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It's Friday, it's a daily business. It's Friday, 20 December.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

And yes, it does look like I'm dressed to do a couple of shows at the Copacabana.

It's the festive holiday season.

All right, let's get briefed. We'll start the show with an update on the war in Ukraine

as Russian President Putin claims he's ready to strike a compromise with Donald Trump to end the

conflict. Later in the show, Israel is setting their sights on Iran's last remaining proxy group of note in the Middle East,

warning Yemen's Khutti rebels that the long arm of Israeli justice will soon come for them.

Plus, military bases near Chinese-owned farmland have been caught up in the mystery-dron phenomena

haunting U.S. skies, leading some to believe that the activity is related

to espionage efforts by the Chinese Communist Party. And in today's back of the brief,

officials in Kiev say they've disrupted a massive Russian spy ring operating within Ukraine

that sought to collect sensitive intelligence related to F-16 fighter jets

donated by Kiev's Western allies. But first, today's PDB spotlight. Russian strongman,

Vladimir Putin, just gave a marathon end-of-year press briefing in Moscow, where he claimed he's ready to strike a bargain

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