It's Friday the 6th of February.

It's Friday, the 6th of February.

Look at that.

We've made it through another week.

Well, well done you.

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. First up, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC,

seizes two foreign crude oil tankers and a show of force near key shipping lanes. Just days

after IRGC gunboats tried to board a U.S.

flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.

We'll walk through what happened and what message Tehran is trying to send.

Later in the show, Xi Jinping's military purge deepens as Beijing removes three lawmakers

tied to China's defense sector following a probe

into a top general. Plus, on the very day, the final nuclear arms control treaty between the

U.S. and Russia was set to expire. Washington and Moscow signaled that they may still continue

observing the new start limits. And in today's back of the brief, German police

detained two men suspected of plotting to sabotage naval vessels in Hamburg, as European

officials grow increasingly concerned about covert Russian attacks within the EU.

But first, today's PDB spotlight. It's getting fairly crowded in one of the world's

most critical shipping corridors. According to Iranian state-linked media, the Islamic

Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, has seized two foreign crude oil tankers in the Persian Gulf,

accusing the vessels of maritime violations while transiting near

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