Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Jim Hanson, Daniel Horowitz, Gordon Chang and Michael Cutler

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

• President Trump's legal executive order is not a "muslim ban"

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review, Author of Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America:

• The legality of the so-called “Muslim ban”
• Selecting immigrants who share American values
• The Presidential duty to protect the United States

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Apple v. Qualcomm in Chinese lawsuit
• China's discriminatory application of the law against U.S. interests
• Philippine President Duterte's war on drugs
• North Korea restarts a plutonium reactor

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Senior Fellow at Californians for Populations Stabilization:

• Original purpose of immigration laws
• Terrorists who have abused U.S. hospitality
• What else should President Trump do to implement a comprehensive immigration strategy?

With Jim Hanson, Rosemary Jenks and Kurt Schlichter

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

• President Trump's first week in office
• The Left's newfound concern about executive orders
• Reducing immigration from places controlled by jihadists

ROSEMARY JENKS, Director of Government Relations at NumbersUSA.com, former Senior Legislative Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies:

• The difference between Trump and Obama's executive orders on immigration
• How the President plans to stop importing jihadists
• Why the administration should implement E-Verify

KURT SCHLICHTER, Senior Columnist at Townhall.com, Author of Conservative Insurgency:

• The U.S. returns to a lawful republic
• President Trump vs. the Republican establishment
• The Caddyshack Presidency

(PART TWO)

• Can President Trump bring jobs back to the U.S.?
• The 'ideology' of Donald Trump 

With Brian Kennedy, Matthew Continetti, Bill Gertz and Fred Fleitz

BRIAN KENNEDY, President of the American Strategy Group, Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Claremont Institute:

• The need for moral clarity
• President Trump's resolve to eradicate radical Islamic terrorism
• Designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

MATTHEW CONTINETTI, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Free Beacon, Author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star:

• The media's focus on Trump's exaggerations
• What does President Trump mean by "America First"?
• China's irresponsible global power

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age:

• Will President Trump reform U.S. intelligence agencies
• Obama’s failed terrorism strategy
• The need for American information campaigns

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

• Trump's recent comments about enhanced interrogation techniques
• How President Trump reform the intelligence community
• The media's heavy criticism of National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn
• The White House's proposed actions to review U.N. funding and multilateral treaties

With Diana West, Phil Haney, Mark Krikorian and Admiral Ace Lyons

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

•  President Trump's inaugural address
• What does "America First" mean to the new administration?
• Why Trump must designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

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:

• An ominous fatwa from the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America
• Trump’s proposed actions that could provoke reactions throughout the Islamic world
• Mohamed Magid 

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

• Will Trump build a wall and what difference will it make?
• What is a sanctuary city and how easily can Trump stop them?
• Ending the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program 

ADMIRAL ACE LYONS, Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world:

• Rex Tillerson's statement about Chinese activity in the South China sea
• Confronting Iran
• Trump's proposal to build a state-of-the-art missile defense system

 

With Sen. Mike Rounds, Dr. Harold Rhode, John Rossomando and Leo Hohmann

SENATOR MIKE ROUNDS (SD-R), Member of the Committee on Armed Services, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity:

• The impact of sequestration on the military
• Cyber threats to the electric grid

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Officer at the U.S. Department of Defense:

• Iran’s repopulation of Syria with Shiites
• Moscow’s involvement in Libya
• Will President Trump move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem? 

