Mark Schneider, Alice Linahan, Zach Taylor, Gordon Chang

PART ONE:

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy:

• Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s resignation earlier today
• Is the American nuclear deterrence capability truly useful but inadequate?
• The nuclear threats the U.S. could face from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian weapons modernization

PART TWO:

ALICE LINAHAN, Vice President of Women on the Wall:

• Effects of Obama’s Common Core curriculum on the U.S. education system
• Controversy regarding Islamists penetrating the U.S. educational system and advancing Sharia ideology through Common Core
• Looking at Arabic-immersion schools in Texas and around the U.S.

PART THREE:

ZACK TAYLOR, Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers:

• Concerns of political deception in Obama’s executive amnesty
• The prevalence of counterfeit Social Security numbers and other legal documents confiscated from illegal aliens
• Just how many countries are criminal illegal aliens coming from?
• International perspectives on President Obama’s approach to rule of law

PART FOUR:

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

• China’s construction of an artificial island in the territorially disputed region of the South China Sea
• Xi Jinping’s “New Security Architecture for Asia” taking an anti-U.S. stance
• U.S. moral commitment to a stable and pro-Western Taiwan
• Chinese cyber reconnaissance inside U.S. electrical companies