Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Richard Fisher

RICHARD FISHER, Asian Military Affairs Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• Xi Jinping's quest for regional and global dominance
• Beijing's preparation for war on the Taiwan Strait
• China’s historically strategic culture

PART TWO:

• The special relationship between the Communist government in Beijing and the People’s Liberation Army
• How the Chinese-Vietnamese War convinced the U.S. that the People’s Republic could be an ally against communism
• A fundamental transformation of Chinese naval and air power
• Xi Jinping’s pivot to Argentina

PART THREE

• Is China fostering another Falklands War?
• Chinese consolidation of power in Africa and Latin America
• A history of deception by various regimes in Beijing

PART FOUR:

• Are economic woes tempering Beijing's international ambitions at all?
• Demographic issues in China: a recipe for foreign interventionism
• Using Taiwan as an example of what democracy can accomplish in the region
• Defending American interests in space

John Hannah, Fred Fleitz, Diana West, Martin Sherman

JOHN HANNAH, former national security advisor to Vice President Cheney:

• Growth of the nuclear arms race in the Middle East
• Arab leaders’ rebuff of President Obama’s summit
• Protecting the electrical grid from an Iranian EMP

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, and former CIA Analyst:

• Michael Morell’s claims that the CIA had no part in planning the Benghazi “talking points”
• Bi-partisian support for the extension of the PATRIOT Act

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

• The Duranty case and willful blindness in the media
• Desensitization to the violence of Shariah and jihad
• Examples of submission to Shariah norms in the U.S.

Dr. MARTIN SHERMAN, Executive Director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies:

• What the Israeli government is doing—and not doing--to defend against pressure to recognize a unified Palestinian state
• Evidence of increasing friction in the U.S.-Israel relationship

Rep. Peter Roskam, Stephen Coughlin, Zach Nunn, Gordon Chang

Rep. PETER ROSKAM (IL-6), Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee:

• How the BDS Movement is delegitimizing Israel’s international status, especially in Europe
• Congressional movements going forward, following bipartisan approval of the Corker/Cardin Iran legislation
• Rebuff of President Obama at his Camp David Summit by four Arab leaders

STEPHEN COUGHLIN, author of “Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad”:

• “Protocols of the Elders of Islam”
• Muslim Brotherhood goals in the U.S. as outlined in the Exploratory Memorandum
• The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s plan to subordinate free speech

ZACH NUNN, State Representative of Iowa House District 30:

• Issues that will be discussed at this Saturday's National Security Action Summit
• The growing cyber threat in the United States
• Attacks against the electrical grid in Ukraine
• The United States’ new model of defense against cyber warfare

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

• Yet another earthquake hits Nepal as U.S. Marines struggle to provide relief assistance on the ground
• China’s strategy of self-defeat
• Allied requests for the United States to take on more leadership in Asia
• What consequences will the recent shakeup of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have for U.S. policy towards China?
• Chinese dominance in the naval, space, and cyber theaters

Dr. Mark Christian

Dr. MARK CHRISTIAN, Founder of the Global Faith Institute:

• Dr. Christian’s family background and his conversion from Islam to Christianity
• How the abolishment of Shariah Law in Muslim-majority nations led to the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood
• Thoughts on the ongoing power struggle in the Islamic State

PART TWO:

• Origins of Shariah law
• The phenomenon of Taqqiya and purposeful misdirection for the Islamic cause
• Historical roots of the Muslim Brotherhood and the group’s presence in the United States
• Incompatibility of Shariah law and Western, democratic constitutions

PART THREE:

• The Muslim Brotherhood’s stated goals in the U.S.
• Different relationships between Jihadist groups
• Muslim Brotherhood efforts to subvert from within the U.S. government
• Parallels between militant and civilization jihad

PART FOUR:

• Jihad having a benign meeting?
• The establishment of a caliphate within the United States by Muslim Brotherhood front organizations
• What is the Exploratory Memorandum?

