It's Tuesday. Welcome to the President's Daily

Briefing Day,

I'm going to be able to see.

This is a week.

It's Tuesday,

24 December.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world's stage.

This week, coming to you from somewhere in the Far East, East Asia, actually.

My life is essentially one continuous game of Where's Waldo?

Now, for hundreds of millions of folks around the world, today is Christmas Eve.

But whether you celebrate Christmas or not, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish you all a very happy holiday season.

No matter how you celebrate this time of year, I wish your peace and happiness and joy. Let's not forget joy.

To be fair, the world right now may seem like it's on fire. Conflicts across the globe, human suffering

political turmoil, a lack of civil discourse that at times pits family members against each

other, but we've seen worse and we have weathered worse. The primary objective here is to keep

things in context. It's important to know what's happening in the world, considering the world seems to be

constantly shrinking and we're all more interconnected than ever before.

But this time of year, as Christmas and New Year's approach, well, it's a time tailor-made

for reflection.

Take the opportunity this holiday season to reflect on what really matters, family, friends,

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