Will Chamberlain talks with Ryan Fedasiuk, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, about Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia's CEO, the Megaspeed case at the center of the scandal, and why Ryan sees it as a microcosm of the problems Nvidia has faced in Washington for years. The conversation also digs into the counterintelligence risks, how export controls work, chip diversion through Southeast Asia, the Taiwan question, and open-weight AI models.

In this episode:

Ryan explains how his work at CSET, the State Department, and AEI led him to track China's appetite for Nvidia chips

He calls Huang's resignation "bittersweet news" and argues that the case centers on a conflict of interest with a customer under investigation

He describes Megaspeed as a Singapore-based intermediary that bought huge numbers of Nvidia chips and tried to resell them to customers in China

He says Singapore accounted for more than 20 percent of Nvidia's revenue in 2025 and asks who was actually buying all those chips

He walks through how export controls evolved, from Trump's first-term action against Huawei to the Biden administration's 2022 controls on whole categories of chips

He lays out three baskets of counterintelligence risk: information about Nvidia and its customers, information about President Trump and the White House, and Megaspeed's sales into China

He argues that selling advanced chips to Chinese AI labs is "a pretty tough sell," even for those who want to outcompete Huawei in China

Will and Ryan agree that China was going to build its own chip industry anyway, and Ryan points to Beijing's 2014 "big fund" as evidence

He explains why he sees chip controls and the Taiwan question as largely distinct issues

He walks through three bills Congress is weighing: the Chip Security Act on location verification, the Remote Access Security Act on rented compute, and a measure restricting chipmaking equipment

He explains how China's shortage of compute has pushed its labs toward open-weight models, and why the United States needs to lead in open source

He closes on what's next for Huang and Nvidia, saying he doesn't know how Huang can remain the public face of the company but that Nvidia itself will be fine

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Ryan Fedasiuk: Foundation for American Innovation · @RyanFedasiuk

Will Chamberlain: @willchamberlain

Instagram / TikTok: @counterweightpod

Jensen Huang photo: Office of the President, Taiwan, CC BY 2.0

0:00 Cold open

1:01 Introduction

2:26 Ryan Fedasiuk's background on chips and China

3:52 Jensen Huang resigns

4:54 Who is Alice Huang, and what is Megaspeed?

6:24 Singapore, Southeast Asia, and where the chips go

7:53 How export controls work, from Huawei to the 2022 chip rules

10:07 The counterintelligence risks in the Huang affair

13:53 Why selling advanced chips to China is a tough sell

15:48 Would China build its own chips anyway?

19:30 Do chip controls raise the risk to Taiwan?

22:29 Three bills aimed at chip diversion

26:41 Why China leads in open-weight AI models

31:02 What's next for Jensen Huang and Nvidia

Will Chamberlain talks with Brian Cox about Representative Thomas Massie's eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, why Cox thinks the legal basis is misguided from the first article to the last, and what the War Powers Resolution of 1973 can and cannot require of the executive. The conversation also digs into the Minab school strike and the law of armed conflict, the cartel boat strikes, Senator Mark Kelly's video, and the raid that captured Nicolas Maduro.

In this episode:

- Brian says members of Congress had threatened to impeach Secretary Hegseth before, and that once he read the articles one at a time, the legal basis was even worse than he expected.

- He walks through the War Powers Resolution of 1973, adopted over President Nixon's veto, and argues it tries to stretch Congress's power to declare war so that it covers all hostilities.

- He cites a Congressional Research Service study finding hundreds of uses of force since 1798 but only eleven declarations of war covering five conflicts, and notes that every president since Nixon has called the Resolution unconstitutional.

- On Article I, he argues Hegseth is being charged with failing to obey a provision that was unconstitutional to begin with, and that this is being treated as a high crime or misdemeanor.

- On Article II, he explains that a concurrent resolution has no binding force after INS v. Chadha because it is never presented to the president, so Hegseth can ignore one.

- On Article III, he says the sixty- and ninety-day clocks fail for the same reason, and that President Trump's March 2, 2026 letter informed Congress of action taken "consistent with" the War Powers Resolution, not out of "reliance on and fealty to" it as the article claims.

- On Article IV, he argues Congress cannot order the Secretary to keep the prior administration's civilian-harm policies, because that treads on the president's commander-in-chief authority, and that calling the Minab school strike murder or a war crime misrepresents the law of armed conflict.

- On Article V, he argues that once the administration determined the campaign against the designated narcoterrorists had risen to an armed conflict, the United States could target the boats under the law of armed conflict rather than treat the strikes as extrajudicial killings.

