23 Jan 2026: Good News: US Crime Down, Illegal Truckers Out, Factories & Growth up // TikTok Deal Goes Bad // Migrant Lies in MN // Global: Cuba Regime Change, Syria Crisis, Trump's U.N. Trick // Brain Healing!
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 34 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 delivers a mix of strong domestic economic news and mounting national security concerns as the country heads into the weekend.
He begins with good news at home, as murder rates fall to their lowest level on record, American-born truckers see rising wages after foreign drivers are removed from U.S. highways, and major manufacturers like GM shift production back from China and Mexico to the United States. Economic growth is revised higher, signaling momentum heading into 2026.
The mood then turns more serious with warnings about TikTok's unresolved ties to Chinese control, the failure to revive the China Initiative to counter espionage, and growing concern over Chinese ownership of American food brands and farmland.
Bryan also covers escalating clashes in Minnesota as Democrats continue to resist ICE enforcement, a judge blocks charges against Don Lemon for his role in an attack on a Christian church, and the White House signals a major shift by authorizing ICE to use administrative warrants to enter homes of illegal aliens.
Globally, the episode tracks Trump's push toward regime change in Cuba, the possible withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria amid ISIS prison breaks, the launch of Trump's new Board of Peace that could sideline the United Nations, and promising medical research showing red light therapy may prevent or reduce traumatic brain injury and CTE.
"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 23rd. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:16.2 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | 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. |
| 0:31.0 | We begin with domestic news this morning, starting with good news and a lot of it on the domestic front. |
| 0:37.0 | First, let's cover crime in America. |
| 0:39.5 | Axios News and others report that the murder rate in these United States has hit the lowest |
| 0:44.1 | level since at least the year 1900. |
| 0:46.9 | And unlike other crime stats, this one is pretty hard to fudge. |
| 0:50.7 | Although then again, the authors of this report called the Council on Criminal Justice do acknowledge that they didn't collect data from either Jackson, Mississippi, or Birmingham, Alabama, which is a problem, because those two cities had the highest murder rates in this country per capita back in 2024. |
| 1:06.6 | Still, the data do suggest that this trend downward, it is real, and it is everywhere else, |
| 1:12.0 | and that is why we will take this as a victory. |
| 1:14.9 | And so, too, did the White House and the FBI yesterday. |
| 1:17.9 | Both of them crowed about this latest data, saying that President Trump is responsible. |
| 1:22.3 | He should get credit, especially given the deployment of ICE and National Guardsmen that we do know have driven down crime, |
| 1:28.4 | at least in D.C., Memphis, and Chicago. |
| 1:31.2 | Democrats, of course, reject that argument because, well, Donald Trump. |
| 1:36.7 | Next, more good news this morning. |
| 1:38.8 | This from America's roads and highways. |
| 1:41.3 | The Wall Street Journal reports that the Trump administration continues to ramp up the |
| 1:44.9 | removal of illegals and foreign nationals from our roads. They are ranking about 300 to 400 of these |
| 1:51.2 | people per day out of their big rigs. These are the CDL truck drivers who often can't read or speak |
| 1:56.7 | English, who then horrifically go on to kill other drivers as they are barging down our roads, |
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