It's September 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, four years we have heard about dirty oil and dirty coal and dirty natural gas,

all dirty because of their environmental record, plus their tie to foreign dictators.

Well, today begins a five-part series on dirty green.

We'll explore the debate of whether renewable energy is really the picture of purity

that we are often so told about, or whether there are dirty secrets to the environment

and connections to dictators abroad.

Today, we kick off the series exploring solar panels, and that's coming up.

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

An important update on the war of attrition in Ukraine.

One about recent battles and a second bit about a $60 billion bill that you are going to have to pay.

And finally, the last thing before I let you go, it's a question from a listener who says that

she doesn't know much about international affairs, but wonders if we can do more to hit Russia's

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

Dirty Green, ladies and gentlemen, that is the new series that I will be doing here on the PDB,

asking some important questions about renewable energy.

And that's because to date, most of us have been told that renewable energy is green energy,

and it has virtually no environmental costs, unlike oil and gas.

Plus, it's free of national security concerns, like tying ourselves to foreign dictators in the

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