that former wall street executive and hollywood producer steven menuchin is expected to be named as trump's choice for treasury secretary and billionaire investor wilbur ross is expected to be tapped for commerce secretary. earlier team trump named former labor secretary elaine chao to head the transportation department and representative tom price for health and human services. let's talk about it now. cnn political commentator and republican strategist ken madden joins us. gloria borger. and "usa today" columnist kristen powers. kevin, i want to start with you. you obviously have worked very closely with mitt romney. what do you make of them reaching out to mitt romney? of the relationship they have on what they said about each other during the campaign? >> well i think the initial outreach had to do with sending a message to a lot of republicans that donald trump was interested in uniting the party. and genuinely interested in getting some insights from