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Thank you. It's Wednesday, 19 February.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

With more U.S. military assets now deployed to the U.S. southern border, we'll start with a look at calls for direct action against the cartels, and why that likely won't be as easy

as some think.

Later in the show, an Arab and Gulf state-led plan for post-war Gaza is beginning to take shape and could involve

up to $20 billion in regional contributions, but it's probably far short of what it's actually

going to take to rebuild the enclave.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

As we've been reporting here on the President's Daily Brief,

the U.S. military has been stepping up its role along the southern border, from bolstering surveillance

to tracking cartel movements. Most recently, that's included U.S. naval spy planes monitoring

cartel activity inside Mexico. But as the military presence expands, so do the calls for direct action,

...