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September 24th, 2026: Iran Returns to the Negotiating Table as Sanctions Bite & Zelensky Seeks a Winter Arsenal · The President's Daily Brief

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  It's Thursday,
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  the 24th of September.
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  Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.
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  I'm Mike Baker from your eyes and ears on the world stage.
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  Alright,
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  let's get briefed.
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  First up,
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  Iran says it will not bend to the US,
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  but the regime is reportedly
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  negotiating again as new US sanctions squeeze its ability to travel and trade.
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  Later in the show,
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  Zelensky asks Trump for a winter weapons package
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  as Washington pushes a limited Russia-Ukraine ceasefire.
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  Plus tensions continue to escalate between Pakistan and Afghanistan,
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  with Islamabad
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  claiming that Taliban forces shelled Pakistani border posts.
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  And in today's back of the brief,
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  President Trump wants a drone port
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  built into the new White House ballroom.
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  I mean,
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  is it really a ballroom without a drone port?
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  However,
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  it turns out the Secret Service
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  already has one operating right next door.
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  But first,
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  today's afternoon spotlight.
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  Iranian President Massoud Pozeshkian says his country will not surrender to the US
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  even as Washington
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  increases the economic pressure on Tehran
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  and the two sides reportedly reopen diplomatic talks for the first time in months.
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  Speaking before the UN yesterday,
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  Poseskian said Iran would never
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  bend at the knee to American pressure.
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  His remarks came one day after President Trump
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  used the same forum at the United Nations to
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  warn that the US
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  could
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  annihilate Iran if the conflict continues.
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  Now,
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  of course,
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  Iran is saying that it's not going to surrender.
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  No Iranian president is going to stand before the
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  UN and announce that American pressure is working.
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  But at the same time that Poseskian was talking tough publicly,
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  Tehran and Washington were talking again privately.
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  According to Reuters,
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  US and Iranian officials held their first known indirect
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  talks since the ceasefire collapsed back in July.
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  A Qatari mediator spent roughly 2 hours carrying
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  messages between the two delegations in New York.
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  That sounds like fun.
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  Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi communicated with
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  US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
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  through intermediaries.
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  A senior Iranian official told Reuters that the two sides
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  remain far apart on how to end the war,
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  but said that diplomacy does need to continue,
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  and those indirect talks are restarting in a
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  moment when the pressure on Tehran is increasing.
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  The American naval blockade has squeezed Iran's ability
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  to export oil and move goods by sea.
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  Tehran's attempt to
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  compensate by pushing more trade overland.
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  Has run into bottlenecks at its borders,
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  higher transportation costs,
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  and lengthy delays.
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  And now Washington is going after Iran's ability to
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  move through the air.
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  The Trump administration announced earlier this month that
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  Iran's entire air transport sector
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  would be subjected to sanctions.
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  Treasury Secretary Scott Besson warned that beginning on the 23rd of September,
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  Iranian airlines would face increasing difficulty operating internationally.
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  Those measures took effect yesterday,
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  and countries are already responding.
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  Georgia,
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  the country,
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  not the US state,
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  has banned flights operated by Iranian carriers.
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  Azerbaijan
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  has suspended Iranian airline operations.
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  Iran's Mahan Air suspended flights to Turkey at Ankara's request.
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  Now Iraq ordered Iranian flights into
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  Baghdad International Airport suspended beginning yesterday,
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  although Iraqi officials are considering allowing some of those flights to land
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  instead in Najaf,
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  an important destination for Shiite pilgrims.
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  Iran's own civil aviation organization
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  says flights from Tehran to Baghdad,
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  as well as Oman,
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  were canceled.
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  Iranian officials
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  also say passengers were being prevented from entering the airport in Oman
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  while the two sides worked through the issue.
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  Other Iranian international flights are still operating,
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  including some service to Istanbul and Dubai.
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  Russia and China also continue to accept Iranian aircraft,
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  so Iran is not being completely cut off from international air travel,
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  but the list of places that its airlines can operate is beginning to shrink.
