It's November 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.

First up, a lot of information coming out of Ukraine this morning.

We've got a new suspect in the sabotage of those natural gas pipelines, also some bad

news on the wheat wars, and most importantly, an alarming connection to our war in Afghanistan

with some of the special forces that we trained there, now showing up in Ukraine.

That's coming up.

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

First some good news on car prices.

They're coming down.

Second, the Supreme Court heard a case yesterday about affirmative action.

We'll talk about how the justices will likely rule.

But first, let's get started with today's main brief.

And one alibi, I am battling a nasty cold, so my sincere apologies if you hear it.

We've got a bunch of developments out of Ukraine this morning with the first being an update

on the wheat wars.

Now we haven't talked a lot about that these past months, and that's because back in

late July, Russia and Ukraine agreed to let agricultural products like wheat and corn to

be shipped out to market via the Black Sea.

And that's been going pretty well.

According to the Ukraine's Ministry of Agriculture, export numbers are about where they were

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