It's October 25th, 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.

We've got a special edition of the PDB this morning, and it's special because we are going

to talk about something that nobody else is talking about.

Last month, the U.S. government acknowledged that the batteries powering the renewable energy

revolution in this country, the electric vehicles, the solar and wind farms, all of it.

Those batteries are produced by child miners in the Congo.

Now we've talked about this on the PDB in the past as a part of our series that I called

dirty green energy.

But this is official confirmation from the U.S. government itself, and it's a big deal.

But then why isn't this report in the press?

Why aren't politicians talking about it?

Why aren't the car manufacturers acknowledging it?

Well we will get to that in a minute.

But first let's get started with today's special brief.

One month ago this week, the United States government released a report that I bet you

didn't hear about, and it's remarkable that you haven't, because the report says this.

All the lithium ion batteries coming from China are produced by child labor.

So let me say that again and explain it a bit more.

One month ago the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report, and it's called the list of

goods produced by child labor or forced labor.

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