Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday said President Trump would like to hammer out a deal on TikTok's future ownership under the current deadline, saying the president "doesn't like to ask for extensions."

"So, it's in Donald Trump's hands. He is going to make the decision how he wants to play it," Lutnick said in an interview on FOX Business Network on Friday. "And you know Donald Trump. He wants to do it in the timeframe that he was given."

"He doesn't like to ask for extensions, because he is the best businessman who has ever sat behind that desk and he knows how to do things," Lutnick continued. "He is going to try to get it done in the timeframe that he has. So, that's number one."

Lutnick's comments come just weeks ahead of the April 5 deadline requiring TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance to divest........

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