Transcript
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.
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Welcome in to the second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. And we have this hour, joining us, the Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergen. We have got a lot to talk to him about. Secretary of the Interior has very important job in this administration and it has to do with our natural resources, oil, gas, minerals, all that stuff. Some interesting policy implemented or in the process of being implemented by this Trump White House that we want to address with you because there is, as you can tell, a major, major focus from Trump and everybody in his top inner circle on getting the economy running on, on all cylinders here. And do we had 4% growth or something? I mean the numbers are looking great for the last quarter. I just. Clay, can you. What was the growth number I was seeing? It's very.
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Yeah, here we go.
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Here's National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett. We had this on the. You know what, let's hear from the, let's hear from the National Economic Council director. This is cut one play.
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I think that there are two forces that are sort of pushing down and then one force that's pushing up. The force is pushing up is the GDP growth is through the roof. Even with a revised down GDP now we're looking at 4% growth into the end of the year, 3% for the year as a whole, despite the fact that we had a really negative first quarter with Joe Biden. And so that's the positive effect. The negative effects are when there's a productivity boom then maybe you can make the same amount of stuff with fewer workers. And so that might reduce labor demand. And then the other thing is that there's a pretty big decline in the labor force because illegals leaving the country. And so the break even job number is quite a bit lower than it was under Joe Biden when there were people, you know, you know, basically coming across the border willy nilly. And so I think that you should expect slightly smaller job numbers.
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Clay. I mean it wasn't, it wasn't a bad bunny concert he's given there. But this stuff really matters. This is meaningful to all of us. And the economic numbers are looking good. I now we'll get back into this and certainly talk to the Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum. He's a billionaire, isn't he? I know something about money. Yeah, he's, he knows about money. He's a guy's got a lot of money, but he really does Know about what he's. What he's trying to implement with policy and how the administration is moving things forward. We'll get into that. But right now, the. The dominant news story still across most. Most platforms, most mediums is this Nancy Guthrie kidnapping story. No, I understand it. First of all, it's. There's something particularly horrific and hits home about a senior citizen member of your family just disappearing from their home, Being disappeared from their home in something like this. It does have that, Clay, that this could happen to anyone feeling, which always, you know, always hits harder, I think, when people say, oh, this could have been my mom or my grandma. And so that is getting a lot of attention. Obviously, Savannah Guthrie is a prominent news personality, and so that's getting a lot of attention. Here is the late. We didn't play this yet. Right. I'm just making sure. The latest video here is Savannah Guthrie released a video speaking, well, to the American people, but also trying to reach, I suppose, the hostage taker or takers. This is cut to play it.
