Hegseth Impeachment Push, Trump Holds Off Iran Strikes, Congress Summons Nvidia's CEO

Steve Inskeep

The House may vote this week on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Sam Green Glass

there are eight articles, four focus on Hegseth circumventing or ignoring Congress's authority over waging war, mostly with regard to the war in Iran, but also Yemen.

Sam Green Glass

But Massie told reporters he feels it's doable, not only because the politics at home will sway some Republicans opposition to the war having contributed to this blue tsunami last week.

Thomas Massie

mebody's got to put their foot down and say, are we going to follow the laws that are on the books? Are we going to follow the Constitution? And the best way to do that is to have an impeachment against Pete Hegseth.

Sam Green Glass

Only two cabinet secretaries have been impeached, President Grant's war secretary in 1876 and President Biden's Homeland Security secretary, neither were convicted in the Senate.

Steve Inskeep

President Trump admitted the war that he started in Iran affected his party in the midterm elections.

Deepa Shivaram

Yeah, just as a reminder, Trump said weeks before the election that he was going to hold off on any strikes in Iran.

Deepa Shivaram

At the same time, Trump has acknowledged that the war played a part in Republicans losing control of Congress, saying he knows that high prices because of the war were a big issue for voters this year.

Deepa Shivaram

He said in that same interview that even if the war isn't popular today or tomorrow, he said historically, it's a good decision. And I think that highlights an important bit here, which is that Trump is starting to shift focus for these last two years of his presidency to line up his legacy.

Deepa Shivaram

And that's interesting. Trump says he wants to talk about denuclearization and ending the Iran war.

SPEAKER_H

Yeah, it's not great. Nvidia's share price dropped around 4 and a quarter percent yesterday.

SPEAKER_H

Three committees in the House of Representatives have summoned Jensen Huang to a joint closed-door session next week to answer questions about the allegations.

SPEAKER_H

People I've spoken with say Huang has been a prominent voice in Trump's ear on AI policy. There are expert controls in place that prevent cutting-edge chips from being exported to China, and Huang has been a critic of those controls.

SPEAKER_H

Yeah, at the center of all this is the question of whether a company Nvidia was working with was helping Chinese firms get around chip export controls. That company is a Singapore-based company called Mega Speed, and the woman Huang admitted to having an affair with was an executive there.

SPEAKER_I

The biggest story here and the most lasting story is why the government sat on this and did nothing.