Daniel Horowitz, Jan Mickelson, Amb. Francis Rooney, Bill Gertz

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor of the Conservative Review:

• Why the Corker/Cardin Bill has ensured the Iran Deal will succeed
• How AIPAC betrayed its mission and sabotaged Republican efforts to make any Iran deal conditional on recognizing Israel's right to exist

JAN MICKELSON, Host of “Mickelson in the Morning” on WHONews in Des Moines, Iowa:

• Using Iowa as a case study of illegal immigration's national security implications
• The status quo continues as the State Department accepts unvetted Somali and Syrian refugees into the U.S.
• Refusal to let “getting offended” trump 1st Amendment rights
• What the Corker/Cardin Bill does to the Senate's treaty-making authority

Amb. FRANCIS ROONEY, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See:

• The need for an open and honest debate on the religious roots of Islamic terrorism
• Why interfaith dialogue must be accompanied by principled convictions, or it risks being simply appeasement
• How religious leaders can stand up against radical Islam, like Pope John Paul II did against Communism

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Why the appointment of General Joseph Dunford as next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is upsetting pro-China advocates in the Administration
• Did the Secretary of Defense really threaten a presidential veto if more money is appropriated to defense?
• North Korea's submarine-launch ballistic missile capabilities
• What country are Al Qaeda fighters fleeing the Yemen conflict moving into?

Omri Ceren, Fred Fleitz, Amb. Henry Cooper, Suzanne Scholte

OMRI CEREN, Managing Director for Press and Strategy at The Israel Project:

• Misleading media reports about the stability of the newly-formed Israeli government
• An Iran deal that has concessions involved with ballistic missiles, facilities, a signing bonus, and the rollback of sanctions

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, now Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Implications of the refusal by Democrats to allow amendments to be added into the Corker/Cardin Iran bill
• The absence of House leadership taking a stand on needed security issues concerning the Iran nuclear deal
• Media assaults on Pamela Geller—instead of condemnation of violent jihad—in the wake of the Garland, TX attack
• Certain PATRIOT Act provisions causing a divide within the Republican Party

Amb. HENRY COOPER, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization:

• Acknowledgment by the head of NORAD of the reality of an EMP threat
• Why tasking DHS with protecting the civilian electric grid would be a bureaucratic nightmare
• Resistance amongst private sector utility companies to hardening the grid
• A missile defense expert’s take on Iran on the path to a bomb

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, Chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition:

• North Korea Freedom Week: a showcase of defector activism
• The importance of Free North Korea Radio
• Possible replacements for the Kim Jong Un regime
• How Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programs are tied at the hip

Daniel Akbari, Diana West, Michael Rubin, Jim Hanson

DANIEL AKBARI, Leading Shariah lawyer from Iran, and the author of "HONOR KILLING: A Professional's Guide to Sexual Relations and Ghayra Violence from the Islamic Sources":

• An overview of the sources of Islamic legal authority
• Is the death penalty for insulting Muhammad not Islamic or quintessentially so?
• The misnomer of "honor killings": Islamic jealousy and the concept of Ghayra
• Are more devout Muslims more likely to engage in Jihad and Ghayra violence?

DIANA WEST, author of "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation's Character"

• Claims that Pamela Geller provoked the Garland, Texas attack
• Enforcement of Shariah against criticism of Islam here in the U.S. on a wider scale than ever before
• Forced repatriation of citizens fleeing the USSR at the tail end of World War Two

Dr. MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes":

• Obama's negotiated surrender to Iran and the incentivizing of defiance
• Why the U.S. has lost credibility in the Gulf
• Concerns about the strength of U.S. leadership before the oncoming proliferation cascade

JIM HANSON, former U.S. Army Special Forces Technical Weapons Sergeant:

• A look at the Garland, Texas attack as a project of the Islamic State
• The global reach of the black flag of Jihad
• The extent to which civilization jihad is thriving in the United States
• Why law enforcement and counterterrorism agencies can't properly prevent threats from "known wolves"
• "Knowing your enemy so you can defeat them": How the Patton vs. Rommel analogy is relevant today

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Micah Halpern, John White, Eric Blehm

Rep. PETE HOEKSTRA, former U.S. Congressman (MI-2) and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee:

• How the Garland, Texas "Draw Mohammed" event was an exercise in free speech
• Is there a new double standard for the freedom of expression?
• Why is Iran's seizure of ships having no bearing on the President's desperation for an Iran deal?
• Defending a reauthorization of the PATRIOT Act

