22 DEC 2025: Christmas Week Q&A: Venezuela // Immigration & Defining "American" // Working at the CIA (From Dating to UFOs)
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This special holiday edition of The Wright Report features unscripted answers to listener-submitted questions on the issues shaping America and the world. Bryan begins with Venezuela, explaining how US actions in the Caribbean target drug trafficking, pressure regime change in Caracas and Havana, and aim to push Chinese, Russian, and Iranian influence out of the Western Hemisphere, while also signaling American resolve on the global stage.
The episode then turns to immigration and national identity. Drawing on listener prompts, Bryan challenges the claim that American identity is defined only by shared ideals, arguing that the Founders clearly distinguished between legal rights and cultural assimilation. He addresses mass migration, cartel recruitment of teenagers inside the US, the limits of compassion in border policy, and why fear and uncertainty among migrants may be unavoidable if citizens are to be protected.
The episode closes with Bryan's reflections on intelligence work and the CIA, including what real espionage looks like, how it shapes morality, and what sustains character under pressure. He also responds to questions about faith, leadership, and unexplained phenomena, offering a candid and reflective holiday conversation driven by the audience's curiosity.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: Wright Report holiday episode, listener submitted questions, Venezuela oil blockade, regime change Caribbean, immigration identity debate, what is an American, assimilation vs ideals, cartel recruitment teenagers, border security policy, CIA reflections, intelligence ethics, faith and leadership
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| 0:00.0 | It's December 22nd. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Wright Report, your Daily News podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to this week's holiday edition of The Right Report, full of your listener questions and my unscripted answers with news and insights that are still, as ever, going to shape America and the world. |
| 0:34.6 | So a very blessed week to everybody out there. Safe travels, by the way, |
| 0:38.0 | and greetings this morning to everybody, wherever you are. And thank you for the hundreds and |
| 0:43.2 | hundreds of public and private messages that you all have sent over the past three or so days. |
| 0:47.2 | We are going to have a very full week with all kinds of great questions about immigration and |
| 0:52.2 | what it means to be an American. Some really interesting |
| 0:54.4 | insights and questions about that from an event in Phoenix, TPUSA, Vivek Ramoswamy, and some |
| 1:00.7 | others making some very interesting comments about what it means to be an American over the weekend. |
| 1:04.8 | Also, crime. We're going to talk about that this week. Also, some great questions about the CIA |
| 1:09.7 | and my time there. We're going to be |
| 1:11.3 | talking about that a little bit later on. Masad in Israel, that had been a lot of questions |
| 1:15.6 | about that country specifically and that intel service especially. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:19.9 | that this week and whether or not we should give Israel specific attention based on my experiences |
| 1:24.3 | working with that service in that country. So we're going to dive into that. |
| 1:28.8 | The AI revolution. |
| 1:30.2 | Lots of grandparents out there asking questions of effectively, how's this not just going to impact me, but also my grandkids. |
| 1:36.9 | And my kids, what other future career is going to be like if AI takes over everything? |
| 1:41.2 | So we're going to talk about that this week. |
| 1:42.8 | And then, of course, lots of questions about Trump. Many of my listeners absolutely love him. Some do not. And some are kind of |
| 1:49.3 | in between. And we're going to talk about that. And then finally, we're going to cover a little bit of |
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