13 FEB 2026: US Gov't Shutdown Begins // A.I. Smashes Portfolios & Jobs // Spies Target Trump Family // Iran Head Fake? // The Americas Report: Peru, Venezuela // China in the Pacific, NYC // Glioblastoma Hope!
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Friday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan covers the partial government shutdown as Democrats refuse to fund DHS, President Trump's sweeping move to dismantle the legal foundation of climate regulations, and rising market volatility driven by the accelerating AI Revolution.
Bryan then turns global, revealing new details about alleged foreign intelligence chatter involving Jared Kushner, a covert U.S. effort to move thousands of Starlink systems into Iran during mass protests, and a looming showdown over deported Venezuelan gang members after a federal judge orders them returned. He also sounds the alarm on China's expanding influence in Peru, covert corruption in Pacific island nations, suspicious seed packages arriving in American mailboxes, and the strategic mystery behind Beijing's 2 billion dollar renovation of New York's Waldorf Astoria.
The episode closes with hopeful medical news from Canada, where researchers report a dramatic breakthrough in treating glioblastoma using high-dose vitamin B3.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: February 13 2026 Wright Report, partial government shutdown DHS funding filibuster, Trump endangerment finding climate rollback, AI Revolution stock market volatility, Matt Schumer viral AI essay, Jared Kushner NSA intel Iran chatter, Starlink covert operation Iran protests, James Boasberg deported Venezuelan gang ruling, China Peru Chancay port control, CIA recruit Chinese officials purge Xi Jinping, Chinese seed packages brushing scam threat, Waldorf Astoria China renovation espionage concerns, vitamin B3 glioblastoma Canada study
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| 0:00.0 | It's February 13th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.4 | A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily Knows podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | It's Friday's headline brief, heavy on news, lighter on analysis, launching us into the weekend with events that, as ever, are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:31.3 | We begin with domestic news this morning, starting with the partial U.S. government shutdown. |
| 0:37.0 | As CNN and others report, it is on both House and Senate leaders sent members home for the next 11 days because, well, you know, we all deserve a vacation. |
| 0:46.6 | Nice gig. |
| 0:47.6 | But seriously, Democrats are forcing this latest government shutdown on the nation because, in their view, the DHS does not deserve one more single |
| 0:55.9 | penny all due to the Border Patrol and ICE operations. But as Fox News noted, President Trump's |
| 1:01.4 | triple B bill from last summer actually funds those DHS operations with about $75 billion to spare. |
| 1:08.1 | However, what is going to get shut down and or the employees will be on |
| 1:12.5 | unpaid status will include the TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA, to name just a few. That means, |
| 1:18.7 | folks, at a minimum, you should expect travel delays for the next couple of weeks, which will |
| 1:23.5 | probably go on much longer because Congress is now in recess and Democrats are refusing |
| 1:28.5 | to budge on any of their demands as we have covered. |
| 1:32.5 | To be clear, though, there are enough votes to keep the government fully open, as the Wall |
| 1:36.7 | Street General reports, a bill to fund DHS, and actually passed yesterday with 52 senators |
| 1:42.0 | in favor. But because of GOP senators like Mr. Tom Tillis, |
| 1:46.3 | Lindsay Graham, and others, they are refusing to abolish the filibuster or to embrace the talking |
| 1:51.3 | filibuster as we covered. The current threshold for legislation remains the lazy 60 filibuster, |
| 1:58.3 | which requires 60 votes on everything because otherwise otherwise, everything comes to a halt. |
| 2:03.3 | And that is now where we are at. And we have been for years and we will be four years to come. |
| 2:08.8 | And no, I mean that actually. President Trump said earlier this week that he does not expect any more |
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