It's Friday the first of April. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. Look at that. We've made it to the end of another week. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right.

Let's get briefed.

First up, Vladimir Putin, remember him?

Sends an envoy to the U.S. for a rare visit to ostensibly try to patch up relations with the Trump administration.

Later in the show, there's a major shakeup

occurring at the White House as President Trump

purges several senior staffers

from his National Security Council,

with more firings expected imminently.

Well, that didn't take long.

Plus, Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court,

the ICC, while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu,

who faces a controversial arrest warrant from the ICC over the war in Gaza.

And in today's back of the brief, chaos returns to Haiti. Actually, I don't think chaos has left Haiti,

as thousands take to the streets and protest of surging gang violence.

But first, today's PDB spotlight.

Russian President Putin dispatched a top advisor to the U.S. to try to mend fences with the Trump

administration after diplomatic talks between U.S. and Russia began to deteriorate earlier this week. The Russian envoy,

Kareil Dmitriev, reportedly met on Wednesday with Trump's senior advisor on Russia negotiations

Steve Whitcoth. While details of their discussion have not been disclosed, the conversation

reportedly lasted for hours, extending deep into the evening, according to a report from the New York Times.

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