09 MAY 2025: Headline Brief: A New Pope, Dogfights in Pakistan, Iran Sabotage, Tariff War Truce, Joe Biden Speaks, and Democrats Throw Stones in Glass Houses

The Wright Report

Bryan Dean Wright

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, for Friday’s Headline Brief on The Wright Report—heavy on news, light on analysis—delivering the stories shaping America and the world.

History in Rome and Chicago: America’s Pope – Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV. A naturalized Peruvian citizen and former leader of the Order of St. Augustine, the new pope signals a focus on labor rights, climate change, and migration, while opposing “gender ideology” and same-sex adoption.

India and Pakistan Edge Closer to War – After a deadly terror attack in Kashmir, drone swarms and dogfights erupt between nuclear-armed neighbors. Pakistan flies Chinese-made jets, prompting Pentagon analysis. Trump expected to intervene diplomatically before his Middle East trip.

Trump Deploys Bombers as Iran’s Nuclear Threat Grows – A hidden Iranian facility is revealed to be extracting tritium for nuclear weapons. Trump sends more bombers to Diego Garcia and signals mixed messages on whether any nuclear enrichment will be allowed under a future deal.

U.S.-Backed Ceasefire with Houthis Fizzles – Global shipping firms reject Red Sea route despite Trump’s truce. Strike costs top $1 billion. Yemen’s main airport is heavily damaged, but major carriers are still rerouting around Africa.

U.S.-UK Strike Tariff Deal, While China Feels the Squeeze – Trump cuts a deal with the UK: more beef exports, fewer car tariffs, and British films spared. China may get a 50% tariff next, though small U.S. importers are reeling under current 145% rates.

China’s Economy Wobbles Under Tariff Pressure – Beijing injects emergency stimulus while stopping public economic reporting. Trump says “empty ports” mean America is winning.

Illegal Immigration Crackdown Shakes U.S. Labor Market – 70% of business leaders say Trump’s enforcement actions will hit their operations, especially in retail and hospitality.

Biden Blames Sexism for Harris’ Loss – In new interviews, Biden appears frail and accuses Americans of sexism for rejecting Kamala Harris.

FBI Probes NY AG Letitia James for Mortgage Fraud – The prosecutor who once went after Trump now faces her own legal firestorm over allegedly lying to banks about her residency and finances.

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32

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0:00.0	It's May 9th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report.
0:08.0	It's Friday's report. A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Wright Report, Your Daily News, podcast.
0:22.7	It's Friday's headline brief, heavy on news, light on analysis, launching us into the weekend with events that, as ever, are shaping America and the world.
0:32.6	We begin this morning with history in Rome and Chicago.
0:37.0	Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was born and raised
0:39.4	in Chicago, was elevated to the papacy yesterday. He will now be known as Pope Leo the 14th,
0:44.9	a name, by the way, with a long history focused on workers and labor rights in the Catholic
0:49.5	Church. Although his roots are in Illinois, he left many decades ago. He served for initially first in Peru.
0:57.0	He became a naturalized citizen in that country. He then became the lead of his international religious
1:01.8	order, the order of St. Augustine. As Reuters and others are reporting this morning, Pope Leo is likely
1:07.9	going to focus on the poor labor rights and migrant rights, especially,
1:12.2	as his name would suggest.
1:13.9	But otherwise, he has a pretty mixed record on other issues.
1:17.6	So, for example, the new Pope has signaled he's got a pretty close alignment with the former
1:21.9	Pope Francis on environmental issues, agreeing with the existential threat that it is climate
1:27.4	change. He thinks
1:28.8	we got to work together to stop it. Otherwise, on reproductive health, we don't know much what he
1:34.5	believes there. His public comments about, say, contraception or IVF, abortion, and surrogacy,
1:40.5	those comments are absent from the public record. But we do know that during his time in Peru, he was very much opposed to what he called
1:49.1	gender ideology, along with same-sex issues.
1:52.8	To the former, he said, quote, the promotion of gender ideology is confusing because it
1:58.5	seeks to create genders that don't exist, end quote.
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