PDB Afternoon Bulletin | March 5th, 2025: The US 'Reclaims' The Panama Canal & White House Designates Yemen's Houthis A Foreign Terrorist Organization

The President's Daily Brief

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: We'll kick things off with President Trump's address to Congress last night, where he declared that the U.S. is "reclaiming the Panama Canal." His statement comes as we learn that asset manager BlackRock has struck a billion dollar deal to place the canal's ports under U.S. control. Later in the show, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the Trump administration has officially designated the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization, reimposing a label that former President Joe Biden had lifted. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.3	Thank you. It's Wednesday, 5 March, March. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,
0:53.0	your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. We'll kick things off with President Trump's address to Congress last night.
0:55.5	Did you catch that? Where he declared that the U.S. is, quote, reclaiming the Panama Canal.
1:01.0	His statement comes as we learn that the asset manager BlackRock has struck a billion-dollar deal
1:06.5	to place the canal's ports under U.S. control. Later in the show, Secretary of State Marco Rubio
1:12.7	announced Tuesday that the Trump administration has officially designated the Iranian-backed
1:18.2	Houthi rebels of Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization, reimposing a label that former President
1:24.6	Biden had lifted during his administration. But first, today's afternoon
1:29.2	spotlight. We'll begin today with President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday
1:34.3	evening, where he touted his administration's rapid early moves to reign in government and reshape the
1:40.6	geopolitical landscape. The speech largely focused on the Trump administration's
1:45.7	achievement state side, touching on his blitzkrieg of executive actions over the past six weeks.
1:51.5	The record drop in illegal migrant encounters at the U.S. border, efforts to overhaul the federal
1:56.6	workforce, and cut fraud, and his quest to unleash American energy by slashing the regulatory
2:02.6	state. He framed his actions thus far as a, quote, common sense revolution, proclaiming,
2:08.9	quote, America is back, though the speech drew regular jeers from Democrats, though,
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