Program and guest
CNBC’s Closing Bell Overtime (11 November 2026): guest Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike co-founder and co-founder and chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator. This article covers 00:29–03:30 (the Alperovitch segment, the core passage of the full 4:29 segment).
Key points
- Aperovitch: “I don’t see how Jensen Huang can survive this as Nvidia CEO”—any other CEO involved with a suspected Chinese intelligence officer would be out immediately, and this is not even the worst part of the scandal. 1:13
- The affair itself is not illegal. What is illegal is violating U.S. export controls by rerouting chips to Chinese entities; some violations carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. 1:46
- The New York Times and Bloomberg reported that Nvidia had tried to influence the Commerce Department and stop its investigation of MegaSpeed—“deeply troubling and potentially illegal in its own right.” 2:49
- Supermicro’s CEO has been arrested and charged with smuggling chips by using hair dryers to remove labels; “what Jensen Huang did is essentially the same, just without the hair dryers, and it is still illegal.” 3:03
Background and notes
Subtitle coverage note: the video subtitles contain 168 timestamped segments, covering 11.48 seconds–268.67 seconds (full length 269 seconds, with no cut-off). The views and timestamps in this article are based on the original subtitles; each timestamp marks the start of the corresponding passage.