President Donald Trump says war plans should not be shared with his adviser Elon Musk because of his business interests, a rare suggestion that the billionaire entrepreneur's expansive role in the administration will face limits.
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00:00You guys are tonight in this New York Times report that Elon Musk is going to be shown a 20 to 30 page presentation about a theoretical war plan against China.
00:10Why not just show it to Elon?
00:13I don't want to show it to anybody. You know, you're talking about a potential war with China.
00:18Now, I deal with these people all the time and I'm dealing with Pete, I'm dealing with these gentlemen on numerous different airplane purchases and I think they're all going to be great.
00:29But I don't want other people seeing anybody seeing potential war with China.
00:35We don't want to have a potential war with China, but I can tell you if we did, we're very well equipped to handle it.
00:40But I don't want to show that to anybody. But certainly you wouldn't show it to a businessman who is helping us so much.
00:46He's a great patriot. He's taking it's paying a big price for helping us cut costs.
00:51And he's doing a great job. He's finding tremendous waste, fraud and abuse.
00:55But I certainly wouldn't want, you know, Elon has businesses in China and he would be susceptible perhaps to that.
01:02Nobody believed it that the Pentagon was giving him a briefing on what war with China would look like.
01:09And he has businesses. No, they made that up because it's a good story to make up.
01:13And I just wanted to make sure I called up chief of staff and I called up Pete and I said, is there any truth to that?
01:22Absolutely not. He's there for Doge, not there for China.
01:26And if you ever mentioned China, I think he'd walk out of the room. He wouldn't take it anyway.