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Laura Coates Live

NYT: Pentagon To Brief Musk On Potential China War Plans

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Elon Musk will pay a visit to the Pentagon on Friday after the tech billionaire received an invitation from Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department said. The New York Times reported earlier Thursday that Musk will be briefed on the US military’s top-secret plan for any war that might break out with China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good evening. I'm Laura Coates. We'll start with the breaking news tonight.

1:05.0

Elon Musk's portfolio within the Trump administration may be getting a whole lot bigger.

1:09.7

The New York Times is citing two sources

1:11.7

who say the world's richest man will get a top secret briefing tomorrow about the U.S.

1:17.6

military's plan for any potential war with China. It is set to happen at the Pentagon. And it would

1:23.4

give Musk access some of the government's most closely guarded secrets. So what would that

1:29.0

briefing possibly look like? Well, according to the Times, it will include 20 to 30 slides that

1:35.9

lay out how the U.S. would fight such a conflict. It covers the plan beginning with the indications

1:41.9

and warnings of a threat from China to various

1:44.9

options on what Chinese targets to hit over what time period that would be presented to Trump

1:50.9

for decisions. Now, you might be asking, as I did, why would Musk need to know about plans

1:57.8

for a potential war with China? Well, it's not totally clear, but one possible

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