Elon Musk: “I checked with the President to make sure that this is what…”

“Yeah, we work closely with the agency heads and yeah, so there are sort of checks in place. So it's not just us just going in and doing things willy nilly. It's in partnership with the agency heads. And I checked with the President to make sure that this is what the President wants to happen. So we talk almost every day and I double check things to make sure. Is this something, Mr. President, do you want us to do this? Then we'll do it.” (23:42–23:47)

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