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Update you on exactly what you needed to know each morning so you could be smarter,

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Every day he'll be your personal intelligence officer, delivering insights and analysis

once reserved for the president of the United States. The president's daily brief

with Mike Baker. Get briefed. Stay ahead. Your briefings begin on September 5th.

It's December 28th. 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.

Welcome back to part three of this week's updated and refreshed series on dirty green energy.

Now others might call it renewable energy or clean energy, but not us. Not here. That's because

we're setting aside the spin and agendas and instead we're sticking to the facts.

And as it turns out, the facts and data say that there is nothing clean or green about the two

issues we've already covered that being solar and wind energy. Well today we're going to talk about

batteries, but as it turns out, we need two different briefs on how dirty these things are.

So first we'll tackle the minerals inside those batteries. And then in tomorrow's brief,

we'll talk about the dirty process of refining and manufacturing these batteries.

But before we begin today, a reminder, the goal of this series is to remind ourselves of one

very important and often ignored fact. Every form of energy comes with a cost, whether that be

environmental, humanitarian, national security, or reliability. And we all know that's true for

traditional forms of energy like natural gas into oil because the media and politicians like to

call it dirty oil or dirty coal. But we rarely, if ever hear about those dirty costs related to

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