Nvidia China Scandal Demands Answers, Says Congressman

0:00 Has Jensen Huang agreed to the November 18 closed door briefing? And what do you plan to press him on if he does indeed join? I've heard him agree to this. But at this point, I think there's so many questions that we're going to have to probably subpoena him if he doesn't agree to come in voluntarily. Look. He lied about the affair with a Chinese spy. What else is he not telling us about? We are extremely concerned about, what this Chinese spy learned with regard to national security, whether Jensen Huang knew about, the potential diversion of high end NVIDIA chips from Mega Speed, which is the the, company that the spy ran, to China or to entities on the blacklist. And so these are very, concerning, circumstances, and we need answers right away.

0:58 Do you believe that NVIDIA's China export licenses should be paused or reviewed while these investigations are underway? Absolutely. I think that we should be reviewing their, h 200 export licenses. We already know that some of those h 200 chips went to, put, entities that were blacklisted and should not have received those chips, let alone the Blackwell chips, which are the highest end chips, which have been shipped to various customers in Southeast Asia, which may be remotely accessed by potentially blacklisted companies in China. And so there's a host of questions now with regard to those export licenses. And very importantly, we must strengthen our export controls. They were unfortunately eroded since the Biden administration left town, and now we need to modify these export restrictions through a series of pieces of legislation that I and others are leading, and that needs to be done right now as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, and it needs to be passed before the end of the year.

2:12 And congressman Krishnamoorthi, I'm curious. Have you at all been briefed on mega speed specifically separate from, NVIDIA or the alleged Chinese spy? No. I've only been, reading the published reports about it as of now. Do you have any concerns that president Donald Trump's relationship with Jensen Huang may have led the administration to take a specific approach to exports and China policy, given given his relationship with the CEO?

2:48 Yes. You know, we... First of all, we don't know when Donald Trump first learned about this affair that Jensen Huang had with a spy. But public reports say it was as early as a year ago, and at the time, Donald Trump did not take any action on it. Then as of May, he was once again personally briefed by Marco Rubio just as he was about to greet Jensen Huang to ab... Abort air force one on his way to China. And yet, again, he didn't take any action, and Jensen Huang went with him to Beijing. So it doesn't make any sense. And so this blase attitude that the president is exhibiting toward our national security, just doesn't add up, and so we need to know about that as well.

3:41 What are your committees considering at this moment? Are you thinking about subpoenas or document requests or public testimony? First, I've asked for a classified briefing with regard to all the information that the intelligence community possesses right now about this relationship between Wong... Jensen Huang and the Chinese spy. But on top of that, we need to talk to Jensen Huang himself. If he doesn't voluntarily comply with our request, then we need to subpoena him. And then last, we have to pass this legislation that I talked about before, which basically no longer leaves to the discretion of the White House whether or not we are going to be exporting these highest end semiconductor chips to Chinese Communist Party controlled entities. Congress needs to codify this into law. And on top of that, we have to restrict the export of certain pieces of equipment, that, make these semiconductor chips, and, we need to mandate the installation of, basically geolocation, technology on the chips so that we know where they are and and we can actually enforce our, restrictions with regard to diversion, of these chips to China.

5:02 Congressman, do you feel that there is bipartisan support for some of the actions that you're describing, or is there a partisan split on how, the scandal should be approached? I've not I've not heard a single person disagree with this approach. I think there's wide bipartisan agreement, but there's heavy industry resistance, including from actors such as NVIDIA and others. But given this current circumstances that we find ourselves in, I'm hopeful that our lawmakers do the right thing and put our national security first.

5:39 Congressman, what unanswered questions concern you most at this time? Well, look. We've known for years that Jensen Huang has ex... Has opposed these export controls with regard to the highest end semiconductor chips that NVIDIA sells. In fact, he was trying to get Donald Trump to vitiate or otherwise kind of lower the bar even further with regard to these export controls such that the administration could allow the sale of even higher end semiconductor chips to the CCP. Why did he do that? Obviously, he is trying to make a profit on behalf of his shareholders, but at the same time, he has an obligation to protect our national security. And what did he know about how those chips would be used? And and did he do anything that he might not otherwise do because this spy, had compromising material on him or otherwise got him to do something? We just don't know the answers to these questions. But what we do know is that Jensen Huang was very close to Donald Trump. He's had a hand in export control policy, and now, we have to take a serious look at all the circumstances surrounding the situation.