PDB Situation Report | December 20th, 2025: New Year’s Eve Terror Plot Foiled & Gaza Ceasefire Tested
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TV's in here. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm in here's in the world stage. |
| 0:04.0 | All right. |
| 0:05.0 | Let's get briefed. |
| 0:06.0 | Now, |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the TDB situation before it. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. |
| 0:18.0 | All right. Let's get briefed. |
| 0:20.0 | First up, the federal authorities stop a coordinated New Year's Eve terror plot, |
| 0:25.1 | arresting multiple suspects accused of planning bombings in and around Los Angeles. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll be joined by former FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence operative Eric O'Neill for more on that. |
| 0:35.7 | Later in the show, the Gaza ceasefire holds for now, even as |
| 0:39.8 | Israel strikes Hamas leadership. Ben Cohen from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies |
| 0:44.5 | joins us to break down what comes next. But first, today's PDB spotlight. Federal authorities |
| 0:51.5 | say they disrupted a coordinated domestic terror plot just days before New Year's E, |
| 0:56.8 | one that could have turned very deadly. Multiple suspects are now in custody accused of planning |
| 1:01.8 | bombing attacks across Southern California in the Los Angeles area. Investigators say this |
| 1:06.9 | went well beyond online rhetoric involving operational planning, explosive materials, and |
| 1:12.1 | clearly defined targets. Authorities are also pointing to the ideology behind the alleged plot, |
| 1:18.1 | an extremist worldview that rejected peaceful protest and democratic processes altogether, |
| 1:23.9 | framing violence as necessary and justified. It's a stark reminder that domestic extremism doesn't |
| 1:30.4 | always look the same, but the threat nonetheless is always very real. Joining me now as former FBI |
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