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Over 60. at the national science foundation 18%, and at labor, 17%, which could become a problem whenever they decide to leave. >> there are a lot of folks that are retirement eligible that will be leaving in the near term. the real question is are we going to be able to attract the best talent to come in to fill those places and bluntly to do things differently than we've been doing in the past. >> cost isn't the only concern as the government tries to get top talent to work for them. the nation's cyber infrastructure remains exposed to hackers. >> we need about 30,000 to thwart the worst kin...

Technology, highly skilled jobs that don't require a college education. that are sort of learned in a different way. >> not while dollar, or blue collar -- >> new collar. >> new economy, entrepreneurs, self-taught programmers who built apps and entire businesses around them. cloud businesses. a lot of people have come out -- of course mark zuckerberg who never finished college and started facebook. and believe me, that guy is a model for a lot of people coming into the work force. they're looking for more of that. my big question is how do you train new collar workers? do you build more specia...

25,000 new collar workers in the next four years and they don't need advanced degrees. what matters most is that the employees with jobs such as cloud-computing technicians have relevant skills often on taped through vocational training, as cybersecurity threats continue to grow. >> how about the 23 million americans whose social security numbers were stolen by the chinese last year hacked in the office of personnel management. the one national security challenge, the most we are unprepared for but i believe this president elect has got a real chance to win the cyber war. >> experts we spoke t...

Over 60. at the national science foundation 18%, and at labor, 17%, which could become a problem whenever they decide to leave. >> there are a lot of folks that are retirement eligible that will be leaving in the near term. the real question is are we going to be able to attract the best talent to come in to fill those places and bluntly to do things differently than we've been doing in the past. >> cost isn't the only concern as the government tries to get top talent to work for them. the nation's cyber infrastructure remains exposed to hackers. >> we need about 30,000 to thwart the worst kin...

Sort of. >> i try to be optimistic but realistic at the same time. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> he can save some of the jobs. because i don't think -- if they send just half the jobs they can make morgan which is all they are after. >> martin, so interesting to hear from those folks. so, i mean, how are they feeling now that the dust settled. do they feel help remorse voting for him, still happy, was it a gamble? where are they? >> reporter: they believe and they know it was a gamble voting for donald trump because remember these are not just blue collar workers they are union blue col...