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Okay. It's Thursday, 13 February.

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.

We'll start things off today with President Trump announcing that negotiations to end the Ukraine war will begin immediately following a call that he held with Vladimir Putin.

The news comes as the U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth warns EU and NATO defense chiefs that Ukraine's goal of returning to its 2014 borders isn't realistic.

Later in the show, as the Gaza ceasefire hangs by a thread, Israel has begun calling up military reservists in preparation for renewed conflict, plus a bombshell in Ukraine, where intelligence officials revealed that one of the nation's most powerful men has been secretly working for Russia.

And in today's back of the brief, President Trump scores a major win as Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed by the Senate as the new director of national intelligence after a very tough confirmation battle.

But first, today's PDB spotlight.

In what could prove to be a major diplomatic breakthrough, President Trump revealed that he held what he described as a, quote, lengthy and highly productive phone call

with Russian President Putin on Wednesday morning, seeking a peace deal to end Moscow's three-year-old

war on Ukraine. It marked the first conversation between the president and the Russian strongman

since Trump's return to office, as well as Putin's first contact with a sitting U.S.

president since February 2022, after contact was broken off following Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Now, the conversation reportedly lasted for an hour and a half, during which the pair agreed

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