It's August 2nd.

You're listening to The President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

First up, Al Qaeda's leader, Aiman Alzawa Heary, is dead.

I'll give you the latest on this very good news to include what this death means for our

war on terror.

As always, I'm keeping an eye out for developing stories, put these two on your radar.

First, you may have seen the headlines about the horrible fires in Europe over the past

couple of weeks.

Media outlets blamed climate change.

But there was an arrest late last week in France that suggests otherwise.

We'll discuss that sobering news.

Second, American car companies are building more electric cars, which means that they need

more batteries.

Well, that's leading many of them to sign deals with the Chinese.

I will share the latest.

And finally, the last thing before I let you go an email from Charlie in Twin Falls, Idaho.

He worries that America is cracking apart, and that maybe we are headed for civil war.

So we're going to talk about that and see if you agree.

But let's first get started with today's main brief.

Big news out of Afghanistan yesterday, the head of Al Qaeda, a terrorist named Aiman

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