Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Garry Kasparov, Mark Krikorian, Abigail Esman and Jim Hanson

GARRY KASPAROV, 13^th World Chess Champion, Author of Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped:

• What happened after the USSR collapsed?
• Vladimir Putin’s use of terror to seize and maintain power
• The strength of Putin’s regime 

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

• Status of immigration after 8 years of Obama
• Why building a border wall should not be Trump’s first priority
• Effectiveness of e-verify
• How to prevent visa overstays

ABIGAIL ESMAN, Award-winning essayist, journalist, columnist and author:

• What we should learn about the terrorist attacks in Germany
• Banning sharia courts in the U.K.
• What a parallel judiciary means for English common law
• “No go” zones

JIM HANSON, Executive Vice President at the Center for Security Policy:

• Berlin attack
• How to vet immigrants that want to come to the U.S.
• Donald Trump’s recent comments on how he will shape nuclear policy

With Michel Gurfinkiel, Robert Knight, Rep. Lamar Smith and Fred Fleitz

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

• The rapid deterioration of German national security in 2016
• Jihadist threat in France
• Cultural dissonance in Europe

ROBERT KNIGHT, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union, Columnist for The Washington Times:

• Fake News hysteria
• Micro-propaganda
• Who are the arbiters of what is and is not “fake news”?
  Obama’s Presidential pardons

REP. LAMAR SMITH, Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Member of the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees:

• Border security and interior enforcement in the law under the Trump administration
• Obama administration fired scientist to further climate change agenda
• Is the science ‘settled’ on climate change?
• Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA officer:

• Latest on Berlin Christmas market attack
• 5 things Americans need to know about the intelligence debate
• Peter Navarro heads Trump’s trade council

With Harold Rhode, Dr. Stephen Blank and Diana West

 HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• Assassination of Russian ambassador in Ankara by an off duty Turkish police officer
• Sectarian cleansing at the hands of Syrian government, Iranians and Russians
• Why Moscow can’t compromise with Sunnis

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

• Russian attitude towards the Turks
• The Kremlin’s nuclear build up
• “Kanyon”drone
• Rex Tillerson’s connections to Putin 

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

• Somersaulting in synchronization
• Narrow focus of Left’s concern about Russia

 

With John Guandolo, Clare Lopez, Jessica Vaughan and Russ Dallen

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and Founder of Understanding the Threat:

• Assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey
• Jihadist attack at a Berlin Christmas market
• Are mosques churches?

CLARE LOPEZ, Vice President for Research & Analyst at the Center for Security Policy, Former CIA clandestine officer:

• Shiite crescent
• Why the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey is not about the Islamic State

JESSICA VAUGHAN, Director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The false argument in favor of sanctuary cities
• The nullification of federal law
• How the Trump administration can deal with sanctuaries 

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

• Venezuela’s cash crisis
• How the Maduro regime is surviving the unrest
• Rex Tillerson’s history with the government of Venezuela as ExxonMobil chief executive

With Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Doug Lamborn, Father Benedict Kiely and Gordon Chang

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (TX-1), Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations:

• Tracking bill
• Obama’s “War on Radicalization”

(PART TWO):

• The Obama administration’s aide to the Muslim Brotherhood at home and abroad
• The importance of the Muslim Brotherhood being designated as a terrorist organization
• Will Donald Trump actually build a physical barrier along the border?
• Rick Perry’s appointment

REP. DOUG LAMBORN (CO-5), Member of the House Armed Services committee, Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces:

• Will Obama succeed in emptying Guantanamo in the last days of his administration?
• Obama’s potential action against Israel at the U.N.
• Mike Mulvaney as Trump’s budget director

FATHER BENEDICT KIELY, Founder of Nasarean.org:

• First hand account of Christian persecution in Iraq
• N. refugee camps infiltrated by ISIS
• What Christian refugees are expecting from Donald Trump

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor:

• What motivated Beijing to seize U.S. drone?
• How the Fed raising interest rates affected the Chinese bond market
• Militarization of South China Sea

