It's Monday, the 6th of April 8th, I hope you had a very happy Easter. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right. Let's get briefed. First up, after a tense, multi-day search behind enemy lines,

U.S. forces have successfully rescued the second crew member of that downed F-15E in Iran.

I'll have the details.

Later in the show, fears are growing that Russia is testing a familiar playbook in Estonia as a pro-Kremlin campaign pushes the idea of a separatist Narva People's Republic inside,

of course, a NATO member state.

Plus, Kiev may be opening a new front against Russia, with reported inside, of course, a NATO member state.

Plus, Kiev may be opening a new front against Russia,

with reported drone strikes launched from Libya,

targeting Moscow's shadow fleet in the Mediterranean.

And it stays back of the brief.

ICE detains the niece of Kassem Soleimani after the Trump administration revokes her green card over alleged ties to Iran's regime. But first, today's PDB spotlight. The U.S. woke up to some exceedingly good

news on Easter morning. The second crew member of that F-15E downed over Iran on Friday has been

rescued. As we reported on Friday, the aircraft

was shot down over southwestern Iran, marking a rare loss for the U.S. Air Force in this conflict.

One of the two crew members, the pilot, was safely rescued shortly after the plane went down,

but the second crew member, a weapons systems officer, couldn't be

immediately located. And for the better part of the last two days, this became a race, a race

between American forces trying to find and extract him, and Iranian forces trying to do the exact

same thing. What we know is that the downed officer did exactly what he was trained to do.

Using survival evasion, resistance, and escape, what's known as sear training, he moved away from

the crash site, avoided detection, and made his way into mountainous terrain. At one point, officials

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