PDB Afternoon Bulletin | August 7th, 2025: Is A Ukraine Ceasefire Near? Moscow Confirms Trump Meeting & US Army Soldier Busted In Plot To Aid The Kremlin

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

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In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First—it appears a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to take place next week, signaling a potential breakthrough in the president’s efforts to end war. But Trump’s suggestion for a trilateral summit between himself, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received an icier reception from the Kremlin, raising doubts regarding Putin’s seriousness about reaching a ceasefire. Later in the show—a U.S. Army soldier with top-level security clearance has been arrested after allegedly attempting to pass classified data about America's most advanced military battle tanks to the Russian government. We’ll have the details. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply. TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://trybeef.com/pdb & get 2 Free Flat Iron steaks True Classic: Upgrade your wardrobe and save on @trueclassic at https://trueclassic.com/PDB #trueclassicpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.7	It's Thursday, the 7th of August. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,
0:47.4	your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. First up, it appears that a meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
0:53.0	is set to take place next week,
0:55.7	signaling a potential breakthrough in the effort to end Russia's war on Ukraine.
1:00.9	But Trump's suggestion for a trilateral summit between himself Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky
1:07.3	while that's received an icier reception from the Kremlin, raising doubts
1:11.9	about Putin's seriousness on reaching a ceasefire. Later in the show, a U.S. Army soldier with top-level
1:18.8	security clearances has been arrested after allegedly attempting to pass classified data
1:23.5	about America's most advanced military battle tank to the Russian government.
1:28.4	We'll have those details.
1:30.3	But first, today's afternoon spotlight.
1:33.2	We return to our coverage of a possible summit between President Trump and Russian President
1:37.0	Vladimir Putin, which looks set to take place next week after the Kremlin confirmed their
1:42.6	participation.
1:45.9	Now, as we discussed on this morning's program, reports first surfaced Wednesday evening of the potential sit-down following an 11th hour
1:51.5	meeting between Putin and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff just ahead of Trump's Friday deadline
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