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The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

BND Guest Double Feature: Breitbart World Editor Frances Martel & U.S. Congressman Bryan Steil (R-WI-01)

The Breitbart News Daily Podcast

SiriusXM

News, Politics

4.7896 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Two great guests for the price of one yet again on the BND podcast! Our phenomenal host, Mike Slater, begins by speaking with Breitbart's World Editor, Frances Martel, about various international stories that are impacting the Trump 2.0 administration. You'll want to hear her thoughts on Venezuela, Iran, and beyond! Following that opener, Slater talks to U.S. Congressman Bryan Steil (R-WI-01) about his recently introduced legislation that would limit representatives like him from buying and selling in the U.S. stock market. Is this a good or bad idea? How likely is it to pass? All of this and more will be answered in another dynamic conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bridebart News Daily. Thanks for being here. We had two wonderful guests today, so enough of me. Let's just play both of our interviews. Let's start with Francis Martel. She's our world editor. We talk about Iran and Cuba in particular, a little bit of Venezuela, of course. And then we'll play our interview with Congressman Brian Stile about his new bill, the Stop Insider Trading Act, which I mean, I was in favor of the idea, wanted

0:41.1

to hear the details, heard the details, and for some reason it was like 95% in. There was something

0:45.2

holding me back. And then we talked it out and I'm all in now. It's great. I think it's awesome.

0:50.7

Let's do this. And we had a 10 listener poll and it was 9 to 1 in favor of the bill.

0:54.7

So I want to hear, I want you to hear it from the writer, the author of the bill.

0:58.8

He's the chair of the House administration committee who wrote the bill.

1:02.9

So we'll talk with him as well.

1:04.0

Let's start with Francis, get a little view of the world, and then we'll go to Congress and Brian Stahl.

1:30.3

Music and then we'll go to Coggins and Brian Stahl. Good morning, Francis. Good morning. Thanks so much for having me on.

1:33.3

Our pleasure. Let us start first in Iran. I don't know what to believe, what I'm seeing, so I trust you.

1:39.5

What is the situation in Iran right now?

1:42.3

Well, it's very difficult to get exact reporting out of Iran.

1:46.0

Like I was trying to figure out the death toll for this appearance.

1:50.0

And it's somewhere between 200 and 2,000 is what I'm seeing.

1:54.0

So that's, you know, that range is just incredible.

1:58.0

What we do know is that there are protests in nearly every major city. It seems to be a

2:02.9

youth-driven event. It seems to have been triggered by a couple of weeks ago, the Rial, the value

2:09.8

of the Rial fell catastrophically. And that was like one moment that led up to it. But before that,

2:17.1

you know, you guys have been reading Breitbart

2:19.1

notice, Iran is in free fall just in terms of basic infrastructure and like the quality of life.

2:26.9

You know, Tehran doesn't have water. The president of Iran has been going on TV for weeks

2:31.9

saying we need a new capital because we just don't have

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