February 16th, 2024: Russian-Collusion Revelations, Putin’s Presidential Pick, & Iran on Ice
The President's Daily Brief
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jason Palmer, one of the hosts of the Intelligence, the Economist's Daily Current Affairs |
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| 1:07.0 | Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's get briefed. We'll start today's show |
| 1:16.1 | with a potential bombshell from a pair of independent journalists that's offering |
| 1:21.3 | new insight into how the 2016 Russia collusion investigation into the |
| 1:26.7 | Trump campaign may have begun. Later the Israeli government is again defying its Western allies, rejecting the idea of |
| 1:35.3 | Palestinian statehood as part of any post-war plan. |
| 1:39.6 | Plus, for the first time, Russian President Vladimir Vladimir Putin is weighing in on the |
| 1:44.8 | 2024 presidential election declaring his preference for who he'd like to see in |
| 1:50.1 | the White House next November. |
| 1:53.2 | And in today's back of the brief, we'll take a look at the latest saber rattling |
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