The President's Daily Brief - PDB Afternoon Bulletin | February 7th, 2025: Soros-Backed Station Exposes ICE Agents & Alaska Plane Vanishes

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Sabotage against immigration enforcement? A Soros-backed radio station broadcast ICE agents’ locations live on air, and a major immigration raid was reportedly undermined by an intelligence leak. A commercial passenger plane goes missing over the Bering Sea—marking the third aviation disaster in just two weeks. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. Today, we'll begin with what looks like, I'm saying looks like, sabotage against immigration enforcement. A Soros-backed radio station broadcast ICE agents locations live on air, and a major immigration rate was reportedly undermined by an intelligence leak. Later in the show, a commercial passenger plane goes missing in Alaska, potentially marking the third tragic aviation disaster in just two weeks. But first, today's afternoon spotly. A San Francisco radio station backed by billionaire George Soros, well, there's a surprise, a San Francisco radio station backed by Soros,

is under federal scrutiny after it broadcasts the live locations of undercover immigration and customs enforcement agents, ICE, obviously. The report aired on K-CBS AM. It revealed details of an ongoing ICE operation, including specific vehicle descriptions and agent locations, potentially, of course, putting officers' lives at risk. Oh, my, how brave of KCBS, potentially endangering law enforcement officers, and at the same time aiding and abetting illegal migrants with criminal convictions. Now, some might argue that they've got their priorities all mixed up. The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, has now launched an official probe into the station.

The key question, did KCBS violate the terms of its broadcasting license, which requires it to operate in the public interest? The controversy stems from the January 26th edition of KCBS Radio Weekend News. Now, during that broadcast, host Brett Burkart reported on ice activity in San Jose. But he didn't just cover the story. He pretty much gave away the gang. The report included the exact make, color, and model of unmarked ice vehicles, as well as locations of agents operating in the area. Yeah, I'm not making this up. And to make matters worse, those agents were conducting enforcement in a part of town known for violent gang activity. Once again, I'll say it, how brave of the self-righteous K-CBSAF.

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau is now investigating whether this kind of reporting crosses a legal line. what you think? But politically, this story is about more than just journalistic ethics, which may or may not, in this day and age, actually be a thing. KCBS is part of a network of more than 200 radio stations purchased last year in part by a left-wing billionaire George Soros, who's been a major financial force, of course, behind progressive causes across the nation. And this isn't the only time that someone has tipped off illegal immigrants about enforcement actions. On Thursday, border borderline The other than Tom Holman, blasted an intelligence leak that he says derailed a major immigration raid targeting the Trenda-Aragla or TDA gang in Colorado.

Here's what happened. Early Wednesday morning, a multi-agency task force launched a coordinated crackdown on TDA, a violent Venezuelan gang known for drug trafficking, extortion, and human smuggling. Hundreds of agents from ICE, DHS, the FBI, CBP, and the DEA, raided multiple apartment complexes in the town of Aurora, Colorado. But something, frankly, was off. After hours of searching, only 30 arrests were made, far short of the 100-plus that officials had expected, and of those arrests, well, just one was an actual member of TDA. Holman says they've already identified the source of the leak, and that person, in his words,

quote, may find themselves in a pair of handcuffs very soon, end quote. Taken together, these two incidents raised major concerns about security breaches and political interference in the pursuit of immigration enforcement. Coming up next, authorities are scrambling to find out what happened to a passenger plane that went missing over the Bering Sea yesterday evening. I'll be right back. Hey, honey, it's mom. Did you know if we switch to Verizon, we can get four phones for $0, plus four lines for $25 a line? Call me back. Me again.

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Welcome back to the PDB afternoon bulletin. Authorities in Alaska are searching for a missing commercial passenger plane that disappeared over the Bering Sea Thursday evening. Now the aircraft, a Cessna operated by regional carrier Bering Air, had nine passengers at a pilot on board when it lost contact about 12 miles offshore. The Coast Guard, U.S. Air Force, and National Guard are leading the search but so far there is no side of the play. It was traveling on a short flight across the Norton Sound to Nome but never arrived. The last known position showed the aircraft flying at 5,300 feet

before vanishing from radar. Weather conditions aren't helping. Nome saw temperatures drop as low as 9 degrees overnight and the coast is under gale warnings. Heavy winds, rough seas, and poor visibility are making the search effort even more difficult. Local police, initially called for volunteers with boats to assist, but later said they had enough support. Authorities are now warning residents against launching their own search missions due to the dangerous conditions. The National Transportation Safety Board, the NTSB, is monitoring the situation and bearing air, which operates flights to remote communities along Alaska's northwest coast, while they haven't yet commented. The incident marks the third aviation disaster in just over a

couple of weeks. First, there was the deadly mid-air collision in Washington, D.C., where an American Airlines passenger jet and then Black Hawk helicopter collided, killing 67 people. Then just days later, a medical transport jet exploded near a Philadelphia mall, killing all seven on board. We'll keep you updated as search efforts continue. And that, my friends, is the PDB afternoon bulletin for Friday, 7 February. Now, if you have any questions or comments, and I hope you do, please reach out. to me at PDB at thefirstTV.com. And as I'm sure you're realized when you woke up this morning, it's Friday. And that, of course, means that a brand new episode of the stunningly popular PDB Situation Report, that's our extended weekend version of the PDB. Well, that airs this evening.

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