MICAH HALPERN, author of “Thugs: How History’s Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder”:

• The flawed U.S. negotiating position on the Iran deal and and ambiguities in the details
• Tehran’s goal to gain control over a large amount of the world’s oil through piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Straight of Hormuz
• Last month's Iranian cyber attack against the Turkish electrical grid
• Questions surrounding the current leadership and direction of the Islamic State

JOHN WHITE, founder and current Chair of the North Texas Radiation Response Group and Radiation Safety Officer for the VA North Texas Health Care System:

• Why radiation is dangerous to the electric grid
• Highlighting the vulnerabilities of modern technology's reliance on electricity
• Simple steps to harden the electric grid and everyday electronics
• The significance of NORAD moving communications gear back to Cheyenne Mountain

ERIC BLEHM, New York Times bestseller author, and author of “Legend: A Harrowing Story from the Vietnam War of One Green Beret’s Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines”

• Army special forces Staff Sergeant and Congressional Medal of Honor awardee Roy Benavidez’s tale of bravery in Cambodia
• Looking at Benavidez’s mission as a microcosm of the Vietnam War
• What to consider as the American military drawdown continues in Afghanistan
• Benefits today’s servicemen and women enjoy at the expense of lessons learned when Vietnam vets returned home

Matthew Continetti, Amb. Roger Noriega, Gordon Chang, Ross McKitrick

MATTHEW CONTINETTI, Editor-in-Chief at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Shooting at the “Draw Mohammed” contest in Garland, Texas
• Promoting Hillary Clinton’s Istanbul Process through shaming and peer-pressuring
• A profile of Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, who recently spoke at NYU

Amb. ROGER NORIEGA, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs:

• Can President Obama salvage his Latin America policy?
• Venezuela’s collapse from within as corruption and narcotrafficking continue unabated
• The Castro regime's hindering of the efforts of U.S. diplomats stationed in Cuba
• Is a major American concession on Guantanamo Bay unavoidable?
• Mexico’s continued cartel violence undermining the credibility of President Enrique Peña Nieto

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China” and “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World”:

• Was Kim Jong Un's canceled visit to Russia a sign of internal instability?
• How large is North Korea's nuclear arsenal?
• China's new economic pessimism
• How the demographic headwind has shifted against China

Dr. ROSS McKITRICK, Professor of Economics and Chair of Graduate Studies at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada:

• Debunking climate change myths and models
• Dangers in challenging the establishment point of view on climate change
• The Global Warming Policy Foundation's inquiry into official temperature data

Sen. Ron Johnson, Steven Camarota, Rep. Mike Turner, Bill Gertz

Sen. RON JOHNSON (R-WI), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs:

• How recent votes in the U.S. Senate turn "advise and consent" on its head
• Rejected compromises on Iran and the Constitutional bare minimum
• Warnings about the new Iranian military doctrine
• Protecting America's electric grid from the threat of an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)

Dr. STEVEN CAMAROTA, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• U.S. Census Bureau statistics showing that by 2023, one out of seven Americans will have been an immigrant
• Immigration causing the political landscape to favor the left, resulting in changing Republican policy positions
• Influx of Muslim immigrants from shariah-adherent nations
• The Refugee Resettlement program and risks of bringing large numbers of unvetted Syrian and Somali migrants into the United States

Rep. MIKE TURNER (OH-10), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee and a Member of the House Intelligence Committee:

• Highlighting the limitations of the current deal with Iran in light of its covert and overt military activities
• A forecast of the threat posed by a Russia/Iran alliance
• Taking missile defense to the next level with directed energy weapons
• How the National Defense Authorization Act avoids sequestration

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Why were no U.S. fighters scrambled to intercept a Russian bomber detected off the coast of Alaska?
• Launch malfunction causing a Russian satellite to be in free fall towards Earth
• National Defense Authorization Act provisions regarding information operations and Russian INF treaty violations
• U.S. Space Command's worries about threats from Russia and China
• President Obama pledges support to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over territorial issues, arising from the disputed Senkaku Islands