21 FEB 2025: Headline Brief: Domestic News: FBI Leader, NYC Drama, Shocker at Social Security Admin // Int'l News: Israel, Denmark, Germany, Mediterranean Diet
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 27 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 today's episode, we cover:
New FBI Director Kash Patel Shakes Up DC – Patel vows a deep FBI housecleaning, the release of Epstein's flight logs, and revelations about P Diddy's alleged crimes.
Mass Deportation Moves Forward – Trump's administration revokes protections for 520,000 Haitians, with Costa Rica now accepting deportees from the U.S.
NYC's Financial Shock: Trump's Team Claws Back Millions – The White House reverses a federal payment to NYC, leaving the city scrambling to cover a $79M deficit.
Major Federal Job Cuts: IRS, NSF, and Social Security Shakeups – Thousands lose jobs as Trump's team slashes government spending, including a dramatic leadership shift at Social Security.
Middle East Escalation: Hamas Breaks Ceasefire, Israel on Edge – Hamas hands over bodies of hostages but violates the terms of the deal, fueling Israeli outrage.
Germany's Election Could Reshape Europe – Trump-backed populists gain ground, while the frontrunner calls Trump an "autocrat-friendly tyrant."
Mediterranean Diet: The Secret to Long Life? – New research links gut health to cognitive longevity, explaining why this diet boosts brain function.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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| 0:31.8 | It's February 21st. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations Officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:46.3 | A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Wright Report, your daily news, podcast. |
| 0:52.9 | It's Friday's headline brief, heavy on news, light on analysis, |
| 0:56.6 | launching us into the weekend with events that as ever are shaping America and the world. |
| 1:02.6 | We begin this morning with domestic news, starting with the latest from the FBI. We've got a new |
| 1:09.0 | director, Mr. Cash Patel. As the Wall Street Journal reports, he was confirmed |
| 1:13.3 | yesterday in the Senate, but it was a close one. |
| 1:15.9 | Two Republican senators joined all Democrat senators in opposition, but that was not enough. |
| 1:20.8 | Mr. Patel is now the new director promising some pretty major things. |
| 1:25.8 | First and foremost, a massive house cleaning of what he calls |
| 1:28.5 | partisan FBI officers, the deep state, as he says. He's also promising something else that is |
| 1:34.7 | raising a lot of eyebrows this morning, and that has to release the private calendars and flight |
| 1:39.2 | logs of a plane that belonged to the infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who of course was a very powerful |
| 1:45.5 | financier in D.C. and in New York. He had a very long roll-a-dex, a very powerful France on Capitol |
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