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It's Friday, the 5th of September.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, there's a weapon being used in the war in Ukraine, and it's being harnessed by both sides.

It's not a missile. It's not a drone. It's kids. I'll have the

disturbing details. Later in the show, President Trump is pressuring the EU to stop buying Moscow's oil

as part of a strategy to squeeze the Kremlin financially. But can our European allies curb their dependence on Russian

energy? Plus, crypto insiders are sounding the alarm on an intensifying campaign by North Korean

hackers to use fake job offers distill billions in cryptocurrency to fund their sanctioned weapons programs.

And in today's back of the brief, President Trump appears to be pumping the brakes on his plans

to deploy federal troops to Chicago, instead floating New Orleans as the potential next

target of his crackdown on crime. But first, today's PDB spotlight.

When we talk about the war in Ukraine on this show, we usually focus on missiles, artillery, and drones, how they're being deployed, and what they mean on the battlefield.

But according to new reports, there's an entirely different weapon being used in this war, and it's being deployed by both sides.

An op-ed in today's New York Times by investigative reporter Lilia Yapparova is shining a light on this

practice, and it's one of those stories that fully demonstrates just how horrible war can be,

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