The Trump Cabinet Tracker

The sources cautioned that nothing is final until the president-elect officially announces it, likely next week.

As for Tillerson and Bolton, there are good reasons to be concerned about both developments. Tillerson is an incredibly close business partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was even awarded the Russian Order of Friendship in 2012 after negotiating a $500 billion energy partnership with Russia. According to The Hill, that deal has been halted as a result of sanctions levelled against Russia due to Putin's military aggressiveness in Crimea, but Tillerson would now be well-placed to lift those sanctions.

To be clear, lifting economic sanctions is often a good idea—economic interdependence is the foundation of mutual peace and prosperity—and Donald Trump's comparative reluctance to restart the Cold War was one of the better things about his candidacy. But Tillerson's very direct business interests are hopelessly entangled with the Russian state, and his selection creates a real possibility for diplomacy based upon crony corporatism. The U.S. should be less hawkish toward Russia because it's the smart thing to do, not because it enriches the mega-corporation recently helmed by the secretary of state.

Then there's Bolton. As Daniel Larison writes at The American Conservative, "The fact that Bolton is receiving a top job anywhere in the administration is an indictment of Trump's judgment and a sign of just how reckless and aggressive U.S. foreign policy is likely to be in the coming years."