Trump defends Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang amid China spy allegations and probe

President Donald Trump made a lot of headlines this weekend, a 60 Minutes interview, but he made another one because we heard about him defending the NVIDIA board's CEO, Jensen Huang, who, of course, has been in the news a lot because of artificial intelligence and some of the chips that power all the AI. But he's caught up in his own scandal, so talk us through that and then what the president is now saying. Yeah, so the latest on that, just today, China has denied that it engaged in some kind of operation to try to ensnare him with a Chinese spy, this woman with whom he is alleged to have had an affair. Admitted to having an affair. Admitted to having an affair, correct. And last night. As he was coming back to Washington, the president was asked about Jensen Huang, who has been a key part, as you mentioned, in kind of helping the administration to craft its policies around AI. Right. And the president—here's what the president said about Jensen Huang and the type of person He is amid these allegations that he had an affair. With the Chinese spy, I think he probably has an excuse for it. You have to hear it now. You can't do that with people. He was he's done an amazing job for our country. And the beginning of that was was cut off. But he called Jensen Huang an honorable guy. And again, this morning, the latest from from China is that a spokesperson denied. Claims that it used this woman, Alice Wong, as a spy, no relation. And so essentially, he's admitted to having an affair with this woman. The U.S. has said, we're watching her because we think she may be a Chinese spy. And there's this sort of, you could put one and one together that maybe because of his, obviously his company and artificial intelligence and these chips and the race to control AI That they're using this. This affair to get the chips or get the information. And by the way, NVIDIA yesterday announced that it is conducting its own independent investigation into what happened. So so we'll see what what happens there. Stock market doesn't seem to be affected by this. Dow was up 840 so far. So. All right. So we've got to keep track of that. And there's the Dow up 100. Thirty five. Like you mentioned, 140 points this morning. And Robert, just a couple of minutes left here. But not to be sort of downplayed is the president reacting to the wipeout of Republicans in the midterm election. It's very rare that we hear the president admit. A mistake, a fault. He's not a very introspective person. That's what supporters love about him, is that not the introspective, but that he kind of imposes the will. Yeah, just shoots from the hip and kind of one thing after another. But last night in this very wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview, he was very reflective. And he admitted that his deportation policy, by the way, which Stephen Miller... Really was the architect of, and he takes over today as White House chief of staff. Okay. The president admitted that his deportation policy very well may have alienated too many Republican voters leading or helping to lead to this, to this wipeout six days ago. All right. So let's take a listen to that soundbite if we can. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out, but I get hurt because. We also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation for breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally. Now, there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out. And there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay if they're good people working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel or doing something, right? And in some cases paying taxes. And there's a large group of people think that they should be allowed to stay. So you think your deportation I think it was too tough. I think it might be too tough, yeah. And then, Robert, just before we go to break here, Stephen Miller, who is a very polarizing figure, he's taking over as White House Chief of Staff. Yeah, today for Susie Wiles. And then there's also, there's still talk this week as Congress reconvenes, the lame duck Congress reconvenes. There's talk that Thomas Massie, who you see there, his resolution could come up for a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth. I think it's unlikely that that... That that happens, but it's possible, at least that Massie forces this vote, and so people then have to go on the record, you know, in favor or against Hegseth, and the president maintains that he still supports Hegseth. We'll see if that lasts through the week.