After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court that said the ban was necessary for national security.

On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by White House reporter Cat Zakrzewski to discuss the latest on the massive set of tariffs President Trump is putting into place.

President Donald Trump created a fresh round of confusion on Capitol Hill this week with his latest scheme to force China into a TikTok deal. With two major deadlines looming — Wednesday for a major tariff announcement,

Trump said that “there’s tremendous interest in Tiktok,” adding that he would “like to see TikTok remain alive.”

The video app is barreling toward a Saturday deadline to change its ownership under federal law or face a ban in the United States.

Mobile technology company AppLovin has made a bid for TikTok and talked to casino magnate Steve Wynn about backing it, according to people familiar with the matter, joining a flurry of suitors for the video-sharing app.