It's Tuesday, welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

It's a daily brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right. Let's get briefed.

President Trump is set to speak directly with Russian President Putin today, pushing for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.

But Russia isn't budgeant demanding iron-clad guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO as part of any deal.

Later in the show, the U.S. ramps up airstrikes on Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels,

keeping the pressure on the group as its sponsors in Tehran vow retaliation.

Plus, Venezuela is blasting the White House for the deportation

of hundreds of Trenneragua gang members, also known as TDA, to El Salvador, calling the

move illegal. That's coming, of course, from Nicholas Maduro. We'll examine if the White House

actually cares what the despotic

Maduro regime says about anything. Okay, look, you and I know that the White House, in fact,

doesn't care what Maduro says. In reality, the Venezuelan strongman has stolen more elections than

even Putin. And in today's back of the brief,

after years of dismissing it as a conspiracy theory, the New York Times is finally acknowledging

what many sane people have suspected all along that a lab accident in China may have been the

real origin of COVID-19.

And U.S. government officials, well, worked to suppress the notion of a lab leak during the pandemic.

I, for one, am shocked that there's gambling at Ricks.

But first, in today's PDB spotlight.

President Trump is set to speak one-on-one with Russian President Putin

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