PDB Situation Report | August 16th, 2025: Putin’s Crumbling Economy & Trump’s DC Takeover
The President's Daily Brief
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 1:13.3 | Welcome to the PDV situation report. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. |
| 1:19.9 | All right. Let's get briefed. First up, President Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska to talk ceasefire. Perhaps you've heard about this. But is Putin negotiating from a position of strength, |
| 1:24.7 | or is Moscow playing with a weak hand? |
| 1:28.3 | Correspondent for the Keith Post, Jason J. Smart joins us with his insight. |
| 1:32.2 | Now, mind you, this interview is taped just ahead of Friday's summit, so we'll be talking |
| 1:37.6 | about expectations for the summit as opposed to actual results. |
| 1:42.5 | Hopefully, we'll be correct in our expectations. |
| 1:45.2 | Later in the show, the Trump administration has deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., |
| 1:49.7 | and placed the city's police department under federal control. |
| 1:53.3 | It's an unprecedented move to tackle the crime in the nation's capital. |
| 1:57.2 | We'll be joined by Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Zach Smith, for more on what this means and what could come next. |
| 2:05.4 | But first, today's situation report spotlight. |
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