Each morning, the President of the United States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important issues facing the country -- The President's Daily Brief. Now you can hear your very own PDB, in the form of a podcast, every morning at 6am Eastern, and every afternoon at 4pm Eastern. You'll get 20 minutes of the most important topics of the day and why you should care, arming you with what you need to know to help solve America's most pressing challenges. Former CIA Operations Officer Mike Baker hosts new episodes daily.
1641 episodes transcribedIn this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: A major power struggle is unfolding inside China’s military. Xi Jinping has just ousted his sec...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Ukraine just launched one of its biggest cross-border strikes of the war, hammering a Russian expl...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: America and Australia are teaming up to disarm China’s most powerful weapon—its near-monopoly o...
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First up—America’s secret war at sea. New reporting says it’s the CIA—not the Pentagon—calling t...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Moscow’s fuel crisis is exploding. As Ukraine hammers Russia’s oil infrastructure, gas shortages a...
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: An embarrassing moment for Venezuela’s navy as one of its warships partially sinks during traini...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Israel has launched new airstrikes in Gaza, accusing Hamas of a “bold violation” of the Trump-b...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Ukraine’s drone war is hitting Russia where it hurts most—its wallet. Precision strikes on refiner...
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First—Former National Security Adviser John Bolton was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday o...
A special look at episode 1 of Mike Baker's PDB special subscriber only series: On September 26th, 1983, the world came closer to nuclear war than...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Three U.S. B-52 bombers were spotted flying just off Venezuela’s coast. Washington calls it a rout...
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First up—the Trump administration is raising the stakes in Venezuela, giving the greenlight for the...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Another humiliation for Vladimir Putin. His much-hyped “Russia–Arab World Summit” was supposed...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Mexican cartels are offering cash bounties to assassinate U.S. border and immigration agents. W...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: Freed Israeli hostages are speaking publicly for the first time about their time in Hamas capti...
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: Polish officials say they’ve stopped a Russian terror plot on NATO soil. A couple working for Mo...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: After two years of war, there’s finally peace between Israel and Hamas. But beneath the optimism l...
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: An embarrassing moment for Vladimir Putin’s navy. One of Russia’s prized “stealth” submarines wa...
In this episode of The President’s Daily Brief: After 2 years, the remaining living hostages have been released from Gaza. The exchange comes as T...
In this episode of The PDB Situation Report: After two years of war, Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire. But key detai...
