Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Rep. Jeff Duncan, Caroline Glick, Dr. Frederick W. Kagan, Bill Gertz

Rep. JEFF DUNCAN (SC-3), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere:

• Strategic implications of President Obama meeting with Rául Castro
• Will the US need to supply ‘economic life support’ to the Cuban regime?
• Legislative action in Congress designed to stop the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to US soil
• Dire economic situation in Venezuela from low oil prices

CAROLINE GLICK, senior fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, columnist for the Jerusalem Post:

• Donald Trump’s success at channeling public anger despite his lack of policy outlines
• Relationship of the European Union and Israel as the ‘Brexit’ votes approaches
• Turkey turning to Netanyahu out of sheer desperation
• Erdogan as an Islamic revolutionary

Dr. FREDERICK W. KAGAN, Director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project:

• Putin’s strategic use of ceasefire agreements to consolidate military gains in Syria and Ukraine
• The Kremlin’s significant influence upon US foreign policy
• White House and State Department lacking realistic policy direction
• ‘Geostrategic disaster’ in the Mediterranean

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Terrorism more prevalent than ever before
• James Clapper and Adm. Harry Harris’ comments regarding Chinese asymmetric and military capabilities
• Cyber experts being distributed to the major US forces commands

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Frank Calzon, Dr. Peter Brooks and Fred Fleitz

Rep. BRAD WENSTRUP (OH-2), Member of the House Intelligence and Armed Services Committees:

• The President’s plans regarding transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States
• Lost intelligence gathering capabilities if base closure occurs
• The American Centrifuge Project in Ohio
• Defense Budget and titanium in nuclear weapons?

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director at the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington, D.C.:

• Possibility of Gitmo being released to the Castro Regime, opening it to Russian and Chinese influence
• The Kremlin's interest in Cuba
• 1996 shoot-down of the “Brothers to the Rescue” civilian aircraft

Dr. PETER BROOKES, Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, national security senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation:

• Increased human rights abuses and detention of political dissidents in Cuba
• Faulty argument of Guantanamo Bay as a jihadist recruitment tool
• History of the Russian and Chinese military presence in the Caribbean
• Failures of reducing nuclear tensions in the Korean Peninsula
• Combat operations resumed in Libya against al Qaeda and the Islamic State

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

• Apple and the FBI standoff
• Iran's testing of a long-range missile next week
• Outcome of the Syrian peace accord
• CIA requiring recruitments and promotions based on social engineering

With Mark Helprin

MARK HELPRIN, bestselling author, former IDF infantry soldier, Senior Fellow at the Claremont and Hudson Institutes, served as senior foreign policy advisor to former presidential candidate Bob Dole:

• Spiteful Russia and China bearing down on an America with a declined relative military power and geographic liabilities  
• Three power centers deeply intertwined with alliances and rivalries
• “Tinderboxes” of today’s world in the Middle East, Balkans, North Korea, and South China Sea
• US interests tossed to the wayside concerning Iran

(PART TWO):

• Russia and Chinese aid to the Iranian regime
• Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russia to something that precedes the USSR
• Three Baltic Republics under dire threats

(PART THREE):

• Putin and Xi modernizing nuclear arsenals
• Obama administration's prolific use of soft power
• Lower nuclear threshold of Russia
• US Navy not currently in position to defend South China Sea

(PART FOUR):

• China’s larger ambitions beyond the region
• Social engineering from Beijing
• Characterization of the threat from the global jihad

(PART FIVE):

• Obama’s legacy of transforming America by making it vulnerable to external pressures
• Restoring the government’s ability to protect its citizens
• Assigning priorities in rebuilding the military, rolling back the Muslim Brotherhood in the US, renewing international alliances, and deterring both Russia and the People’s Republic of China

Hans Von Spakovsky, Dr. Matthew Kroenig, Roger Noreiga and Kevin Freeman

HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, senior legal fellow in the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies:

• Despite what Democrats say to the contrary, voter fraud does occur in the United States
• The NAACP and the League of Women Voters are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting
• Justice Department is not only turning a blind eye to voter fraud, but enabling it

Dr. MATTHEW KROENIG, author of “A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat,” Associate Professor and International Relations Field Chair in the Department of Government at Georgetown University:

• Unwinding the Iranian Nuclear Deal
• Russia’s nuclear modernization and strategy
• Ted Cruz’s comments on North Korea’s recent missile test

Amb. ROGER NOREIGA, visiting fellow at AEI, Former US Ambassador to the Organization of American States:

• Elections in Bolivia
• Castro regime responsible for the possible collapse of Venezuela
• President Obama’s visit to Havana is further legitimation of Cuba’s mayhem throughout Latin America
• Pope Francis' visit to Mexico last week

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

• Dangers from the sale of the Chicago Stock Exchange to a Chinese company
• Embrace of socialism by Americans
• US vulnerability to economic warfare 

Nick Adams

NICK ADAMS, Australian commentator, author, and columnist; author of the soon to be released “Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness”:

• Political correctness as a totalitarian ideology
• The Red-Green Axis revisted
• Islam and Freedom of Speech

(PART TWO):

• Political correctness taking its toll on Western Europe
• Losing the war against radical Islamists
• America on the same destructive path as her European allies

(PART THREE):

• How the “Victimhood Movement” manifests itself in Australia
• Australian hard line stance on illegal immigration
• Long term consequences of the Syrian refugee crisis

(PART FOUR):

• “The world will be cloaked in darkness if America doesn’t regain full health”
• Urgent need to reinstate the American idea, wage a culture war, and manipulate liberal tactics
• 2016 – the rise of the anti-PC politician

Michael Pregent, Bill Gertz, Brent Scher and Fred Fleitz

MICHAEL PREGENT, Director of Veterans Against the Deal, Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute:

