It's May 24th, 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's spymasters.

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

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

We're going to do something a little bit different today.

I'm going to give you three briefs, all updates on critical events that we've spoken about

before.

And as a heads up, you might want to pull out that map that we used previously, either

the one that was in your mind or on your computer screen.

So first up, there's Ukrainian wheat getting out of the black sea this morning, but the

ships aren't being sailed by Ukrainian captains.

They're Russian.

We have satellite imagery that we need to discuss.

Second, the Intel community failed to predict what would happen in Afghanistan.

I briefed you on that last week.

There's an update on what went wrong.

Finally, Joe Biden said yesterday that if China ever invaded Taiwan, America would

step in to protect its island ally.

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