It's February 1st, 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.

Hey good, ladies and gentlemen, I've got four briefs for you this morning that are

shaping America and the world.

First the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, has decided to cancel that Chinese mill that

was going to be built in their city just 16 miles from a key air force base.

I'll tell you why and you are not going to believe the reason.

Second and update on attempts to save the Colorado River out west states who use that water

try to come up with a negotiated deal to share the river's resources, but they failed.

I'll explain what comes next.

Third some bad news for countries looking to build factories to make their own solar panels.

China just banned the export of some key equipment.

Finally an update on cold war two.

America got a couple of countries to stop selling China some computer chip technology

that could be used to advance Beijing's military ambitions.

Later we close out the podcast with a listener question about Joe Biden sending intanks

and possibly fighter jets to Ukraine.

My response involves some old advice from a guy named Dirty Harry.

Before we get to that we got to get started with this.

The Chinese government might not be in a good mood this morning and that's because the

city council in Grand Forks, North Dakota is now saying that a planned investment in their

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