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I have a quick day.

It's a...

It's Thursday, one August.

Now about that.

We made it through July to a brand new month,

and wasn't July interesting.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

First, we'll bring you the latest fallout

from the death of Hamas's chief political leader in a suspected

Israeli strike inside Tehran on Wednesday as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khami orders Iran to retaliate with a direct attack on Israel.

Later in the show, we'll have the latest on Ukraine as Kyiv faces one of the largest Russian drone strikes in the war to date, while at the same time

their forces deal an embarrassing blow to Putin's interests in Syria.

Plus, Myanmar's embattled military junta has extended a state of emergency as leaders

desperately cling to power in the face of a widening armed rebellion. Now not for

nothing but I was in Myanmar back in the late 80s, back

when the country was still referred to as Burma. And the people of Burma, well they've

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