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  Now the mechanism Washington is using here is fairly straightforward.
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  Foreign companies that refuel,
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  service,
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  sell tickets for,
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  or otherwise assist
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  sanctioned Iranian airlines
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  can find themselves facing American secondary sanctions
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  that forces airports,
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  airlines,
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  and service companies
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  in other countries to decide whether
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  continuing to do business with Iranian carriers
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  is worth risking losing access to the US financial system.
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  For Tehran this all comes on top of the pressure
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  that we've already been discussing at sea and on land.
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  Iran's reaction suggests officials in Tehran are taking this seriously.
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  Mohsen Rezai,
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  the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council,
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  issued a warning yesterday to neighboring countries
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  considering cooperation with the American sanctions campaign.
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  Rezai said that if neighboring governments prevent
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  Iranian aircraft from using their airports,
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  Iran
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  would make sure those airports
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  could not function.
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  He did not explain exactly what that meant.
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  All right.
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  Coming up next,
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  Zelensky in Ukraine asks Trump for more weapons
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  as Washington pushes for a limited ceasefire,
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  and Pakistan says Taliban forces shelled border
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  posts and launched drones across the frontier.
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  I'll be right back.
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  This coming winter could put Ukraine's
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  power and heating systems under severe pressure
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  if Russia steps up its infrastructure attacks as it's done in years past.
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  With autumn officially here,
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  President Zelensky is now trying to get ahead of it.
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  At the UN General Assembly meeting Tuesday,
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  he asked President Trump for a winter arms package
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  including
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  other defenses.
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  He believes Trump will also try to broker a deal
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  to stop the Kremlin's attacks on energy infrastructure,
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  but Zelensky does not think Putin will stop simply because Washington asks him to.
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  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal,
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  Zelensky said the Russian strongman is unlikely to change course
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  without more pressure from the US,
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  including stronger sanctions.
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  Now that Russia's elections are behind Putin,
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  Zelensky believes the Russian president has little reason
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  to adjust or limit his targeting of Ukrainian infrastructure.
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  And then there's the outside help that Zelensky says Moscow is receiving.
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  He accused China of supplying Russia with technology and
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  suggested some of it could resemble Starlink-style communications.
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  Zelensky did not specify what Beijing had specifically provided,
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  but it helps explain why he wants Washington to increase the pressure on Putin.
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  At the same time,
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  Zelensky wants Ukraine
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  ready if the talks go nowhere.
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  And that's the thinking behind his
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  request for Patriots and other American technology
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  before Russia has another chance to target the
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  power and heating systems that Ukrainians rely on
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  in the winter.
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  Now here's where the ceasefire idea gets complicated.
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  Not that it wasn't complicated before.
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  Ukraine has been hitting Russian refineries for months,
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  and Zelensky says those strikes.
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  Have destroyed 45% of Russia's refining capacity.
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  That figure has not been independently confirmed,
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  but the attacks have disrupted Russia's fuel industry enough
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  that Moscow has restricted most diesel exports to keep supplies at home.
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  Trump has been pressing Zelensky to stop hitting those refineries.
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  Fuel prices,
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  of course,
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  are rising,
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  and
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  the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have already put a strain on energy markets.
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  And while President Trump has said repeatedly that he
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  does not care about the upcoming US midterm elections,
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  well,
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  the reality is that US voters care about gas prices.
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  Zelensky says Trump did not bring up prices when they met in New York,
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  though he knows where the administration stands.
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  His point is that Ukraine cannot stop hitting Russian energy facilities
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  while Moscow keeps attacking the power and
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  heating systems that Ukrainians rely on.
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  So the deal he wants would have to work both ways.
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  Kiev stops striking the Kremlin's energy hubs if Russia stops hitting Ukraine's.
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  Earlier this month,
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  Trump did announce that Russia and Ukraine had
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  agreed to stop striking each other's energy facilities,
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  but neither side confirmed an agreement,
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  and the attacks continued.