With Rep. Chris Stewart and Phil Haney

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

• Disagreement between Intelligence agencies on the Russia hacking
• Moscow’s real motivation for e-mail hacks
• Disproving the theory that Putin wanted Trump to beat Clinton

(PART TWO):

• Rex Tillerson’s friendship with Vladimir Putin
• Recent Iranian sanctions
• Boeing deal with Tehran

PHIL HANEY, Retired Homeland Security Officer, Author with Art Moore of See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad:

• A DHS Whistleblower’s story
• How “Lone Wolf” terrorists are really more similar to ants

(PART TWO):

• Muslim Brotherhood’s impact on our ability to understand the threat
• Countering Violent Extremism
• Janet Napolitano’s declaration of all UC schools as sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants

With Fred Fleitz, Rick Fisher and Benjamin Weingarten

(PART ONE):

• The Left-Wing Media’s attempts to delegitimize Trump

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at CSP, Former CIA Analyst:

• CIA assessment on Russia hacking
• Extensive evidence of the politicization of the CIA
• Making American intelligence great again

RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow, Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center:

• Major policy shift in U.S. relations with China under the Trump administration
• How to take on China’s currency manipulation without pushing Beijing into active military measures

BENJMAIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC:

• Loretta Lynch’s safe space for jihadists
• SPLC’s false claim that hate crimes have increased since Donald Trump was elected

With Ambassador Yoram Ettinger

AMBASSADOR YORAM ETTINGER, Former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, D.C.:

• Challenges Israel faces on the front lines of the war for the free world

(PART TWO):

• How Jihadists are required to respond to appeasement
• The ISIS threat to Israel

(PART THREE):

• The various forms of jihad
• How Israel successfully takes on threats from radical Islam

(PART FOUR):

• Obama’s potential U.N. action against Israel
• The effect (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement on the Israeli economy

 (PART FIVE):

• The outlook for U.S.-Israeli relations under a Trump administration

With Mark Helprin

 

MARK HELPRIN, Novelist, journalist and conservative commentator, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations:

• Putin: partner, adversary or something in between?
• Did Russia want to bring Donald Trump to power?
• The danger from the modernized Russian nuclear program 

(PART TWO):

• How a weakening NATO has emboldened Putin
• Potential for miscalculation and conventional conflict tin Europe
• The success of China establishing hegemony in Asia
• Is Beijing preparing for conflict?

(PART THREE):

• What the Chinese demographic crisis means for potential conflict
• Implications of call between President-elect Trump and Taiwan
• Might Japan and South Korea decide to arm themselves with nuclear weapons?
• Threat from nuclear North Korea

(PART FOUR):

• Pyongyang’s ballistic missile program
• What President Trump should do with the Iran deal
• Should President Trump designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization?

(PART FIVE):

• A return to peace through strength
• Social engineering in the military

 

With Clare Lopez, Dr. Harold Rhode, Andy McCarthy and Gordon Chang

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

• Is the intelligence community politicized?
• President-elect Trump not taking daily intelligence briefings
• Boeing sells 80 passenger planes to Iran
• Suicide bombings in Istanbul

DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense:

• What should happen to the Iran deal
• How U.S. should respond to aggression from Tehran
• Erdogan’s party submits a bill to expand Presidential powers
• Is Turkey still a reliable NATO ally?

ANDY MCCARTHY, Former federal prosecutor, Contributing editor to National Review Online:

• President-elect Trump’s response to the CIA assessment on Russia hacking the Presidential election
• Was Putin truly trying to get Trump elected?
• Rex Tillerson’s possible appointment to Secretary of State
• How President Trump should handle the Iran deal

GORDON CHANG, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast contributor, Forbes.com columnist:

• Explanation of the “One China Policy” and how the media--including the New York Times-- continually get it wrong
• Consequences if U.S. recognized an independent Taiwan
• Whether countries in the WTO will give China ‘Market Economy Status’