Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

Sen. Joni Ernst, Dr. Bruce Bechtol and Rebeccah Heinrichs

Sen. JONI ERNST (R-IA), Member of the Senate Armed Services and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committees:

• Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) needed to fully engage, defeat and destroy ISIS regardless of where they are
• Where else will the West face threats from the Islamic State?
• Importance of Guantanamo Bay for intelligence collection purposes

Dr. BRUCE BECHTOL, Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, former Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, President of the International Council on Korean Studies:

• North Korea’s nuclear capabilities
• Russia’s role in Pyongyang’s EMP development program
• China’s role in using sanctions to deter North Korean aggression

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Vice Chairman of the Counter-Proliferation Working Group of the John Hay Initiative:

• Nature of the North Korean threat to the US
• State of the US missile defense system
• Hostile nations developing offensive systems specifically designed to exploit the weaknesses of US missile defense

(PART TWO):

• Needed security measures concerning the US nuclear missile defense system
• How long until North Korea and Iran outpace US
• Lack of political will to modernize US defense systems

Garry Kasparov, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Dr. David Adesnik and Gordon Chan

GARRY KASPAROV, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, author of “Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped”:

• Status of the free world
• How Vladimir Putin transformed Russia
• Confronting Putin now would be dangerous but will be impossible tomorrow

MAURICIO CLAVER-CARONE, Executive Director of the Cuba Democracy Public Advocacy:

• Unabated political repression and human rights abuses continuing under the Castro brothers
• President Obama’s intentions for his upcoming Cuba trip
• Havana requesting full control of Guantanamo Bay in their normalization of relations with the US
• US replacing Venezuela as the prime financial backer of Latin American dictatorships

Dr. DAVID ADESNIK, Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Initiative:

• Who prevailed in Iran’s Assembly of Experts elections, moderates or hard-liners?
• Foreign policy actions of presidents in their first year as Commander-in-Chief
• Obama’s belief that he will eventually be vindicated on the Iran nuclear deal
• Cessation of hostilities in Syria benefitting the Assad Regime
• Recommendations for rebuilding the US Navy

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

• G20 meeting in Shanghai last week
• Chinese economy and financial system beyond point of no return
• National People’s Congress will meet this week to reveal budget
• China being more aggressive externally to divert attention from political crises at home
• Obama administrations’ failed secret talks with North Korea