The facility in indianapolis shortly. Then later today, donald trump takes the show back on the road for the First Time Since the election, heading to cincinnati, ohio. For the first of whats described as several rallies planned in states that helped donald trump secure the white house. Lets go to cnns jessica schneider. Shes standing by at trump tower here in new york. So what is on tap . What more are you learning from the trump transition . Reporter well, we certainly know it will not be business as usual today. Donald trump leaving behind those backtoback meetings at trump tower and hitting the road at least for one day. He will be off shortly here from trump tower headed off to laguardia. Then he will be in indianapolis and of course, the big rally in cincinnati, ohio later today. Donald trump doing what he does best, playing to those crowds. But despite the fact that hes leaving behind a bit of business here at trump tower, the suggestions and speculation still swirling over some top posts including of course secretary of state. We know that four key names are in the running. Former new york city mayor rudy giuliani, senator bob corker, general David Petraeus but the name drawing the biggest focus, former Massachusetts Governor mitt romney, still considered the lead contender here, especially after that very high profile dinner meeting that happened on tuesday night at the very posh restaurant a few blocks from trump tower. It was the second such sitdown facetoface meeting that donald trump and mitt romney have had just in the past few weeks. A lot of that drawing some criticism, most notably from former House SpeakerNewt Gingrich who just last night had some very stern and harsh words for mitt romney, essentially saying that mitt romney is sucking up to donald trump. So not a lot of love lost there and still those names are swirling in contention. Another thing we have learned although we are not expecting any more announcements this week, the Transition Team has told us not to expect any announcements as it pertains to we are learning that many of the contenders are on the short list, a few names on the short list for director of national intelligence. Those include the senior senator from indiana, dan coates as well as former Homeland Security adviser fran townsend. Also in the running, admiral mike rogers. Those names up for director of national intelligence. One other thing we are learning is that sarah palins name is now in the mix. Sources saying sarah palin has expressed her interest to become the secretary for veterans affairs, telling the Trump Administration that she is interested in working with them as well. So a lot happening today. Some key posts likely wont be announced this week but donald trump, we are waiting for him to head out here from trump tower over to laguardia, then of course playing to those cheering crowds that actually fueled his improbable win, his improbable run. Kate and john . Jessica, thank you so much. Shes got her eye on trump tower. We are also keeping our eye on laguardia and Donald Trumps plane as donald trump will be leaving for indiana very very shortly. As we mentioned, all eyes are on indianapolis. A lot of eyes today. We have got a lot of eyes. I have eyes in the back of my head. Better watch out. All eyes are on the heating and air Conditioning Company carrier. A lot of questions surrounding what deal exactly did donald trump strike with that company, carrier. Theres no question theres a sense of relief amongst the workers whose jobs are now staying put. About 1,000 people will be able to keep their jobs. Suzanne malveaux live in indianapolis outside that carrier plant. What kind of reaction are you hearing . Reporter it is really extraordinary. People are very excited to see trump and pence. They are very grateful about this as well. Its kind of ironic when you think about it, ten months ago the United Technologies, the Parent Company and the bosses that basically gathered them in the plant on that floor and said look, your jobs are going to mexico, that is where one of the workers captured the moment on cell phone, posted, it went viral, donald trump saw it and made it part of his Signature Campaign to bring jobs back, keep jobs in america. That is where trump and pence are going to be today. They will be taking a tour of the plant and many people say look, they have been there, they have worked there for many, many years. It is very important to them, this is a sense of community, a sense of providing a better life for their children, and they give 100 credit to the trump pence team. Take a listen. Joy, excited and looking to the future. It means i dont have to go out hitting the streets looking for a job. It means that i can put my last daughter through college and not have to worry for that. Reporter i also talked to a man with a company right up the street. Their jobs have not been spared. They are going to mexico. He told me look, im a new grandfather, im trying to put two of my three grown children through college. He makes about 25 an hour. It is critical that he keeps his job. Ten years ago he lost it because of offshore moving his job to another country. He says now hes got to go through the same thing again. He wants to talk to donald trump today. So you can see where this is going. Everybody simply wants a little bit of a handout. Suzanne malveaux in indianapolis, where donald trump will head shortly. Since the early stages of the trump campaign, he has made carriers plan to move jobs out of the United States a key talking point. At one point he even threatened to hit the company with a 35 tariff if it moved jobs to mexico, which it is still doing, by the way. Some jobs are still moving to mexico. This is what he