j.d. vance was born in that town, middletown, ohio. he grew up in poverty. and as he recounts in his book, "hillbilly elegy," had a mother who was a drug addict and a father often gone. vance, raised by his grandparents, would leave middletown, enlist in the marines, and graduate from yale law school. nice to see you. the book is fantastic. as jess reported in her piece, there are jobs. the struggle is in matching skills with the jobs. how do you create something that can really help towns where you can match people to jobs effectively? j.d. vance: this is a big question of workforce development. one of the problems over the last 10 or 20 years in areas like middletown is when you graduate from high school, you are given an option between a service-sector job -- $7, $8, $9 an hour -- or get a four-year college degree. and the big problem is that a lot of these jobs exist in the between spaces, and this really implicates our education system. soledad: rethinking what education could mean for a la

j.d. vances the author of the best-selling new york times and ourillbilly elegy" guest today is the chair of the house ways and means committee talking about how the gop has a plan to lower the tax rate and how he believes that will help american businesses and jobs. one of our goals, and we have designed this to breakeven within the budget, counting on economic growth, solid economic growth going forward. that is where we're at today. lower rates, to make changes, elected trade-off. you have to pull your punches on something else. we are weighing that with the tax reform effort. having great discussions with the trump team. businessave the lowest rates in modern history so our businesses can compete anywhere in the world, but especially here at home. >> the way you are trying to do this is through what you go order adjustment. as you know, businesses are trying to wrap their heads around this. , oilave big retailers refineries, importers who are really concerned about this proposal. how are you

our guest is j.d. vance, the author of the "new york times'" number one bestseller, "hillbilly elegy." julia joining us from your neck of the woods, zanesville, ohio. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i will say, mr. vance, i have not read your book, but i found this topic interesting. being from -- well, i wasn't born in southeast ohio, but i've been here for 30 years. a single d a boy as mom who went into the marines, found himself and is doing well. however, when i was raising him, one of my chief concerns is the fact that, in ohio, the suicide rate for males between 15 and 25 is astronomical compared to the rest of the nation. another concern that i have as a female is the mention you had of the disloyalty of the male to the female. in southern ohio along athens county, all along this, there's like six counties, there's not one rain crisis center. so my concern is basically, how do you address these issues when you actually look at the facts that toledo is a major hub for

we have j.d. vance on later to talk about how he has become this sort of encyclopedia for people who want to understand. >> the gop said the same thing. who wound up winning the election. not somebody who came with a message, but somebody who soaked up all the angers that are going on in the country. >> what is your take? tweet us at "new day" or post your comment at cnn.com/newday. >> not much happens in russia without vladimir putin. >> the president is under pressure from team hillary who can't accept the election results. >> that's the beauty of this electoral system. >> it's genius. i'm telling you, it's genius. >> the question is whether or not there are 37 republican electors who think that donald trump is really unfit to be president. >> the russians hacked our system with the intent of influencing the election. >> we need a select committee. we need to get to the bottom of this. >> the democrats are doing everything they can to deleg delegitimize the outcome of the election. >> announcer: this

the author j.d. vance joins us now. good morning, j.d. >> good morning.nk you. >> so what is it like for you to hear that your little family memoir is now required reading for democrats to figure out where they went wrong? >> well, i was definitely surprised to hear that in my earpiece. and it's good for book sales. but i guess it's good that people are starting to think outside the box a little bit and asking questions about this community of people. that's why i wrote the book. so pretty happy about it. >> give us the cliff notes for those people out there who haven't yet read it, what did you understand, and did you know that democrats on the coasts didn't get? >> well, it's really two parts. so the first part is that the economy in these regions has really been hit hard, so the decline of coal. the decline of manufacturing and so forth. and in the wake of the decline of the old-line manufacturing jobs there has really been the significant social crisis that's moved in. and what i mean is that the opioid epidemic has really gotten out of control. famil

