Sen. Michael Bennett on why he's in favor of a TikTok ban

Senator Michael Bennet has joined calls from several other lawmakers to ban TikTok from Apple and Google app stores. NPR’s Michel Martin asks him what makes the app a national security risk.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

We’re going to start with the dramatic confrontation between the U.S. and China over that giant balloon discovered floating at high altitude over the U.S. last week. If you recall, China says it was just a weather balloon inadvertently blown off course. The Biden administration says China was using it for surveillance and shot it down yesterday. And the administration canceled – or rather postponed – a planned

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