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a prohibition aft helium takes bureau connected Monday, a committedness TikTok cited successful a announcement posted to users connected the app.

Waltz besides spoke to CBS News connected Sunday and said Trump needed clip to benignant retired issues related to TikTok portion adding that an hold was needed for TikTok to measure projected buyers.

However, Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson sent contradictory signals, saying that helium believed Trump would propulsion for TikTok genitor ByteDance to merchantability the app.

"The mode we work that is that he's going to effort to unit on a existent divestiture, changing of hands, the ownership," Johnson said. "It's not the level that members of Congress were acrophobic about. It's the Chinese Communist Party"

Some of Trump's chap Republicans successful Congress person opposed the thought of the hold for TikTok.

Republican U.S. Senators Tom Cotton, who chairs the Senate Select Committee connected Intelligence, and Pete Ricketts said successful a associated connection connected Sunday that "there's nary ineligible ground for immoderate benignant of 'extension' of its (ban's) effectual date."