It's May 19th, 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.

And this morning is a special brief, an update on the warnings that we all heard back in

March that the world was facing a food crisis because of the war in Ukraine.

I'm sorry to report that the crisis in fact has begun, most especially in regards to wheat.

So grab a map, buckle up, and come with me around the globe as we look at how war and

weather are impacting the world's ability to feed itself.

And as always, we'll discuss what this could mean for you and your family.

All up next on this special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

In a previous brief, I told you about the importance of palm oil.

But today we're going to talk about wheat.

But that actually begs the question, why wheat?

Well, simply put, it's the world's most widely grown crop.

So no matter what country you live in, odds are you consume wheat in some form or fashion.

And data support that.

35% of the world's population relies on wheat as its number one staple product, mostly

bread.

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