joining me now in a cnbc exclusive is the new secretary of commerce, penny pritzger. good to have you on the program. >> maria, it's great to be here with you. i am so happy to be here. you know, it's -- i've been in this position now for about four months. i wake up every day. i think about how do we create the conditions for the economy to grow and create jobs? and so i'm so pleased to be able to talk about our open for business agenda. >> when i want to hear your top priorities. then i want to come back to you and ask you a little bit about some of the ideas we are hearing from ceos like john chambers was on the show last night. he keeps pouring money into these stock buyback plans. and we want to find out how we're going to see some of that money used from corporate america that they're sitting on to create jobs as opposed to buybacks. why don't you take us through your top priorities in this role right now, secretary. >> absolutely. so our top priorities include trade and investment, innovation and data. we need to create an economy that is exporting more and att