Happening now, breaking news.

Elon Musk at the Pentagon, brand new video just in of him arriving.

We'll bring you the latest CNN reporting on what he's doing there.

Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

We'll flitzer us off today.

I'm Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room.

This is CNN breaking news.

And we begin with that breaking news.

Elon Musk is at the Pentagon.

But again, what's he just doing there?

That is a big question right now. The New York Times is reporting that the original plan was to brief him on the military's top

secret plan for a potential war with china something president trump and the pentagon are flat out

dismissing as completely untrue let's go live now to see nins elena train at the white

house elena what more are we learning about that visit?

Well, like you said, Pamela, we saw Elon Musk arrive at the Pentagon just moments ago,

but it's still very unclear what exactly he is going to be doing there.

Now, we did hear from Defense Secretary Pete Hegsette yesterday.

He said that Musk would be participating in an informal meeting

about innovation efficiencies and smarter productions. And to be clear, Musk does hold a top

security clearance. But there are questions over this visit overall of whether they could raise

conflict of issues, interests, essentially because Musk has vested interest in the defense space.

He has contracts with the Pentagon. So this visit overall is raising eyebrows. But the real questions

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