By AMY HARDER
All of President-elect Barack Obama's major national security designees will attend a meeting today in Chicago to discuss the incoming administration's "international opportunities and challenges," according to the transition team.
Reported attendees include Vice President-elect Joe Biden; Secretary of State-designate Hillary Rodham Clinton; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Attorney General-designate Eric Holder; Homeland Security nominee Janet Napolitano; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; U.N. Ambassador-designate Susan Rice; National Security Advisor nominee James Jones; Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell; incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; and White House Counsel-designate Greg Craig.
This is the second national security meeting Obama has held since the election; the first one was Dec. 1, the day the president-elect announced his foreign policy team. This time around, however, a much more exhaustive list of leaders is slated to attend. According to the team, this is one of a series of meetings between now and the inauguration to make sure they're "ready to hit the ground running."
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