be able to pass confirmation. now to defense the mayor for a moment, i think you saw someone who's a very strong ally. he's someone who's been very loyal. someone i worked on his 2008 presidential race. thing he's an absolute fantastic advocate for the president-elect. >> do those ties concern you at all, jason? do those ties concern you at all? they undercut his chances? >> i think i'll leave it to the president-elect to put foorpd t forward the names. until then, i don't think it's right to speculate as far as this name or that name. but just know the process going into it and the right kind of people we're going to put in place is really what's paramount. >> jason, president-elect trump came out on the night that he won and he said it is time for us to unify and then in a matter of days he put steve bannon essentially named him as his chief strategist. and a lot of people see him as a lightning rod. i know there's a lot of debate about whether or not he has ties