Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Dr. James Carafano

Dr. JAMES CARAFANO, Vice President of the Heritage Foundation’s Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy:

• Heritage’s national security strategy for 2016
• Decline in American power
• Importance of Latin America to U.S. security

Dr. JAMES CARAFANO, PART TWO:

• Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy goals in 2016
• Implications of Xi Jinping’s actions in China
• Relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA

Dr. JAMES CARAFANO, PART THREE:

• China’s unrestricted warfare policy
• American support for Taiwan
• Threat of Chinese and Russian space technology

Dr. JAMES CARAFANO, PART FOUR:

• Modern day nuclear strategy
• How to defend against the global jihad movement

Dr. JAMES CARAFANO, PART FIVE:

• Ideological endgame of the Muslim Brotherhood compared to that of ISIS and Al Qaeda
• How the Cold War’s battle against Soviet communism is similar to today’s fight against radical Islam
• Restoring the proper number of ground forces to the US Army and Marine Corps
• Rebuilding the US military without endangering the economy

Soeren Kern

SOEREN KERN, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Review of Europe’s migration crisis in 2015
• Movement for reestablishing national sovereignty

SOEREN KERN, PART TWO:

• Demographic make up migrant populations
• Dangers of parallel sharia societies in Europe
• Possibility of the establishment of a Trans-European Police Force

SOEREN KERN, PART THREE:

• Where do migrants end up once arriving in Europe?
• Angela Merkel’s standing in Germany

SOEREN KERN, PART FOUR:

• Turkish role in facilitating the hijra to Europe
• Facts regarding the “No Go Zones”

SOEREN KERN, PART FIVE:

• What can the US learn form the 2015 Islamist shakedown of Europe?
• Lessons learned from PM David Cameron’s remarks on the Muslim Brotherhood
• Have agents of Islamist organizations penetrated the US government?

Gordon Chang, Bill Gertz

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

• Review of China’s economic hardships
• Beijing entering a “Third Era”

GORDON CHANG, PART TWO:

• Chinese external ambitions
• Xi Jinping’s need of military support

GORDON CHANG, PART THREE:

• Significance of China’s growing global involvement
• South Korean and Japanese relationship thaw
• Growing South Pacific partnership against China
• Repressing democratic movements in Hong Kong

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• China’s ongoing nuclear modernization
• What is the “Great Underground Wall of China”?
• Security implications of China stealing military technology

BILL GERTZ, PART TWO:

• Administrations reaction to Chinese hacking
• Beijing’s policy of “Access Denial”
• China’s space weapons technology

Mark Krikorian, Diana West, Kevin Freeman, Pete Hoekstra

MARK KRIKORIAN, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies:

• How the new federal spending bill will effect immigration
• Congressional rubberstamping of Obama’s agenda
• Administration’s policy a green light for immigrants

MARK KRIKORIAN, PART TWO:

• Trump’s immigration plan
• How to keep terrorists out of the United States
• Republican response to Trump’s Islam statement

DIANA WEST, national syndicated columnist:

• Are the American people finally realizing the threat of sharia?
• Genesis of the “Conspiracy of Silence”
• Effect of sharia blasphemy laws in the West

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Investing:

• How the new Star Wars film brings flash backs of the Cold War
• China’s role in third world markets
• Saudi Arabia’s energy warfare strategy
• Reports of the administration leaving out national security interests from the TPP?

PETE HOEKSTRA, Served as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:

• British government revisiting its stance on the Muslim Brotherhood
• The Explanatory Memorandum and destroying the West through ‘Civilization Jihad’
• Council on American-Islamic Relations ties to the MB

Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, Dr. Peter Huessy, Dr. J. Peter Pham, Andy McCarthy

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, two decades of service in the CIA:

• Iranian hackers accessing control systems of the US electric grid
• Electromagnetic pulse warheads of China and Russia
• Corrective action needed to deter the ‘scud in the tub’ threat and satellite-delivered EMP vulnerabilities from North Korea and Iran

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, PART TWO:

• Steps taken at the federal level to secure the grid
• Importance of the SHIELD Act
• How state level legislators are fixing federal EMP ignorance

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

• Modernizing the US nuclear triad
• Funding of the US nuclear weapons program as a percentage of the overall defense budget
• How the Senate should approach the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
• Needed transparency for the Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese nuclear arsenals

Dr. J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center:

• Africa in 2015: Islamist threats from Nigeria’s Boko Haram, ISIS in Libya, and al-Shabaab in Somalia and Kenya
• Strategic operations out of the Chinese military base in Djibouti disguised as anti-piracy missions in the Indian Ocean
• Changing geopolitical landscape in Sudan

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Security implications of closing Guantanamo Bay
• Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal as treason?
• Deciphering Rubio and Cruz’s surveillance debate

Fred Fleitz, Joseph Humire, Michael O’Hanlon, Gordon Chang

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

• Update regarding the ObamaBomb deal with Iran
• Chances of Islamic reformation

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director at the Center for a Secure Free Society:

