The President's Daily Brief
PDB Afternoon Bulletin | January 17th, 2025: Israel's Ceasefire With Hezbollah Risks Collapse & US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban
17 Jan 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, as momentum builds behind finalizing the breakthrough ceasefire agreement in Gaza, advisors to President-elect Donald Trump have reportedly warned Israel not to let their fragile truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon collapse. Then, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday upholding the law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or face a ban. President Joe Biden has already said he won’t enforce the ban, leaving the fate of the popular app in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hi, Mike Baker here. I'm still out in the desert. It's an amazing trek into great cause, raising awareness for the UK Special Forces Benevolent Fund. While I'm gone, Mike Slater is stepping in to deliver the President's Daily Brief.
Thanks, Mike. It's Friday, 17 January 2025. Welcome back to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. Mike Slater filling in for Mike Baker. Let's get briefed. Today, President-elect Donald Trump is urging Israel to keep their fragile ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon from falling apart, just as the Israeli Security Cabinet votes to approve the breakthrough ceasefire deal with Hamas in Gaza.
Later in the show, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling Friday upholding the law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or face a ban. President Joe Biden has already said he won't enforce the ban in his last day in office, leaving the fate of the popular app in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.
As momentum builds behind finalizing the breakthrough ceasefire agreement in Gaza, advisors to President-elect Donald Trump have reportedly warned Israel not to let their fragile truce with Hezbollah in Lebanon collapse. The warning comes as senior Israeli officials have indicated in recent days that the Israeli military will remain in southern Lebanon beyond the current 60-day ceasefire.
Leaders in Jerusalem have been highly critical of the Lebanese army, saying they're not moving fast enough to deploy their forces to a buffer zone along their border with Israel, according to an exclusive report from the Jerusalem Post.
The remarks have raised concerns in Washington and within Trump's transition team, particularly given the fact negotiators just finalized a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, something that took some 15 months of bloody conflict to achieve.
Trump's senior national security advisors reportedly conveyed their warning earlier this week, simply telling Jerusalem, quote, we don't want the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon to collapse. Officials in Washington are nervous that failures in Lebanon could throw the entire region back into chaos.
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