told supporters in indianapolis back in july. Were not going to let them just take our companies out, fire everybody, these are people with carrier for many, many years. We are not going to let it happen. Indianapolis star has been following the back and forth between donald trump and carrier from the very beginning. Reporter tony cooke has been following this and is joining us now. Tony, thank you very much for joining us. What are you hearing is really behind this deal between the trump transition and carrier . Reporter well, certainly theres going to be state incentives and that does appear to be part of the deal but those were on the table even before this deal was announced. So i think what you really have to look at here is the fact that you have a president ial administration that the Company Wants to maintain a Good Relationship with, whether that means for the federal contracts that the Parent Company has or for simply having a voice at the table when decisions are being made about federal regulatory policy or tax policy. It is interesting, because as you point out, there were some things on the table from indiana. Mike pence has been governor of indiana and carrier chose to remove these jobs while mike pence was governor. Does he bear any of the responsibility for their initial decision to go . Reporter well, you know, this is an industrywide trend for the Manufacturing Sector in general so i dont think you can blame pence for their initial decision to leave. And i do think that in terms of state incentives, carrier already had those prior to the layoff decision and im sure the Pence Administration continued to offer those as an incentive for the company to keep the jobs here. But ultimately a state administration is much more limited in what they can offer and the leverage they can bring than a national administration. That is absolutely right, tony. The Union President for carrier has said they have been left in the dark in these discussions of late, even telling cnn, using very choice words, its like walking in the lions den with a i think pork chop suit on. Thats what the carrier Union President said. Is it surprising to you that the unions were not part of this conversation . Reporter yeah. It is surprising. In terms of the Company Saving money by staying here, you would think that concessions from the union might be part of that formula but i think what that points to is carrier has said that they are going to save 65 million by moving jobs to mexico, and ultimately, what the union can offer in concessions or what the state can offer in incentives just cant compete with that. Now, if theres an opportunity with the Trump Administration for federal contracts or for having a voice at the table on some of these regulatory or tax policy issues, those are situations that could benefit the company in much greater ways. Thats the difference. We had an election. The other thing carrier is getting right now is an enormous amount of free publicity. Pretty decent publicity. Not often you see an air conditioner maker get this kind of advertising bang for its buck, as it were. Reporter right. Certainly throughout the campaign, the brand had to have taken a publicity hit, right. Trump was railing about this on the campaign trail almost nonstop. So i do think putting some of that to rest is certainly of benefit to the company and you have to also remember that the company is still sending some of these jobs to mexico so im not sure that this equates to necessarily positive publicity for the company, but it at least negates some of the negative publicity they were receiving. A lot more to discuss, as you say. Theres a lot more to the story. Great to see you, tony. Thank you very much for your reporting on this. Lets talk about this. Julian zelizer is a princeton professor. Cnns chief Business CorrespondentChristine Romans is here as well. Executive editor of cnn politics, mark preston and National Political reporter with politico, Ileana Johnson is here as well. Great to have you. Christine, as tony was saying, theres more to the story. You have jobs saved, you still have jobs going. Bernie sanders had a lot to say about that in an opinion piece with the Washington Post just today. He said yes, the families of the 1,000 workers who are keeping their jobs in indianapolis, they should rejoice. But theres more to it. Trump threatened to Tax Companies who move jobs overseas and then try to bring their products back in. Heres part of the opinion piece. Instead of a damn tax, the company will be rewarded with a damn tax cut. Wow. Hows that for standing up to corporate greed . Hows that for punishing corporations that shut down in thend and move abroad . In essence United Technologies, the Parent Company, took trump hostage and won. Is that what happened here . Hes saying they won. Look, lets be clear. United technologies also has almost 6 billion of government contracts with the federal government. If you are the ceo of United Technologies and donald trump, president elect, has already said hes going to tax put tariffs on your company and calls you up and says why not leave some of your jobs there . What do you say . You say yes. Because youre about to go into a position where a lot of their revenue, the Parent Companys re new com revenue comes from the federal government. This is a sign of how these Companies Want to play ball with the administration because of how tough he was on the trail because of trade. The question is, do you have a few Companies Like this, and i have no doubt donald trump and his team were talking to other companies right now who are moving jobs overseas, but if you have a few of these really good optical plays for the donald trump narrative, does that take