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It's Wednesday, Welcome to the President's Daily Briefs.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Now,

if it sounds like there's a groovy soundtrack in the background, well, there is. Sometimes when

you're on the road, try to find a quiet place to record the PDB for you. Well, it can be a little

difficult. All right, let's get briefed. We'll start the show with Turkey's military buildup

along the Syrian border. Ankara's moves are raising alarms, of course, of a potential large-scale

incursion into northern Syria, one that could put Turkish forces on a collision course with U.S.-backed

Syrian Kurdish fighters. Later in the show, we'll cover promising developments in ceasefire talks

between Israel and Hamas as Prime Minister Netanyahu heads to Cairo

for what's being called the final stage of negotiations.

Plus, the U.S. Treasury is hitting North Korea and Russia with new sanctions,

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