Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Sarah Westwood, Matthew Vadum, Bill Gertz, Deroy Murdock

SARAH WESTWOOD: Investigative Reporter for the Washington Examiner, Fox News Contributor:

• Hillary Clinton’s judgment in dealing with sensitive data as a cause for disqualification from the 2016 presidential race
• Did Ms. Clinton have help in removing classified labels from emails before they were sent to private servers?
• Chances that another undocumented server exists with classified information stowed on it

MATTHEW VADUM, Senior Editor at the Capital Research Group, Author of “Subversion, Inc.”:

• What is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)?
• History of community organizers and “mob rule”
• Saul Alinsky’s influence on Hillary Clinton and the modern press
• More on the “Red-Green Axis”

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Concern over China’s new multiple independent continental ballistic missile
• National Security Agency leak about Beijing’s cyber espionage inside the U.S.
• The current United States Pacific Command commander and his attitude towards China building and militarizing Islands
• Russia’s violation of the 1987 Intermittent Nuclear Forces Treaty ignored by the Obama Administration

DEROY MURDOCK, Senior Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution:

• Looking at each failed facet of the Iranian nuclear deal
• Obama’s weak stance on most international agreements
• Key Democrats in Congress who can sway the Iran deal
• Hillary Clinton’s number of classified emails continues to grow

Pete Hoekstra, Amb. Yoram Ettinger, Gordon Chang, Mauricio Claver-Carone

PETE HOEKSTRA: Former Michigan Representative and Chairman of the Permanent House Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Classic examples of Hillary Clinton’s subversion of the law and the U.S. Constitutition
• Hillary Clinton’s trust of aid Huma Abedin
• Running damage control on the intelligence leaks arising from the ‘emailgate' scandal

Amb. YORAM ETTINGER, former Minister for Congressional Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC:

• Verified Saudi intelligence of increased repression inside Iran
• Unified Persian Gulf opposition to the nuclear deal with Tehran
• President’s Reuven Rivlin’s comments regarding the relationship between Jerusalem and Washington
• Need for American Congressman to break free from party line in the interests of national security

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

• China’s devaluation of currency related to financial stresses and economic warfare
• Chinese law enforcement officers inside the United States without notification and outside protocols
• Beijing’s currency manipulation to internationalize the Renminbi as a reserve currency

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, Executive Director of Cuba Democracy Advocates, Editor of the Capitol Hill Cubans blog:

• Massive concessions given to the Castro regime despite being a state sponsor of terrorism and engaging in human trafficking
• Rising level of oppression inside Cuba
• How Castro has supported both FARC rebels in Colombia and the anti-American Maduro regime in Venezuela

Sen. James Lankford, Dr. Sean McFate, Fmr. Gov. John H. Sununu, Rep. Randy Weber

Sen. JAMES LANKFORD, United States Senator from Oklahoma:

• Problems with the Iran nuclear deal and how the Senate should proceed with it
• The President falsely advertising the agreement’s verification regime
• Could the upcoming IAEA report immediately lift restrictions on conventional arms and ballistic technology?
• The threat posed by an EMP attack on the U.S. electric grid, especially from Iran
• Hillary Clinton compromising national security through her email system  

Dr. SEAN McFATE, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, author of “The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order”:

• Private military contractors bringing cost-cutting effectiveness and private sector innovation to security-related problems
• Complex environments, lack of a regulatory framework, and a conflict of interests all hurdles for the private military industry
• Mercenaries fighting today in Syria and Nigeria

Fmr. Gov. JOHN H. SUNUNU, former Governor of New Hampshire, former White House Chief of Staff for President George H.W. Bush, author of The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush:

• The new world order established by George H.W. Bush at the end of the Cold War 
• Did the U.S. miss an opportunity to completely eliminate the old Soviet guard that now operates under Putin?
• Hillary Clinton’s trouble and concerning conduct 

Rep. RANDY WEBER, (TX-14) Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology:

• The need for the Iranian regime to release all American hostages, dismantle all centrifuges, and recognize the right of Israel to exist
• The high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) threat from Iran to the United States
• Why cutting all federal funding to sanctuary cities is essential to stemming the flow of illegal immigration to the U.S.

