All right, third hour, Clay and Buck kicks off now, everybody.

Thank you so much for being here with us.

We've got much to discuss Trump weighing in on the economy

and talking about how things are heading and how things are going in that direction.

And, you know, one thing, play that I know we don't want to spend, I want to get to the economy and what Trump said about that.

And specifically how so much of the hiring that's gone on has been government employees.

This is nonproductive work.

You do need some government employees to be clear.

Yeah, obviously we need police and firemen.

We're talking about federal, but when you're looking at federal employees in agencies that are bloated to begin with, where are all these jobs coming from?

I tweeted this out, and I've got tell you, everyone that I know within the intelligence

community would agree with this.

At least half, maybe more like 70 or 80 percent of the intelligence agency personnel

could be gone tomorrow and nobody would know the difference.

There would be no downside to this.

It wouldn't even be like when you cut the park rangers budget or something

and all of a sudden they're, oh, we can't unlock the parks.

You're like, really?

We can't figure out how to do that a little more efficiently?

No, I don't think anybody would know the difference.

In fact, I think that Tulsi Gabbard, she's not going to say this,

but I think Tulsi Gabbard's DNI should spend four years cleaning up the intel community and then lobby for the congressional nuking of her role of her job. There should not be a director

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