It's October 12th.

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, fake news.

You've been told for years that it's a problem, a crisis, really, with misinformation

and disinformation being spread by the Russians or the Chinese.

Well, it turns out that these foreign powers have a new competitor.

31 fake news sites telling you to vote for Democrats.

I'll explain that.

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

First an update on the possible railroad strike.

One union just voted down the deal, negotiated a couple of weeks back, and that could be an

economic trouble ahead.

Second, the Mexican military has been caught selling weapons and gear to Mexican cartels.

As always, we've got a listener question today.

It's about dirty, green energy.

And why we're not talking about hybrid vehicles.

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

We are four weeks away from the midterm elections.

And if you're like me, you've already been inundated with unwelcome political ads, things

like mailers and robo calls and commercials.

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