16 JAN 2025: Trump's New Team Talks Global News, Lying Spies, DOJ Reforms, US Energy, and the AI Revolution
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he tackles today's critical stories shaping America and the world. In today's episode, we cover:
Marco Rubio's Vision for Foreign Policy: Rubio outlines plans as Secretary of State, targeting China, foreign aid, and America's strategic interests in the Gaza Strip, Ukraine, and Greenland.
Hunter Biden Laptop Fallout: Future CIA Director John Ratcliffe addresses the 51 intelligence officers who lied about Hunter's laptop, signaling a major shift in accountability.
Pam Bondi Faces Senate Scrutiny: The incoming Attorney General vows to pursue justice impartially while facing tough questions about her approach to election fraud investigations.
The Energy Debate: Trump's Energy Secretary nominee champions nuclear power and natural gas while criticizing wind and solar as unreliable industrial energy sources.
"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 January 16th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:09.0 | A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Wright Report, Your Daily News Podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | I've got four briefs for you this morning that are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:28.1 | First up, we've got global updates from America's likely next U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, |
| 0:33.3 | from the Gaza Strip to the Panama Canal. We've got a lot of global news coming up. |
| 0:38.5 | Second, the 51 spies who lied about that Hunter Biden laptop, they are back in focus. |
| 0:43.8 | All as the future CIA director, John Ratcliffe, testified yesterday. |
| 0:48.0 | I've got some not so good news for those former intel officers. That's coming up. |
| 0:53.4 | Third, the future DOJ chief, Ms. Pam Bondi, |
| 0:56.4 | she got a grilling yesterday from some Senate Democrats, but they were really after somebody else. |
| 1:02.2 | I'll explain who that was and why. Fourth, we've got updates about the AI Revolution following |
| 1:07.4 | the testimony of America's next energy secretary. We got that yesterday. |
| 1:11.6 | It's bad news for software engineers out there, but important news for the rest of us, really about the meaning of life. |
| 1:19.6 | But first, let's get to that top story of the morning. |
| 1:22.6 | America got a good idea yesterday of what is coming next for this country as four of Donald |
| 1:27.9 | Trump's nominees sat down for their Senate confirmation hearings. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, |
| 1:33.8 | he kicked things off. He is slated to be our next secretary of state handling the bulk of |
| 1:38.4 | America's foreign policies. He started with a full-on barrage against China yesterday. Listen to this. |
| 1:45.1 | Quote, years ago, we welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into our global order, and they took advantage of all of its benefits, but they ignored all of its obligations and responsibilities. |
| 1:56.2 | Instead, they have lied, cheated, hacked, and stolen their way to global superpower status and at our expense. |
| 2:04.3 | End quote. |
| 2:05.2 | He went on to warn that we have become far too reliant on China. |
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