the heat off of some of these companies so they can play by the normal globalization rules otherwise . I will say United Technologies, carrier in its press release made a note that it Still Believes in the forces of globalization and free trade. This may not be a strategy, mark. You may not be able to save manufacturing by picking up the phone and calling one plant but he did pick up the phone. They called carrier and these are 1,000 jobs. When he goes there today, he has reason to claim victory. No doubt. Its really difficult, too, when we sit around this table and talk about the politics of it all even though that is the underpinning thing and frankly, in the end, the most important thing, but we are talking about families, about other institutions that thrive off of these people having jobs, that might be around the plant. Its not just the one job. Right. Theres Ripple Effect, like when you close a military business in some ways. Theres Ripple Effect that goes down. But the fact of the matter is, it is a victory optically for donald trump. The question is longterm can donald trump be on the phone all day with companies that are starting to threaten they will move jobs overseas. You are picking winners and losers of the economy. Something free market folks have never liked. The idea of the executive branch picking winners and losers. Except today. Its deeper than that. We dont know the deal. Unions were not included in the deal. We have to see how will this actually affect workers at the plant. We dont know this thousand is obviously very important but how many jobs will continue to go overseas. I think we should be clear on this. This is often lost in cable news. Cant we have these two thoughts at once . It is good to save a single job and keep it in the United States. But there might be there are also still moving jobs overseas, it might not be an entirely might not be a home run, it might be a base hit. No one has questioned this trend. Thats whats the change here. Now you have the executive branch who is going to be the executive branch doing something bit. Until now, both parties have just accepted globalization was going to have losers. Now theres a new narrative. The administration is republican and democrat which stepped in and said the Auto Industry was going to be a loser. There was a bailout and that caused a huge amount of fallout. Donald trump is giving this speech, some calling it a victory lap, others a thank you moment. Hes going to ohio. What do you think he will say because for the last year and a half, the type of thing we have heard is lock her up, build the wall, drain the swamp. Today we are learning hes hiring goldman people and other billionaires. What tone do you think he will hit tonight . I actually think you will see him tout some of his cabinet picks and accomplishments thus far and take on probably a more positive tone. Hes got an accomplishment to tout which is sort of remarkable. The carrier deal, i would be shocked if he doesnt talk about that. Its obviously a political win for trump even if its not necessarily a basis for policy making. I question how scaleable it is. The guy has fulfilled a Campaign Promise before hes been inaugurated and i think you will hear quite a bit of boasting about that. The question to me is, obviously john kasich, governor of ohio, was one of his biggest foes on the campaign trail so one of the questions in my mind is how is he received by republican political officials in ohio. You have seen quite a bit of peacemaking by donald trump in terms of his cabinet selections, reaching out to mitt romney. Does that happen in ohio today or does trump use his speech to continue to hammer home some of the divisions in the republican party. Yeah. Hadnt thought of that. John berman thinks of everything so is john kasich mentioned while hes in ohio. Thats an interesting thought. No doubt about that. It depends whoever gets into Donald Trumps ear before he takes the podium and says either keep it in check or let it rip. I think that literally, roll the dice on this one. Because who knows which way hes going to go. We say that every time mark preston comes on tv. Can we talk about the cabinet for a second . The Washington Post says its the richest cabinet in modern history. Its ten times the cabinet, initial cabinet of george w. Bush. Actually, read this. This is good. George w. Bushs first cabinet in 2001 is estimated to be the entire cabinet, estimated to have a worth of 250 million. Adjusted for inflation, christine. I know you are wondering. Thats roughly onetenth the wealth of trumps commerce secretary nominee. So romans, there are people who say look, this is just the swamp, more of the same, lot of goldman people. You make the point these are folks who had a little bit of different world view. Yeah, they do. These are contrarians, people who see value in the wreckage, people who question the conventional wisdom. Wilbur ross is somebody who for years automatically questioned the conventional wisdom. You could argue washington has been about conventional wisdom for a very long time. Convexal wntional wisdom that globalization will help more than it hurts. These are wall street outliers, not people who are populists. There is a real disconnect if you watch the cabinet picks and compare it to what hes arguing on the campaign trail or what hes arguing with carrier. I think thats something that should be paid attention to. It opens up the door for a middle class pick like mitt romney. I do think the cabinet picks fit with the sort of things you saw trump saying. He did rail against wall street but hes choosing i think in his cabinet picks, people whose thinking is outside the conventional wall street wisdom. Hes going to bring in