Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Clare Lopez, Claudia Rosett, Dr. Ilan Berman, Gordon Chang

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

• Latest regarding DHS whistle blower scandal
• Political correctness handicapping intelligence collection
• How local law enforcement can monitor jihadists in the U.S.

CLAUDIA ROSETT, Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies:

• Fallacies of the administration’s new climate change policy
• China and India’s growing global pollution
• UN Security Council’s North Korea discussions

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

• Reality of the Iranian-American partnership
• Potential political strategy for Iraqi security
• Turkey’s growing Islamic influence
• Administration’s failure to take substantial steps to defeat ISIS

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

• Prospects of China abiding by new climate regulations
• History of Beijing’s hostile actions following economic downturns
• North Korea’s partnership with Iran to obtain thermonuclear weapons

Bill Gertz, Prof. Tom Nichols, Kyle Shideler, Russ Read

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Growing concerns of China’s nuclear submarine patrols
• Recent increase in Chinese ICBM testing
• Beijing’s role in missile technology proliferation
• North Korea’s failed submarine based missile test

Prof. TOM NICHOLS, Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College:

• Defining modern terrorism
• Determining whether recent attacks are acts of terror

KYLE SHIDELER, Director of the Threat Information Office at the Center for Security Policy:

• DHS whistle blower’s claims that the government shut down active terrorist investigations
• Administration’s assistance to the Islamic Relief Worldwide organization

RUSS READ, National Security Reporter at The Daily Caller:

• Abu Bakr al Baghdadi coming runner up in the Time “Person of the Year”
• Bringing to light the plight of Iraqi Christians
• San Bernardino shooters’ plan to attack since 2013
• Suspects tied to the attacks in San Bernardino and Garland, TX

Rep. Peter Roskam, Dr. Stephen Blank, Rep. Trent Franks, Fred Fleitz, Robin Eubanks

Rep. PETER ROSKAM (IL-6), Member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi:

• New evidence showing Department of Defense assets near Benghazi
• Contact between State Department and DOD during the terror attacks
• Congressional steps taken to keep sanctions on Iran
• Democratic “buyers remorse” regarding the ObamaBomb Deal

Dr. STEPHEN BLANK, Senior Fellow for Russia at the American Foreign Policy Council:

• Possibility of Russia being an ally to the US
• Update on the relationship between Turkey and Russia
• Putin’s resentment towards NATO

Rep. TRENT FRANKS (AZ-8), Vice Chairman of the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee:

• Passage of the SHIELD Act on the House Floor
• Prospects of the bill reaching Obama’s desk and being signed

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

• Further evidence of Iran’s nuclear weapon program
• Obama administration’s willingness to continue with the nuclear agreement
• Steps Congress can take to prevent the Obamabomb Implementation Day
• Reports of North Korea’s development of thermonuclear weapons

ROBIN EUBANKS, author of “Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon”:

• Importance of the Every Student Succeed Act
• How the ESSA enshrines Common Core
• ESSA’s effect on strengthening Islamic education in America

Diana West, Dr. Peter Navarro, Michael Rowan

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

• Absurdities in labeling San Bernardino shooting as workplace violence
• Imposition on totalitarian control
• The consequences of the Istanbul Conference

DIANA WEST, PART TWO:

• How political correctness has blinded America to the enemy
• The Muslim-apologist agenda to accommodate sharia adherence

Dr. PETER NAVARRO, Professor at the Merage School of Business at the University of California-Irvine:

• Possibility of China perpetrating the next Pearl Harbor
• Fear of China attacking American territories
• Realities behind the importance of the TPP for national security

MICHAEL ROWAN, Columnist for El Universal and Veneconomia (Venezuela):

• How the Venezuelan election played out
• Chances of change in the Venezuelan political arena
• Possible U.S. response to challenge the Maduro regime
• Shifting political trend in Latin America

Andy McCarthy, Jim Hanson, Dr. Luis Fleischman, Gordon Chang

ANDY McCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:

• Reaction to Donald Trump’s Muslim immigration policy
• Determining legal action against sharia
• Reality of Islamic sharia law

ANDY McCARTHY, PART TWO:

• Discrepancies between Obama’s and Islam experts’ understanding of sharia
• Analysis of the Center for Security Policy’s finding regarding sharia in the US
• Conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement in the government
• AG Loretta Lynch’s promise to prosecute anyone who insults Islam

JIM HANSON, Executive VP at the Center for Security Policy, former operator in the US Army Special Forces:

• How the Center for Security Policy broke the identity of the male San Bernardino shooter
• Handling refugees who come from areas plagued by Islamic supremacist violence
• Threats posed by radical mosques here in the US

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Advisor for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy:

• How the Venezuelan elections were fraud-free
• Maduro’s willingness to accept a democratically-elected parliament
• Does Argentina’s election foreshadow a change in Latin America?

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

• Current atmospheric conditions in Beijing and how it could affect US climate policy
• Prospects of changing China’s pollution standards
• Implications of importing Chinese-built cars
• Update regarding the OPM hack

Prof. Michael Waller

Prof. MICHAEL WALLER, Senior Fellow at Center for Security Policy, and co- author of “Meeting the Ideological Challenge of Islamism: How to Combat Modern Radical Islam”:

• Reaction to President Obama’s plan to defeat ISIS
• Understanding the ideological background of radical Islam
• Sharia’s role in motivating jihadists
• How Saudi Arabia has deceived the West

PART TWO:

• Relationship between the communist movement and the Muslim Brotherhood
• Soviet communism and Islamism’s political warfare strategy
• Muslim Brotherhood’s civilization jihad

PART THREE:

• Muslim Brotherhood penetration of President Bush’s administrations following 9/11
• Promotion of the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 2000s
• The political left’s assistance to civilization jihad
• Implications of submission to sharia in the U.S.

