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Frank McCourt and I, who put the Project Liberty syndicate together to buy TikTok, are awaiting the outcome like all the others are from Xi. This is a company that has a golden share in it, where the government of China, notably Xi, decides what he’s going to do. We don’t have any indication yet that Xi has decided what he wants to do. The anticipation is that we’ll get an extension on Saturday, because there’s no question there are people interested in buying TikTok.
I think the difference with McCourt and I is we are preparing for the eventuality, looking at the law and talking. There’s a lot of lawmakers that want to see this asset completely disentangled from the Chinese code and ByteDance completely. We’ll work a deal any way we can, and if we’re told we cannot use the source code, or ByteDance can’t be an owner, or whatever Trump and Xi decide, we’re gonna work with that.