The President's Daily Brief
February 12th, 2025: Is The FBI Sabotaging The Border Crackdown? & Vance To Meet With Zelensky
12 Feb 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: A bombshell accusation—top Trump administration officials allege the FBI deliberately leaked ICE operation details to the media. If true, this would be a direct attempt to sabotage immigration enforcement. Vice President JD Vance prepares to meet with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy as President Trump announces a $500 billion rare earth minerals deal. The United Nations suspends humanitarian operations in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled territory after dozens of UN staff members are abducted. And in the Back of the Brief, a power struggle in the world of artificial intelligence as Elon Musk makes a massive offer to buy OpenAI—only to be rejected outright by CEO Sam Altman. 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 Ramp: Get $250 when you join Ramp. Go to ramp.com/PDB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Wednesday, 12 February. 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. We'll start off today's show with a startling accusation. Top Trump administration officials are pointing the finger at the FBI. claiming it deliberately leaked details of ICE operations to the media.
Now, look, if true, this isn't just a bureaucratic blunder. It's a direct attempt to sabotage immigration enforcement by leaking information that, frankly, could endanger the lives of law enforcement officials involved in the operations. However, the big caveat is, if it's true... Later in the show, Vice President J.D.
Vance prepares to meet with Ukraine's Zelensky as President Trump announces a $500 billion rare earth minerals deal. Plus, the United Nations has suspended humanitarian operations in Yemen's Houthi-controlled territory after dozens of UN staff members were abducted by the group. Well, what is the world coming to when an Iranian regime proxy group abducts UN workers? That is shocking.
And by that, I mean it's not shocking at all. And in the back of the brief, a power struggle in the world of artificial intelligence as Elon Musk makes an offer to buy OpenAI, only to be rebuffed with prejudice by the company's CEO, Sam Altman. It's a billionaire slap fight over one of the most important technologies of our time. But first, today's PDB Spotlight.
An extraordinary claim coming from Trump administration's top immigration officials today. Now, they say the FBI has been leaking information to sabotage ICE operations. If that's true, and that's if, it's a major breach of trust that could be putting law enforcement and national security at risk. And look at that. I just won today's PDB Statement of the Obvious Award.
As we've covered here on the PDB, there have been multiple reports of high-profile ICE operations being compromised by leaks to the media. In the most recent case, the Los Angeles Times reported on a planned large-scale ICE operation action in LA set to take place before the end of February. The newspaper claims it learned about the operation after obtaining an internal government document.
Now, this wasn't an isolated incident. Just last week, there was another leak, this time about an immigration raid in a Denver suburb. That tip-off allowed members of the Trenderagua gang, or TDA, a violent Venezuela-linked criminal organization, to escape before ICE could take them into custody. Now, top administration officials are pointing the finger directly at the FBI.
Border Czar Tom Holman told Sean Hannity of Fox News that the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the leaks. And he said, quote, some of the information we are receiving tends to lead toward the FBI.
Holman also claimed that investigators have identified the person responsible for leaking details of the Colorado operation, saying this individual will not only lose their job and pension, but will also go to jail. Meanwhile, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem echoed the accusation, going even further in her public statements.
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