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Co-DeeK slash Special Offer. Welcome to a special weekend edition of the President's Daily Brief. I'm your host, Mike Baker. Let's get briefed.

Now, since taking over hosting duties here at the PDB back in September of last year,

I've received thousands of messages and emails from you the most

excellent PDB listeners. Now honestly and this is completely objective on my part

but I think the PDB has the most informed listeners in the podcast universe.

Now, while I obviously can't respond to all of them,

I wanted to take this opportunity to shine a spotlight on some of your comments

and answer some of the questions that you've

sent my way.

All right, let's get started.

This first question comes from Jacob, who writes, at what point do we prioritize national security above foreign aid?

I understand your argument that funding the war in Ukraine is helping national security against

Russian expansion, but at the same time it appears that we're intentionally ignoring the other

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