President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will nominate Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general, putting a loyalist in the role of the nation’s top prosecutor.

In a move that marks the political transformation not just of Marco Rubio, but of the Republican Party, Donald Trump is expected to pick Florida’s senior U.S. senator to be his secretary of state, the New York Times reported Monday.

Marco Rubio's first experiences with Donald Trump involved trading schoolyard insults, but he will now become the president-elect's face to the world -- potentially showing a more traditional, hawkish US foreign policy,