Jennings on Tesla Event at the W.H.: It’s Pretty Common for the President to Boost American Made Products

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KUDLOW: “You’re giving up your other stuff. I mean, what do you, how are you running your other businesses?”
Musk:” With great difficulty.”
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PHILLIP: “Look, Teslas, they’re cool cars, but the president is clearly trying to do his friend, political donor, actually government employee, a pretty big favor here for his private business.”
JENNINGS: “It’s hardly the first time we’ve had cars on the South Lawn. Man, here’s a video of Joe Biden driving a Jeep Rubicon around the South Lawn. I mean, it’s pretty common.”
PHILLIP: “Yeah. And President Trump did it before in his first term as well.”
JENNINGS: “It’s pretty common for the president of the United States to boost American industries, American-made products and companies that are, you know, employing Americans. It’s extremely common. He obviously has a close relationship with Elon, who, by the way, is I think unfairly under attack, and this company is unfairly under attack. You have these insane people all over the country chasing people down in their Teslas in New York City. I had a friend who tried to trade his Tesla in New York the other day, and there were protesters screaming at his children. These people are unhinged. And they deserve support from the government.”
PHILLIP: “But let’s be clear, let’s not skirt over the fact that Elon Musk spent $250 million to elect Donald Trump — “
JENNINGS: “So, you’re against an American company?”
SELLERS: “No, that’s not —“
JENNINGS: “You don’t want the government to support this man?”
PHILLIP: “I’m saying he is a political donor, so it’s not the limits of his relationship with the president.”
SELLERS: “There’s a difference between saying that the big three should succeed or having a Jeep Rubicon on the front, and then telling people that they need to come out and he was going to buy a Tesla or having five Teslas on the front or having a sheet of paper with the price tags on the Teslas, all while that same individual is saying things like we should cut Social Security.”
Allison: “Yes.”
JENNINGS: “That is false. That is completely false.”
SELLERS: “And, actually, you want to actually know what’s completely — “
PHILLIP: “Wait, sorry. That’s false, Scott?”
SELLERS: “He did not say — “
PHILLIP: “Who is he?”
SELLERS: “Elon Musk did not say — “
PHILLIP: “Yes, he did.”
SELLERS: “Oh, no, no. Can I tell you what he said? Can I tell you what he said exactly?”
JENNINGS: “Totally false.”
SELLERS: “Because what he said was — he said Social Security is a magnet for illegal immigration, right? So — “
PHILLIP: “Scott, we played?”
SELLERS: “Can I finish — “
PHILLIP: “Let me just — Scott was sitting right here at the table when we played the clip of Elon Musk saying — “
JENNINGS: “You played a part of the clip.”
PHILLIP: “ — that there’s $500, $600 or $700 million in fraud in Social Security.”
JENNINGS: “Yeah, there’s a government report to that effect. The previous administration, generally.”
PHILLIP:” No. He said annually. That report said it was $150-something million dollars each year. That’s not $600 million — “
JENNINGS: “He said, Elon — “
SELLERS: “Because of the simple fact that, yes, I’m trying to make sure that Scott understands — “
O’LEARY: “Elon Musk did not execute any of these findings. He’s finding them, he’s showing them to you, you like it, you don’t like it, there’s nothing wrong with that.”