May 15th, 2026: Ukraine May Be Turning The Tide Against Russia & Trump Meets Xi
The President's Daily Brief
The First TV
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:38.3 | Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. |
| 0:43.3 | And in my ongoing game of Where's Wally, I'm still on the road. |
| 0:49.3 | All right, let's get briefed. |
| 0:51.3 | First up, after months of grinding Russian advances, Ukraine may finally be starting to shift |
| 0:56.5 | the momentum on the battlefield, thanks to a major change in how Kyiv is using its growing |
| 1:02.2 | drone arsenal. |
| 1:04.1 | Later in the show, President Trump wraps up his high-stakes visit to Beijing and heads back |
| 1:08.8 | to Washington. |
| 1:09.8 | We'll break down the latest developments from |
| 1:11.5 | its meetings with Xi Jinping. Plus, Cuba says it is effectively run out of oil and diesel, |
| 1:18.3 | as worsening fuel shortages and rolling blackouts push the island deeper into crisis. |
| 1:24.6 | And in today's back of the brief, with the Strait of Hormuz, largely paralyzed, |
| 1:29.7 | Gulf states are turning to enormous overland truck convoys as an emergency economic lifeline. But first, |
| 1:37.1 | today's PDB spotlight. For much of the past year, the story out of Ukraine has been |
| 1:42.7 | fairly straightforward. |
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