significant middle income tax cut since reagan. we will incorporate a child care program. this will be a tremendous boon to the economy. reporter: now, even though donald trump is making progress on some of these economic appointments, there is still the thorny issue of the secretary of state position. donald trump of course dined with mitt romney last night. while they were expected to be joined by their wives, instead they were joined by reince priebus, donald trump s chief of staff heading into the white house. trump did not tip his hand about which way he s leaning. we know there are other candidates in the mix. for instance, senator corker, rudy giuliani, potentially david petraeus. he didn t really say one way or another where he s leaning but mitt romney certainly had much more favorable things to say about donald trump after that dinner than he did on the campaign trail. interesting. sara murray, many thanks to you. i appreciate it. let s talk some more about trump s econom
considered? or is there a chance perhaps that this is just the great et greatest of all punks. they re going to parade him around the greatest of all punks. i expect it might not be. i don t know that it s a punk only because i m not sure that president-elect trump would waste his time at a dinner with somebody he s not serious about and frankly, i don t know that governor romney would have come in for something if he had gotten signals this was a punking. there are people within donald trump s inner ccle who want to be punking mitt romney. they don t like him. and privately, you know, have real concerns about pulling in somebody who is not a loyalist. that said, a little bit of news here. jason miller was just on television this is donald trump s, one of his spokespeople saying that we are not going to get a decision about secretary of state until after the weekend sob we have some time line guidance here and the position is now down to what he described as the final four, right
bit more time, by holding this news conference on december 15th. one more headline, i ll give you, tamron, which is that we just had that daily conference call with his transition team. they say that he has narrowed down his picks for secretary of state to four people, including mitt romney and rudy giuliani, of course he had dinner with mitt romney last night and then mitt romney came out, made that statement and said, the president-elect did something that he couldn t do, which is to win a general election. it wasn t quite an apology for all of the scathing comments that romney had made about donald trump during the campaign, but clearly an oli branch as he vies for that top position. transition officials not naming the other two candidates, but if we re reading the tea leaves, he s met with david petraeus and also senator corker. so possible they re in the mix as well. tamron? kristen, thank you very much for catching us up to speed there. we really appreciate it. thank you for wa
i m interested in what everyone else but from the detail we have, it looks to me like we don t have any evidence there will be the kind of separation you would need to remove conflicts. you mentioned in your question there the idea that this is the brand of sort of who he is, right. yes. remember who he is becoming and that is the president-elect and the president. his brand will become a presidential one which trump the president-elect seems to be making the calculation is perhaps more valuable than the business he s built. point two, as far as reporting on how this will happen, the question is asked constantly. it has been asked from us, from the transition team, donald trump s transition folks there, you know, since the day he was elected and what we hears this is being worked out and when it s time you will get the details. so that s the december 15th news conference precisely. we ll see. i think they re feeling the heat. let s talk about the transition here
fill out his cabinet, making a slew of cabinet positions. transition sources have confirmed that trump has chosen will bus ross as commerce secretary and steve mnuchin as treasury. and elaine chao to now lead the transportation department and gop congressman tom price as his pick for secretary of health and human services but it really is this palace intrigue over who will be chosen as secretary of state which continues to take center stage. trump hosting more of the c contenders here in new york. he met with bob corker and having a more personal second sitdown with mitt romney last night. a big dinner meeting at the restaurant jean georges at the trump international hotel here