Episodes
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Rep. Trent Franks
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Congressman TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), member of the House Armed Services Committee, and Chair of the Judiciary Committee's Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee:
PART ONE
- Rep. Franks' efforts to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities of the electric grid
- Natural and man-made causes of EMP
- Iranian military references to "weaponized EMP"
- Future of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act in the new Congress
PART TWO
- President Obama's dismissal of the Sony hack by North Korea as "cyber vandalism"
- Executive overreach and holding the President accountable to the Constitution and his oath of office
- President Obama's history of voting "present," rather than for or against, state and federal bills
PART THREE
- Does Congress' refusal to fund DHS through the "Crominbus" give it leverage over President Obama in 2015?
- Amnesty and the end of the Republican Party
- A disconnect between President Obama's response to the hack of Sony Pictures, and to that of a film he claimed spurred the Benghazi attack on 9/11/12
- The meaning of true religious tolerance
PART FOUR
- Claims of injustice surrounding the U.S. grand jury process
- Means of determining whether certain police behavior is race-motivated
- Violent jihad references on the Facebook page of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the suspected murderer of two NYPD officers
- Expectations for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force against the Islamic State in 2015
PART FIVE
- Sequestration's impact on the U.S. military
- Innovation within the U.S. space and missile defense programs
- In light of the secret U.S.-Cuba negotiations, what other clandestine talks might the Administration be engaging in?
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