PART FOUR:

• DHS’s failure in vetting sharia adherent Muslims
• Political correctness preventing individuals from protecting the U.S.
• How to exploit the Muslim Brotherhood’s vulnerabilities
• Treating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization

PART FIVE:

• Implications of Venezuela’s parliamentary elections
• President Maduro’s possible course of action
• Importance of Argentina’s presidential elections
• Possibility of Ecuador shifting away from the Left
• Dangers of mass Cuban migration

Elaine Donnelly, Bill Gertz, Ilan Berman, Richard Pollock

ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and Director of the Center for Military Readiness:

• Obama’s move to fully integrate women into front line fighting forces
• Ash Carter’s response to the Marine Corps’ finding regarding women in combat roles
• Possibility of women becoming draft eligible

ELAINE DONNELLY Part Two:

• Dunford’s absence from Ash Carter’s integration announcement
• What is the “Lean In” agenda?
• How integrated fighting forces can affect front-line cohesion
• Dangers of forcing women into combat units

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Russia’s most recent incursion into American air space
• Lack of American response to Russian aggression
• Obama’s opposition to banning weapons in space
• Administration’s appeasement of Beijing
• China’s claim that the OPM hack was not state sponsored

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

• China’s perception of American strength
• Administration acknowledging that OPM hack was not state sponsored
• IAEA’s confirmation of past Iranian nuclear weapon development
• State Department’s admission that there is no nuclear deal with Tehran

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter at the Daily Caller:

• Reactions to the media’s coverage of the San Bernardino terrorists
• Importance of ideology in the terror attacks
• Political correctness protecting jihadists
• Obama ignoring warning of accepting Syrian refugees

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Guy Taylor, Eric Schmitt, Fred Fleitz, Russ Dallen

Rep. BARRY LOUDERMILK (GA-11), Member of the House Homeland Security Committee:

• Information regarding the San Bernardino attackers
• Advice for helping root out possible jihadists
• Radical mosques recruiting refugees in America
• Administration’s refugee vetting process
• House legislation regarding the security of the U.S. electric grid

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

• What is known following the San Bernardino terror attacks?
• Likelihood of an ISIS attack in the United States
• Muslim Brotherhood’s role in America through CAIR
• Significance of China’s newly opened naval base in Djibouti 

ERIC SCHMITT, National Security and Terrorism Journalist at The New York Times, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner:

• Reactions to the San Bernardino terror attacks
• ISIS’ demographic make up in the United States
• Possibility of vetting refugees coming from the Middle East and Europe
• Concern of radicalization of refugees once inside the United States

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

• Analysis of the IAEA’s report regarding Iran’s nuclear work
• Contradictions between the IAEA’s report and the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate
• Obama Administration’s national security fraud
• Hilary Clinton’s misguided strategy regarding ISIS

RUSS DALLEN, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Prospects of free and fair elections in Venezuela
• Maduro’s growing political violence campaign
• Role Venezuela’s economy is playing in the parliamentary elections
• Merit of placing Venezuela on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list

Dr. Ross Mckitrick, Michael Bastasch, Rep. Chris Stewart, Douglas J. Feith, Dr. Michael Auslin

Dr. ROSS MCKITRICK, Professor of Economics and CBE Chair in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph (Ontario):

• Fallacies in scientists’ consensus of global warming
• How economic models are used in developing climate forecast
• Controversy regarding the natural variability of climate change

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Reporter for the Daily Caller:

• Importance of the Paris Climate Change Conference
• President Obama’s “Green Climate Fund”
• Mainstream media’s climate change terrorism rhetoric
• Repercussions of low oil prices

Rep. CHRIS STEWART (UT-2), Member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence:

• Administration’s claim of properly vetting Syrian refugees
• Fear of American mosques radicalizing vetted migrants once inside the U.S.
• Lack of understanding the nature of the enemy
• Ash Carter’s recent testimony regarding ISIS
• Likelihood of overturning the Iran deal

DOUGLAS J. FEITH, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, author of “War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism”:

• Best way to protect the U.S. from jihadist refugees
• Arabian Peninsula’s role in the Syrian refugee crisis
• Turkey’s future role in NATO

Dr. MICHAEL AUSLIN, Resident Scholar and Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

• IMF putting the Chinese yuan on the path to becoming a reserve currency
• China using the global war on terror to justify aggression against Uyghur separatists
• Japan’s upcoming hosting of the G-7 Summit forcing their counterterrorism efforts to stay domestic
• Shinzo Abe wanting to normalize Japanese foreign policy through relationships with India, Australia, and other Southeastern Asian nations
• South China Sea tensions forcing the Tokyo government to take action

Kevin Freeman

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Holdings LLC, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Importance of China’s Renminbi joining the SDR Basket
• Likelihood of the Renminbi surpassing the U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency
• Beijing’s economic warfare policy
• IMF’s shift from the West to China

PART TWO:

• Possibilities of an upcoming Chinese market crash
• Covering economic distress with outward aggression by Beijing
• Theaters of Chinese-American conflict
• China’s role in the Climate Change Conference in Paris

PART THREE:

• Reaction to the book “Lights Out” by Ted Koppel
• Hostile nations’ threats to the U.S. financial system
• Steps taken by Texas to protect the grid
• Difficulties in hardening electrical infrastructure

PART FOUR:

• How the price of oil has affected U.S. production
• Growing strength of Putin in the international realm despite Russia’s economic woes
• Significance of the sanctions relief for Iran’s actions
• Is the Paris Climate Change Conference a war on energy?