February 17th, 2026: Wagner Group's Secret Comeback Inside NATO & Iran Talks Resume
The President's Daily Brief
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, the President's Day, welcome to the President's Daily Brief. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. |
| 0:19.8 | And if I might say, RIP, rest in peace, to Robert Duval, the absolute great actor. |
| 0:28.5 | Now, look, if all Mr. Duval had done was Tom Hagan in the first and second Godfather movies |
| 0:36.1 | and Colonel Kilglor and Apocalypse Now, and of course, |
| 0:40.4 | Losome Dove, then he would be considered legendary, but he did so much more during his career. |
| 0:47.1 | Incredible. So again, rest in peace, Mr. Robert DeVall. |
| 0:52.6 | All right. Let's get briefed. |
| 0:54.6 | First up, Western intelligence says Russia's shadow war inside Europe may be entering a new |
| 1:00.3 | phase, with former Wagner recruitment networks allegedly helping coordinate sabotage operations |
| 1:06.8 | across NATO states, and in some cases, the recruits include teenagers. I'll have the details. |
| 1:14.5 | Later in the show, talks resume in Geneva as Iran floats potential energy and aviation deals |
| 1:21.0 | alongside a renewed nuclear agreement. We'll explain what's on the table and what's not. Plus, Ukraine's former energy |
| 1:29.5 | minister has been detained after allegedly attempting to flee the country as a sweeping |
| 1:35.0 | corruption probe expands and reaches into the upper ranks of the Ukrainian government. |
| 1:40.4 | And in today's back of the brief, a bipartisan funding deal falls apart, no surprise, over immigration |
| 1:46.5 | policy, triggering a partial government shutdown that directly impacts the Department of Homeland |
| 1:52.1 | Security. But first, today's PDB spotlight. We're starting today by returning to Russia's |
| 1:58.4 | shadow war inside Europe, something we've been |
| 2:01.0 | tracking here for quite a while on the PDB. The shadow war is basically Russia's covert effort |
| 2:07.5 | to create chaos across Europe without triggering open conflict. Its rail lines disrupted, |
| 2:14.2 | its warehouse is torched, its assassination plots, its cyber intrusions and influence campaigns. |
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