Mike Baker

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Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker.

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First up, there's reporting that cracks or divisions are forming inside Iran's leadership, suggesting that internal disagreements may have helped to derail the recent negotiations in Pakistan.

I'll have the details

Later in the show, despite weeks of strikes, a new U.S.

intelligence report says that Iran still has thousands of missiles and the ability to bring hidden launchers back online, which is why one should always be cautious about using the word obliterated.

plus diplomacy and airstrikes, strange bedfellows, happening at the same time as Israel and Lebanon begin direct talks while fighting continues between the IDF and Hezbollah.

And in today's Back of the Brief, a possible glimpse of the future of warfare, as Ukraine says it captured a Russian position using only drones and robots.

But first, today's PDB Spotlight.

We're getting some new insight today into the Iranian side of the recent failed negotiations in Pakistan, and it points to something more than just a contentious meeting between two adversaries with completely different agendas.

It suggests a potential fracture inside Iran's leadership.

According to multiple reports, Iran's negotiating team was supposedly told to walk away from the table and return to Iran after internal disagreements within regime leadership over strategy, direction, and possible concessions.