'National Security Threat Written All Over Them': Schumer Decries Trump's Chips Deal With Saudi, UAE

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During remarks on the Senate floor Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about President Trump's deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on chips production and AI.

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00:00Now on the Saudi chip deal. Today I'm

00:04joining with Senator Warren to lead

00:06Senate Democrats and calling on

00:07Secretaries Lutnik and Rubio to hit

00:09pause on a number of chip deals Donald

00:13Trump announced last week with Saudi

00:15Arabia and the UAE. I'm alarmed that

00:18these deals announced by Donald Trump

00:20which involve the most advanced AI

00:22related semiconductors have national

00:25security threat written all over them.

00:27Without clear and enforceable

00:30protections I'm worried that these chips

00:33will gradually end up in the hands of

00:35the Chinese government the Chinese

00:37Communist Party given how cozy the

00:39Saudi and Emiratis have been with the

00:41Chinese. Recent history shows that when

00:44foreign countries end up with American

00:46made chips the Chinese government the

00:48CCP and their related companies get a

00:51hold of these chips. Deep Seek's AI model

00:54was precisely accomplished with US made

00:57chips. Now Donald Trump wants to

01:00potentially open up another loophole with

01:03his Middle East chip deals. Over the

01:05years Chinese companies and the CCP have

01:07forged deep ties with the same Middle

01:09Eastern countries that Donald Trump is

01:11now giving unfettered access to our most

01:14advanced AI chips. No serious national

01:18security expert would tell you this is on

01:20the level. It not only threatens our

01:22security but also risks cannibalizing the

01:25U.S. build out of AI. If we want to stay

01:27number one in AI which we all do this is

01:32the wrong deal. Why is Donald Trump

01:35building the future of AI in the Middle

01:37East not in America? We all know that

01:40he's desperate. Trump is desperate to

01:42show the world he's Mr. Art of the deal. But

01:46he's so desperate to tout these deals that

01:48he's not thinking and protecting the

01:51long-term security and jobs implications to

01:53our country. With this deal American AI

01:56chips are being given to the highest bidder

01:58at the expense of the American people and

02:02American dominance in the rapidly growing

02:05growing an important field of AI.

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