It's July 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.

The brief you're about to hear is in the same spirit of the actual President's Daily

Brief, which is a top secret summary of the most critical events in the past 24 hours,

all delivered to the President each day by the nation spy masters.

And so ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy and this is your brief.

Here's what we're going to be talking about this morning.

First up, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that environmental regulators are not allowed

to issue sweeping regulations due to climate change.

Only Congress, they said, has that authority.

We're going to talk about that case and why it's really about who controls our lives.

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

First monkeypox is spreading in the Congo, but not where it's normally found.

And that is causing alarm.

I've got the latest.

Finally, China is trying to stop America from developing our own sources of rare earth

metals.

We're going to talk about what they're up to and why.

Plus a quick word on Monday's Fourth of July podcast.

It's going to be pretty special.

All up next on the President's Daily Brief.

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