Donald Trump Receiving First Intelligence Briefing, Meeting With Advisers
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Donald Trump is receiving his first intelligence briefing at a secure FBI facility Wednesday.
One of Trump's advisers, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn who was the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will accompany Trump to the briefing.
Controversy has swirled over Trump receiving these briefings, as Democrats believe he doesn't have the temperament to keep the briefings secret from the public. But Trump said Hillary Clinton is the one who "can't keep anything private.''
Trump and his top advisers -- old and new -- are also meeting to discuss tactics to defeat "radical Islamic terrorism.''
The roundtable at Trump Tower is being attended by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and more than a dozen others.
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Also present are Trump's new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, and newly promoted campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. She was sitting next to campaign chair Paul Manafort at one end of the table.
The meeting came hours after Trump announced Bannon and Conway's appointments in a shake-up of campaign staff.
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