U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska. This marks the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since President Trump returned to office, as he attempts to negotiate a resolution to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

To provide additional insight into the U.S. intelligence community's involvement in such a significant summit, Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer and host of the podcast "The President's Daily Brief," sat down with Scripps News.

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"Both the CIA and the FSB and the intel services in Russia, they've been working the same issues, which is 'can we identify the plans and intentions of the other side? Can

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