Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Amb. John Bolton, Walid Phares, Burak Bekdil, Joseph Schmitz

Amb. JOHN BOLTON, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations:

• The weakened U.S. stance on negotiations with Iran
• Threat of Iran detonating an EMP in Israel, Saudi Arabia, or the U.S.
• Proliferation in the Middle East has already begun
• Why failing to support Israel at the United Nations will result in a Palestinian state

WALID PHARES, author of “The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid”:

• Iranian delegates continue to draw concessions from the U.S., including continued progress on a missile delivery system
• Hezbollah “shock troops” in Syria and Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen controlling an important waterway to the Suez Canal
• The El-Sisi government's frustration with the lack of support from the Obama Administration
• Al Azhar University Grand Imam’s admission of radical Islamic influence in the Egyptian education system

BURAK BEKDIL, Turkish columnist writing for Hürriyet Daily News:

• Rumors surrounding yesterday's mass blackout in Turkey
• Turkey’s eventual path to the bomb to counter the security, regional and sectarian threat from the Islamic Republic
• Cracks between President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Davutoğlu over continued authoritarianism in Turkey

JOSEPH SCHMITZ, former Inspector General of the Department of Defense:

• Analyzing the recent Glenn Beck interview with the President of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist
• A history of foreign influence operations inside the United States
• What is the Independent State Threat Awareness Training and Education (ISTATE) program?

Andy McCarthy, Peter Vincent Pry, Hon. Steven Blaney, Heather Mac Donald

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• How the Iran negotiations were disastrously flawed from the very beginning
• Senator Cruz's (R-TX) winning strategy on Iran
• Hillary Clinton's destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, former CIA WMD Analyst:

• Does Tehran already have a bomb?
• Open-source intelligence suggesting the Iranian military is seeking to use a nuclear EMP against the United States
• Today’s blackout in Turkey shows the vulnerability of an electric grid and the critical civilian infrastructure that depends on it
• Comparing the cost to secure the U.S. grid to the amount of American foreign aid given to Pakistan in one year

Hon. STEVEN BLANEY PC, MP, Canadian Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness:

• Canada extending its mission to battle the Islamic State
• Bill C-51: Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015
• Identifying terrorist entities in North America
• Importance of a secure northern U.S. border

HEATHER MAC DONALD, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute:

• An immigration policy based on the lesson that “lawlessness breeds lawlessness”
• Hypocrisy within the leadership of big-city police departments
• The Democratic Party's promotion of a “demographic destiny” in the United States
• New York City's status as a safe haven for illegal aliens
• Dangers of the federal government ceasing to enforce the Secure Communities Program