'It is NOT under control': Ex-Trump staffer WARNS Trump admin unprepared for SHOCK security scandal

The shocking national security scandal. around Donald Trump. One driven largely by his own inaction. and apparent self-dealing. And one that ensnares multiple members. of Trump's cabinet continues to explode. into public view today. As the embattled CEO of Nvidia. and Trump mega donor, Jensen Wong resigned today after the revelations. that he had engaged in an affair. with an alleged Chinese spy. An affair that raises serious questions. about whether it led to the Chinese government, getting their hands on highly sensitive.

technology. That's key to America's AI dominance. Technology which in the wrong. hands could be used to threaten. America's safety and security. in ways that would have been. previously unimaginable. Now the final straw appeared to be this brand. new reporting in the New York Times. that Wong had engaged in an additional. extramarital affair, not the one with a spy but another person, this one is one was one of his direct reports. and that reporting is based on interviews. with five people who worked at the company.

After Wong resigned, Reuters reported that Wong. had engaged. in yet another affair, a third one that we know of, with an additional, another NVIDIA employee. That is according to two people familiar. with that matter. Trump while standing at the White House. podium behind the seal of the president. of the United States of America denied. ever being BEING WARNED THAT ONE OF HIS. CLOSEST ALLIES HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED BY. A CHINESE ASSET. REPORTING IN THE NEW YORK TIMES YESTERDAY, SAYS THAT TRUMP HAD IN FACT BEEN WARNED.

AT LEAST TWO TIMES THAT THE MAN WHO. HE DONATED $25 MILLION TO HIS. PRIZED GOLDEN BALL ROOM AND. CONVINCED HIM TO LOOSEN EXPORT. CONTROLS ON ONE OF PRESIDENT OF AMERICA'S. MOST SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGIES WAS. INVOLVED WITH THE CHINESE AGENT. DESPITE THOSE WARNINGS, TRUMP BROUGHT WONG WITH HIM ON. BOARD AIR FORCE ONE TO HIS LAST. MEETING WITH CHINESE PRESIDENT. XI JINPING IN MAY AND UNTIL. MONDAY WHEN ALL THIS REPORTING. BLEW UP WAS STILL FLOATING. WONG IS THE NEXT MEETING WITH. THE IDEA OF HAVING WONG ATTEND.

HIS NEXT MEETING WITH PRESIDENT. XI NEXT WEEK. THE SCANDAL IS ONLY LIKELY TO TO GROW, A MANEUVE REPORTING IN AXIOS THAT AS LATE. AS LAST WEEK TRUMP'S COMMERCE SECRETARY. HOWARD LUTNICK RESISTED IMPLEMENTING. EXPORT CONTROLS ON. NVIDIA'S AI CHIPS. THAT'S ACCORDING TO SIX. SOURCES. AXIOS REPORTS that this was not the first. time. Lutnick attempted to interfere. in curbing China from obtaining. this highly sensitive technology, noting that he had intervened. on two previous occasions. Despite these revelations, Trump continues to to stand.

by Lutnik for some reason, raising questions about why. Trump. continues to block accountability. for the company in which he personally. owns at least $12 .5 million in stock. The White House has said that Trump. does not personally manage his portfolio. in the sign of either the size. of the scandal or Trump's waning power. after the midterms, or both. Congressional Republicans are now. joining congressional Democrats. in demanding answers about all of. this and what the Trump administration. and NVIDIA knew and when they knew it.

With outgoing House Speaker Mike Johnson. announcing that Wong will testify. before Congress in a closed-door session. before Thanksgiving. The unanswered growing questions. about how much damage Donald Trump's. inaction has done to U .S. national security and to the industry. basically. propping up the entire American economy, and how much his own personal investments. and bottom line factored into any of his. decision-making. is where we begin today with some of our favorite. reporters and friends. New York Times intelligence reporter Julian Barnes is.

here, he's bylined on the reporting. about Trump being warned. about the spying allegations, also joining us former DHS chief of staff. During Trump's first term, Miles Taylor is here. He's the founder and executive director. of Defiance .org. With me at the table, constitutional law scholar. and author. of Who Decides Who Decides on Substack, James Sample is back. So, Julian, do this for me, for my benefit, not anyone. else's. The conflicts and the national security threats.

