law. if this is true, it s quite an accusation. we have a healthcare law in place and it requires a lot of businesses when it comes to insuring their people. your allegation is they are allowing exceptions to the rule to groups they looks like unions and the aarp that has gotten a sweetheart deal, but holding the stick over political foes. you don t come south and like what we do, you may not get the exception. it shouldn t surprise us this bill can be applied to 10 people one way and other people another. megyn: i m sorry, we are waiting on president obama to make some staff announcements, including chief of staff perhaps. press secretary. we ll listen to president obama and we ll have carl right after. i asked pete rouse to step into the breach and lead us
finance, steven mnuchin has established a reputation of being a dedicated team builder and communicator. these qualities will serve him well as he works with the congress and the administration to hammer out a tax package that will spur economic growth, create jobs, and allow businesses to compete on a global basis. i mentioned yesterday but we ll have further staff announcements today, both on the commission staff, the special assistants, deputy assistants, and assistants to the president. we ll release some of the noncommissinon commissioned support staff as well. we have officially filled the cabinet with the announcement of sonny perdue as the next secretary of agriculture. a few more staff announcements, personnel notes that i want to get through. we will announce today that dab kern will remain at the white house as director of the white house military office. he s been serving in an acting role during the obama
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transition. president-elect donald trump will meet tonight with mitt romney, who is still reportedly on the short list for secretary of state. mr. trump confirming moments ago his cabinet pick for health and human services, a vocal critic of obamacare. sarah murray is live in washington. what have you learned? reporter: good morning. well, the trump transition effort is make a few staffing announcements official today, saying donald trump will choose tom price, the congressman, to be the secretary for health and human service. and also he s going to choose seema verma, a health care policy ceo, to be the new administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. now, even though he s moving forward with some of these staff announcements, other ones seem to be in a trickier position, especially what to do about secretary of state. donald trump is barrelling ahead with another round of cabinet picks today. sources say he s slated to name georgia congressman tom price, a
obamacare among other initiativings. but then he put that flag tweet out there which raised plenty of eyebrows, in part because the supreme court has upheld the view even if you find the notion of burning a flag abhorrent, it is still protected under the first amendment as part of free speech. so it s a little unclear why he decided to just toss that out there, especially on a day when he was already making news. the transition team announced that donald trump had decided on georgia congressman tom price to be the next head of health and human services. this is someone who s been a vehement critic of obamacare. obviously that fits in nicely with donald trump s promise on the campaign trail to repeal and replace obamacare. it s the kind of decision being cheered on by conservatives. now, second on the list of staff announcements also in the health care vein is sema burm ma. donald trump has chose be her to be administrator for the centers