July 10th, 2025: Running on Empty: America’s Missile Stockpile Problem & FBI Probes Into Brennan and Comey

The President's Daily Brief

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: President Trump approves Patriot missile deliveries to Ukraine—but U.S. interceptor stockpiles are worryingly low, raising questions about where the weapons will come from. A Greek cargo ship is sunk in the Red Sea by Houthi militants, leaving four crew members dead and 15 missing in a growing campaign of maritime attacks. The FBI has opened criminal investigations into John Brennan and James Comey over their roles in the Trump-Russia probe, including allegations Brennan lied to Congress. And in today’s Back of the Brief—Germany accuses China of targeting one of its military aircraft with a laser during a European Union mission in the Red Sea, sparking fresh diplomatic tensions. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://trybeef.com/pdb & Get 2 Free Flat Iron steaks DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	It's Thursday, it's a day for the President.
0:57.0	I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. And yes, apparently I'm still on the road. And apparently I may be losing my voice, so I apologize if I sound a bit croaky. And while we're just rambling, yes, I am wearing a cardigan. I'm really working hard to bring the
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1:40.2	a quick apology for not being able to upload the afternoon bulletin yesterday. It was a day full of delayed flights, and by the time I was finally finished with travel, yesterday afternoon's bulletin would have ended up being yesterday's very late night bulletin.
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2:08.8	All right, enough with the preamble. Let's get briefed.
2:12.2	First up, President Trump has greenlit patriot missile deliveries to Ukraine, but there's a bit of a problem.
2:19.9	The U.S. is running dangerously low on interceptors, with stockpiles at just 25% of what the
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