October 13th, 2025: Israeli Hostages Released & Hamas Launches ‘Mafia-Like’ Crackdown In Gaza

The President's Daily Brief

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: After 2 years, the remaining living hostages have been released from Gaza. The exchange comes as Trump arrives in the Middle East to meet regional leaders. Hamas is turning its guns inward. The group has launched a sweeping crackdown inside Gaza, targeting rival clans and suspected collaborators to reassert control. Renewed economic warfare between Washington and Beijing—China defends its new rare earth export curbs as “legitimate,” firing back at new U.S. tariffs and export bans. And in today’s Back of the Brief—the War Department announces a new counter-narcotics task force under a directive from President Trump, with a mission to take the fight to the cartels in the Caribbean. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting https://PDBPremium.com.Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybriefTriTails Premium Beef: Discover the Autumn Butcher Block — built for family meals and legacy-making — available now at https://trybeef.com/pdb while supplies last.Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.7	It's Monday, welcome. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker,
1:17.1	your eyes and ears on the world stage. And yes, look at that. Back on the road.
1:25.3	All right, first up, it has been a long time coming. But as of 8 a.m. local time in Gaza today,
1:30.3	or 1 a.m. on the east coast of the U.S. The process of releasing the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas for the past two years had begun. In a complicated
1:36.5	and opaque process, the first seven of the reported 20 living hostages were delivered by
1:42.6	Hamas to the Red Cross, with word that the remaining 13
1:46.9	would be handed over in Con Unis in a second release. President Trump will be on the ground in the
1:52.4	Middle East today, meeting with regional leaders and guarantors in Egypt as the Seatsfire's
1:57.6	fragile future hangs in the balance.
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