- On Article VI, he says the Seditious Six video would have been a fair reminder had it stopped at refusing manifestly unlawful orders, but the members crossed into potentially seditious conduct when they told troops the boat-strike orders themselves were illegal. He notes that Article 2 of the UCMJ still covers retirees eligible for pay, including Senator Mark Kelly, and that following that statute is not a high crime.

- On Article VII, he argues the articles contradict themselves by treating the boat strikes as law enforcement and the Maduro operation as an unlawful act of war, and says it was not a kidnapping of a recognized head of state because the United States had not recognized Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's legitimate authority.

- He agrees that Article VIII, on the Yemen campaign, simply rehashes the same War Powers claims as Articles I and III.

- He warns that if Massie's theory took hold, anything a president or cabinet officer does could be labeled a high crime, producing "complete political chaos" for every successive government.

Brian Cox: international law professor at Cornell, retired military lawyer · @BrianCox_RLTW

Will Chamberlain: @willchamberlain

Instagram / TikTok: @counterweightpod

0:00 Cold open

0:57 Intro

1:53 Initial reactions to Massie's articles

3:11 Why the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional

6:41 Article I: introducing forces into hostilities

9:06 Article II: the concurrent resolution and Chadha

12:29 Article III: the 60-day clock and "consistent with"

15:58 Article IV: the Minab school strike

26:35 Article V: the boat strikes and the armed-conflict determination

30:38 Article VI: Mark Kelly and the "refuse illegal orders" video

38:23 Article VII: the Maduro raid

42:50 Article VIII: the Yemen campaign

43:23 A strong executive and the Articles of Confederation

44:44 What happens if this becomes the impeachment standard

Description: Will Chamberlain talks with David Reaboi, author of The Epstein Conspiracy, about where the claim that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent blackmailing American elites for Israel actually came from. David traces it to a single source, former Israeli intelligence official Ari Ben-Menashe, and shows how it was seeded, laundered through bestselling books, and amplified by some of the biggest podcasters in the country. The conversation also covers Russian strategist Alexander Dugin’s never-before-translated book on conspiracy theories as a weapon against America, and why the story took off on the right after the 12-day war.
In this episode:
David explains why his book is not about Epstein himself but about one specific lie: that Epstein was a Mossad asset blackmailing American elites into supporting Israel
He traces that lie the way the Cold War Active Measures Working Group traced Soviet disinformation, including the KGB’s Operation INFEKTION, which took two years to travel from a small Indian newspaper to the CBS Evening News
He identifies the source as Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence official fired in the 1980s, who seeded the Epstein-Mossad claim on an obscure podcast three weeks after Epstein’s death
He shows that Ben-Menashe made the same claim about Robert Maxwell in 1991, the same year congressional investigations found his October Surprise testimony not credible
He walks through other episodes he says undermine Ben-Menashe’s credibility, from a Zimbabwe treason case against Robert Mugabe’s rival to FARA filings listing contracts his supposed clients denied
He explains how the claim was laundered through Gordon Thomas’s bestsellers, Dylan Howard’s Dead Men Tell No Tales, and Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail, then amplified on some of the country’s biggest podcasts
He argues the theory collapses on the facts: no evidence, no alleged quid pro quo, and an operation that would have cost a fortune for no clear return
He presents his translation of Alexander Dugin’s book on conspiracy theories, which calls antisemitic conspiracy theories the most potent form of political warfare
He argues Dugin’s strategy is to convince American patriots that their own country is occupied, so that Russia looks like their friend
On whether this is just Russiagate again, David argues Russia was pushing the Trump-Russia story too, and Will connects it to the Steele dossier
He says the Epstein-Mossad narrative hit mainstream conservatism immediately after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran
He closes on why the social media timeline is the enemy of truth, and the AI knowledge project he is building to fight back
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David Reaboi: author of The Epstein Conspiracy · @davereaboi
Will Chamberlain: @willchamberlain
Instagram / TikTok: @counterweightpod
00:00 The man behind the Epstein-Mossad story
01:54 Seeding, laundering and amplification
05:21 Who is Ari Ben-Menashe?
07:34 The October Surprise and Robert Maxwell
12:01 A pathological liar and his FARA filings
16:44 How bestselling books made Maxwell a Mossad agent
19:18 From Dylan Howard to Whitney Webb
21:50 Why no one puts Ben-Menashe on
23:02 Why the Mossad theory makes no sense
30:08 Alexander Dugin’s book on conspiracy theories
37:50 Is this just Russiagate again?
42:52 Why it went mainstream after the 12-day war
46:38 Getting off the social media timeline