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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. It's Friday, the 16th of May, 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, President Trump claimed Thursday that the U.S. and Iran are close to reaching a new nuclear deal,

saying that the Mullahs have, quote, sort of agreed to terms.

Sort of.

After White House officials presented Tehran with a new proposal on Sunday.

But Iran, well, they're denying the reports of a new proposal and say that there are still

large gaps to bridge in the talks. Later in the show, President Trump said Thursday that Gaza

should be turned into a U.S. administered, quote, freedom zone as ceasefire talks in Qatar stall,

and Israel expands operations in the battered enclave.

Plus, we'll look at reports that the Iranian regime is aggressively expanding their foreign assassinations and kidnapping operations, leveraging criminal gangs to carry out their dirty work.

Now, this would be, of course, the same regime that reportedly plotted to assassinate Trump,

that has built a ring of terrorist proxies

with the aim of destroying Israel, and that has a track record of breaking any agreements related

to their nuclear weapons programs. So, yeah, expanding their foreign assassination and kidnapping

operations is certainly right in their wheelhouse. And in today's back of the brief, authorities disrupt an alleged plot to carry out an

ISIS-inspired terror attack on a military facility near Detroit by a former member of Michigan's

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