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Again, text PDB to the number 989-898. It's Friday, the 15th of August.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

First up, Ukraine is hitting the Putin regime where it hurts most,

mounting a punishing campaign against Russia's oil industry that has disrupted

an estimated 22% of Moscow's total refining capacity since the beginning of August. Now, if anything,

we'll get Putin's attention and possibly force him to make a deal, it will be the targeting

and damaging of his energy industry.

We'll have those details.

Later in the show, the political war over Washington, D.C. intensifies.

On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi named the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the capital's quote, emergency police commissioner, expanding the Trump administration's

federal takeover of the district's law

enforcement. D.C.'s Attorney General is pushing back, filing a lawsuit on Friday, challenging the

president's crackdown on crime. It's a strange but not unexpected look for the progressive

Democrat D.C. Attorney General, arguing against the federal government's

efforts to combat crime. First, today's afternoon spotlight. Keefe is turning the pressure up on

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