For those of you who might be calendar challenged, let me provide some assistance.

It's Tuesday, September 19th. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed.

Up first, five American citizens imprisoned in Iran are now safely out of the country

and in the U.S. after a landmark prisoner exchange deal that saw the U.S. government

release five Iranians held on federal charges and the return or payment of six billion dollars

to the Iranian regime. Now this happened just as Iran has dismissed about a third of the designated

UN nuclear inspectors, potentially hindering crucial oversight on their weapons program activities.

Next, we're off to the Big Apple, where the gridlock traffic, blocked roads,

and fully booked restaurants can only mean one thing. Yes, it's the return of the United Nations

General Assembly Week to New York City. Now any true New Yorker will tell you,

it's the best time of year to not be a New York City. We'll look at what we can expect from

this annual gathering of diplomats, UN staff, and world leaders. Then, we shift to Ukraine,

where in a dramatic reshuffling, President Zelensky fired all six of the nation's deputy defense

ministers, coming just weeks after his longtime defense minister also got the boot.

Finally, in our back of the brief segment, we turn to the skies. Two interesting stories. A

US F-35 jet went missing over South Carolina on Sunday after the pilot had to eject

and the military authorities then turned to the public for help in tracking down their high-priced

plane. And we get an update on that Chinese spy balloon that meandered across the US earlier this year.

But first, today's PDB spotlight. An aircraft carrying five American citizens in prison

in Iran touched down in Doha, Gutter, on Monday, before then flying onward to the US.

There releases the culmination of a broader agreement we've been covering here on the PDB

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