Dr. Michael Doran

Dr. MICHAEL DORAN, Former Senior Director at the National Security Council, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, and Current Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• Will the snapback sanctions really occur?  
• Responding to the President's view that this deal closes the path to a bomb. 
• Looking back at arms treaties with the USSR to gauge how successful this current deal will be

PART TWO:

• False argument that Iranian leader’s desperation to hold onto power has turned them into the “ultimate pragmatists”
• Bait and switch method of selling the deal to the American public all a reflection of Obama’s retracted view of U.S. foreign policy
• Following his reelection, the President’s activation of a secret line of communication with Tehran regarding the right to enrich uranium 

PART THREE:

• How ineffective American foreign policy has helped Iran gain influence in the region
• To what extent is Iran a threat to the U.S., the Middle East, and international order?
• Tehran’s current progress on its hegemonic ambitions, specifically in Iraq and Syria

PART FOUR:

• A plan for Syria and what comes next if Bashar al-Assad falls from power
• Unparalleled distance in the U.S.-Israel relationship under President Obama
• The prospects of a regional war after a belligerent Iran is strengthened by this deal
• Advice for Congress as members debate how to vote on the Iran agreement
• Why the alternative to this agreement is not war

Kevin Freeman, Diana West, Dr. Peter Huessy, Amb. Roger Noriega

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of the Freeman Global Investment Council, Founder and Chairman of the National Security Investment Consultant Institute:

• China’s devaluation of the stock market and the International Monetary Fund's reaction
• Will Beijing’s economic woes proceed into a developing armed conflict?
• The United States is underprepared for an economic war with China

DIANA WEST, Syndicated Columnist:

• Hillary Clinton finally turning private email server into federal authorities
• Will Huma Abedin skate free in the emailgate scandal?
• The natural outgrowth of American Jihad and its pull to join ISIS
• Bill in the Quebec provincial legislator that would adopt a “hate speech prohibition”

Dr. PETER HUESSY, President of GeoStrategic Analysis, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Responding to the president’s claims that the Iran deal will block Tehran’s path to a nuclear bomb
• How the IAEA’s role in the agreement is troubling and unclear to the United States
• The prospects of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East
• Arms control advocates more concerned with the U.S. nuclear arsenal than that of its adversaries

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

• How Iran will utilize sanctions relief for nefarious purposes in Latin America
• Implications of lifting sanctions on and removing from terrorist lists, specific Iranians involved in criminality and terrorism in the Western hemisphere
• The status of Iran putting missiles in Venezuela
• Obama’s attempted ‘charm offensive’ towards Caracas
• How to deal with the possibility of a collapsed Maduro regime

Amb. Eric Edelman, Alan Dershowitz, Guy Taylor, Dr. Luis Fleischman

Amb. ERIC EDELMAN, Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Finland:

• Anxiety over the Iran deal despite the White House saying it has world support  
• Expert disagreement with what the president has said in regards to verification and compliance
• American Jewish population opposition to the deal
• Greater U.S. interests in the Middle East  

Prof. ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Author of "The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran From Getting Nukes?":

• False premise that this nuclear deal will change Iranian society for the better
• Nuclear deal increasing the likelihood of all out war in the Middle East
• Why Tehran’s signing bonus could be considered illegal
• Why the left is characterizing Senator Chuck Schumer as a traitor

GUY TAYLOR, National Security Team Leader at The Washington Times:

• The status of the administration’s Iran deal “sales campaign” on Capitol Hill
• The effect of the IAEA’s upcoming report on the conventional arms and ballistic missile restrictions on Iran
• Russia’s relationship with the mullahs and its involvement with hacking U.S. national security officials’ emails

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Senior Advisor to the Center for Security Policy’s Menges Hemispheric Security Project, editor of its "Americas Report":

• Upcoming Argentinian primary election showcasing the power of the ruling Kirchner government
• Falkland Wars as a symbol of nationalism against western imperialism
• Hezbollah increasing its presence in Latin America with help from the Venezuelan government

Dr. Martin Peretz, Sarah Steelman, Michael Rowan, Gordon Chang

Dr. MARTIN PERETZ, former Editor-In-Chief of The New Republic:

• Prominent Democrats who have rescinded their support for Obama’s Iran deal
• The failed “North Korea” policy being applied yet again by Wendy Sherman
• Urgent need to rise above party line and partisanship to kill this dangerous Iran deal

Prof. SARAH STEELMAN, former Missouri State Senator and Treasurer:

• The Divest Terror Initiative of the State of Missouri
• Countering the Iran deal through individual state legislation

MICHAEL ROWAN, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President at Climate Prosperity Enterprise Solutions LLC:

• Venezuela’s continuing decline due to Chavez and the collapse of oil prices
• The Maduro regime’s connection with narco traffickers making it a state sponsor of terror
• Passport laundering aiding Iranian proxies in the western hemisphere
• Relationship between the governments in Havana and Caracas

