The last word starts right now with Ellie Vell. She and the anchor chair. Hey, Ali. I'm trying to erase that all from my mind. I've been thinking about talking to you all day because when you were in the White House and in prior administrations for the last 20 years as I've been covering it, the jobs report comes out. First Friday of every month, sometimes good, sometimes it's bad. You guys have a job to spin it one way or the other.

I've never seen what I saw today.

The firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that is some dry stuff, right? They put out data every month. I love the data. I love pouring through it. It's not a politicized organization of any sort. in anyway, first of all, one of the reasons we all love you is because you love pouring through the data, Alley, which is great. But just to echo your point, no one knew about the data even the night before. The data, as you, we would look at, we would say, does Brian Dease have a bad look in his face? Is there bad data? But no one knew. The next morning, as you know well, because you've reported on so many times, it cams out at 8.30.

Yep.

People... Ryan D's have a bad look in his face? Is there bad data? But no one knew. The next morning, as you know well, because you've reported on so many times, it cams out at 830. People from the administration don't speak about it until 930. It's so protected because people rely on it across the world, across the country, policymakers. It's really an outrageous thing he did say. And now, poof. Let's hope the data that comes in now is data that he likes,

because otherwise could be like the FBI, right? You put your own people, and then you find out the information is no different than before you put your own people in. Thank you for that, my friend. I've been looking to talk to you about it all day. Have yourself a great weekend. Thank you so much, Ellie. And breaking news, Donald Trump's big mad about the Trump economy.

And so this afternoon,. And breaking news, Donald Trump's big mad about the Trump economy.

And so this afternoon, as we just discussed, he ordered the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

the part of the Department of Labor that collects and reports American employment data to be fired.

They don't do anything else.

They just report the data. Now, did Trump do that because

the stock market tanked today after the jobs report showed an anemic 73,000 jobs created last

month? Or did he do it because he needed yet another outrageous distraction from the Jeffrey Epstein

scandal in which he and his administration are currently deeply engulfed.

Maybe both.

But for sure not for the stated reason that the BLS Commissioner was somehow biased against him.

I'm pretty sure he didn't know who the BLS Commissioner was before this morning.

The bad economic news and Epstein were both front page news today after Galane Maxwell,

Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator and convicted child sex trafficker, was quietly moved to a women's only minimum security

federal prison camp in Texas, just days after Maxwell met with the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,

Trump's former criminal defense attorney. NBC News reports,

the Federal Bureau of Prisons did not specify why she was transferred, but according to the

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