29 MAY 2026: Iran Attacks U.S. Vessels (Again) // U.S. Markets & Consumers Shrug at War // Stark Warning on Digital Exhaust // CIA Hands Out Gold Bars Like Candy? // Quantum Revolution: The Beginning
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he covers today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Friday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan tracks fresh Iranian missile attacks on US merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz, even as Washington and Tehran reportedly agree to a 60-day ceasefire extension.
Bryan walks through the strange split-screen of war and optimism, with US stock markets hitting all-time highs and Southwest Airlines reporting strong consumer demand, while Trump's approval numbers still sag under the weight of the Iran conflict and lingering inflation. He also breaks down a chilling Reuters report that adversaries are buying US service members' digital exhaust on the open market, and delivers a scathing insider analysis of the David Rush case, the former CIA officer who allegedly conned the Agency out of $40 million in gold bars and cash, with Bryan tying it back to the CIA's broken recruitment philosophy of hiring C students.
Plus, Bryan closes the week with a deep look at the Quantum Revolution, why Trump just steered $2 billion to IBM and others, and why whoever masters quantum computing first may end up master of the planet.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: Bryan Dean Wright, The Wright Report, Friday Headline Brief, Iran attack US ships, Strait of Hormuz, IRGC missile strike, Bandar Abbas, Iran ceasefire extension, US stock market highs, Southwest Airlines consumer demand, Trump approval rating, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza 70 percent, Israel Palestinian war, US service members targeted, digital exhaust, commercial data brokers, Pentagon Google Chrome warning, David Rush CIA fraud, CIA gold bars scandal, CIA recruitment failures, John Ratcliffe, CIA reform, Quantum Revolution, quantum computing, qubits, superposition, IBM quantum, Trump quantum investment, China quantum race, AI and quantum computing
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| 0:00.0 | It's May 29th. 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 Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | It's Friday's headline brief. Heavy on News, light on analysis, launching us into the weekend with events that as ever are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:32.1 | We begin with global news this morning, starting with yet another attack by Iran on U.S. vessels. Israel's seven news and |
| 0:39.8 | Iranian state press report that the IRGC launched a fresh salvo of missiles at four U.S. merchant |
| 0:46.3 | ships late yesterday, which tried to pass through this trade of Hormuz, but without Iranian |
| 0:51.2 | permission. Now, as of this recording, it's unclear if those missiles were |
| 0:54.8 | shot down by the U.S. military, but we do have some separate reports of explosions at the Iranian |
| 1:00.1 | port city of Bandar Abbas. This attack comes just a day after the U.S. military carried out strikes |
| 1:05.9 | on the coast of Iran, hitting some IRGC military targets that had fired some drones at U.S. forces and |
| 1:12.4 | commercial vessels in this trade of Hormuz. Iran, as you may have seen yesterday, then fired |
| 1:17.2 | off at least one missile at a U.S. base in Kuwait. Oh, boy, this fresh assault that happened |
| 1:22.9 | late yesterday on U.S. merchant ships came but just a couple of hours after Reuters and Axios news reported |
| 1:29.0 | that the U.S. and Iran have agreed to a 60-day extension of the ceasefire. It's technically a peace deal, |
| 1:36.6 | with a lot of things to be further debated during the 60 days from, well, everything, the straight-of-form moves, |
| 1:43.0 | to Iran's nuclear program. But both as Reuters and Axios noted, the straight of four moves to Iran's nuclear program. |
| 1:45.2 | But both as Reuters and Axios noted, the Iranian Supreme Leader's Office has yet to give |
| 1:50.3 | their final permission on this deal. And President Trump also wants a little bit of time to think |
| 1:55.6 | about it for a few more days. Well, none of that mattered to the U.S. stock markets yesterday. They hit more all-time highs |
| 2:03.2 | with firm belief that a peace deal is done or it is imminent. We'll see if that's true. But interestingly, |
| 2:09.9 | American consumers kind of think so too and are feeling pretty good. Southwest Airlines reported |
| 2:15.7 | yesterday that U.S. consumers are still snapping up their |
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