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

• Comparing China’s regressing demographic situation with India’s more promising one
• Whether a declining workforce is causing Beijing’s political turmoil
• The importance of countering China’s aggressive behavior such as island-building in the South China Sea
• Hong Kong’s aspirations for autonomy and its attitude towards assertive Chinese activity

Clare Lopez, Claudia Rosett, Dr. Michael O'Hanlon, Prof. Peter Navarro

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President of Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy:

• A disconnect between the president’s rhetoric on the Iran deal and the agreement’s actual content
• Sen. Chuck Schumer’s decision to not support the deal and its implications for Congress
• Who Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani is and why he was sanctioned
• Sarah Steelman’s point that the deal will force U.S. states to remove sanctions on terrorist sponsors

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-In-Residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Iran and North Korea’s strategic alliance going back to the start of the 1979 Islamic Revolution
• First the Bush then the Obama Administrations cloaking in secrecy the nuclear cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang

Dr. MICHAEL O’HANLON, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution:

• General thoughts on the Iranian nuclear deal and if Congress should pass it
• The problem of immediate, large-scale sanctions relief for the Iranians
• General John Campbell’s recent analysis of the situation in Afghanistan
• The current state of the Taliban and whether parts of it are joining the Islamic State

Prof. Peter Navarro, Author of the forthcoming Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World:

• An economic explanation of the national security threat from China
• Consensus among experts on the dangers on an expanding Chinese military
• Obama backing down on currency manipulation and the flawed economic interdependence argument concerning Beijing

Fred Fleitz, Ilan Berman, Adm. James 'Ace' Lyons, Michael Bastasch, Beth Van Duyne

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President of Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Analyzing President Obama’s Iran speech at American University and what it means
• The president’s continuous ridicule of Israeli concerns about the nuclear agreement
• The North Korean model for using diplomacy to get nuclear weapons
• Implications of Hillary Clinton’s private server holding classified information
• Louis Farrakhan’s public call for violence in America

ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Failing White House publicity push to sell the Iran deal
• Obama’s straw-men of the Iraq War debate and a warmongering foreign policy
• The Marshall Plan to the Islamic Republic in the form of sanctions relief
• Tehran’s relationship with rouge regimes in Venezuela, Bolivia, and North Korea

Adm. JAMES ‘ACE’ LYONS, Retired Four-Star Admiral and former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet:

• The military’s absence from the public debate over the Iranian nuclear deal
• Implications of massive defense cuts under the Obama Administration
• How would transgenders and females be integrated into the military?
• The administration’s efforts to train parts of China’s military under military-to-military exchanges
• Anjem Choudary’s arrest by the British government

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• EPA trying to play energy regulator by reformulating the U.S. energy grid
• Germany and the United Kingdom learning a lesson from forcing renewable energy implementation
• Potential delay in getting the EPA ruling into the federal register
• Extreme dangers to the grid if coal plants are discontinued

BETH VAN DUYNE, Mayor of Irvine, Texas:

• Responding to recent unfair attacks in the media
• The background on the sharia court controversy in Irvine
• Understanding what a sharia court is and why it’s illegal
• How Mayor Van Duyne initially responded to the incident in her city
• The source of false anti-Muslim accusations from provocateurs

Rep. Mike Pompeo, Sidney Powell, Diana West, Dr. Arthur Brooks

Rep. MIKE POMPEO, United States Representative for Kansas’s Fourth Congressional District:

• Why the Iran deal still allows the Islamic Republic to obtain nuclear weapons
• The major holes in the new verification regime, especially regarding inspections
• Secret side deals between Iran and the IAEA, kept from Congress and the American people
• When the 60-day countdown for Congress to review the Iran deal should start
• How sanctions relief will help Tehran threaten the U.S. through an EMP attack and terrorism

SIDNEY POWELL P.C. Author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice:

• Judge Emmet Sullivan’s two cases concerning the Judicial Watch lawsuits against the State Department and the IRS
• Penalty of perjury for Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, and Cheryl Mills
• Department of Justice complicity in crimes committed by former Secretary of State Clinton

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

• Remembering the great Cold War historian and poet Robert Conquest
• Socialism’s longstanding active role in American leftist politics
• Comparing the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II to today’s Iran deal 

Dr. ARTHUR BROOKS, President of the American Enterprise Institute and author of  The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America:

• How GOP candidates need to channel their bases’ anger into aspiration
• The urgent need to reform the high-skill immigration visa policy as well as the guest worker program
• U.S. moving towards a European styled social democratic form of government?
• Iran deal hinges on “Republicans winning elections by making an aspirational case to expand their coalitions”