It's November 3rd, you're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host with a cold, that's getting a little bit better, Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

First up, it's election time, but not just here in America.

There is one country in Europe where voters just put back into power of Prime Minister

who slaughtered 15 million animals over COVID fears.

We're going to talk about the lessons that that leaves for voters here in America.

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

First, America's college freshmen and sophomores are struggling this year with the basics,

like reading and math, all because of COVID policies when they were in high school.

I'll share what school administrators are finding.

Second, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates yesterday to reverse inflation,

but they also put out a report saying that it might take a long, long time to do that.

And as always, I've got to listen to a question today.

It's about why I generally don't discuss social issues here on the PDB.

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

It is election time, you probably have noticed on your TVs and in your mailbox,

but it's not just here in America.

We've got some big elections all around the world that are very important to America.

So for instance, in Brazil, a country that is a major trade partner of ours,

we send them about 10 billion in machinery every year, in fact, and about 600 million or so

in agricultural products.

...