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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Tuesday, November 12th,

and here's what's driving the day. President-elect Donald Trump is going to be tapping

Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state. That's according to the New York Times, which scooped the

news last night. And this move comes

as we saw a flurry of announcements yesterday on who's getting jobs in the new administration.

Those announcements included Stephen Miller, the hardline immigration proponent, who's going to be

deputy chief of staff of policy for Trump, and Congressman Mike Walts, the Green Beret veteran,

who's going to be the next White House national security advisor. Those selections are sending a signal about how different Trump's second term is going to be from his first. And here to talk with me about all of that is our health care reporter, Alice Miranda Olstein. Good morning, Alice. Hello. So, Alice, a lot of announcements in the past 72 hours. I can't keep track of them all. I know. We're back to

the late night tweets and constant barrage of news. And constant updating of stories, of course,

as you dealt with last night. So what can we glean from the past 72 hours or so of Trump appointments?

Yeah. So we took a look at both who Trump is bringing into the

administration and who he publicly said is not invited to the party. So I think taken together,

we're getting a picture that he is really relying on a small circle of people he perceives as loyalists, people who have

not criticized him in the last few years, who have not opposed him on policy or, you know,

any of the things he's done since leaving office or even in office. And so we, you know,

see that people who have been his sort of loudest and staunchest defenders are getting

key appointments talking about folks like Representative Elise Stefanik as the next U.N. ambassador,

as well as two immigration hardliners who were active in the

first Trump administration, Stephen Miller and Thomas Homan, although they are both being

named two White House roles rather than agency roles that would require Senate confirmation, which is interesting for

reasons we can discuss. Yeah. And also we've got Lee Zeldon, EPA administrator, Mike Wallace down in

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