President Trump has cast fresh doubt on any deal to keep TikTok in the country. Trump also said he had been informed that there's 'no legal path' for the U.S. to get a cut of whatever deal the government approves — an idea he had floated previously.
Mir served as staff chairperson of the during the Obama administration, the interagency panel that recommended to the president that TikTok be forced to divest in the U.S. by mid-November.
Mir said in an interview with NPR that the president approving a deal that the CFIUS did not is"unusual," but he added:"It's clearly within the powers of the president to modify his order."Microsoft, one of the most valuable companies in the world, owns Xbox and LinkedIn and was seen as the likely buyer for TikTok, but China intervened in the midst of negotiations and passed a new rule placing restrictions on how TikTok's all-important algorithm could be exported.
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