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"President Trump has said 'enough' and we're going to fix it and
so he will take action in the coming days with respect to a
broad array of national security risks that are presented by
software connected to the Chinese Communist Party," Pompeo said
on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures."
The news comes after Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One
on Friday that he would issue an order for social media platform
TikTok to be banned in the United States as early as Saturday.
Over the last several months, U.S. officials have repeatedly
said TikTok under its current Chinese parent company,
Beijing-based software firm ByteDance, poses a national risk
because of the personal data it handles.
"They're true privacy issues for the American people and for a
long time, a long time the United States just said 'well
goodness if we're having fun with it, or if a company can make
money off of it, we're going to permit that to happen,'" Pompeo
said.
In response, under a recent proposal, ByteDance is willing to
divest the U.S. operations of TikTok to Microsoft in a bid to
make a deal with the White House, two people familiar with the
matter told Reuters on Saturday. That offer has gained some
support from allies of the president, including Republican
Senator Lindsey Graham.
In a separate interview on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United
States, which reviews the national security implications of
foreign business deals, is looking at the matter.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)
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