for dummies version of your reporting? All right. So, look, AI is the most important. technology going. on right now. And, you know, the U .S. and China are racing to get. ahead. The U .S. is ahead of China. But it is critically important. for China to get access to the most. advanced chips, and those chips are made by. NVIDIA. And so the essence of our reporting is.

that a woman named Alice Wong, who was an executive at Megaspeed, a company that builds data centers in Malaysia. and that are used by Chinese companies, in this case Alibaba, to train AI models, to make their AI better, was an intelligence asset, a spy for the China's Ministry of State Security. And her tasking was to learn.

about NVIDIA's chip plans, potentially influence Jensen Wang. to send more chips toward China. or even potentially loosen American policy. Now, Jensen Wang has always been someone. who advocated for lower export controls, selling more chips to China. But over time, he got the president's ear. And so this person who has the ear.

of the president, who's an influential voice on how we should handle the. competition. with China on AI, had a relationship, had an intimate relationship. with a woman who turned out to. be a Chinese spy. That's a huge matter of national security. and that's the essence of the story. And, Jillian, it is clear, I think in multiple stories. now, the New York Times has reported. based on multiple sources. that Trump was warned multiple times.

Yes. Why isn't that any sort of breaking mechanism in. terms. IN THE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM TO DETAIL WHAT THEY. KNEW. AND WHO THEY KNEW IT AHEAD OF WHAT SEEMS TO BE AN. IMMINENT. CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. Look, Trump was told about this twice, according to our reporting. Once last year in the fall, probably not long after the. first New York.

Times story raised questions about Alice Wong, but did not identify her as a Chinese asset. He was told that she was a spy. And then there was the Marco Rubio memo. that circulated in March. and was briefed to the president. about that Alice Wong was working. for China's Ministry of State security. Now, as all of your viewers know,

we have not been in a period. of regular order in Washington because, as you say, this is the kind of thing where we. think we would get some people speaking. publicly about whether the system worked, whether the system broke down, why the president didn't want to learn more, why the president didn't take action, why wasn't Jensen Wong given a defensive. briefing by the FBI? Why was he warned about this?

Or maybe, you know, or did he know? We don't know. But now, you know, the The situation has. changed in Washington. And as you noted, Republican committees are. going. to bring Jensen Wong to testify. behind closed doors. And we know that The Democratic-controlled. committees next year are going to be. doing oversight on a whole range of things, and AI policy is one of them. I mean, Miles, I'll put the same version.

of the question to you in terms. IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC CALAMITY, NATIONAL SECURITY SCANDAL, TRUMP GRIFT, AND I GUESS THE CHERRY ON TOP IS. the third affair reported today. what do you make of this story. it's all of the above and more i mean. here's my reaction today nicole is. that this thing is nowhere near. contained it is not under control we are talking. about a sweeping corruption scandal.

and we're talking about a national security. nightmare i mean i'll take what julian said. and just add to it this is the most. important technology battle in the history. of human civilization this could affect. the whole future of civilization not just u .s. national security and so you've got to assume. if you're in the national security realm. that a compromise like this goes deeper. than what you've seen this is likely just. the tip of the iceberg and i'll tell you why.

because chinese intelligence services. wouldn't. just hope to take one shot and be successful. at compromising u .s artificial intelligence. policy they wouldn't sit in a room in beijing. and say let's just go after the head of nvidia. and hope we are successful this is one of. those you see an ant on the table there's a. thousand underneath if they were successful at. compromising the ceo of the most important ai. company in the world if you're in. the u .s national security community you've got.

to assume there are further. compromises potentially including. inside the administration. and that's why you would have. if you had done this right put jensen. at arm's length you would have put him. under federal investigation you would have. audited the whole u .s government relationship. within the video you would have notified. the gang of eight on capitol hill. and you would have launched sweeping polygraphs. and interviews and security clearance. investigations to plug any further leaks. and it sounds like most of those things didn't.

happen and the question is why?