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Noting that every day seems to be peppered with more stories from mainstream media outlets citing anonymous sources, the former CIA officer said he views them with skepticism.

“Whenever I see things come out of The New York Times or The Washington Post these days — and quite frankly any media outlet — and they use anonymous sources, I immediately have this reaction of, ‘I just don’t believe it,'” Wright said. “People come up to you, they knock on your door, and they say, ‘Hey, I’ve got some great information.’ There is a very deep and rigorous process of vetting those individuals, and as a reader or as a viewer, I don’t have the ability to understand who these people are,” Wright said.

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“I can’t vet them, and I have to rely on journalists doing that degree of vetting. And they have to, you know, get to the bottom of bias and motivation and access and things,” Wright noted. “And until we have a sense of who these people are, I just don’t have faith in this media reporting and I don’t think that anybody else should either. I think we need to wait until we get this FBI report, probably by the fall, and then we’ll make decisions as a country about where we want to go from there. And in the meantime, why can’t we get back to the business of governing? That’s what we ought to do.”

Wright said the focus should be on the slew of domestic issues as well as international dilemmas facing the nation.

“China has stolen well over a trillion dollars of our innovation and are now doing incredible things in terms of their economy. That needs to be tackled,” Wright said, pointing to reports over the weekend indicating that China has made startling advances in weaponizing space technology.

“It’s incredibly frightening, and, by the way, it’s a Communist nation that has absolutely no commitment to the values that we hold dear in this country,” Wright said. “And ultimately there is a very Reagan-esque sort of argument to be made against sort of good versus evil. And I hate to put it in those stark terms, but at the end of the day, who’s going to lead this country? Who’s going to lead the world into peace and prosperity? Is it going to be Russia and Communists? I don’t think so.”