Mike Baker

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It's Wednesday, the 17th of June.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, ships are supposed to begin moving through the Strait of Hormuz once again.

But the world's most important energy corridor remains far from normal.

We'll look at why the road to recovery could take months or even longer.

Later in the show, European officials accused China of training Russian troops for combat in Ukraine.

That's a claim that Beijing is denying.

Well, of course they're denying it.

Plus, federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House.

Did you catch that?