• Iranian backed Shiite militias are complicating the fight against ISIS
• Ramadi is not a model for retaking Mosul
• Three Americans kidnapped by Shiite militias in Baghdad

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at The Washington Free Beacon:

• Iran is preparing to launch a covert missile in violation of the UN Resolution that implemented the nuclear deal
• China deploying an advanced air defense missile
• North Korean’s nuclear missile test
• ISIS has managed to obtain government air defense missiles

BRENT SCHER, Staff writer for The Washington Free Beacon:

• The Clintons can’t escape their 90s scandals
• Sidney Blumenthal’s shady role as Hillary Clinton’s advisor during her tenure as Secretary of State
• The Clinton Foundation slush fund

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

• Munich Peace Conference results
• Obama’s Syria non-strategy
• Should Apple unlock the San Bernardino terrorists’ iPhone?

Diana West, Michael Cutler, Gordon Chang and Mark Henshaw

DIANA WEST, Author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of the Grown Up”:

• Pope Francis’ speech near the Mexican border today
• Geert Wilders' death threats from political opponents as he gains momentum in the Netherlands
• Spring will bring more chaos for Europe as migrant flow continues

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• Immigration to US likely to be encouraged by the Pope’s speech in Juarez
• What is the real number of illegal immigrants in America?
• Some Syrian refugees represent a threat to national security 

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist and Daily Beast contributor:

• China putting SAMs on Woody Island in the South China Sea
• Why the US shouldn’t join the “Law of the Sea Treaty”
• Symbolism of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Sunnylands, CA.
• President Obama’s commercial and geopolitical reasons for supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Threat of military coup against Kim Jong-un?

MARK HENSHAW, former CIA analyst, author of “The Fall of Moscow Station”:

• Overview of the new book, “The Fall of Moscow Station”
• Damage to the US caused by foreign intelligence services
• The CIA's "Red Cell"

Adm. James Lyons

Adm. JAMES “ACE” LYONS, retired Admiral in the United States Navy, served as Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1985-87:

• Possibility for cessation of hostilities in Syria and Iraq
• Chance that the US will play a larger role in defeating ISIS
• Iran’s role in Iraq and Syria

(PART TWO):

• President Obama took a backseat to Russia in Syria
• Turkey possibly adding ground troops in Syria
• Erdogan’s strategy to handle the Kurds
• Key to instability in the Middle East is the theocracy of Iran

(PART THREE):

• Sunni Arab states involving troops in Syrian civil war
• Iranian-North Korean alliance
• US sailors taken hostage by Iran

(PART FOUR):

• Could the Saudi’s buy a nuclear weapons from the Pakistani’s?
• Arab states uniting against the US and Israel

Claudia Rosett, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Keith Payne, Bill Gertz

CLAUDIA ROSETT, foreign affairs columnist/blogger at Forbes.com and PJ Media:

• Hermit Kingdom developing nuclear missiles that can reach the US
• Obama Administration and the UN only lobbing words at the Kim Regime
• South Korea deploying missile defenses and shutting down an industrial park at its Northern border
• Build up of an axis of nations and groups hostile to the US

FRED FLEITZ, CSP VP for Policy and Programs, former CIA analyst:

• Intelligence community presenting Congress with its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment
• James Clapper doesn’t know whether Iran will pursue nuclear weapons or not
• John Kerry’s diplomacy at it again in Syria’s “suspension of hostilities”
• Has the Obama Administration deliberately destroyed data on Islamic terrorism inside the US?

Dr. KEITH PAYNE, President and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy:

• New Russian national security strategy
• The Kremlin’s nuclear weapon “first use” policy
• Moscow’s long history of violating arms control agreements
• Putin’s goals of creating the most advanced weaponry man has ever seen

(PART TWO):

• NATO’s Flexible Response Doctrine compared to Russia’s “escalate to deescalate” doctrine
• Status of the current US deterrent posture
• Urgent need to reinvest in the US defense infrastructure

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Congressional threat briefing on Chinese continued cyber espionage
• Mike Rogers’ Senate testimony on the security of US critical infrastructure
• Threat of North Korea detonating an EMP device in the atmosphere, rendering the US electric grid useless
• Intelligence on China upgrading its long range ballistic missiles from one to three warheads
• US downgrading its Multiple Independently Targetable Missile capacity

Rep. Chris Stewart, Ambassador John Bolton, Rep. John Fleming and Peter Navarro

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

• The Zika Response and Safety Act
• Drug trafficking from Latin America
• Obama’s plans to empty Gitmo and the threat to national security that it poses
• Tactical and strategic impact of Obama’s Clean Power Plan Initiative
• Struggle in the West over public land

Amb. JOHN BOLTON, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Gatestone Institute:

• What to make of Vladimir Putin’s policies
• Russia’s role in the Syrian Civil War
• Increased US military presence in Europe
• Threat North Korea poses to national security

Rep. JOHN FLEMING (LA-4), M.D. Member of the House Armed Services Committee:

• Deficit hawks supporting HASC requests for more defense spending
• Assessment of the adequacy currently made in maintaining a safe, reliable, and effective nuclear deterrent posture
• Terror Finance Transparency Act
• What actions can be taken against North Korea?

Dr. PETER NAVARRO, Professor at the Merage School of Business at the University of California-Irvine, author of “Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World”:

• Current state of the Chinese economy
• US trade deficit pays for Chinese defense budget
• How to address the trade deficit without hurting the US economy

(PART TWO):

• What Donald Trump’s 45% tariff on China would mean for US consumers
• With the decline of the economy, will the Chinese Communist Party use global aggression to hold on to power?
• Beijing’s claim to areas in the South China Sea creating inevitable conflict for the US