It's October 18th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, and this is the Wright

report. A good day to you ladies and gentlemen welcome to the right report your daily

news podcast I've got four briefs for you this morning that are shaping America and the world.

First up the latest out of the Middle East with my assessment of yesterday's

hospital bombing in Gaza plus the argument that Israel should engage in something that is called a

proportional response to Hamas's terror attacks. I'll explain what that is and why we should

care. Second updates for you on domestic issues.

We lead with news from the White House this morning about computer chips, but really it's

about containing China.

I'll explain that in a bit.

Third, the FBI is out with the latest stats on crime in America.

I'll tell you which numbers are up, which are down, and why it is that the White House failed

to say yesterday that attacks against police officers are way up.

Fourth, some good news. It's about providing some life-saving medicines via drones,

but the good ones, not the killer drones. Later, a listener question today about former President Donald Trump,

and specifically his call to reinstate what the media usually calls a travel ban or a Muslim ban. We're going to talk about what that is and

whether it is a smart idea to revive. But first, let's get to our top story of

the morning with one quick programming note folks

Spotify listeners you all apparently had some trouble accessing yesterday's

episode we have worked with them to address that issue so it is there now if you

missed it it was a pretty good one at any rate with that let's

now get to that top story of the morning developments for you out of the

...