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989-89-898. It's Monday. It's Monday, the Ever-pointed-day-Oloose-2-50s. It's Monday, welcome toth of July. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right. Let's get briefed. First up, President Trump strikes a new deal, a trade deal with the European Union after months of tense negotiations,

ending fears of a looming transatlantic trade war. We'll have those details. Later in the show,

disappointed by the Kremlin's continued failure to engage in actual negotiations to end their

war in Ukraine, President Trump is tightening the screws on Moscow, giving

Vladimir Putin just 10 to 12 days to reach a ceasefire deal with Kiev or face crushing economic

consequences. Now, honestly, I don't think Putin is going to change his ways just because he's

been given an ultimatum. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

In what President Trump is hailing as the largest trade deal of all time,

I don't know, that Louisiana purchase was a pretty big deal,

the U.S. on Sunday secured a new trade deal with the European Union,

securing hundreds of billions in U.S. energy and defense sales while

slapping a 15% tariff on EU imports. Now, the announcement made alongside European Commission President Ursula

Vandandan at Trump's golf course in Scotland, capped off months of tariff brinkmanship and put to rest

the specter of a transatlantic trade war.

Under the terms of the deal, the EU will commit $750 billion in American energy imports

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