It's January 31st, 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.

A good day to you ladies and gentlemen.

I've got two big briefs for you this morning that are shaping America and the world.

First there is a fight tomorrow at the White House with Republicans squaring off against

Joe Biden over the debt ceiling.

I'll give you a brief to help you sort through the arguments that you're likely to hear and decide who's right.

Second, get those maps and passports ready because we are launching a new segment today called Cold War 2.

And that series is going to be focused on the global fight between China and the United States.

Much as there was a fight between America and the Soviet Union and decades gone by.

So for today's first episode we are going to travel around the world to check in on who has more friends.

Us or Beijing.

Plus we'll remind ourselves of why we should care about this global competition and I promise you we should.

Later we close out the podcast with a study on human nature, something pretty important and global affairs actually.

We look specifically and quite adorably at kids, specifically when kids can first tell that adults are telling them a fib or giving them lame excuse.

But before we get to that, we got to get started with this.

Tomorrow is a big day in Washington, D.C.

The Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, is set to meet with Democrat Joe Biden in the White House where the two men will be talking about debt.

And actually they're going to be talking about a debt ceiling.

So let's talk about what the heck that is, why you should care and how to sort through all the big arguments of the next, well, days, weeks and months.

And let's actually start with this.

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