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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, a veteran CIA station chief just offered up some harsh criticism for the former

Biden administration regarding the war in Ukraine, saying that the former president badly

miscalculated the situation, giving Keev enough weapons to, quote, bleed, but not to win.

The result, he says, was condemning Ukraine to

fighting a drawn-out meat grinder war with no end in sight. Later in the show, Israel unleashed a

second wave of air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen on Tuesday, including a strike on the

country's main airport. The latest actions are a direct retaliation for

Sunday's missile strike by the Houthis on Tel Aviv's International Airport, which injured several

people. In a late-breaking development, President Trump has now said that the U.S. will stop

its two-month-old bombing campaign against the Houthis, claiming that the rebel group

is, quote, capitulated and will stop targeting shipping in the Red Sea. But first, today's afternoon

spotlight. A decorated six-time former CIA station chief is airing his unvarnished thoughts on

America's foreign policy failures regarding the war in Ukraine,

and his assessment paints a rather damning portrait of the former Biden administration strategy

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