Pompeo was asked by host Laura Ingraham if the U.S. should consider "right now, tonight, a ban on Chinese social media apps, especially TikTok?"
"Laura, your viewers should know we're taking this very seriously. We're certainly looking at it," Pompeo replied. "We've worked on this very issue for a long time, whether it was the problems of having Huawei technology in your infrastructure — we've gone all over the world and we're making real progress getting that out. We declared ZTE a danger to American national security. We've done all of these things. With respect to Chinese apps on people's cell phones, I can assure you, the United States will get this one right too, Laura. I don't want to get out in front of the president, but it's something we're looking at."
He added that people should download Tik Tok "if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party."