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booktv. org. host: welcome back. we are joined by oren cass. welcome to washington journal. caller: thanks -- guest: thanks for having me. host: tell us about your mission at american compass and how your organization is funded. guest: -- what that means in practice is focusing a lot on economic policy, trying to get away from the idea that all growth is equally good and we will make it up to e

>> what i saw in his first term,

he gets to the white house, paul ryan is the speaker of the house. what are the big legislative priorities? it was a wig corporate tax cut and trying to repeal oaker. -- obamacare. and where thinking and work had already been done in terms of stronger immigration enforcement and trade policy and confronting china. and i think especially on trade, the ambassador who was trade u.s. representative who is the treasure secretary candidate now, he knew what needed to be done and trump gave him the power and spice to do it and we made a tremendous amount of progress on the trade issue with china.

>> when i was a sophomore in high school, that politician gave a trade deal that destroyed middle-class manufacturing

jobs. when i was a senior in high school, that same joe biden supported the disastrous invasion of iraq and each step of the way in small towns like mine in ohio or pennsylvania and michigan, in states all across our country, jobs were sent overseas and our children were sent to war. >> what is your assessment of president-elect trump's picks for his cabinets and what you are hoping to see from j.d. vance? guest: what you noticed he is actually pairing together two different issues where the republican party has shifted on free trade and economic policy. the republican party and the democratic party as you noticed with joe biden was overwhelming focused on embracing free trade

and ignoring places like ohio. and also on foreign policy, it was a parallel process. you had both democrats and republicans just kind of going around looking for wars to start and not thinking about the people going to fight in those wars. what you see with trump and vance and in the picks they started to make is a different way of thinking about that. so far it has been more on the foreign policy and military side. senator rubio at the state department is an excellent pick as he has been really at the forefront over the last decade of making the case we need to rethink all of this and recognize our main adversary is china and our economic policies are entangled. and huge effect on foreign

policy and what it means for our national security. i think he is going to bring much needed change and leadership to the state department. on the economic side, those are the picks that haven't been made and still a debate about treasury secretary and who is going to carry forward president trump's vision and not be another wall street banker which we tend to see in the republican treasury departments. and picks like commerce and labor, these are the issues that are at the heart of our economic policy. and someone like j.d. vance has spoken a lot having a labor policy on workers and commerce department who is in charge of the chips act which is the investment we are bringing semiconductor manufacturing back to this country. those are the kinds of things we are