Episodes
Friday Aug 28, 2015
Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Justin Johnson, Amb. John Herbst, Bill Gertz
Friday Aug 28, 2015
Friday Aug 28, 2015
Rep. VICKY HARTZLER (MO-4), Chairwoman of the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee:
- How Iran will benefit from the nuclear deal with the U.S.
- The Obama administration’s threat to veto any vote on the ObamaBomb deal
- American peoples’ view of the nuclear deal with the mullahs
- Will Obama veto the National Defense Authorization Act?
- President Obama’s attempt to close Guantanamo Bay
JUSTIN JOHNSON, Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Policy at the Heritage Foundation:
- Decreasing budget of the U.S. Navy
- Importance of America’s current Naval Fleet
- Is the U.S. capable of protecting the global trade lanes?
Amb. JOHN HERBST, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu’s Eurasia Center, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Uzbekistan:
- Ukraine facing aggression from the Kremlin along with economic woes passed down by the Yanukovych regime
- Putin’s Russia a more severe threat than the Islamic State
- Moscow unable to use its natural gas threat because of a cratering economy and a Europe that has turned to alternative energy sources
BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon and author of the Washington Times' “Inside the Ring” column:
- White House and the Pentagon heading to a congressional showdown over the potential closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility
- China and Russia’s developments in missile technology
- North Korea’s secret underground missile transport tunnels
- Army sources reporting preferential treatment given to two female candidates who successfully completed Ranger school
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