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It's January 9th. 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 three briefs for you this morning that are

shaping America and the world. First, a big brief on North America this morning where we start in

Washington, D.C. then head off to Denver, El Paso and two stops south of the border.

That's where the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are gathered this morning talking

drugs and immigration and trade. Then second, we leave North America and head to the breaking

story out of Brazil. Protesters there have stormed key government buildings as they make clear

that they are not going to support a new leftist president and perhaps they've got the support

of their military. Third, we later travel to the country of Vietnam where U.S. taxpayers are

helping that country transition away from coal and towards solar energy. Later, we close out the

podcast with a listener question about my previous brief on vitamins and medicines from China.

I'll answer that question plus more possible trouble with the supply of infant formula.

But before we get to all of that, we got to get started with this. We're talking this morning about

the future of North America. That's our lead brief as the president and prime minister of the U.S.,

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