By Allison Detzel
Publication Date: 2026-10-30 19:18:00
MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace shared “shocking” new reporting from The New York Times, which she said could show that President Donald Trump is “asleep at the wheel in protecting U.S. national security.”
On Thursday’s “Deadline: White House,” Wallace discussed the Times’ “blockbuster” report about a Chinese businesswoman’s close relationship with Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, the world’s most dominant leader in artificial intelligence chips. U.S. officials concluded the woman was a Chinese intelligence asset, according to the report.
“The discovery that Beijing was getting reports from someone with direct access to Mr. Huang, one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. revolution as well as an influential ally of President Trump’s, set off alarms at the White House,” the Times reported.
“What happened next,” Wallace said, “is the stuff of international political scandals.” The Times said Trump was briefed on the intelligence findings but chose not to act. He had “been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China,” the report read.
“Donald Trump — the man who claims that no one is tougher on China than he is — does nothing,” Wallace said of the president’s reported inaction. She described “panic among our intelligence agencies as Trump sat by as a Chinese spy got dangerously…
