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Each morning, the President of the United States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important issues facing the country -- The President's Daily Brief. Now you can hear your very own PDB, in the form of a podcast, every morning at 6am Eastern, and every afternoon at 4pm Eastern. You'll get 20 minutes of the most important topics of the day and why you should care, arming you with what you need to know to help solve America's most pressing challenges. Former CIA Operations Officer Mike Baker hosts new episodes daily.

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About 10 episodes a week.

Recently covered: The Trump administration is pursuing an increasingly kinetic, alliance-based approach to regional security that risks pulling the U.S. into broader conflicts through mutual defense obligations and expanded military targeting of non-state armed groups, Across the episode, Mike Baker repeatedly draws a line between official rhetoric or agreements and the much harder reality of enforcement—Putin's retaliation threat may be mostly saber-rattling, the Lebanon disarmament verification talks may never translate into real access or compliance since Hezbollah and Iran aren't at the table, and Cuba's turn toward private enterprise is grudging necessity rather than genuine reform. A secondary thread ties into this: adaptability and follow-through, not stated capability or paper agreements, determine real-world outcomes, as shown by Ukraine's drone-honed battlefield edge over the better-equipped but less battle-tested U.S. Army, Across both segments, the host frames recent events as escalations that expose gaps between appearances and reality: Russia's assumption that relocating naval assets or diverting air defenses to protect Putin's palace would keep them safe proved misguided as Ukraine found and exploited those weaknesses, while China's shift from human-directed to AI-autonomous cyberattacks shows warnings about AI in cyber warfare becoming reality faster than expected.

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