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  Now that brings us to what Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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  said after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.
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  According to Rubio,
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  both Russia and Ukraine have expressed interest in a limited ceasefire
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  He also said
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  it would be difficult to reach such an agreement.
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  Before Rubio met Lavrov,
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  the Kremlin said there were no grounds for broader peace talks,
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  though it maintained that
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  Russia was open to negotiations.
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  Well,
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  they've said they've been open to negotiations
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  for almost 5 years now that Putin's been carrying out this invasion,
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  and Ukraine's scramble for a ceasefire of some sort ahead of the winter months
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  has put another proposal on the table in the Black Sea.
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  Zelensky this week said that Egypt,
• 10:45
  India,
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  and Turkey had set Ukraine written ideas for making Black Sea shipping safer.
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  He made it clear that Kiev was ready to move forward if Russia took steps
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  toward a maritime truce.
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  And so far Moscow has made no public commitment to an energy or maritime truce.
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  Zelensky added that he would also meet Putin directly
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  if Trump would join them for a three-way meeting.
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  All right,
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  next up,
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  we're keeping a close eye on the
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  ongoing conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan,
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  which escalated again yesterday.
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  Pakistani officials say Afghan Taliban forces
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  shelled Pakistani border posts overnight
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  And separately,
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  Pakistani security sources
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  say the military shot down 8 drones launched from Afghanistan
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  in the city of Kohat.
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  Now Kabul denies that Taliban forces carried out the shelling,
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  and we don't have independent confirmation that the
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  drones were launched by the Afghan Taliban.
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  But taken together,
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  the reports point to another potentially dangerous step in a confrontation.
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  That's been building over the past several days.
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  When we last reported on this situation on Monday,
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  Pakistan had launched air strikes inside Afghanistan
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  following last week's deadly militant attack in Koha.
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  Islamabad said those strikes targeted militant hideouts and killed 28 fighters.
• 12:09
  Afghan officials disputed parts of that account,
• 12:12
  saying civilians were also killed,
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  and Kabul condemned the strikes as a violation of Afghan sovereignty.
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  And then came the latest fighting.
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  According to Pakistani officials,
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  militants attempted to cross from Afghanistan
• 12:25
  into Pakistan overnight near the border.
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  Islamabad says
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  its forces stopped that infiltration attempt.
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  Pakistani officials then say Afghan Taliban forces
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  opened fire on Pakistani border posts
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  with mortars and other heavy weapons.
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  Pakistan says its troops responded with artillery,
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  striking Taliban border positions and defensive sites
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  on the Afghan side.
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  Again,
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  Kabul denies that account.
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  A Taliban government spokesman said that Afghan
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  forces did not attack Pakistani positions,
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  so at this point
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  we have competing claims over exactly who opened
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  fire and what happened along the border.
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  But the drone reports,
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  they add another layer.
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  Pakistani security sources say 8 drones entered
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  Pakistani airspace from Afghanistan on Wednesday.
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  4 were reportedly intercepted near the Torkum border crossing,
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  while another 4 were shot down around Kohat,
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  the same area hit by last week's deadly attack.
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  The Pakistani officials describe the drones as
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  relatively rudimentary and say they were destroyed
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  without causing casualties or significant damage.
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  What remains unclear
• 13:32
  is who actually launched them.
• 13:34
  Pakistan is blaming the Afghan Taliban.
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  Kabul has not confirmed that,
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  and
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  there has been no independent verification of the Pakistani claim.
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  Still,
• 13:43
  the broader pattern is what we're watching.
• 13:45
  Pakistan has long accused Afghanistan's Taliban government
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  of allowing the Pakistani Taliban,
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  the TTP,
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  to operate from Afghan territory and launch attacks across the border.
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  Kabul again denies providing the group a safe haven.
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  So that dispute is not new.
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  What's more concerning is how quickly it's now producing direct military action
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  between the two countries.
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  In the span of just a few days,
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  Pakistan has carried out air strikes inside Afghanistan.
