EmailFrom Sunlen Miller:
As of now, President Obama does not have any open events today and will stay behind closed doors in private meetings at the White House.
In the late morning the President will meet with his national security team for his monthly closed-door meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room. Later in the week, on Thursday, Mr. Obama is anticipated to publicly release the findings of the administration's review on Afghanistan.
“There will be another meeting before the review is released, so I don't want to get ahead of — of where we are on that," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday, "But I think the president feels confident that we are on track on where we should be and that we can certainly meet our commitment to begin a conditions-based drawdown of our forces next July.”
Expected attendees include:
Vice President Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
Jack Lew, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Ambassador Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (via videoconference)
Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
John Brennan, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor
Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor
Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Leon Panetta, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, USAID
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (via videoconference)
General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Ambassador Cameron Munter, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (via videoconference)
General James Mattis, Commander, U.S. Central Command
General David Petraeus, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Doug Lute, Coordinator for Afghanistan and Pakistan
John Tien, Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan
In the afternoon, the President and the Vice President will meet for their private closed-door weekly lunch in the Private Dining Room.
-Sunlen Miller