#shorts On 1/27/2023, a reporter pressed on White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “And then, can you confirm a report by our friends at Reuters that Elon Musk met with Mitch Landrieu, the Infrastructure Coordinator, here at the White House today about electric vehicles? What were they talking about? I know the White House hasn’t always had the — the nicest things to say about Tesla and its labor practices.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So I can — I can confirm that — that Mitch Landrieu and also John Podesta met with Elon Musk to discuss electrification and how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act can advance EVs and increase the electrifications more broadly. So, that meeting did happen today. And so, for sure, I can — I can confirm that to all of you.

Reporter: Does this mark a turning of the page of the relationship between this White House and Elon Musk?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I will say that I think the — the outreach and the meeting says a lot of how important the President thinks the bipartisan infrastructure legislation is and how the Inflation Reduction Act is, and especially as we — it relates to EVs and his commitment. And so I will leave it there.

But I think it’s important that his team — his senior members of his team had a meeting with Elon Musk today to do just that.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/FwGh9Bh–dQ
Elon Musk met with White House, not nicest to Elon Musk, turning of page of relationship?