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  Kabul has condemned those strikes.
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  Pakistan now says Afghan Taliban forces
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  shelled its border positions.
• 14:20
  Pakistani artillery reportedly fired back,
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  and Islamabad
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  says drones launched from Afghan territory
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  crossed into Pakistani airspace.
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  Now there are still efforts underway to keep
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  this whole situation from spiraling out of control.
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  China,
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  Turkey,
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  Qatar,
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  and Saudi Arabia
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  have all been involved in
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  trying to reduce tensions between the two sides,
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  but for now,
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  well,
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  for now,
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  the trend is moving in the wrong direction.
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  All right.
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  Coming up in the back of the brief,
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  the new White House ballroom
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  could come with a drone port.
• 14:54
  How about that?
• 14:55
  Adding to the one that
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  the Secret Service already operates nearby.
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  More on that when we come back.
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  it could become the new must-have home accessory.
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  Trump wants to put a drone port on top of the new White House ballroom,
• 17:36
  but it turns out that the Secret Service,
• 17:38
  well,
• 17:38
  they've already got one operating right next door.
• 17:41
  According to the Associated Press,
• 17:43
  the agency has 4 weatherproof drone stations
• 17:46
  positioned on top of a Treasury Department building
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  just a few 100 ft from the White House.
• 17:51
  Each station houses a small unarmed drone
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  equipped with cameras and sensors that can launch quickly
• 17:56
  if agents need an overhead look at a potential threat.
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  The Secret Service calls the concept
• 18:02
  drone as first responder.
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  Instead of waiting for an aircraft or a helicopter,
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  agents can launch one of these drones,
• 18:08
  get live video of whatever's happening around the complex,
• 18:12
  and then return it to its docking station.
• 18:14
  The capability has taken on greater urgency,
• 18:17
  of course,
• 18:17
  since the attempted assassination of Trump back in Butler,
• 18:20
  Pennsylvania in 2024.
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  The gunmen there
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  had used a drone to scout the rally site before the attack,
• 18:27
  while the Secret Service
• 18:28
  did not have one providing aerial surveillance at the event.
• 18:32
  But Trump's vision for the new ballroom appears to be considerably more ambitious.
• 18:36
  He's talked about putting what he calls a drone port or a drone gallery on the roof,
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  taking advantage of a 360 degree view of Washington.
• 18:45
  Trump has also described plans for
• 18:47
  military personnel,
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  sniper positions,
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  and what he called massive drone capacity,
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  all happening there on top of the ballroom.
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  Renderings circulated by Trump have even shown larger military-style drones.
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  Now exactly what would actually be stationed there,
• 19:03
  well,
• 19:03
  that remains unclear.
• 19:05
  The White House has not publicly identified the types of drones involved,
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  whether any would be armed,
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  or precisely what missions they would perform,
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  and the Secret Service says its existing
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  drone stations are separate from whatever is eventually
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  built on the ballroom.
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  Now there's a serious security issue underneath all of this,
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  of course.
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  The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East
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  have shown how inexpensive commercial drones
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  can be turned into extremely effective weapons.
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  They can carry explosives,
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  of course,
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  conduct surveillance,
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  and approach targets at low altitude,
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  creating a very different security problem from traditional aircraft.
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  Protecting the White House from those threats also gets complicated because,
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  well,
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  it sits inside some of the most crowded and restricted airspace in the country
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  with Reagan National Airport,
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  military aircraft,
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  and law enforcement drones all operating nearby.
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  So whatever eventually ends up on top of the new ballroom,
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  well,
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  it will have to fit into an already complicated defense network.
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  And that my friends is the President's Daily Brief for Thursday,
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  the 24th of September.
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  Now if you have any questions or comments,
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  please reach out to me
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  I'm Mike Baker,
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  and I'll be back later today with the PDB
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  afternoon bulletin.
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  Until then,
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  stay informed,
• 20:32
  stay safe,
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  stay cool.