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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.

Before we get tucked into our stories for the morning, though,

it looks as if, at least according to initial reports,

Israel and Hamas may have agreed to a first phase of a peace plan to pause the fighting and at this stage at least release some of the

hostages. Now, details are a little bit thin at this point. It does look like the mediators,

in particular, Qatar,

have confirmed that there is an agreement of some sort, although it's not clear whether they've

worked out some of the more difficult issues, such as the question of demilitarization for

Hamas, future governance, etc. We'll be keeping a close eye on this and we'll have more details as they become available later today on the PDB afternoon bulletin.

All right, let's get briefed. First up, a leaked document from inside Russia's own defense ministry is revealing staggering losses in Ukraine and raising new questions about Moscow's

ability to sustain their war. I'll have those details. Later in the show, President Trump

says he's, quote, sort of made a decision on supplying long-range tomahawk missiles to Ukraine,

even as the Kremlin ramps up its warnings and threatens retaliation if the plan moves forward.

Plus, Israel's Shibet says it has foiled an Iranian weapon smuggling plot into the West Bank,

the latest sign of the Iranian regime's continued push to arm and fund anti-Israel militants.

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