• Growing threat of Iranian activity in Latin America
• Recap of Tehran’s act of terrors in the Western hemisphere
• Venezuela’s role in supporting terrorism
• Dangers of Canadian refugee resettlement

MICHAEL O’HANLON, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution:

• Overview of the security situation in Afghanistan
• Risks of conducting counter offensives in Ramadi
• Prospects for future governments in Iraq

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

• Are US diplomats safe in China?
• Japan defending its interests in the East China Sea
• US policy towards Taiwan
• Australian plane in the South Pacific receives threat to be shot down from Chinese forces

Ingrid Carlqvist, Hon. Jon Kyl, Col. Richard Kemp, Dr. Harold Rhode

INGRID CARLQVIST, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

• Sweden’s multiculturalism deteriorating the nation
• Magnitude of immigration to Sweden
• Societal implications of refugee resettlement

INGRID CARLQVIST, PART TWO:

• What can be done to protect Sweden from the Hijra
• Future outlook for European identity
• Lessons American can learn from Europe
• Concern of radicalization of refugees in Western nations

Hon. JON KYL, Former Senator from Arizona:

• Purpose of the American Internationalism Project
• Is the current political strategy efficient for national security?
• Importance of working with people like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
• Advisability in signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the Senate

Col. RICHARD KEMP, Former Commander of all British forces in Afghanistan:

• Strategy to defeating ISIS
• Countries using the Islamic State as a counter weight to Iran
• Gathering a ground force to fight IS

Dr. HAROLD RHODE, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• Turkish and Israeli normalization of relations 
• Turkey’s claim to gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea
• Future outlook for the Iranian nuclear deal

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

Dr. ZUHDI JASSER, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy:

• Growing movement for Islamic reformation
• Notable individuals in the Muslim reform movement

PART TWO:

• Examination of why some moderate Muslims are afraid to speak out against radical Islamism
• Importance of ideology in reforming extremism interpretations of the faith

PART THREE:

• A Muslim reformer’s view on today’s popular depiction of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad
• Rescuing the interpretation while still adhering to the original script of the Qur’an
• Interpreting the Qur’an in the modern age

PART FOUR:

• Countering radicalization at its roots
• Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s stance on former administration’s enforcement of the First Amendment
• The plight of balancing humanitarianism in times of grave national security concerns

Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Diana West, Rep. Mike Pompeo, Dr. Derek Scissors

Rep. VICKY HARTZLER (MO-4), Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in the House Armed Services Committee:

• HASC’s investigation of the Bowe Bergdahl-Taliban Five swap
• Dangers in bringing Gitmo detainees to the U.S.
• Constitutional rights for terror detainees in American prisons
• Inability of Obama to identify the enemy

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

• Recap of last night’s national security debate among the 2016 GOP presidential candidates
• Transformation of the West through the Syrian Refugee Crisis
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel honored as Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year”

Rep. MIKE POMPEO (KS-4), Member of the House Intelligence Committee:

• Possible transfer of Gitmo detainees to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
• The military and Congress’ opposition to Obama’s presidential overreach
• Latest regarding the IAEA’s investigation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program
• Update on the Benghazi scandal

Dr. DEREK SCISSORS, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute:

• Criticisms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• China’s aggressive behavior at the WTO
• Importance of China joining the world reserve currency
• Impact of increased interest rates on American trade in Asia

Rep. Mike Kelly, Michael Bastasch, Andy McCarthy, Dr. Mark Moyar

Rep. MIKE KELLY (PA-3), Member of the House Ways and Means Committee:

• Administration’s passage of a new climate change policy
• Economic and national security risks of Obama’s new climate plan
• China and India’s exclusion from pollution limits
• Importance of retaining American control of the Internet

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Investigative Journalist at The Daily Caller:

• Weaknesses of Obama’s climate change deal
• Dangers of omitting China and India from international climate policy
• White House’s claim agreement isn’t legally binding
• Obama’s pledge of billions of dollars to the Green Climate Fund

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor, author of “Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment”:

• Donald Trump’s proposed plan to cease all immigration to the United States from Muslim-majority nations
• Challenges in screening refugees with possible extremist shariah views

ANDY McCARTHY, PART TWO:

• Agenda of the Department of Homeland Security’s Civil Rights Unit
• Southern Poverty Law Center’s influence on the Justice Department
• Possible creation of a CVE Unit in DHS?

Dr. MARK MOYAR, Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Policy Initiative, author of “Strategic Failure: How President Obama’s Drone Warfare, Defense Cuts, and Military Amateurism Have Imperiled America”:

• Case studies in President George W. Bush’s efforts to implement democracy in post-war Iraq compared to Obama’s efforts in Libya and Yemen
• Finding reliable allies in conducting effective counterinsurgency operations
• Drone strikes failing to protect US interests in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Implications of a “retrenchment” foreign policy