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism:

• Mohamed Magid and Sajid Tarar at the National Prayer service

LEO HOHMANN, News Editor for WND, Author of Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad: 

• The history and importance of "hijrah"
• The need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization
• An ominous AMJA fatwa 

With Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Sean Davis, Gordon Chang and Joseph Connor

REP. MARIO DIAZ-BALART (FL-25), Chairman of the Transportation Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee:

• The House Bill to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization
• President Obama's appalling Cuba legacy
• Fort Lauderdale terrorist attack

SEAN DAVIS, Co-founder of The Federalist:

• President Trump’s inaugural address
• Will Trump keep his pledge to eradicate radical Islam?
• The unhinged American media establishment 

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on The World:

• Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing and the response it garnered in Beijing
• The PLA’s militarization of islands in the South China Sea
• Chinese pressure on South Korea to prevent T.H.A.A.D. missile deployment

JOSEPH CONNOR, co-author of The New Founders and contributor at Breibart.com:

• Obama's last minute pardon of FALN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera
• Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's plan to honor Oscar Lopez Rivera

With Jim Hanson, Admiral Ace Lyons, Bill Gertz and Michael Cutler

With Jim Hanson, Admiral Ace Lyons, Bill Gertz and Michael Cutler

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

• Goodbye Barack Obama and the crisis of confidence he caused
• Trump’s America: a return to founding principles

ADMIRAL ACE LYONS, Former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world:

• The worst foreign policy failures over the last 8 years
• How Donald Trump can make America safe again

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon, Author of iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age:

• Will President Trump reform U.S. intelligence agencies
• Obama’s failed terrorism strategy
• The need for American information campaigns

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services, Senior Fellow at Californians for Populations Stabilization:

• What can President Trump do to fix systemic failures in the U.S. immigration system?

With Jim Hanson, Dr. J. Michael Waller, Fred Fleitz and Richard Pollock

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

• Making America Great Again
• Being “anti-jihadist” does not make one “anti-muslim”
• E-Verify as an effective tool to limit illegal immigration
• Government should ensure equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome

J. MICHAEL WALLER, Editorial Board Member of the NATO Defense Strategic Communications Journal, Senior Writer at the America Media Institute:

• The history of Russia’s meddling in the U.S.
• Putin’s actions in Iraq and Syria

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

• The commutation of Bradley Manning’s sentence and Obama’s disgraceful exit
• Politicization of the intelligence community
• Drain the swamp by shutting down the ODNI
• Realigning the intelligence community’s priorities

RICHARD POLLOCK, Senior Investigative Reporter for the Daily Caller:

• CNN's report about Rep. Price's ethics violations is fake news
• Does the MSM have any credibility left?
• Fraudulent Buzzfeed dossier on Trump

With Jim Hanson, Deroy Murdock and Kurt Schlichter

 

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

• Obama's pardon of the traitor Bradley Manning
• Obama's attempts to empty Guantanamo Bay
• The Left's plan to disrupt the inauguration

DEROY MURDOCK, Contributing Editor at National Review Online:

• James O’Keefe’s revelations about the Left’s plans for inauguration day
• The myth that Trump only won the “angry white” vote

KURT SCHLICHTER, Senior Columnist at Townhall.com:

• President Obama’s commutation of Bradley Manning’s sentence
• Why Manning was not a “whistleblower”

(PART TWO):

• Trump’s successes as President-Elect
• What President Trump should do in his first 100 days in office

With Gordon Chang, Frank Calzon, David Satter and Daniel Horowitz

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• Trump's statement that he is not bound by the "One China" policy
• Difference between the "One China" policy and the "One China" principle
• China's aggressive military behavior towards Taiwan
• Xi Jinping's address at the Davos World Economic Forum            

FRANK CALZON, Executive Director of the Center for a Free Cuba:

• U.S. Intelligence sharing with Cuba
• Obama’s rewriting of ‘Wet foot Dry Foot’ policy
• The President’s pardoning of Cuban spies

DAVID SATTER, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, author of The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin:

• Was the Buzzfeed story as a Russian attempt to create chaos in the U.S.?
• Characteristics of Moscow influence operations
• How Putin came to power
• Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson's answers on Russia during his confirmation hearing 

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review

• What is Rex Tillerson's stance on refugee resettlement?
• Iran's purchase of Uranium from Russia
• The Paris Peace Conference and the future of the "Two-State Solution"