It's Saturday, Saturday, March. It's a special. It's Saturday, 16 March.

Welcome to a special episode of the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host, Mike Baker, and I'm going to start off with a huge thank you to all the

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Look it's been an incredible eight months since I began hosting this show. It's been

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