j.d. vance is also joining me and political contributor van jones. those who have been on. chris, i don't think you've been on but thank you for coming on. >> thank you very much for having me. you traveled a hundred thousand miles through what you called trump country meeting and photographing american voters. what did you learn from the people you talked to? >> i had originally intended to -- my travels were dedicated to talking to people suffering from addiction and focusing on poverty and so i was going to places where basically hope was leaving and that's where i saw addiction entering but i also saw in those places the trump voters and i saw his message resonating with people in those same communities. what i saw was america extremely frustrated, feeling left behind, communities destroyed and people were humiliated. >> you say that the -- i thought this was interesting -- that the real divide in this country isn't necessarily between blacks and whites or rich and poor but between what you call front row kids and black row kids. explain that to

j.d. vance is also joining me and political contributor van jones. welcome back to the show to those who have been on. chris, i don't think you've been on but thank you for coming on. >> thank you very much for having me. you traveled a hundred thousand miles through what you called trump country meeting and photographing american voters. what did you learn from the people you talked to? >> i had originally intended to -- my travels were dedicated to talking to people suffering from addiction and focusing on poverty and so i was going to places where basically hope was leaving and that's where i saw addiction entering but i also saw in those places the trump voters and i saw his message resonating with people in those same communities. what i saw was america extremely frustrated, feeling left behind, communities destroyed and people were humiliated. >> you say that the -- i thought this was interesting -- that the real divide in this country isn't necessarily between blacks and whites or rich and poor but between what you call front row kids and blac

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j.d. vance's new best selling book on the shrinking of all of the solutions. >> we're not talking about the underpinning which is the transformation and economy and work from stake lifelong jobs to occasional part time flex jobs where everybody becomes a lifelong lerner. when people feel anxiety, they're projecting the same things onto the economy. trade is a billing deal. >> where i come from there's a pretty broad nebraska, we're known for our corn and football, but also the largest cattle state in the union. in nebraska if there's more trade with asia, whether you want to buy a japanese pickup or not, you'll end up with a cheaper ford f-150 and more beef markets for export. and so trade is a win-win for nebraskans and all consumers nationally. trade is a net win for producers geographically but there are some who suffer under trade. we don't have good trade mitigation policy. all of that is a big and important topic and yet it's a much smaller topic than artificial intelligence, than machine learning and machine automation and the transformation of the economy. we can talk about a specif

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j.d. vance's new book on the shrinking of the institutions, but we're not talking about the underpinning of that, and the nature of work from stable life long jobs to unstable occasional part-time flex jobs where everybody is going to have to become a life long learner. so we haven't talked much about trade, but when people feel about anxiety right now, they're trying to project the things they're worried about on trade. trade is a big deal. where i'm from, there's a pretty broad consensus that trade is a big deal. if we had more trade with asia, nebraska which is the -- you know, we're known for our corn and football, but we're the largest cattle state in the union. in nebraska, if there's more trade with asia, you'll nd one a cheaper silverado and we'll end up with more beef markets for export. so trade is a win-win for nebraskans. trade is a win for all consumers nationally. trade is a net win for producers nationally but they're geographic and sub sector folks who suffer under trade. we don't have good trade mitigation policy. it's a much smaller topic than artificial intelligence, than

we have young people such as j.d. vancedemic problems, with heroin overdoses and increasing trauma. if you have younger people dying, it's doing to skew the curve down and lower life exp expecan expecancy. >> if we wanted to improve the numbers in the united states, we have to shift the money from more stuff in the hospital more public health measures. decrease smoking, increase exercise, increase responsible living. >> why don't we talk about something that's really uncomfortable to talk about that i talked about after my father died. we're spend how much percentage keeping people alive, a lot of times suffering and hooked up to a thousand machines that there's no free lunch. everything costs. and that's taking money away from preventative diseases and child care as well. >> as you point out, it costs not just in terms of dollars but also psychologically. putting someone in the last years of life in the intensive care unit is not the place they want to be, not the place their family wants to be. >> dr. campbell, part of th