In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:

• Updates from Syria, where government forces, bolstered by Russian airpower, are ramping up efforts to push back advancing rebel forces in the south.

• A looming trade war as President-elect Trump threatens BRICS nations with a 100% tariff for attempting to abandon the U.S. dollar.

• Disparate accounts from Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum about a phone call discussing efforts to halt migration through Mexico.

• And in today's Back of the Brief: heartbreaking news from Israel as an American, once thought to be a Hamas prisoner, is now presumed dead.

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